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Same date. Rebecca C, executrix of M. C.'s last -will, kc, 

 takes " mortgage of house in Lynn," from Thomas Dexter. 



1644, March 1, Richard Glover and his "wife Rebecca exe- 

 cute ail indenture. 



1645, February 12, Richard Glover and his wife Rebecca, 

 constitute Nicholas Davison their attorney. 



1646, December 30, N. Davison as att'y, for R. G. and his 

 wife, releases "farm and ware in Lynn," to Richard Leader, for 

 undertakers of the Iron Works. 



1647, 18 (1) N. Davison, att'y to " Mrs. Rebecca Cradock, 

 alias Glover, sole executrix," &c., of M. Cradock, grants to 

 Thos* Mayhew 1000 acres Martin's Vineyard, and 500 do in 

 Water town. 



1650, June 6, N. Davison, att'y for Mrs. Rebecca Cradock, 

 alias Glover, grants house, &c., in Marblehead, to Wm. Walton. 



1652, June 2, Rebecca Whitchcott, wife of Benjamin W., 

 D. D., demises to Edward Collins \ Medford estate, for 50 years, 

 for ,£120, payable at the house of Francis Archer, Cheapside, 

 London; — one half June 3rd, 1653, the other one half June 

 3rd 1654 ; and Wm. Crowther, Esq., Thomas Jordan, mer- 

 chant, (her father) Thomas Horton, D. D., and John JollifFe, 

 merchant, appointed her trustees before her intermarriage with 

 Dr. Benjamin Whitchcott, join in the demise. 



In the list of members of Parliament, for 1640, against the 

 name of Mathew Cradock, is this entry — " deceased 1640." 



This would seem to be conslusive against the notion of his 

 decease in 1644 ; and if Cobbett's Parliamentary History be in 

 this respect an accurate transcript of the House Journal, then 

 he must have died prior to 25th March, 1641. But unfortu- 

 nately the conveyance to Josias Dawston, April 26th, 1641, to 

 be found recorded in the Suffolk Registry of Deeds, made by 

 Cradock himself, and not as usual by his attorney, and signed 

 with his own name, is quite incompatible with this hypothesis, 

 and so obscurity must still hang upon the precise period of his 

 decease. 



This much however seems logically deducible from the 

 above dates and transactions — that Governor Cradock died after 

 the year 1640, and before September 2nd, 1642, when convey- 

 ances Avere made to " Mrs. Rebecca Cradock, cxeciUrix, ^c,'^ 



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