Individual Details
Charles Prouty
(7 May 1800 - )
Known all men by these Presents, that I Charles Prouty of Spencer County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of sound mind and memory but knowing the uncertainty of this life do this fourth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say
First. That all my just debts and funeral shall be paid.
Second The ballance of all my personal property I give and bequeath to my wife Eunice, Also the use and income of one half of all my real estate during her natural life.
Third. I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Ann Hastings one half of all my real estate at my decease for her own the other half of all my real estate the same manner above the use given to my wife I give and bequeath at the decease of my wife Eunice to my daughter Mary Ann Hastings for her own.
And I do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas A Prouty sole Executor of this my last will and testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of October AD 1877.
Witness Charles Prouty
Signed and published as my last will and testament by the said Charles Prouty in the presents of us who in the presents of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
Mary Mcintosh
Vernon Prouty
Hiram Gront
Events
| Birth | 7 May 1800 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |  | ||
| Marriage | 24 Oct 1827 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Eunice Watson | | ||
| Census (family) | 14 Aug 1850 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Eunice Watson |  | ||
| Census (family) | 1865 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Eunice Watson | | ||
| Census (family) | 15 Aug 1870 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Eunice Watson | | | |
| Will | 4 Oct 1877 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Eunice Watson (1802 - ) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Augustus C Prouty (1833 - 1909) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Mary Ann Prouty (1841 - 1926) |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Joseph Prouty (1767 - 1829) |
| Mother | Betsey Draper (1772 - 1846) |
| Sibling | Philinda Prouty (1792 - 1854) |
| Sibling | Calvin Prouty (1793 - 1808) |
| Sibling | Emelia Prouty (1796 - ) |
| Sibling | Horace Prouty (1798 - 1815) |
| Sibling | Cyrus Prouty (1802 - 1851) |
| Sibling | Elmira Prouty (1804 - ) |
| Sibling | Luther Prouty (1806 - 1807) |
| Sibling | Calvin Luther Prouty (1808 - ) |
| Sibling | Alden (Oldin) Draper Prouty (1810 - 1811) |
| Sibling | Mary Draper Prouty (1813 - ) |
| Sibling | Betsey Prouty (1816 - 1865) |
| Sibling | Joseph Horace Prouty (1818 - 1896) |
Notes
Census (family)
266, 369, Charles Prouty, 50 M, Boot Maker, 1000, MAEunice Prouty, 48, F, MA
Elizabeth Prouty, 20 F, MA
Augustus C Prouty, 17 M, Bootmaker, MA
Almira L. Prouty, 15 F, MA
Joseph H Prouty Jun, 12 M, MA
Mary A. Prouty, 10 F, MA
Calvin L Prouty, 6 M, MA
Census (family)
31, 35, Charles Prouty, 64 M, MA, married, FarmerEunice Prouty, 63 F, MA married HK
Mary A Prouty, 24 F, MA HK
Census (family)
391, 633, Prouty, Charles, 70 MW, Farmer, 1700, 600, MA, Eunice, 68 FW, Keeping house, VT
, Mary A, 29 FW, at home, MA
Endnotes
1. Draper, James., History of Spencer, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the year 1860 : including a brief sketch of Leicester, to the year 1753. (Worcester: Printed by H.J. Howland, 1860?, 279 pgs.), p. 245.
2. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 52.
3. Draper, James., History of Spencer, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the year 1860 : including a brief sketch of Leicester, to the year 1753. (Worcester: Printed by H.J. Howland, 1860?, 279 pgs.), p. 245.
4. , Vital records of Spencer, Massachusetts: to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice, 1909), 195 p; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 8 October 2009.
5. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1870 > MASSACHUSETTS > WORCESTER > SPENCER Series: M593 Roll: 655 Page: 406.