Middlesex County, MA Records of Probate and Administrations Vol. 1, Oct 1649-Dec 1660
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by Robert H. Rodgers, 480 pages, hardcover, 1999.
This important new volume is a transcription of the earliest Middlesex County probate records. These records can be a valuable source of information about the people who lived in Cambridge and the towns surrounding it. Consider, for example, the sad case of John Mansfield, protesting the court's decision to remove his children from his household. Mansfield's protests included information, recently proved true, about his prosperous family in England. Thomas James of Lancaster made specific bequests of his cows, Blackamoore and Nipsie. The inventory of Edward Mellowes' estate reveals an extensive library. Researchers with Middlesex ancestry will be fascinated and even readers with no Middlesex connections will find this an interesting volume.
