Today I was looking at some Coates estate papers online and spent some time sorting out family connections for Ada E. Coates (1853-1877). Here is a direct link to her estate papers online, which include images 373-386. Ada was the daughter of Joseph Coates (1808-1873) and Mary Elizabeth Lawrence (1815-1876). It's always interesting to find the estate papers of an unmarried woman and to learn about property she may have owned and family connections. Ada's brother R. Thompson Coates administered the estate. Ada's estate papers turned up 3 nieces that I hadn't been aware of. One of the nieces was Charlotte E. Thomson, daughter of Presbyterian Rev. Archibald Thomson who married Ada's sister Sarah Jane Coates (1835-1865). In 1878, Charlotte was between the ages of 14 and 21 and living in Madrid New York. Archibald is not buried in the Old Burying Ground in Amherst with his wife Sarah and a son Haller Thomson, who died at age 15, so perhaps he stayed in New York. The other two nieces, Carrie Humphrey (1866-) and Emma Humphrey (1869-1891), were daughters of Ada's sister Salina Coates (1838-1876) and her husband Harmon Humphrey of Sackville NB.
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Happy Family Day from Canada! I thought this might be a good day to finish up the Ripley estate papers online. I have now added direct links to all but 4 of the Ripley estate files indexed on the Cumberland County page at Family Search. You will find the 36 Ripley entries on the Ripley Wills 1st & 2nd Generation Ripley Wills 3rd Generation Ripley Wills 4th Generation Ripley Wills 5th Generation pages on this website under the Resources Tab. I also looked for and posted files for the husbands of daughters in my direct line. I hope your ancestor is among them! I was unable to locate Ezra T. Ripley #4466, Margaret E. Ripley #4385, James Ripley #2320. The Tweedie Ripley #4495 contains only one page dated 1922 and I was not able to identify the person. I may eventually be able to locate the missing files in the "disorder" collections. For general information on how to use the index to locate Ripley and other surnames, see Cumberland County Wills Online on this website. I have renamed the page "Ripley Wills Online" to "Cumberland County Wills Online" and attempted to improve the directions for finding wills for Ripley and other surnames.
I removed Ripley Estate Files #1710-#1892 from the Navigation menu but not from the website in case people have it bookmarked. That page was becoming too long and confusing, so I have reorganized the wills by generation, adding pages for Ripley Wills 1st & 2nd Generation Ripley Wills 3rd Generation Ripley Wills 4th Generation Ripley Wills 5th Generation I have also added direct links to the wills listed. I hope the new organization makes it easier to access the wills! I am now starting to search for wills of the children of William Ripley (1769-1845) and Hannah Coates (1775-1817). Their daughter Elizabeth Ripley (1798-1882) married John Wood (1796-1845). He died in 1845, leaving Elizabeth a widow with many children, several under the age of 14. Descendants of Elizabeth and John will be interested in the large collection of documents surrounding the settlement of his estate viewable online at Family Search. Estate papers of John Wood are found in Estate Files 1764-1938, no 2174-2222, #2193, Images 374-434. These papers include the will (misdated as 1848), estate inventory, map of land allocations, guardianship assignments and fees paid for tutoring. It's a little puzzling that some of the documents describe John Wood as having died intestate even though a will was included in the package. Perhaps I am misreading. I am not sure how guardian Amos Wood was related. Was he a brother?
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