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Joshua Rea

Male 1723 - 1784  (~ 61 years)


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  • Name Joshua Rea 
    Christened 2 Mar 1722/23  Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Residence Jan 1743/44  Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Will 1783  Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    To loving wife Hannah: use during her widowhood of a part of the dwelling house and grounds, and items and money she already owned before marriage, and two cows and two sheep; to sons William and Joshua: all real estate and livestock except that set aside for Hannah, and certain household goods; to son Joshua Frye: £66.13.4 to be paid by sons William and Joshua two years after my death, and a pine chest; to daughter Mary: use of 1/3 of part of the dwelling house plus £13.6.8 one year after my death; to daughter Sarah Dwimmel: £4.18.10 one year after my death; to daughter Lydia Peabody: £2.3.8 one year after my death; "my first wife's furniture" to be divided among daughters; executor, John Dorman 
    • This will was not recorded with a specific date; it refers to "the seventh year of Emerican Independence" (sic.)
    Died 1 Jan 1783 - 2 May 1784 
    Probate 3 May 1784  Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Will presented for probate 
    Probate 6 Jul 1784  Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Will proved; Joshua Rea, eldest son of the deceased, appointed executor on John Dorman's refusal; widow Hannah Rea appointed guardian of Jonathan Frye Rea, aged six years, nine months 
    Probate 3 Sep 1784  Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Estate inventory, £384.14.10 
    Probate 2 Mar 1790  Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Account of debts owed by the estate, including legacies in the will, £284.1.11 
    Probate 4 Oct 1791  Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    After splitting off the widow's share by right of dower, the estate is declared insolvent; commissioners appointed 
    Probate 4 Sep 1792  Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    First creditors are paid at a rate of about 40% 
    Probate 11 Nov 1814  Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Nathaniel Lord appointed administrator of the estate; he files an account showing the estate with assets of $555 and claims against of $872.32 
    Probate 6 Mar 1815  Essex Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    Real estate sold for $410, expenses filed against the estate, $68.75, resulting in payments to the creditors at $1.807 per pound; estate is settled 
    Person ID I1700  Wm L Gann Ancestors
    Last Modified 6 Mar 2017 

    Father Joshua Rea,   b. 16 Oct 1691, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Feb 1745/56 - 23 Mar 1745/46, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years) 
    Mother Mercy Taylor,   b. 3 Mar 1692/93, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1742, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years) 
    Married 7 Mar 1715/6  Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Family ID F408  Group Sheet

    Family 1 Sarah Prince 
    Marriage License 4 Jan 1743/44  Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Intention 
    Married 19 Feb 1743/44  Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2017 
    Family ID F1040  Group Sheet

    Family 2 Hannah Peabody,   d. Bef 6 Dec 1814 
    Married 28 Mar 1776  Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    Last Modified 6 Mar 2017 
    Family ID F1887  Group Sheet

  • Sources 
    1. [S14570] Vital records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to 1849, (Topsfield, Mass. : Topsfield Historical Society, 1906-1907), 280 (Reliability: 3), 13 Dec 2010.

    2. [S14570] Vital records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to 1849, (Topsfield, Mass. : Topsfield Historical Society, 1906-1907), 260 (Reliability: 3), 13 Dec 2010.

    3. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 357, pp. 84-5 (Reliability: 3), 6 Mar 2017.

    4. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 357, p. 85 (Reliability: 3), 6 Mar 2017.

    5. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 357, pp. 86-7 (Reliability: 3), 6 Mar 2017.

    6. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 357, pp. 263-4 (Reliability: 3), 6 Mar 2017.

    7. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 360, pp. 397-8 (Reliability: 3), 6 Mar 2017.

    8. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 361, pp. 440-1 (Reliability: 3), 6 Mar 2017.

    9. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 362, p. 196 (Reliability: 3), 6 Mar 2017.

    10. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 386, p. 318 (Reliability: 3), 6 Mar 2017.

    11. [S112] Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015), Essex Co., Probate Records, vol. 386, pp. 541-2 (Reliability: 3), 6 Mar 2017.

    12. [S14602] Vital records of Salem, Massachusetts, to 1849, Essex Institute (Salem, Massachusetts), (Salem, Mass. : Essex Institute, 1916-1925), 240 (Reliability: 3), 13 Dec 2010.

    13. [S33] Vital Records of Boxford, MA - Marriages, The Massachusetts Vital Records Project, (The Massachusetts Vital Records Project (http://ma-vitalrecords.org)), 192 (Reliability: 2), 6 Mar 2017.