Elisha THOMPSON
1812

What are the odds that this might be a clue to Maria Wood, wife of David Salisbury?
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Abstracts of Wills, Administrations and Guardianships in NY State, 1787 - 1835., (Online db: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006), (From material originally compiled by William A. D. Eardeley, now held by the Brooklyn Historical Society.)

Dated 1812
County of Record Saratoga
Page 393

"Elisha Thompson of Stillwater, Saratoga Co. N.Y. -- To my wife, Lydia Thompson ase of all my estate n & h during time she remain my widow & at her death or marriage: to my sd wife Lydia Thompson my furniture & exeft - to Martha Morris, Jonathan Thompson, David Thompson, Josiah Thompson, Nathan Thompson, Caleb Thompson, Abraham Thompson & Palley Ostrander -- to Maria Wood, wh age 18 yrs -- afft Lydia Thompson my wife exis & Hial Morris & Richard Denton Exrs - h & s at Stillwater 8 Oct 1812 sg Elisha Thompson LS Wita Roswell Day, Oliver Salisbury, William Ostrander, wd 2 Nov 1812"

NOTE: Lydia (wife) is Lydia Salisbury. All of the people mentioned in the will are brothers and sisters of Elisha. And then there is Maria Wood... Is she the daughter of Lydia's sister Mary who married a Wood?

The executors of the will -- Hial Morris and Richard Denton (Hial is the husband of Elisha's oldest sister). Richard Denton???

The witnesses -- Roswell Day (related to Jared???), Oliver Salisbury (Lydia's brother), William Ostrander (husband of Elisha's sister, Polly)



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