Hello, not sure if you are still visiting this site, but I have just discovered Denslow whilst researching my family of Buckland. I found a will or should I say plural?
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Windsor 1636
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Membership in Dorchester church prior to 4 March 1632/3 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 4 March 1632/3 [MBCR 1:367].
EDUCATION: Signed his will by mark.
ESTATE: In 1632 the lot of John Crabb was granted to Mr. Denslow [NEHGR 32:58]. Granted lot #43, three acres in the meadow beyond Naponset [DTR 321]. Nicholas Denslow was named as an abutter in grants of land to other persons in Dorchester [DTR 2, 11, 18].
In the Windsor land inventory on 25 December 1640 held five parcels of land: homelot of six and a half acres; four acres and a half on the west side of the street; ten acres and a half in the Great Meadow; fifty-three acres in the Pine Meadow; and twenty-four acres in the Northwest Field [WiBOP 32]. (The Great Meadow and Northwest Field parcels are annotated in the margin "Nicolas Buckland.")
In his will, dated 4 March 1666/7, "Nicolas Denslow of Windsor" bequeathed to "my wife ... The use and improvement of my whole estate during her life and when she dies I bequeath to Timothy Buckland my grandchild all my lot lying at Pine Meadow both in the meadow and out of the meadow" and "to Nicolas Buckland my grandchild ... All my housing and homelot entire and all my meadow land in the Great Meadow either pasture or plowing" as well as some movables and "my woodlot"; "the rest of my estate in cattle of all sorts, corn or any movables" to be at my wife's dispose [Hartford PD Case #1640; Manwaring 1:192]. On 3 March 1669/70 Capt. Aaron Cooke asked for a distribution of the estate of Nicholas Denslow, his wife being a coheir; no action was taken [Manwaring 1:192].
The inventory of the estate of Nicholas Denslow, taken on 5 June 1667, totalled £329 2s., of which £255 was real estate: "on the east side of the street in housing, orchard and houseland with pasture adjoining nine acres," £90; "on the west side of the street a remainder part of his homelot 4 acres and «," £20; "in the Great Meadow 17 acres," £85; "a woodlot 24 acres," £10; "in Pine Meadow 11 acres," £33; "in upland adjoining 42 acres," £17 [Hartford PD Case #1640
In her will, dated 5 June 1667 and proved 2 September 1669, "Elissabeth Denslow of Windsor" bequeathed to "my grandchild Nicolas Buckland all my household stuff" with the exception of some named items which she bequeathed to "Sara Buckland my grandchild"; "all my clothes and linen I bequeath unto my daughter Buckland for her to divide between herself and Nicklas and his three sisters that are unmarried"; to "my grandchild Edwa[r]d Adames his wife my cloak"; "my grandchild Nicolas Buckland" not to demand anything out of his father's estate, and to be executor and residuary legatee, and to pay additional bequests, as follows: to "my daughter Joan Cooke" twenty shillings; to "my grandchild her daughter Eliasabeth [sic] Cooke" a heifer worth three pounds; to "my grandchildren Samuell Cooke & Noah Cooke" twenty shillings apiece; to "my daughter Buckland forty shillings and unto her daughter Hanna Buckland forty shillings [and] unto her daughter Temperance Buckland ten pounds [and] unto her daughter Sara Buckland ten pounds [Hartford PD Case #1632; Manwaring 1:191].
The inventory of the estate of "Elisabeth Denslow who died on the 13 day before of this present August," taken 30 August 1669, totalled £38 5s. [Hartford PD Case #1632].
BIRTH: Perhaps about 1585 to 1590, assuming the usual exaggeration in age at death.
DEATH: Windsor 8 March 1666[/7], aged 90 [CTVR 22; Grant 84].
MARRIAGE: By about 1618 (assuming that she was the mother of both children) Elizabeth _____; she died at Windsor 13 or 14 August 1669 [CTVR 22; Hartford PD Case #1632
BIRTH: Perhaps about 1585 to 1590, assuming the usual exaggeration in age at death.
DEATH: Windsor 8 March 1666[/7], aged 90 [CTVR 22; Grant 84].
MARRIAGE: By about 1618 (assuming that she was the mother of both children) Elizabeth _____; she died at Windsor 13 or 14 August 1669 [CTVR 22; Hartford PD Case #1632].
CHILDREN:
i TEMPERANCE, b. say 1620; m. by 1638 (eldest child b. Windsor 10 March 1638[/9] [Grant 25]) Thomas Buckland.
ii JOAN, b. say 1625; m. by 1650 AARON COOKE
I have yet to ascertain if there is a connection with my Buckland ancestors who resided in Berks and Bucks. Ann