Thomas Trotter

  General Notes:

The will of Thomas Trotter:

Thomas Trotter of London, merchant, 30 November 1631, sealed and published 1 March 1631, proved 12 March 1631. Debts and funeral charges satisfied and paid my personal estate to be divided into two equal parts, one half being in my proper power, by the eminent and laudable custom of City of London, and the other half belonging to my children. I have already advanced and preferred in marriage my two eldest daughters, Anne and Elizabeth. My two youngest daughters unadvanced, Susanne and Thomasin Trotter. My eldest daughters (named) Anne Grove and Elizabeth Amos. My grandchildren Thomas and Anne Grove. My grand- child Isacke Amos. The Company of Salters of London where of I am a member. I do forgive and release unto my uncle Nicholas Skynner and my cousin Martyn (Skynner) and to Thomas Skynner, his so nail such sum and sums of money as they owe unto me by specialty or otherwise. My cousin Daniel Skynner and my cousin Richard Wiseman. My sister Lyngwood, my cousin Susan Spooner and my cousin Laurence Arthure's wife, my cousin Robert Whaple's wife and my cousin Myles Newton's wife. To Nicholas Woodward of Bookings. The pastor and curate of St. Dunstan in the East where I dwell. Mr. Nathaniel Shute to preach a sermon for the instructing of the people that shall assemble at my funeral, which I hope and desire the parson of St. Dunstan will give leave unto. My two youngest daughters, Susan and Thomasine Trotter and my friend Joseph Brand to be executors and my brother William Lyngwood, my son in law Thomas Amos and my friends Myles Newton and Lawrence Arthur to be supervisors. I have in my life time settled and assured, by several deeds, certain lands and an annuity out of a house in Braintree and Booking, Essex, to the uses of the several poor in those parishes. Then follows a note of such parishes as are to have fifty pounds distributed amongst their poor. Eight parishes in Colchester, the three parishes in Sudbury (where John Lord and Robert Whitinges were among those to oversee the distri- bution), Braintree (under the oversight of Mr. John Hawkins, W m Ling- wood, John Mary an, John Debnam, Adrian Mott), Booking (John Keightlye, Lawrence Arthur, John Ames (?), Isaack Ansell, Matthew Whipple), Coxall (Coggeshall), Witham (Jeremy Garoad, William Skynner.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Merchant: London, Middlesex.

• Marriage: to Anne Wilson, 8 August 1605, Deptford St Nicholas, Kent.

Thomas married Ann Wilson, daughter of Thomas Wilson and Susan Jocelin, on 8 August 1605 in Deptford St Nicholas, Kent. (Ann Wilson was born in 1576 in Stisted, Essex, christened on 30 September 1576 in Stisted, Essex, died in January 1626 in London, Middlesex and was buried on 26 January 1626 in St Dunstan in The East, London.)