Amanuensis Monday - the Probate of Benjamin Seaver s (1757-1816) Estate
Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started his own Monday blog theme many months ago called Amanuensis Monday. What does amanuensis mean? John offers this definition: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
My subject today is the probate records of Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) of Westminster, worcester County, Massachusetts. He married Martha Whitney (1764-1832), daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Fletcher) Whitney. The paragraphs below are narratives, not transcriptions, based on extractions from the Probate Packet for Benjamin Seaver.