"Abstract of Wills on File in the Surrogates Office, City of New York, NY"
(Volume I. 1665-1707)
Vol. 1, Liber 1-2, p. 4, in:
Cornell Library New York State Historical Collection
http://historical.library.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.nys/nys054 (Will of Edward Jessup, dated 06 Aug 1666 and proved 14 Nov 1666.
The will names daughter Elizabeth Hunt and minor daughter Hannah Jessup,
son Edward and widow Elizabeth.)
"Descent of Comfort Sands and of His Children"
Temple Prime
Huntington, NY, 1897; p 25
"Edward I. Jessup:
Died: Westchester, N. Y., 1666.
Will: August 6th 1666; proved Flushing, November 14th 1666; Surrogate's Office, N. Y., Liber I, fol. 14.
Married: 1st.-------daughter of John Whitmore, of Stamford, Conn.
-------- 2dly. Elizabeth, daughter of-------Bridges. She married 2dly, November 4th 1668, Robert Beacham,
of Bankside (now Green's Farms), Conn.; she was alive on December 25th 1690.
Issue:
1. Elizabeth Jessup, married, prior to August 1666, Thomas I Hunt, of the Grove, Westchester, N. Y.
2. Hannah Jessup, not 18 in 1666.
3. Edward II Jessup, born in 1663."
"America's Successful Men of Affairs:
An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography"
Hugh Judge Jewett, New York, 1895-96.
Vol. 1, p. 352
"...Edward Jessup, who came from England prior to 1649, settled in Fairfield, Conn.,
thence moving to Stamford and afterward to Middleborough (since called Newtown, L. I.),
finally locating in Westchester..."
"New England Marriages Prior To 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey,
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"BEACHAM, Robert (-1691) & 2/wf Elizabeth (?BRIDGES) JESSUP,
w Edward; m lic 4 Nov 1668; Westchester Co;, NY"
http://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/Genealogy/Needham/d0005/I2965.htmlvneedham@phys.ksu.edu
From Abstract of Wills on File in the Surrogates Office, City of New York, NY, Volume I, 1665-1707, Abstracts of Wills, Liber 1-2. page 4:
Page 14. Edward Jessup, Westchester. "Being sicke and weake," leaves to daughter Elizabeth Hunt 20 shillings, "besides what I have already given her." To daughter Hannah Jessup £35, to be paid when at age of 18. Legacies to son Edward, to grandchild Mary Hunt, to cousin Johana Burroughs, and to Derrick Garrison. Makes wife Elizabeth, sole executrix, and leaves her all lands, houses, and goods, and "she is to bring up my two children in the fear of God." "I appoint my well beloved friends, Richard Cornhill, Justice of the Peace, Mrs. Sarah Bridges, my brother-in-law John Burrows, and Ralph Hunt overseer of my will, and to be assistants to my executrix."
Dated, August 6, 1666. Witnesses William Gouldstone, John Richardson, Richard Horton. Proved at Flushing, November 14, 1666. "This will was proved at Sessiona, by the Governor's special order." Witness to Inventory, Thomas Hunt.