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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. The book "The Averell-Averill-Avery family: a record of the descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass.," by Clara A. Avery (Press of Evangelical Publishing House, 1906), pp. 123-25:
"MEMORANDA
Greensleet, Greensled, Greenslit.
* An Inv. of the Est. of Thomas Greenslet late (of Salem) dec'd presented 1677, Mar. 27th.; on file [Case 11851], Essex Co. P. R.
The Inv. of Thomas Greenslet deaseased Salem 21 Mar. 1676
An Greenslet admx. testified to the truth of the inventory of her late husband Thomas Greenslet before the Court held at Ipswich the 27 of March 1677. Robert Lord Cleric
Between this date in 1676, and Nov. 28, 1682, Widow Ann ( ---- ) Greensleet m. Jacob Pudeator (this name being a corruption of the surname Pointdexter) of Salem, Mass., whose will was proved at the last date, before the Court at Salem. Mention is made in the will of Ann's children by her previous marriage, and a debt of £5 is forgiven her son John "Greenfield," and bequests to the same amt. made to "the other fouer of my wives children: that is to say Tho Greenslid, and Ruth, & Samuel & James Greensled"
His "loving wife Ann" was named as exx and was to have the use of his property during her life; and at her decease it was to go to his cozen (nephew?) Isaac Pudeater. At the end of the instrument he adds: "I have desired my loving freind s cozen Mr John Browne Senr, Mr Francis Scevey (Seavey?), and John Massey to be the overseers of this my will." Among names of debtors to the estate, and for very small amounts, appear those of Samll Verey, Senr £2. 10s, Ensign Bancroft; Jacob Baun Esq., Price Edwards [Essex P. R., Vol. 302, p. 25; Inv. same vol. and page].
Widow Ann (Greensleet) Pudeator was executed for witchcraft 1692 at Salem; and Dec. 10, 1694, an inventory of the est. was presented and admn granted Mr Philip English, attorney for Grace Pudeater, Legatee [Essex P. R., Vol. 303, p. 198; Case 22909].
James Greensleet starts action against the estate but lets it fall, and Ruth Greenslate alias Bridges receives her legacy of £5 from the estate of her step-father, Jacob Pudeator.
Some of Ann's children were at Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., in 1692. The Inv. of the estate of "John Greensit, late of Salem (prob, son of Ann, above mentioned), who dec'd Oct ye 24, 1693," was presented Oct. 30, 1693, and admn was granted his widow, Abigail Grenslitt [Essex Probate, Vol. 303, pp. 165, 166].
It is possible that "Joan Greensleet a single woman" who was m. at Boston, Nov. 10, 1643, to James2 Avery, son of Christopher1 Avery of Cape Ann and Gloucester, Mass. (progenitors of the Groton Avery Clan), was of this Greensleet stock, and a relative of Ann the wife of John Averell. Joan Greenslade was admitted to the First Church of Boston in 1643, and dismissed after her marriage to unite with the church at Gloucester in 1644 [see The Groton Avery Clan, pp. 43-4-5, for Greenslade, etc]."
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