Individual Details
Nicholas Upsall
(Abt 1596 - 20 Aug 1666)
Nicholas was an innkeeper. Dorchester, 27 June 1636: "It is ordered that Nicholas Upsall shall keep an house of entertainment for strangers". In a letter dated Providence 16 April 1638, Roger Williams entreated John Winthrop to send his letters to Nicholas Upshall's, likely meaning the Red Lion Inn. On 29 January 1654[/5] Nicolas Upshall and others were paid by the Treasurer for "billiting of thirty-two soldiers, being impressed for the expedition against Ninicraft". On 30 January 1659[/60] "Goody Upsall" was allowed to draw beer the ensuing year. Her license was renewed 1661-64, 1665-66 (as "widow Upshall"). She was licensed to keep a public house of entertainment 29 July 1667, 27 April 1668, 26 April 1669 (and draw beer), 25 April 1670, 24 April 1671, 29 April 1672 (public house only), 28 April 1673, April 1674, 26 April 1675. On 1 November 1675 "Thomas Bill was approved of to keep a house of public entertainment in the room and stead of Widow Upshall who lately departed this life, for the time remaining of her license".
Events
| Birth | Abt 1596 |  | |||
| Marriage | 17 Jan 1629 | Church of the Holy Trinity, Dorchester, Dorset, England, United Kingdom - Dorothy Capen | | ||
| Will | 9 Aug 1666 | Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British America |  | | |
| Death | 20 Aug 1666 | Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British America | |
Families
| Spouse | Dorothy Capen (1608 - 1675) |
Notes
Will
In his will, dated of 9 August 1666 and proved 31 October 1666, "Nicholas Upshall of Boston innholder" made his wife Dorothy executrix and gave her all his lands during her life, then divided his property between his two daughters, Elizabeth, the wife of William Greenough, and Susanna, the wife of Joseph Cock; £20 apiece to granddaughter Dorothy Greenough, granddaughter Elizabeth Greenough and grandson Nicholas Cock, to be given them at age fourteen; to "such servants of the Lord as are commonly termed Quaker" moveables in parlor and chamber over parlor, and also "my chest, with all my books papers, therein lying, with a small table in the room"; greatcoat to children of John Chamberlain; specifies details of house for the use of the Quakers to be built on his land, if his executrix or daughter Cock so desire.The inventory of Nicholas Upsall, who deceased "the 20 of the 6 mo: 1666," was taken 3 September 1666, and totalled £615 13s. 4d. (offset by £65 3s. 4d. in debts), including "the housing, land and wharf," valued at £300.
Endnotes
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2. Swift, J. G., The memoirs of Gen. Joseph Gardner Swift, LL.D., U.S.A., first graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, Chief Engineer U.S.A. from 1812 to 1818 : 1800-1865 : to which is added a genealogy of the family of Thomas Swift of Dorchester, Mass., 1634 (1890, 370 pgs. : Press of F.S. Blanchard & Co., Worcester, Mass.), p. 58-59.
3. IMMIGRANTS TO NEW ENGLAND 1620 -- 1633, Wise~Comp Consulting online [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:7tVNc_Jr0lwJ:ccl.wisecomp.com/NEImm1633.htm+swift+capen&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=15&gl=us], accessed 5/2007.
4. IMMIGRANTS TO NEW ENGLAND 1620 -- 1633, Wise~Comp Consulting online [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:7tVNc_Jr0lwJ:ccl.wisecomp.com/NEImm1633.htm+swift+capen&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=15&gl=us], accessed 5/2007.