William Straw Jr.

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Sources: IGI files; genealogy of Ellen Straw Thompson in 1897. There is another possible daughter named Eliza Anne (d/o Wm and Charlotte) b. 15 June 1816 in Hopkinton, NH per IGI; DOD per headstone

1830 Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH Wm Straw HOH 1 male 1820-25 [Rufus B.] 1 male 1815-20 [Elias A.] 1 male 1815-20 [Edmund] 1 male 1800-10 [Milton] 1 male 1780-90 [Wm HOH] 1 female 1820-25 ? age 5-10 1 female 1800-10 ? age 20-30 1 female 1790-1800 [wife Charlotte]

1840 Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH Wm Straw HOH 1 male 1820-25 [son Rufus B.] 1 male 1810-20 [son Edmund S] 1 male 1780-90 [Wm HOH] 1 female 1810-20 - unknown- 1 female 1790-1800 [wife Charlotte]

census 1850 Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH William Straw age 63 born NH Charlotte Straw age 58 born NH Edmund Straw age 30 born NH Jane Hazen age 19 born NH William Palmer age 13 born NH Joseph Cilley age 19 born NH

NEHGS New Hampshire Statesman, Saturday, July 26, 1856; Issue 1834; col C Deaths "In Hopkinton Wednesday last, Mr. William Straw, aged about 70."

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LW & T of William Straw of Hopkinton, NH - 22 Sept 1852
Charlotte Straw [wife] all my household furniture; meat stock, sheep, swine, horses, carraiges and harnesses, fodder in barn. half of farming tools; one pew (#40) in First Congregational Meeting House; the homestead farm ( 95 acres) which I now live on for the rest of her life in Hopkinton so long as she remains single
Edmund S. Straw [son] Executor; at decease of my wife or if she should marry my homestead aforesaid described
Milton A. Straw [son] 500 dollars 2 yrs after my demise or marriage of my wife
Rufus B. Straw [son] 900 dollars- 400 in one yr and 500 in 2 yrs from my decease or if my wife should remarry


New Hampshire Statesman, Saturday, August 15, 1857; Issue 1889; col D Multiple Classified Advertisements State of New Hampshire - Merrimack Co "To the heirs at law of the estate of William Straw, late of Hopkinton in said county, deceased and to all others therein. You are hereby notified that Edmund S. Straw, executor of the last will and testament of said deceased, will exhibit his account of the administration of said estate at a Court of Probate to be held in Concord in said county on the 22nd day of September next when and where you may appear and show cause if any you have, against the allowance of said account......" Given this 4th day of august A. D. 1857 H. E. Perkins, Judge of Probate"

William married Charlotte Abbott, daughter of Deacon Elias Abbott and Elizabeth Buswell, on 29 Sep 1809 in Canterbury Twp, Merrimack, New Hampshire. (Charlotte Abbott was born on 9 Dec 1790 in New Hampshire, died on 16 Aug 1865 and was buried in Old Hopkinton Cemetery Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA.)