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- Many online trees claim that she was the Grace Dutch baptized 19 May 1633 in Powerstock, Dorset, despite the fact that this baptismal record clearly gives her father's name as William. Not for the first time, we suspect that many people do genealogy in their sleep.
Her death date is unknown, although from the material quoted below she has to have been alive in 16 Jul 1703 and almost certainly in 1704.
From The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis (citation details below):
On July 16, 1703, Grace Hodgkins of Ipswich, the second daughter [of Osmund Dutch], was appointed administratrix de bonis non of the estate of her father Osmund Dutch, Robert Dutch, the son, having died and the eldest daughter (Alice Meacham) having given release. Grace Hodgkins, acting through her son Thomas Hodgkins as her attorney, proceeded to claim certain small lots of land which her mother had sold to four Gloucester men in unrecorded transactions by which they were to take possession after her death, which looks much like a kind way of supplying the poor woman with funds. Alice Meacham certainly felt that her mother had received adequate payment and that Grace Hodgkins' claims were not fully justified for on March 30, 1704, she made the following declaration:
"I Alice Meacham of Ipswich widow & Eldest daughter of Osmund Dutch late of Glocester Deceased doe declare that Some time in the month of June past or July past Thomas Hodgskin Sonne of my Sister Grace Hodgskins of said Ipswich coming to my house I was by his perswasions & threatening overcome and did sett my hand to a writing concerning my father Osmund Dutches Estate though it was contrary to my mind and has bin a great trouble to me Ever Since Especially Since I have under stood that it was Incourage to ye Gitting of some lands that were my father Dutches and were Sold by my Mother Grace Dutch since his death and I doe verily believe that the moneys that were had for said Landes Sold was Improved for Said Mothers Main tenance & was all Little Enuffe to Maintaine my said Mother She being So Aged & living so Long after my said father: and not withstanding said writing I doe hereby ... give & grant my full & free consent to ye Sale of all ... those Lands that have been disposed of by my said Mother ... Since my said fathers death and I doe ... Confirm to my sister Ester Elwell of said Glocester The widdow & relict of Samuel Ellwell Late of said Glocester De- ceased All ye right that I either had now have or might have in ye Estate left by my Said father Osmund Dutch Deceased ... She ye said Ester Ellwell & her husband having taken the care of and provided for my Said Mother Grace Dutch while she lived a widdow."
The Court allowed the Hodgkinses to collect certain sums from the buyers of the lands in order to clear the titles, and on September 12, 1704, Thomas Hodgkins presented an account. The estate was formally closed on March 4, 1705/6.
Esther Elwell in 1705 and 1713, as "creditor of the estate off Grace Dutch widow," sold common rights pertaining to her father's lands, to which her title must have been dubious, to say the least, and as late as 1730 the holders of Osmund Dutch's former homestead and lands in Gloucester were buying up for small sums the "rights and claims" of his descendants to the third and fourth generation. These deeds are valuable genealogical documents, however.
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