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Monday, December 11, 2017

Amanuensis Monday - 1749 Guardianship of Isaac Brown and John Brown in Eastham, Massachusetts

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1749 guardianship record in the probate court records for Isaac and John Brown, sons of Samuel Brown (1686-1749), late of Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts:

[Volume 7, pages 138-139]



The transcription of the record for Isaac Brown is:


[page 137, bottom]

Province of the Massachusetts Bay Bt the
Honourable Silvanus Bourn Esq^r

[page 138]

Judge of the Probate of wills &c for and within
the County of Barnstable In the Province
aforesaid to Ruth Brown of Eastham, In the
County of Barnstable widow Greeting trusting
in your Care and fidelity I Do by these Presents
Pursuant to the Power and authority to me,
Granted In and by an act of the General
assembly of the Said Province Nominate
and appoint you to be Guardian unto
Isaac Brown a minor Son to Cap. Samuell Brown
late of Eastham aforesaid Deceased with full
Power and authority to ask Demand Sue for
Recover Receive and take Into your Custody
all and Singular Such Part and Portion
of Estate as accrues to him In Right of his
Said father or which by any other way or
means whatsoever Doth of Right appertain
or belong to him and to Manage Imploy and
Improve the Same for his Best Profit and
advantage and to Render a Plain and true
accompt of your Guardianship upon oath
as far as the Law will Charge you therewith
when you shall be Lawfully Required and Pay
and Deliver Such and So much of the said Estate
as Shall be Remaining upon your accompt
(the same Being first Examined and allowed
by the Judge or Judges for the time Being of
Probate &c) unto the said Minor when he
Shall arrive at full age or otherwise as the said
Judge or Judges by his or their Decre or Sentence
Pursuant to Law Shall Limit and appoint
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand
and the Seal of the Said Court of Probate

[page 139]

Dated at Barnstable the twenty third Day of
May anno Domini 1749.

                                         Silvanus Bourn

The record for John Brown, on pages 139-140,  is almost identical and won't be reproduced here.

The source citation for this record is:

Barnstable county, Massachusetts, Probate Records, 1686-1894, digital images, FamilySearch  (https://familysearch.org : accessed 10 December 2017), "Probate Records, Vol. 6-7, 1740-1774," pages 137-139 (images 379-380 of 591), guardianship of Isaac Brown, 1749.

Isaac Brown and John Brown were minor children (estimated to be ages 19 and 17) at the time of the death of their father, Samuel Brown (1686-1749) of Eastham, Massachusetts.  In these documents, their mother, Ruth (Young) Brown, was appointed to be their guardian until they reached the age of 21.  

I transcribed the following for Samuel Brown's probate records:


When I wrote the biography of Ruth (Young) Brown last Friday in 52 Ancestors - Week 204: #283 Ruth (Young) Brown (1688-1768) of Eastham, Massachusetts, I realized that I had not found any probate records for her, so I checked the Probate Index for her and found no listings, but when I checked the Probate Index for Samuel Brown, the Guardianship records were included.  

Samuel and Ruth (Young) Brown are my 6th great-grandparents, through their daughter Mehitable Brown who married Thomas Dill in 1733.  

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:" 

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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