[September 20, 1679:] I Joseph Andrews of Hingham, of the County of Suffolke in New England - being weake of body but of perfect memory doe make and ordaine this my last will & testament in manner and forme as followeth revoaking and hereby making void all other will or wills formerly made by me the said Joseph Andrews either by word or writing. Imprs. I give and bequeath my Soule into the hands of almighty god trusting to be saved only & alone by the merits of Jesus Christ my redeemer, and my body to be buried with decent buriall. Item I give & bequeath unto Elizabeth Andrews my welbeloved wife, all that my estate of moveable goods now in my possession for her to use and improve during her natturall life. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elisabeth Emes that feather bed and bedstead with all the furniture thereunto belonging whereon I now lye. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Hannah Ganitt one pewter platter. Item I give unto my daughter Mary Beard one pewter platter and one candelstick. Item I give unto my son Joseph Andrews my sword and my gold ringe & a bible, and also tenn pounds to be paid him by my executor if hee come to demand it. Item I give unto Ephraim Andrews my sonn all that estate of mine that is in his hands which he had of mee when he went to New Jarsy. Item I give unto Hephrebeth Manning my daughter three pounds of that bill of eight pounds that I had of her husband Jeffery Manning and my minde and will is that the remainder of the said bill which is five pounds, shall be equally divided betwene Rehobeth Ganitt & Israel Thorne fifty shillings apeice. Item I give and bequeath unto all my grandsons that beare my name, Joseph, each of them and every one of them a pewter platter. Item I give unto Ruth Andrews my daughter in law my newest chest. Item I give and bequeath unto Ruth Andrews my grandaughter, my old chest and my frame table & farme. Item I give unto my grand sonn Thomas Andrews a bowl. Item I give unto my grandsons Stephen Andrews and Jedidiah each of them an iron pott. Item I give unto Benjamen Andrews my grandson my desk. Item I give unto Elizabeth Andrews my grandaughter my warming pan. Item I give unto my grandaughter Abigail Andrews my frying pan. Item I give and bequeath unto Thomas Andrews my son all the rest and remainder of my goods & houshold stuffe and doe hereby make and appoint him the said Thomas Andrews my Sole Executor of this my last will & testament and my minde and will is that whatsoever I have given & bequeath of my goods & estate in this my will abovesaid shall not be claimed by any of the persons abovesaid untill after the decease of my said wife but shall be for her use as abovesaid. In Witness whereof I the abovesaid Joseph Andrews have hereunto sett my hand and seale, this seven & twenty day of September Annogs Dom. 1679.
The marke of Joseph F A Andrews, & seale
Signed & sealed in the presence of us witnesses
Josiah Loring
Edm Pitts.

Josiah Loring & Edmd Pitts the two witnesses to this instrumt. made oath before Simon Bradstreet esqr. govor. & Humphry Davie esqr assist 21 January 1679 that they were present & did see Joseph Andrews signe & seale and heard him publish it to be his last will and that then he was of a disposing minde to their best knowledge as attests Isa. Addington clir

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[October 12, 1669:]
Know all men by their prxxx that I Clement Bate of Hingham in New England in County of Suffolk being in health and perfect memory do make ordaine and constitute this my last will and testament in manner & form following upon this 12th Day of october in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and nyne. Imp. I do give and bequeath unto James Bate my Eldest sonne my house lot next adjoyning to my sonne Joseph Bate containing five acres be it more or less given unto me by the towne of hingham. I also give unto him one half of my planting lot lying upon pleasant hill contaying ten acres which half he shall have next unto the land of John Beache senior only he shall have but one quarter of the swamp that lyes at the southwesterd of the planting land the other quarter to Benjamin Bate my sonne. I give also unto James Bate my sonne one half of my meadow lying at the upper end of Broadcover meadow except about three quarter of an acre joyning to Nicolas Bake's meadow from a great Rock or dam in the meadow thexxx little parcel I give unto my sonne Joseph Bate. I do also give and bequeath unto James Bate a little piece of meadow lying at Couyhassett being about one acre. I do also give unto him all my apparrell linnen woollen I give also unto him one oxe.
Itm. I do give and bequeath my sonne Joseph Bate the summe of ten pounds which shall be paid unto him by my sonne Samuell Bate in current country pat at the time or end of one whole year next ensuing after my decease my true intent is this summe of ten pounds shal be hereby paid to him or to his heirs. I do also give unto Joseph Bate one piece of salt meadow lying at Couihassett in the first division.
Itm. I give unto Benjamin Bate my sonne the summe of ten pounds the which summe it is my will that James Bate his brother shall pay unto him or to his heirs or assynes in current country pay after one whole year expired after my decease.
I do give & bequeath unto Samuell Bate my sonne one half of my planting lot lying on Pleasant hill together with one half of the swamp lying beneath ye planting hill next adjoyning to the land of Capt. Joshua Hubbart. Also I give unto him one half of my meadow tying at the upper end of broad cow meadows. I do also give unto him my now dwelling house with all other outhouses there unto belonging with that lot of five acres the house stands upon be it more or less. I give unto him also one oxe. I do also give unto my four sonnes James Joseph Benjamin & Samuell all my household stuff whatsow to be equally divided between them or so many of them as shall survive at my decease.
It is also my will that James Bate whom I ordain to be sole executor to my last will and testament shall pay or cause to be paid to mr Hubbard our pastour the summe of twenty shillings. All the fore memtioned piticulars I leave to my sonnes desiring and requiring them as their father to live as brethren in unity and peace and to attend, better and higher matters for their soules welfare at present and for ever so as although we shall now part that they may meet me in a better world. In witness hereunto I have set my hand and seal the day & year above written being twelfth of October One thousand sixe hundred sixty and nyne.
Signed and sealed in presence of Clement Bate
a seal
Peter Hubbart
Nehemiah Hubbart
[Nehmiah swore on 2d of 9br 1671 that he was present at signing and that this is Clement Bate's last will.]

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[September 24, 1671:]
The Inventory of the Estate of Clement Bate deceased as apprized by us Edmund Hubbart and Edmund Pitts this 24th of September 1671

Iiprimus his apparrell                       05.00.0
Item in debts due to the said estate  02.00.0
Itm four small pewter dishes one pewter chamber pot & some broken pewter   01.02.0
Itm one old kettle one chassindish a broken skillet & 1 pr bellows   00.10.0
It. three curtains                              00.12.0
It. one pair of ould blanketts            00.08.0
It. one ould rug and two pillows       00.12.0
It. one paire of cotten sheetes          00.18.0
It. one ould feather bed and bouleter   02.10.0
It. one iron pot & pot hookes          00.12.0
It. one hook one spit and dog iron   00.07.0
It. In lumber                                    01.04.0
It. two oxen                                    09.00.0
It. one house lot orchard and barne 40.00.0
It. one house lot                              20.00.0
It. one piece of salt meadow at Broadcone           60.00.0
It. two acres and half of salt meadow at Couihasset  12.10.0
It. one planting lot at pleasant hill      60.00.0
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Edmund pitts                                  215.12.0

[James Bates made oath this was a true inventory, recorded 15th of 11 mo 1671.]


        

*Suffolk County Probate Records Book 7 Page 160
        
       

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[Administration on the estate of Henry Combes, intestate, granted Sept. 28, 1669 to Elizabeth Combes, the widow, who was to bring in an inventory to the next Salem court.]

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[The widow of Henry Coomes brought in an inventory, which was allowed Nov. 30, 1669. She was to have the whole estate after the debts were paid.]

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Inventory of the estate of Henry Coomes, taken Sept. 16, 1669, by Henry Bartholmew, Moses Mavericke and Hillyard Veren:

Dwelling house, six acres of land upon which the house standeth,
    orchard, garden, corne land & wast unimproved land,  	55li.
one cow & one heifer,							  6li.
3 swine of a yeare old & 4 smaler swine,				  3li.  5s.
pcell of Corne, with other frutes growing there,			  3li.
a smale boate,									  3li.
2 loads & halfe of haye,							  3li.
the garden fruite & aples upon the trees,				  2li.10s.
wearing apparell with 1 pr. stockins,					  1li.10s.
beading, bedstedd & old curtins & som linen,			  1li.10s.
3 pewter dishes, 6 poringers, a bason, chamber pot, a salt, 
   a suck botle, 5 drinking cups,						  1li.10s.
earth ware,									        5s.
warming pan & lanthorne,							        5s. 6d.
2 Iron pots, a skellet, hangers, tongues, gridiron, friing pan,  1li.
2 spining wheeles, a box & a chest, 4 old chaires, a stoole,
   bellowes, 									  1li.
axes, reap hoockes, old howes & pailes,				  1li.
									total,		85li. 5s. 6d.
	
Estate debtor: 
To Henery Bethmey,			      11s.
Goodman Pelemeter,			 2li.  1s.11d.
Rasemes James,			 2li.11s.
Mr. Samell Worde,			 2li.12s.  5d.
Thomas Dexse,				 3li.12s.  6d.
Mr. James Breden,			 3li.  8s.
Nicheles Woodbrey,			 3li.
Mr. Edmon Beter,			 1li.  4s.
Gebrell Hollman,			      10s.  9d.
John Clefferd,				      15s.
Capt. Gorge Corwen,	       16li.  4s.  2 3-4d.
Mr. William Browne, sr.,		 7li.      10 1-2d.
Peter Wellckom,			       2s.
Henery Skery,				       3s.
Charles Waterfelle,			     16s.
Richard Norman,			     10s.
William Charles,			       1s.  8d.
Elezebeth Comes,			       5s.
John Woolden,				       5s.
Mr. Frances Johnson,	      10li.
Richd. Hide,				    18s.
				total,	      57li.  2s.  8 1-4d.

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from Vital Records of Marblehead, Mass... Vol 3, p. 37: "Henry Coombes found drowned, jury of inquest, Aug. 30, 1669; finding of jury, accident; sworn Dec 2, 1669; wid. executor; chn. mentioned;

[June 13, 1709: Letter of administration for estate of Henry Coombs & Elizabeth Coombs, late of Marblehead, deceased intestate granted unto Francis Grant & Susannah his wife, daughter of said deceased, they having given bond with sureties to exhibit an inventory at or before first Monday of April, 1710.]

[June 23, 1709: inventory of Estate of Henry Coombes formerly of Marblehead deceased. The 5 1/2 acres land and house upon the land worth £40. The expenses for the estate such as recording fees came to £2.12.9.]

[December 31, 1709: Another inventory of estate of Henry Coombes. The value is £40.15.0 (land of £40 plus income). Expenses were £13.17.0, and net worth was £26.17.6 which was divided:] To Bridgett Coombes Grand daughter to ye said deceased £10.15.0
To Susannah Grant daughter of ye said deceased £5.7.6 To Elizabeth Trevey daughter of ye said deceased £5.7.6 To Deborah House daughter of ye deceased £5.7.6

[June 23, 1710:] Remittances to Henry Coombe Estate
Know all men by those gents that I Deborah House of Scituate in ye county of Plimouth in ye province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England, one of the daughters of Henry Coombes formerly of Marblehead do had received of our brother in law Francis Grant of Marblehead peforxx being in county of Essex in ye province aforesaid xxx my xxx of ye said Henry Coombe deceased ye full & just sum of five pounds seven shillings & six pence being in full of my part or portion of my said father Henry Coombs his estate & do xxx reinse roxxx & for ever quit claim unto ye said Francis Grant ye xxx aforesaid of & from any claim parlance challange or demand whatsoever that I have or may hereafter have for ye same but from ye same & every paxx of to be excluded & for ever debarred. in wittness my hand & seal [followed by Deborah House her mark and signatures of withnesses.]

[November 18, 1862: $200 administration bond to Mary Crowther, administratrix of estate of Elijah Crowther.]

[September 13, 1672:]
I Dolor Davis of Barnstable in the colonie of Lord Plymouth being weak and crazy in body but of perfect mind and memory doe make this my last will and testament in manner and forme following. First I committ and commend my soule into the hand of God my heavenly father in Christ Jesus hoping in his full grace and when it shall leave this body he will receive it to himself into his heavonly kingdom. And my body I comitt to the earth to be decently buried therin believing there will be a resurrection thereof at the last day. The charge of my burial to be borne by my executor hereunder expressed. For the outward Estate which I have to dispose of, I having already given my Son Symon and Samuel their full portions and deeds for their Lands which I have settled on them, I do hereby bequeath to my dear and loving wife Joanna five Pounds which I have due to me by bill to be paid at Mr. Brattles in Boston and four Pounds to be payed by my Executor to her during the tearm of four years after my decease in English Comodities or otherwise as my wife and my said Executor shall agree, in case my said wife live so long. I do also hereby give and bequeath to my eldest son John my house and barn and outyard with several parcels of Land lying in Concord in the Colony of the Massachusetts hereafter mentioned. Viz: all my land about the said house bounded by the highway down by the Brook and by the land given to my son Symon and butting on the South River containing by estimation twenty acres more or less, as also a piece of upland and meadow containing six acres more or less near my son Symon's house, bounded by the highway on one side and by the twenty acres on the other side. As also thirteen acres of upland more or less, adjoin- ing to my seven acres of meadow on one side, which said seven acres of meadow are also hereby bequeathed to him, which said upland and meadow is bounded with James Blood's land on the one side, my son Symon's four acres more or less on the other side, and the west bounded by the twenty acres; as also thirty-two acres of upland and swampyish meadow compassed about with Richard Temple's land on three sides and bounded with Thomas Bateman's land on the other side; as also five acres of upland fenced in bounded by John Heald's field on the one side, my son Symon's land on another side, and the highway on a third side, and butting on the South River, which said five acres my will is, are hereby bound over and engaged for the payment of the four Pounds for the said four years. In case my Executor refuse to pay the said four Pounds for the term aforesaid then, my said wife shall have power to sell the said five acres only I do hereby reserve the use of my said five acres to my son Samuel for the next crop in the year one thousand six hundred seventy three. My will also is that in case my said five acres be not sufficient to improve the said four Pounds for four years to my said wife, that then a piece of Pasture Land is hereby added thereto on that account and engaged to her to dispose of for her satisfaction, which said Pasture Land is part of the twenty acres about the house, bounded by the South River on one side, a little brook on another side and Samuel Hunte on a third side, and the field lots below on the other side. My will also is that my son Symon shall have another crop after this years from that piece of my land that lies near his house, for which he is to pay to me my Executor or assigns twenty shillings. I do also bequeath to my son John a bill of four Pound due to me from Roger Chandler of Concord to satisfy for the charges of my coming from Barnstable to Concord and to provide his son Joseph who came to attend me. I do also bequeath to him all my carpenters tools and my serge suite and cloake. I do also bequeath to my son in law Lewis my cloth suite and coat and hat and to my daughter Mary his wife a cow which is at present in my son Samuel's keeping, as also fifty shillings the half of a bill of five pounds dne to me from my son Samuel. As also all my bedding, pewter and brass and other household stuff now in my dwelling house at Barnstable. Also I do give and bequeath to my daughter Ruth Hall besides what she hath received from me, a cow which her husband hath at present in his keeping, as also fifty shillings the other half of the aforesaid bill due from my son Samuel, provided that her husband or herself pay five shillings for me to William Butterick. I do also give to the poor of the town where it shall please God that I die whether at Concord or at Barn- stable the sum of ten shillings to be payed to the Deacons of the Church there by my Executor. I do also hereby constitute and appoint my said son John the sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, and my loving and re- spected friends William Butterick, Richard Hassell, and Thomas Browne the overseers thereof. In witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal.
Signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Browne.

Know all Men by these Presents that I Dolor Davis of Barnstable in the Colony of New Plymouth do ratify and confirm this my last Will and Testament, which is signed and sealed in the presence of Thomas Brown above mentioned, only I do further declare that I do give unto my son John Davis twenty acres of woodland which is by the twenty seven acres which belongeth unto twenty men, or did belong unto them in the Town of Concord in the Colony of the Massachusetts which land is not mentioned in my will above written. As also I do give my red mare unto my wife Joanna, which is not before disposed of, this thirteenth of September in the year of our Lord one thousand, six hundred, seventy and two.
Dolor Davis and a seal.

Signed and sealed in the presence of
Nathaniel Bacon, Junr.
Samuel Bacon

This will above mentioned was acknowledged by Dolor Davis to be bis last will and testament, according as it is witnessed in both places and sealed before me.
Nathaniel Bacon, J. P. Court.
This Will was proved at the Court held at Plymouth the second of July 1673, and is manifest to be the last will and testament of Dolor Davis deceased; and John Davis the reputed son of the said Dolor Davis is allowed and approved by the said Court to be the sole Executor to the Estate of the said Dolor Davis deceased. A Testimony relating to the abovesaid written Will, was showed in the Court held at Plymouth the second of July 1673, and by the said Court ordered to be here recorded as abovesaid.

Mr. Richard Dole Will proved approved & allowed

In the name of God & by his existance I Richard Dole senior of Newbury in ye County of Essex in ye province of ye Massachtt Bay in New England do humbly comit my Lord, body & spirit both in Life & Death into ye everlasting provence of God Sufficient my heavenly father, & unto Jesus Christ my ??? savior & blessed redeemer throh ye power & presence of his ???? spirit my body to ye earth when its originall was taken in hopes of a happy & glorious reformation in great Day of ye man Christ Jesus to him be glory both now & ever Amen --- and for such good things of his want as God hath been pleased in this my pilgrimage to comitt to my stewardship I as much as in ??? to dispose a hereafter ?????--- I give to ??ence my dear & loving wife ??? I promised her upon our marriage by a writing under my hand & ???? barring date Octr 29, 1690 acknowledged by me before ye Worshipp??? Nathan Saltonstall Esq) I do now give her ye wife of ye bed & bedding together with all other furniture ???? ??? ?? ??? ??? of time if she remains my widow, [this will goes on and on for 5 long pages and I can only decipher part of it. He mentions lots of things to give to his wife as long as she remains a widow (this must be his 3rd wife; his 2nd wife died 9/6/1690), including land, gold, sheeps wool, shillings, etc. He then lists what he gives to his son John, who has already received some things from him. The list includes the wharf, property in Salisbury, and mentions land originally granted to Henry Rolfe. He then bequeths half of his bark house & mill and other implements of tanning to his son Richard (1/4 to son William and 1/4 to son Abner), with 80 rods of land with the tan house. He also gave his dwelling house to his son William, including barn, out-house, upland and meadow and orchard to the River, plus 5 adjacent lots of 4 acres apiece, which he called the Spencers Lot, Franklin Lot, Nath'l Badgers Lot, and 2 Moody Lots. He mentions bequeths to sons John, William, Richard, and Abner, and daughters Hannah Moodey, Apphia Coffin, and daughter-in-law Sarah Walker] ...
...my last will & testament have herewith ???? my home & ??? this twentyfifth day of March Anno Dom. one thousand six hundred ninety & eight & ....
Signed, sealed & declared by Mr. Richard Dole senr [signed by Richard and witnesses].

[The will was followed on the next page by the inventory]

Mr. Richard Dole Inventory

An inventory of the Estate of Mr. Richard Dole senr of Newbury decd
taken this 26th of July 1705
?? Waring ??? Book. two ?? to five feather beds. five ???
Eight pillows one huge ???? light??? - two blanketts 13 sheets
5 bedstead curtains pr ???? ???? 6 pr pillowbears  4 doz. 1/2 ???
one hamackor - 3 table cha?? 3 window clocks one looking glass
one clock. 2 cisses with glasses - ga??? juggs - ?? plate 25 ?ancy
Apouter still - 3 pr. ?illiards - 3 pr old sheets - ??? ??? platters
1 Easan - 3 qt potts & a bed pan - 3 chamber pots 2 ???? ??? pewter
2 lanttern juggs 2 ??? one ???? hattler 2 skilletts - 2 copper pans
allanning pan - a mortar tow pr ???? 2 trimell 1 pair pot heads
1 bootle frying pan dripping pan 1 ??? 1 ??? 2 ?ongs & ???
??? 5 old iron - one cubbord & table. ??? shoots 8 cha???
2 old chests - 2 trinds - 3 chairs & other old iron ---
A dwelling house. barne. back house. tanyard & pooles
plowland pasture land meadow a late lot - woodland
10 acres wood upland at plum Island - a free ??? ??? right
??? & creek grass & given by Will to ye ??? & In Moodey
nine dry cal? 2 pound ??? ??? & one half ???? - 3 wash
???? ---  Debts not knowne

Before ye Honor John Appleton Esq Judge of the probat of wills 
in said county. Mr Richard, William & John Dole joynt executors to the
last will of their father Mr. Richard Dole late of Newbury
decd. appeared & certify ye above is a true & proper inventory
of ye estate of ye said decd.  ??? & complete (except what before
he had given away by deed of gift) so far as is come to his
knowledge & to add what more shall come to their knowledge
Sworn July 30th 1705 --- Atter? Daniel Rogers Regr

[Dec 17, 1716: Return of committee appointed to divide real estate given to the heir of son John, deceased. Largely illegible.]

[September 9, 1723: Letter of administration for estate of Richard Dole late of Newbury deceased intestate granted unto his sons John, Stephen, & Joseph Dole, they having given bond with surety to exhibit an inventory at or before second Monday of December.]

[September 9, 1723: Agreement and decree for the division of estate of Richard Dole. Agreement is signed by his 3 sons John, Stephen, and Joseph Dole. It details which land is to be given to each of them and to their brother Richard and to their sisters. Sister Mary Dole is named; there is also a mention of thier honored granfather Steven Greenleaf late of Newbury deceased.]

An inventory of the estate of Mr. Richard Dole late of Newbury ??? county of Essex decd apprvd as currant bills of creditt on this province taken by us the suscribers on the 8th day of October 1723

About 10 acres of plow land & ye orchard theron of ye homestead 			      £120.
The buildings thereon (wanting repareing) att 								  60.
Abt 12 acres of land bought of the Kent att 								120.
Abt halfe an acre of land where John dwells and of building thereon 				  60.
About 4 acres of land where Stephen dwells & attending field & of buildings thereon 140.
About 16 acres of pasture land of the hill and pine island pasture 				160.
About 9 acres of pasture & pasture meadow 								  54.
About 15 acres of wood land bot of meadows? £120 						120.
About 3 acres of wood at Noyes Neck £12 6 acres of wood & lots Posaid £21 	  33.
About 30 acres of ye wood lotts £60. ???? of undivided land & common land £20 	  80.
About 10 acrs salt marsh near pine Island £70 								  70.
About 15 acres marsh land called Rolfes Lott £100 							100.
About 8 acres of marsh by Eatons Crick £50 Abt 6 acres of thatch ????? 			  80.
Abt 20 acres of marsh att Plum Island 									  70.
About 40 acres of upland and wood on ilt Plum Island 						  30.
Abt. 5 acrs of ye marsh att Salibury 										  40.
Abt 40 acres of upland att Haverhill £100 									100.
Land and rights in East New Jersey being uncertain 							150.
the river lotts on ye banks by Merimeck River 								  10.
Tan yard ??? & bath house & implements for tanning 						  40.
															    £1637.
Aperill books & armes £20  carts plows chairs & other ??lly & husbandry 		  35.19
Horses oxen cows sheep and swine £56.5 Hay corn flax heather £30 			  89.5
An Indian man servant £20 											  20.
Beds beding bedstead puter & other household good which of daughters house 	  60.
 															   £1840.2

John Dole 				Richard Kelly    appraiser all sworn by
Stephen Dole   Adminitrators 	Samel Moody   Judge of Probate before
Joseph Dole 				John Peke

Ipswich October 21 1723 before the Hon. John Appleton Esq Judge of Probate

[Will dated 25 January 1657, presented 25 June 1658, proved 14 December 1658]
I Thomas Foxe of Concord in the County of Middlesex in Massachusetts Colony being sicke and weake in body butt of perfect mind and memory doe make this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following. First I Committ and commend my soule into the hands of the Lord my God trusting in the Riches of his grace, that hee hath redeemed it by the preciouse bloud of Christ Jesus, And my Body to bee decently buryed, believing that though soule and body bee seperated for a time, yett they shall bee united againe at the resurrection of the Just to reigne with Christ in eternall glory. And for the outward estate which the Lord hath beene pleased to give mee, I for the present leave both house and lands Cattle and moveables in the possession of my wife Hannah and my will is that shee have and hold all, untill my Eldest sonne Eliphalett shall accomplish the age of one and twenty yeares, And then in case my said sonne Eliphalett will then undertake the payment of Five pounds to each of the rest of my Children as they shall come to the said age of twenty one yeares, that then hee shall have and injoy two thirds of the said land and Meadow, my said wife enjoying the said dwelling house and a third part of the barne and of the land during the terme of her life, except in the Case hereunder expressed, and after her decease then the other 3d part of the land, with the house and other appurtenances to come to my said sonne Eliphalett. Butt in case hee shall refuse to pay the said portions to the rest of my Children, to my daughter Elisabeth five pounds within one yeare after, and to the rest at the Age of one and twenty yeares, that then my said wife Hannah shall pay or Cause to bee paied by her Executors and Asignes to my said sonne Eliphalett the summe of ten pounds within six monthes after the said refusall. And shee shall have full power to dispose of the said house and lands to one or more of the rest of my sonnes as shee shall thinke most meete, and shee and he or they to whom they are disposed shall pay to the rest of my children the said summe of five pounds a peice at the time and age aforesaid. Also my last will is that the said house and Lands shall remayne to one or more of my said sonnes except there be a necessity of selling of part of the land for the payment of the said portions. And in case that part be sold, my will is that no part of the house lott be sold from the said house, nor two Akers of land at the Towne end in Brickilne feild nor an Acker and halfe of meadow in Bridge Meadow, nor two Ackers of Meadow at the upper end in Tomkins Meadow beyond Cranes feild. Butt what other parcells of the said Land or Meadow shee or they shall see cause to sell, they have liberty and power soe to doe. Also my will is that in case my said sonne Eliphalett shall accept the said two thirds of the Land at the age of one and twenty yeares on the termes aforesaid that then my said wife Hannah shall hold for her third part during her life with the house and a third part of the barne an Acker of plowland usually called the hollow on the top of the hill behind the house, and all of the house lott below the house on the other side of the high way, and the said two ackers in brickilne feild and the two parcells of Meadow before expressed, and six Ackers of woodland adjoyning to my house lott Meadow. Also in Case my said wife hannah bee marryed to another man, and shall not live on the said house and lands when the said Eliphalett shall bee one and twenty yeares old, that then in case he accept the Land on the termes aforesaid, hee shall also enjoy the house and whole house-lott and the other parcells before excepted, he paying to my said wife yeerely during her life the third part of the yearely worth of the whole as it shall be judged to be worth by the yeare. Also in case my said wife Hannah dye before my said sonne Eliphalett come to the Age aforesaid, that then the Overseers of this my will hereunder mentioned or their Assignes for that purpose shall have power to deale in and dispose of things for the Benefit of my said Children as the said Hannah hath in case shee live and my said sonne Eliphalet refuse to accept the land on the termes aforesaid. Also the overseers shall have power to dispose of all my Children to trades and abroad as they shall see cause, only my said wife Hannah hath liberty to Choose any one of those I had by her to Continue with her. Also I appoint and Constitute my said wife Hannah the executrix of this my Last will and Testament for the payment of debts and their assgnes ordering the Estate in Land and Cattle, untill my siad sonne Eliphalett bee at the said age of one and twenty yeares: and then two thirds of the Land to come to him if he accept thereof as aforesaid, but otherwise to dispose of things as is before expressed. And whether shee Live till that time or noe, shee hath when shee dyeth full power to dispose of the Cattle and moveables as shee shall thinke best: Also I appoint and Constitue my Loveing Unckle Thomas Brookes, my Loving brethren Moses Wheate, and Thomas Batman and my Loveing Freind and neighbor Robert Fletcher the overseers of this my will and Testament. In Wittnesse whereof I the said Thomas Foxe have hereunto sett my hand and seale this Five and Twentyth day of January 1657.
Wittnesses hereof . . . Thomas Foxe [seal]
Edward Bulkely
Robert Fletcher

This was witnessed upon oath by those above written the: 14th: 10th mo. 1658 befor mee Simon Willard

At a County Court held at Charletown June. 25th. 58. Major Simon Willard was appoynted by the Court to take the attest and probate of the Will of Thomas Fox.
Entred and Recorded 20 (10) 58 ...


[Inventory presented 25 June 1658, endorsed as recorded 28 December 1658.]

An Inventory of the goods and Chattles of Thomas Foxe Deceased as it was taken and the goods and Chattles prized by us Thomas Brookes and Robert Fletcher Aprill 23th 1658.

        

Middlesex Registry of Probate, 1st Series, Probate No. 8397


transcribed in the book "Middlesex County Probate Records 1649-1660", Robert H. Rodgers, NEHGS:1999
       
      

In the name of God, Amen. The two and twentieth day of December, sixteen hundred and sixty-eight, I, Edmund Greenleaf mindful of my own mortality and certainty of death, and uncertain of the same, and being desirous to settle things in order, being now in good health and perfect memory, do make, appoint and ordain this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following; that is to say first and principally, I give and bequeath my soul into the hands of my blessed Redeemer, the Lord Jesus, who hath died and gave himself for me and his blood cleanseth from all sin, and through his righteousness I do only look for justification and salvation; and do commit my mortal body after this life is ended, into the dust from whence it was taken there to be preserved by the power and faithfulness of my Redeemer Jesus Christ until the resurrection of the just, and then to be raised up by the same power to immortality and life, where I shall see him as he is, and shall ever be with him; and in this faith and hope I desire, through his grace and assistance, to live and die, and at last to be found of him in peace.
Nextly, my will is, being according to God's will revealed in the word, that we must pay what we owe and live of the rest unto whose rule the sons of men ought to frame their wills and actions; therefore my mind and will is that my debts shall be truly and justly paid to every man to whom I shall be indebted, by my executors hereafter named.
And first I do revoke, renounce frustrate and make void all wills by me formerly made ; and I declare and appoint this to be my last will and testament.
Imprimis - I give unto to my son Stephen Greenleaf, and to my daughter Browne, widow, and to my daughter Coffin to each I twenty shillings apiece.
Item - I give unto my grandchild Elizabeth Hilton ten pounds.
Item - I give unto my grandchild Enoch Greenleaf ten pounds.
Item - I give unto my grandchild Sarah Winslow, five pounds if her, father pay me the four pounds he oweth me.
Item - I give unto my eldest son's son, James Greenleaf, twenty shillings; and after my funeral debts and legacies are discharged,
I give and bequeath the rest of my estate unto my son Stephen Greenleaf, and to my daughter Elizabeth Browne and to my daughter Judith Coffin, equally to be divided amongst them and their children.
And, further, I desire ad appoint my son Stephen Greenleaf, and Tristram Coffin the executors of this my will see it executed and affirmed as near as they can; and I further entreat my cousin Thomas. Moon, mariner to see to the performance of this my will.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this twenty-fifth day of December, 1668.

(Signed) EDMUND Greenleaf [L.S.]

Signed, sealed, published, and declared to be my last will in the presence of us,
George Ruggell
John Furnside

[The inventory of Mr. Greenleaf's estate, which was, appended to the will amounted to £131-5s-9d The following paper is also recorded in the "Probate Records," appended to the will, as, probably, assigning the reason why the name of his second wife, who appears to have outlived him, was not mentioned:]

I married my wife I kept her grandchild, as I best remember, three years to schooling, diet and apparel; and William Hill, her son, had a bond of six pounds a year, whereof I received no more than a barrel of pork of £3. 0s. 0d of that £6. 0s. 0d. a year, he was to pay me, and sent to her son Ignatius Hill, to the Barbados, in mackeral cider, and bread and pease, as much as come to twenty pounds, and never received one penny of it. His aunt gave to the three brothers £50 apiece. I know not of whether they received it or no; but I have or received any part of it.

Witness my hand. (Signed) Edmund Greenleaf

Besides when I married my wife, she brought me a silver bowl a silver porringer, and a silver spoon. She lent on gave them to her son, James Hill, without my consent.

[August 5, 1690:] Capt Stephen Greenleaf
Because I know not the day of my death I make this my last will and testat. I bequeath my body to the earth and my Soul to god yet give it in hope of a blessed resurection.
1. I give to my oldest son Stephen Greenleaf the one half of my house lot that half nxxxxhim, he make my all the sons that lyeth against his own land. I give him also my share of the land that we bought between us of Ephraim Winslow of Saulsberry with two acres of the meadow below the land meet Calob Moodys meadow provided thou be liberty for Edmond to make a fence across the land from my ditch to dolor dole his ditch, and what may be upon the land may be used to repair the fence. And that my sons Stephen with his brother Edmond and Calob Moody that is engaged to their xxxx of the fence to secure their meadow.
2d. I give to my sons John Greenleaf becide what he hath already had my freehold lot at Plum Island he paying to his sister Mary five pound in pay when she shall be married or at 18 years of age.
3d. I give to my son Samuel Greenleaf besides the living he hath by deed of gift five sheep and all my wearing cloths.
4th. I give my son Tristrum that living at Hartychoak the free hold lot with the house & forest xxx, and the two other lots of Salt marsh at foss island he paying to his sister mary five pounds in pay when she shall be marryed or at 18 years of age.
5. I give my xxx lot to be equally divided between Jno, Samuel, Tristrum, & Edmond as equally as they can the drawing lots for ye shares and the rake lot I bought of Benja. Gutteridge I give to my son Stephen to appoint also my son Stephen to pay to his sister Mary three score pound in pay and ten pound in money within two year after the after she shall be 18 years of age or marriage. 6th. I give to my son Stephen the Chasser, to Daughter Dohe the brass pot or the xxx iron xxxx wch she will, and the xxx silver cup in my cupbord and one sheep. And I do hereby xxx that I gave him the meadow at Saulsberry and major pykes pasture that he should have had a deed of gift of, I give to my daughter joice my great platter and the silver wind cup to her daughter Elizabeth, I give the baker nutcup to my son Stephen.
7t. I give to my son Edmond Greenleaf the rest of my estate housing land and meadow and shop household stuff and books he paying to his sister mary Steven 8 pound in pay as soon as she shall be marryed.
Lastly. If my son Edmund Greenleaf should dye without xxxx lawfully begotten of his own body then all which I have in this my will given to him. I give to my son Stephen Greenleaf his house lands as before mentioned, he paying to the rest of his brothers and sisters then furnishing proportional to the xxx what it may be valued at by xxx xxx xxx my to him self and Mary which I freely give three parts or shares of land Edmunds portion.
I do appoint my son Edmund Greenleaf to be my sole executor and Calib Moody & Wm. Titcomb to xxx this my will performed as overseen of the same. My desire is that my xxxx wife shall live with my son Edmond but if in case my wife should be good to xxxx and live otherwhere then Edmond shall pay to his mother four pounds a year or else she to have the xxx of the land and further in case my son Tristram dye without xxx lawfully begotton of his own body then the one half of the value of the land given him by me, to be to his widow and the other half to be divided equally amonst the rest of the children. In full testimony that this is my last will & testament I have hereunto put my hand & seal this 5 August 1690
This was published to be the last will & testate Stephen Greenleaf estate of Capt Stephen Greenleaf
in pressence of Benja. Grish
Wm. Longfellow
James March
[legalese that the witnesses observed this to be the last will & testament, followed by an inventory of the Estate including the homestead housing & 11 acres of land (£420), smith shop & tools, another house, other lots of around 100 acres, 3 horses, 6 cows, 2 steers, 4 young cattle, 35 sheep, plows & chains, 5 beds of furniture, sheets, pillow cases, table linnen, woolen and linnen cloth & sheeps wool, plates, pots, cups, pans, tools, trunks, boxes, tables, etc., around £1200 total.]

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[December 3, 1704: Agreement made between children/heirs of Stephen Greenleaf to divide land into 4 equal parts, per item 5 in the will given above:] This agreement made ye third day of December 1704 between Stephen Greenleaf in right of Jno Greenleaf, & Peter Pappan & Sarahlie wife re. gaurdians to ye children of Samuel Greenleaf decd., & Tristrim Greenleaf all of Newbury in ye county of Essex with respect to a piece of land called xxxton given them in ye last will & testament of their father Mr. Stephen Greenleaf late of said Newbury decd to be especially divided among said parties & taken by cutting of lots accordingly ye parties above named went upon ye land ye day of ye date above & did divide said land into four equal parts and said Stephen Greenleaf in right of his brs John aforesaid did draw take & accept of ye SoWest corner of said land as his part & share of said xxx as butted & bound out, Peter Pappan & Sarah as guardians aforesaid did take, draw & accept of ye SoEast corner of said land for ye children of Samuel decd re their share & division of land, and Tristrim Greenleaf did take draw & accept of ye NorWest corer of said land as bound, and said Stephen in right of Edmund Greenleaf decd did take & accpt of ye NorEast corner of said land as butted & bound out and in testimony of this xxx xxxx appoint as ye division of land according to ye will of said deceased xxx xxxx above named have here into set our hands & seal ye day & date above written.
[signed by all parties and witnesses, including 2 Stephen Greenleaf signatures]

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[March 26, 1908:] These xxx that whereas Mr. Stephen Greenleaf late of Newbury in ye county of Essex in ye province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England does did in & by his last will & testament give unto his four sons John Samuel Tristram & Edmund Greenleaf a certain rake lot in ye xxxx of Newbury to be equally divided among ye aforesaid four sons to be redivided by xxx by drawing of lots for their part when divided at by xxxx which xxx may xxxx. Now know ye that we who have xxx our names & affexed our seals viz. Stephen Greenleaf who purchased John & Edmund shares of said lot. Tristrim Greenleaf & Peter Pappan & Sarah his wife legal guardians to ye children of Samuell Greenleaf decd have divided said lot and drawn lots for said part according to ye xxxx of said will as follows. That Stephen Jr right of Jno & Edmund Greenleaf draw & is to possess lying Westerly & Easterly corners of quarters of said lott as bound out. & Tristrim drew & so possesses ye northerly corner or part or quarter of said lott. Petter Pappan & Sarah his wife guardian to ye children of said Samuell & in ye right of said children drew the Southerly corner or quarter of said lot [... Quit Claims the land to Levitt & Reloasexxx...]

John Heywood's Will
In the Name of God Amen the ninth Day of September A.D. 1777. I John Haywood of Lunenburg in the County of Worcester and State of the Massachusetts Bay in New England yeoman being advanced in years but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God. Therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is pointed for all men once to die, to make and ordain this my last will and testament. That is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul in the hands of God who gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian burial at the disscretion of my Executor nothing doubting but at the general reformation I shall recieve the same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly estate wheren with it hath ??? God to bless me in this life I give describe and dispose of the same in the following manner and forever imprimis. I give and bequeath to Silence Haywood my dearly beloved wife all that part of my movable estate which I had with her at marriage to be at her own dispossal.

Item. I give and bequeath to Sarah Stearns my eldest daughter the sum of four pounds lawfull money to be paid her by my Executor within one year after my decease.

Item. I give and bequeath to Ruth Kidder my second daughter the sum of four pounds lawfull money to be paid her by my Executor within one year after my decease.

Item I give and bequeath to my adopted son John Prescott Haywood and his heirs and assigns forever the other half of all my lands and buildings lying in the town of Lunenburg with the whole of my pew in Lunenburg meeting house. The other half of my lands and buildings I have sold to the said John Prescott Haywood whose deed bears same date with this will. Also I give to this said John Prescott Haywood all my husbandry tools with all my live stock and all the debts that shall be due to me or bonds notes and book with the whole of my wearing cloths, all upon condition that he shall pay all my just debts and well and faithfully perform the condition of a bond bearing ??? date with these ??? wherein be the said John Prescott Haywood together with his father Jonas Haywood ??? ??? Boundd for the funal sum of one thousand pounds with the aforesaid condition will and faithfully to support me and my wife during the corse of our natural lives and at our deaths bestow upon each of us a decent burial and pay the afore give legarus and my will turn that is that all my indoor moveables that were brought to me by my first wife or to many of them as shall be left at my decease and the decease of my present wife be equally divided between my two daughters, viz. Sarah Stearns and Ruth Kidder and my will further is that if my daughter Ruth Kidder should die before me and my wife then her half of the aforesaid moveables be qually divided between the daughters of the aforesaid Ruth Kidder.

And I do constitute make and ordain my adopted son John Prescott Haywood aforesaid to be the sole executor of this my last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disannull revoke and disallow all and every other former testament will legacy and bequest and executed by me in any way before named wills and bequethed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness who??? I have hereunto set my hand and seal this day and year above written.

Signed sealed and published anounced and declared by the said John Haywood as his last will and testament in the presence of us the sub????
Ephraim Wood Junr
Samuel Jones
Stephen Hosemer
[The registrar then states he recorded this on the 3rd day of August 1779 and accepts the witnesses, etc.]

[Inventory of estate of Deacon John Heywood taken Aug. 25, 1779 included apparel £63, livestock £673, farming tools £70, real estate £1500, pew in the Meeting house £90, table at the Meeting house £10, and several dozen smaller items for a total of £2906.]

[December 3, 1867: Humphrey B. Heywood appointed executor of will. $7000 bond to Cyrus Kilburn & Charles L. Heywood, sureties.]
[November 29, 1867: Affadavit of valuation. Humphrey B. Heywood declared that the estate does not exceed a value of $3500.]
Lincoln Heywood

Be it remembered that I Lincoln Heywood of Lunenburg in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeoman, being of sound and disposing mind & memory do make & publish & declare this my last Will & Testament to wit:
First I give & bequeath to my beloved wife Rebecca Heywood her living & support through life out of my Estate as named & specified hereinafter in my Bequest & Devise to to my Son Humphrey B. Heywood. And should my said Wife survive my said Son Humphrey B. Heywood my Will is, that my said Wife receive one thousand dollars in addition to the above out of my Estate. Also two dollars per month during her natural life.
Secondly, I give & bequeath to my Son Charles Heywood one hundred dollars.
Thirdly I give & bequeath to my Daughter Abigail Welch the Wife of Horatio Welch of Stoddard N.H. one hundred dollars.
Fourthly I give & bequeath to my Daughter Miranda P. Ford the Widow of Absalom Ford late of Leominster, deceas'd one hundred dollars.
Fifthly I give and bequeath to my Daughter Adaline E. Conant the Wife of Loraner Conant of said Leominster one hundred dollars.
Sixthly I give & bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Goodrich the Wife of Andrew Goodrich of Lunenburg one hundred dollars.
Seventhly I give & bequeath to Elizabeth Heywood the Widow of my deceas'd Son John Heywood late of Brattleboro Vt. twenty five dollars.
Eighthly I give & bequeath to my Grand Daughter Adelaide Elisabeth Heywood the Daughter of my deceased Son John Heywood five hundred dollars.
Ninthly I give & bequeath to my Grand Daughter Mary Sophia Heywood, the Daughter of my deceas'd Son George Heywood five hundred dollars.
Tenthly I give & bequeath to my Grand Daughter Helen Miranda Heywood, the Daughter of said Humphrey B. Heywood, three hundred dollars I having already given her two hundred dollars. Eleventhly I give & bequeath to my Grand Son Charles Francis Welch the son of said Horatio N. Welch & Abigail Welch twenty five dollars.
Twelfthly I give & bequeath to my Grand Son Alonso Heywood Conant the son of said Lorander Conant & Adaline Conant ten dollars.
Thirteenthly I give & bequeath to my two Grand Daughters Fannie Maria Goodrich & Nellie Frances Goodrich, Daughters of said Andrew & Sarah Goodrich ten dollars each.
The aforesaid Legacies I order my executor hereinafter named to pay within one year after my decease.
Forteenthly I give & devise all the remainder of my Personal & Real Estate to my said Son Humphrey B. Heywood to him his Heirs & assigns forever, upon conditions following to Wit:
That the said Humphrey B. Heywood his Heirs & assigns shall support my said Wife Rebecca Heywood through her natural life, by allowing her to have a Home where we now live, by boarding & clothing her & Doctoring & Nursing her when sick, by letting her have a Room by herself if she choose, & by finding her firewood, hauled & cut fit to burn and by doing all other little offices & attentions, to make her life comfortable, as circumstance will admit. And I hereby nominate & appoint said Humphrey B. Heywood, to be the sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking annulling & declaring void all former Wills by me at any time heretofore made. In witness whereof I have herunto set my hand this fourteenth day of March AD 1867.
Lincoln Heywood.

Signed published & declared by the said Lincoln Heywood, as his last Will & Testament in the presence of us, who in his presence & in the presence of each other, have hereunto set our name as witnesses.
Cyrus Kilburn
Albert O. Stratton
Frederic R. Hadley
[December 6, 1867: Affadavit of notice of appointment of Humphrey B. Heywood as Executor.]

[January 16, 1678:] The sixteenth day of January in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hundred seventy & eight and in the thirteyeth yeare of the reigne of our soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of god of great Brittaine France & Ireland king & defender of the faith etc. I Peter Hobbert minister of the gosple in Hingham in New England being weake in body yet of perfect memory praise be given to almighty god do make & declare my last will & testament in manner and forme following. First and principally, I committ & commend my Soule into the hands of almighty God and my body to the earth to be decently buryed at the discretion of my executor hoping for salvation both of soule & body by the merceys of god in the merrits of my Saviour Jesus Christ. And concerning the disposing of my temporall estate I give and bequeath the same as followeth, to witt I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Rebekah Hobart severall pcells. of land and meadows & commons lying & being in Hingham aforesaid as followeth, that is to say, all my house lotts & other pcells. of land, which I now have either by gift purchase or exchange adjoyning to the said house lotts with my dwelling house & all other buildings standing thereupon, which I am now possessed of which said house lotts and pcells. of land lying together in one bulck or piece is bounded with the land of Thomas Gill toward the east and with the street towards the south, and with the land of Josiah Lane & the land of Thomas Gill & the land of Thomas Marsh towards the west & with broad Cove house lotts toward the north.< br> Item I give and bequath unto the said Rebekah Hobert my wife all that my salt marsh, lying in Hingham aforesaid in Broad cove marsh containing five acres of marsh be it more or lesse, as it was granted to me by the Towne of Hingham as it is now bounded with the highway southward & with my owne land & the meadow of Nicolas Baker northward & with my owne land westward & with the land of my brother Joshua Hobart eastward.
Item I give and bequeath unto the said Rebekah Hobert my wife, all that my tract of land lying in Broad cove field in Hingham aforesaid, containing twenty acres of land be it more or lesse as it was granted to me by the Towne of Hingham and is bounded by the highway southward, & with the meadow formerly given by the Towne to Clement Bate & with the land of my brother Joshua Hobert, northward, & with the land of WIlliam Hersee, westward, and with my owne meadow eastward. Item I give and bequeath unto the said Rebekah Hobert my wife, all that my Small Island of upland given me by the Towne lying in Broad cove marsh in the said towne of Hingham & is bounded with the highway leading towards the planting fields eastward, and compassed with my owne meadow, & other meadows in the other parts of it. Item I give and bequeath unto the said Rebekah Hobert my wife, twenty of my shares of the commons, lately granted to me by the towne of Hingham (to wit) twenty of my shares of the common lands that are now common and agreed upon by the towne to lye purpetually common all which said house lotts & pcells of land adjoyning & the houses standing there upon, with the said salt marsh lands, tract of land, island & commons - my minde & will is that the said Rebekah Hobert my wife shall from & imediatly after my decease, have, hold, use, occupie possesse & enjoy, to her, & her heires & assignes for ever, which I freely give to her, to give sell & dispose of as she shall see meete for her comfortable subsistance, after my decease. But in case the said Rebekah Hobert my wife shall not have occasion to spend all the aforesaid estate of houses, lands marsh land & commons, what shall remaine thereof in any of the said houses, lands, marsh & commons or in money or goods obtained & gotten by sale of all or any of the said houses lands marsh & commons my minde & will is that the said Rebekah Hobert my wife shall dispose of it to my six children which she have borne unto me, that is to say, to my son Japhet Hobert, my son Nehemiah Hobert, my son David Hobert, my daughter Rebekah Hobert, my daughter Abigail Hobert, & my daughter Lydia Hobert, to all of them some, and to each of them such portions as the said Rebekah Hobert my wife shall see meete.
Item I give & bequeath unto my aforesaid six children five shillings apeice to be paid to them upon demand after my decease by executors here after named.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Josiah Hobert five shillings to be paid up on demand after my decease by my executors which said five shillings with what I have formerly given to him I judge a sufficient portion for him.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Israel Hobert five shillings to be paid upon demand after my decease by my executors which said five shillings with what I have formerly given to him, I judge a sufficient portion for him, all which said legacies given to my aforesaid children my minde and will is shall be paid out of my personall estate by my executors here after named, also my minde & will is that my executors, shall deduct out of my personall estate, for the payment of all my just debts, which I owe to any person or persons whatsoever, & also for the payment of my funerall charges, which I will shall be paid in the first place. All the rest & residue of my psonall estate, I do give & bequeath unto the said Rebekah Hobert my wife that is to say moveable goods household stuff furniture plate, lynen, woolen & utensells of houshold, corne, cattle & chattles and all other my goods, whatsoever & sheresoever, and all debts which are oweing to me from any pson or psons upon any account whatsoever to be delivered to her by my executors and to be by her enjoyed for the use of her & her assignes from & imediatly after my decease for ever and I do hereby nominate appointe & ordaine my two sons, to witt, my son Nehemiah Hobert & my son David Hobert to be joint executors of this my last will & testament.
Item I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Joshua Hobert, three hundred acres of land granted to me by the generall court and is not yet measured out to me which I will my said son to looke after & gett it laid out to him, and my minde is that he & his heires & assignes shall have & enjoy it imediatly after my decease for ever. Item Item I give and bequeath unto severall of my other children not yet mentioned in this my will, (to witt) my son Jeremiah Hobert, my sonne Gershom Hobert, my daughter Elizabeth Ripley the wife of John Ripley of Hingham, my daughter Hannah Browne of Salem widdow, late the wife of John Browne deceased, my daughter Bathshebah Turnor the wife of Joseph Turnor of Scittuate, & my daughter Jaill Bradford the wife of Joseph Bradford of Plimouth, severall pcells of land as followeth, that is to say all that my lott of land being the twenty fifth lott in the second division of Conahassett upland in Hingham aforesaid, which said lott containeth seventy & two acres and thirty rods of land be it more or lesse, as it was granted to me by the towne of Hingham. Also all that my lott in the third division of Conahassett upland in the said Hingham it being the seventh lott in the said division & lyeth in two parts as all the lotts in the said division doe by order of the Towne the first part of the said lott containeth fifty & foure acres & halfe an acre & thirty rods of land, the second part of the said lott lyeth in the beechwoods & containeth fifty & one acres & a quarter of an acre & twelve rods of land be it more or lesse as it was granted to me by the towne. Also fifty acres of land, lately granted to me by the towne of Hingham lying in the Township of Hingham aforesaid, to the southward of the great lotts on the great plaine, joyning to the fifty acres of land, I lately gave to my sonne Israel Hobert all which said lotts & grants of land, viz the twenty fifth lott in the seccond division of Conahassett upland, & the said seaventh lott in the third division of Conahassett upland in Hingham and the said fifty acres granted by the towne to the southward of the great lott on the great plaines, my minde & will is that my six children last mentioned, that is to say, my said son Jeremiah Hobert, my son Gershom Hobert, my daughter Elizabeth Ripley, my daughter Hannah Browne, my daughter Bathshebah Turner, & my daughter Jaell Bradford, shall from & imediatly after my decease take possession of & divide them equally amongst themselves part & part alike and each of them to have & to hold use occupie possesse & enjoy their severall part & portion of all the said severall lotts & grants of land abovementioned & bequeathed to them in this my will to them & their severall heires & assignes for ever and I do hereby revoake renouce frustrate & make void all & every testament & testaments will & wills heretofore by me made & declared either by word or writing & this to be taken for my last will & testament and none other. In witness whereof I the said Peter Hobert have hereunto sett my hand & a seale the day & yeare first above written.
Peter Hobert & a seale
Read signed sealed published & declared by the said Peter Hobert to be his last will & testament in presence of us.
Daniel Cushing Senior
John Thaxter

Daniel Cushing Senior & John Thaxter made oath before Edward Jyng Esqr & Joseph Dudley Esqr assist. 26 February 1679 that they were present and did see Mr Peter Hobert signe & seale & heard him publish this instument to be his last will & that when he soe did he was of a disposing minde to their best knowlidge.
Attests. Isa. Addington Cler
Examined pr. Isaac Addington Cler.

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[August 24, 1739: Mary Houghton appointed administratix. £4000 bond to Jonathan Houghton & Benjamin Houghton, sureties.]
[August 24, 1739: letter appointed Mary Houghton administratix of estate.]
[Sept 14, 1739: An inventory including one £75 bond due from Dole Johnson (who is also one of our ancestors), one gun, one sword, surveyor tools, horse tacking, silver vase, pewter, 3 deer skins, one yoke of oxen, one mare & colt, one Bay mare, 8 sheep, 4 beds and furniture, chest of drawers, 1 Negro boy named Pompey, 5 cows, 3 calves, 6 swine, Homestead with building and orchard and 100 acres of land in Harvard, 3 acres of meadow lying in Harvard, 6 other pieces of land and other bonds due for a total of a little more than £2000.]
[Nov. 2, 1743: an account of the expenses of the estate amounting to £520.16.6]
[Nov. 4, 1743: Warrant for partition of Jonas Houghton's land. The report was filed and allowed May 10, 1744. The land was valued at £415.16.3 and was divided between widow Mary Houghton (received 1/3) and children Jonas, Prudence, Persis, John, Betty, and Mary. The metes and bounds of the parcels of land are described in detail. Betty, wife of Paul Welch, received 35+ acres of nonimproved land valued at £46.4.]
[May 12, 1749: Warrant for partition of Mary Houghton's land. The report was filed and allowed Aug 7, 1749. Betty Welch, eldest daughter, was apportioned 11 acres of land on the southerly side of the road from Lancaster to Harvard, valued at £35.1.8]

[August 8, 1832:]
This is the last will and testament of one James Howarth, of Andover in the county of Essex and commonwealth of Massachusetts, manufacturer.

In the first place, I order and direct, that my just debts and any funeral charges and expenses be paid by my executors herein after named.

Item. I order and divert my said executors to give to my youngest son Thomas Howarth as good an education as I have given to my other sons.

Item. As to all the residue of my estat, of every description, whether real, personal, or mixed, whether in possession, remainder or reversion, except what may be necessary to pay my said debts, funeral charges and expenses, and also to pay for the education of my said son Thomas Howarth, I give, devise and bequeath the same to my beloved wife, mrs. Dorothy Howarth; to have and to hold the same to her, her heirs and assigns forever, she remaining my widow; but, in case my said wife shall marry again, my will is, that she shall receive and out of my estate only so much, as the law would give her, in case I should die intestate, and my will is, in case said Dorothy shall marry again, that, upon her said marriage, all the residue of my estate, of every description, whether real, personal or mixed, whether in possession, remainer or reversion, after allowing her what the law would give her in case of my dying, intestate, go to my children, viz. Mary Howarth, John Howarth, James Howarth and Thomas Howarth, equally to be divided between them; to have and to hold the same to them, their heirs and assigns forever.

Lastly, I hereby appoint my said wife, mrs. Dorothy Howarth, my son John Howarth, and Benjamin H. Punchard, of said Andover, tradev????, executors of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

James Howarth (Seal)

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said James Howarth, as and for his last will and testament, in the presence of us, who in his presence and at his request have hereunto set our names as witnesses.

Samuel Marvill
Wm. Bradley
Nathan Jones
Note the word "her" interlined in one place before signing.
Recorded from the original, and examined by Math. Lenpies???, register

Prob. Ve.........N.S. 75. 147.

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[October 2, 1832: Petition by Dorothy Howarth, widow, John Howarth, manufacturer, and Benjamin H. Punchard, trader, to be granted executors of James Howarth estate.]

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[October 2, 1832:]
No. 59. ESSEX, ss. At a Court of Probate holden at Salem in and for said County, on the first Tuesday in October, A.D. 1832. Dorothy Howarth, John Howorth and Benjamin H. Punchard who are named executors in a certain instrument, purporting to be the last will and testament of James Howarth late of Andover in said county, manufacturer, deceased, having presented the same for probate:

Ordered, That the third Tuesday in January next, eleven of the clock before noon, be assigned as the time for considering said instrument, at a court of probate then to be holden at Andover in said county; and that said Dorothy, John and Benjamin H. give notice to all persons interested, by causing an attested copy of this order to be published three weeks successively in the Journal of Humanity, printed in Andover, the last publication to be fourteen days at least before said time, that they may be present, and object, if they are cause, to such probate.

D. A. White, Judge of Probate
Recorded from the original, and examined by Alath. Lordpe??? Register

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[January 15, 1833: John Flint, Benjamin Melvin and Abraham Marland appointed a committee to appraise the estate of James Howarth, late of Andover, manufacturer.]

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[January 15, 1833: Nathan Jones makes oath that he witnessed James Howarth sign his will.]

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[January 15, 1833: $8000 bond to Hobart Clark, esquire, and Enoch Stevens, trader, as sureties; Dorothy Howarth, widow, John Howarth, manufacturer, and Benjamin H. Punchard, trader, as principals.]

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[February 19, 1833: Affadafit of Dorothy Howarth, John Howarth 2nd, and B. H. Punchard that they advertised the will of James Howarth at Ward's tavern, Morse's tavern, and the post office, and published in the Journal of Humanity.]

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[February 19, 1833:]
To the honorable Daniel A. White esquire,
Judge of Probate for the County of Essex.
Pursuant to a warrant from your honor, we, the subscibers, the Committee therein named, having been first sworn, have made the following

late of Andover in said County, manufacturer, deceased, testate, as shown to us by the executors.

                     REAL ESTATE
The homestead of said deceased consisting of a house, barn
    and about fourteen acres of land 					$2200.
One undivided third part of 12 acres of land near 
    Bullard's mills so called 							      28
											$2228.
                     Personal estate.
One desk and book case $7. clock $15. 						      $22.
Lightstand 25c   table $1.   6 chairs $1.50 						  2.75
One sofa bedstand  $3.  looking glass 50c 						  3.50
Rocking chair  $1.50   3 waiters $1.50 							  3.
Warming pan  $1.  fire set and bellows  $1. 						  2.
2 tea caddies  $1.50   arm chair 75c 								  2.25
Crockery, glass and china ware Etc in closet 						  8.
Bed and bedstead and bedding  $12  wash stand Etc. $1 				13.
Chest, shirts and bed hangings 									15.
Bedstand and bedding $7.  bed, bedstead and bedding $6 			13.
4 blankets and 2 quilts  $6  bedstead, bed and bedding $6 			12.
Articles in garret $2  cooking stove $8 							10.
Dining table and light stand 5c  cupboard $1 						  1.05
Dish chairs   $1   contents of closet $5 							  6.
Contents of store room $5  Etc. sink room  $6.50 					  8.50
Barrels and tubs in cellar $3   hogsheads in shed $2 					  5.
Provisions on hand  $10.  2 cow $40. 							50.
2 swine $4.   hay waggon  $15 									19.
Sleigh and buffalo $10.  and hay $36 							46.
Chest and tools  $8.  lot pine wood $10. 							18.
30 bushels corn $30   2 jenneys $40. 							70.
Washing mill $25.  3 looms, ruds and harness $18 riding apparel $20 	63.
													    $393.75
               [continued.]
One undivided third part of the following property, owned in common
   with James Howarth 2nd and Isaac Howarth, viz.
One horse. $100.  hay $14. waggon and harness $6. 			120.
Chaise and harness $125. sleigh and buffalo skin $5. 			130.
Saddle $8.  waggon $10.  waggon $2. 						  20.
Sleigh $2.  lot fire wood $72. 								  74.
Sizing house and contents $75.  barn $100. 					175.
Lantern bars and drying stretch $25. 							  25.
21 cords wood $81.  contents of counting room $18. 			  99.
Wool, flannels, finished and unfinished Etc. Etc. 			       12,505.05
Bailing press $10. pumps $5. 								  15.
Napping machine $15.  3 wheel barrows $6. 					  21.
Bluing cistern and reel. $10.  hogshead and tables $5. 			  15.
Regulator $30.  counter drums and bells in basement story $15. 	  45.
Fulling stocks $50.  wool picker $25.  						  75.
Balances $10.  2 old cording machines $30. 					  40.
2 oil cisterns $30.  14 glass lanterns $7. 						  37.
2 double carding machines, braker and finisher 					700.
2    do.      do.           do           do. 							500.
Turning lathe $15.   carpenter's tools $10. 						  25.
Grinding machine $5.  spinning jenney $35. 					  40.
2 Billups $80.   pine desk $1. 								  81.
12 80 spindle jennies $240.  1 warping mill $25. 				265.
Counter drums and straps $5.  scales and weights $1. 			    6.
Bows, barrels, Etc. $2.  24 looms and harnesses $144 			146.
lot leasets $5.   lot pickers $20. 							  25.
											      3) $15184.05
											              5061.35
											            $5455.10

Brought forward. 	Amount of real estate, 			$2228.
				Amount of personal estate, 		$5455.10
									Total, 	$7683.10
Dated at Andover this second day of february A.D. 1833
B. H. Punchard 				John Flint
 			Executors 		Benj. Melvin	Committee
John Howarth 					Abraham Marlund

Essex, ss. At a Court of Probate holden at Salem in and for said County, on the third Tuesday in February, A.D. 1833 John Howarth and Benjamin H. Punchard, two of the Executers, present the foregoing, and make oath that it contains a true and perfect inventory of the estate of James Howarth, late of Andover in said County, manufacturer, cedeased, testate, so far as has come to their hands or knowledge, and that, if any thing further shall hereafter appear, they will cause it to be of record herewith in the probate office: It is thereupon decreed, that the same be accepted, allowed and recorded. D. A. White, Judge of Probate Recorded from the original, and examined by Alath. Lordpe??? Register

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[October 15, 1833:]
??? ????? of Probate for the County of Essex. Dorothy Howarth, Benj. H. Punchard & John Howarth Executors present the following their first account of administration of the estate of James Howarth late of Andover in said County, manufacturer deceased testate

           Said Estate is Credited, viz.
By amount of personal estate as by inventory 	$5155.10
By amount recd for sales of goods & machinary
     over and above appraisal 				  $449.74
									$5,904.84

           Said Estate in Debtor, viz.
To amount due Isaac Howarth Etc. as to book?, and paid them 	2370.26
"   "   paid M. Newmans bill 								    30.13
"   "    "   Joshua Ballard, note 								    72.25
"   "    "   Kidder & Swift, bill 								      1.92
"   "    "   appraisers 7.00  advertising .75 						      7.75
"   "    "   William Goldsmith, bill 							    11.56
"   "    "   E. Crowther, note 								  140.50
"   "    "   Isaiht Merill, bill 									      2.15
"   "    "   Joseph Kittredge, " 								    14.25
"   "    "   Amos Abbott,      " 								      4.57
"   "    "   Benjamin Abbott   " 								    10.92
"   "    amount allowed executor, for filling estate 				  300.
"   "    amount of debt 									2965.75
           Balance 										2939.08
Dated at Andover this fifteenth day of October A.D. 1833
       Dorothy Howarth
       Benj. H. Punchard
       John Howarth         Executors

Essex, ss. At a court of probate holden at Haverhill in and for said county on the third Tuesday in October, A.D. 1833. The foregoing account being duly presented, and it being made to appear, that notice has been given according to ???? to all persons interested, the same is duly examined; and John Howarth and Benjamin H. Punchard, two of the executors, make oath that to the best of their knowledge and beliefthe said account is just and true; It is thereupon decreed, that the same be accepted, allowed and recorded. D. A. White, Judge of Probate

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[October 15, 1833:] Andover, October 12, 1833. Received of John Howarth the sum of one thousand and fifty dollars, being one third of the personal estate of James Howarth, late of Andover, deceased, testate, he being one of three executors under the will of said Howarth in which will I was also executrix and residuary legatee; and the said Howarth is fully dischared from any claim whatever by said estate in consequence of his being executor.
Dorothy Howarth
Witness Andrew Scott.

Andover, October 12, 1833. Received of Benjamin H. Punchard the sum of one thousand and fifty dollars, being one third of the personal estate of James Howarth, late of Andover, deceased, testate, he being one of three executors under the will of said Howarth in which will I was also executrix and residuary legatee; and the said Punchard is fully dischared from any claim whatever by said estate in consequence of his being executor.
Dorothy Howarth
Witness Andrew Scott.

Whereas Benjamin H. Punchard, of Andover, one of the executors of the will of James Howarth, late of Andover, manufacturer, deceased, has paid into the hands of Dorothy Howarth, residuary legatee of the estate of said Howarth, all moneys and effects belonging thereto; we the undersigned, children and heirs at law of said Howarth, hereby fully discharge said Punchard from all claims whatever, which have arisen or may arise, from his relation as executor aforesaid.
John Howarth
James Howarth
Thomas Howarth
Elijah Crowther in right of my wife
Witness Andrew Scott.

[September 11, 1745: Hannah Johnson appointed administratix. £100 bond to Israel Taylor & Caleb Wilder, sureties.]
[September 11, 1745: letter appointed Hannah Johnson administratix of estate.]
[Inventory of Dole Johnson's estate, taken Sept. 12, 1745, included a dozen items such as furniture, clothes, spining wheel, sythe, plowshare, saddle, 2 cows and 2 swine for a total of the personal estate of £33.14.0. The real estate including 70 acres of land, a small dwelling house and the frame of a barn was £175, with the total sum being £208.14.0. His widow Hannah Johnson was the executrix.]

[April 1, 1747: License bond £300 to Eleazer Robbins & Ephraim Brown, sureties.]
[A list of payments to several dozen creditors and expenses such as a trip to Worcester & Lancaster. The net value remaining for the children was £74.8.4 1/2.]

[May 20, 1748: Eleazer Robbins appointed guardian of Hannah Johnson, age about 7 years old. Also a bond of £100 to Simon Stone, surety.]

[May 20, 1748: letter appointing Eleazer Robbins guardian of Hannah Johnson, age about 7 years old. A second letter appointing Eleazer Robbins guardian of Dole Johnson, age about 3 years old.]

[January 31, 1754: John Davis Jr. allowed to be guardian of Hannah Johnson, minor above 14 years old. Also a bond of £50 to John Davis and Aaron Davis, sureties.]

[November 23, 1753: letter from Hannah Johnson naming her father-in-law (i.e. step-father) John Davis as her guardian. (Her mother married John Davis Nov. 28, 1752).]

[March 7, 1761: receipt of £20.11 from Benjamin Priest, Hannah Priest & Samne Flood. (Hannah married Benjamin on Jan. 20, 1761).]

To the honored Court at Ipswich this 25 march 1684 The humble petition of Ruth Knight widow relique and administratrix to the estate of Jonathan Knight deceased showing that whereas it hath pleased the most high to take away my Deare and loving husband by death, and he dying intestate and also a great deal in debt it having ago pleased the gentlemen who were my husbunds creditors to forgive me and my children one half of the debts. By which means I was not forced to sell anyother of the land which my husband had bought but with the movables have satisfied the debts therefore my humble petition to this honored court is that I may have the movables which remain which is about fifteen pounds and the income of the upland and meadow till my children come to age for the bringing up my young child and when my son Jonathan Knight 16 comes to age my desire is that he should have that eleven acres and half of upland and swamps which his father bought of his brother Philip Knight and also a lott of meadow lying in the meadow which his father bought of Stephen Johnson of Andover which is about five acres more or less as it is now bounded on ye west with a great gland, on the south with the line of ye farms which was Governor Ballongems on ye east and north with ye meadow of Philip Knights, Jonathan paying to his sister Ruth six pounds when he comes to age also paying to me ten shillings per annum during my natural life if I require it of of him. also I desire that my sons Enos Knight and Ebenezor Knight may have that fiftein acres of land which their father bought of Thomas Cave and also that two acres and half of meadow which their father bought of John Lovejoy of Andover also the two acres and half of meadow lying in the meadow which their father bought of Steven Johnson of andover as it is now bounded be it more or less bounded on the east sith a great gland and also his meadow of Philip Knight bounded on the south with the line of the farms which was Governor Bellingham bounded on ye north with the upland and on the west with the meadow which was John Lovejoy, the abovesaid upland and meadow to be divided equaly between them. They paying to their sister Deborah six pound when she comes to age. They paying also to me ten shillings a piece per annum during my natural life if I require it of them. Also I desire if I be in necessity for bringing up my young child that then I may have liberty to sell that two acres and half of meadow which my husband bought of John Lovejoy of Andover, which also that then all my children shall reduce for it out of their portion proportionally. So leaving your honors to the direction of the most ??? in all the weighty concerns before you I remain your handmaid at your dispose,
Ruth Knight + her mark.

In answer to the above petition the Court approves of and confirms the testemont as on the other side June 24, 1684. Allost Benje???? Clerk
An inventory of the estate of Jonathan Knight who deced intestat 17 Janueary 1683 taken by Lieutenant Thomas Putnam and Sargeant Jonathan Walcot the second day of february 1683

Imprimis timber for a barn, part framed, part to fram 			04:00:00
Seabon noat cattoll???? 								19:10:00
one maire 3 sheep 5 swine 							05:03:00
a cart and wheels 									01:18:00
1 plough, 1 iron bar 1 ho 								01:00:00
iron tooles 4 peaces of chan? copps 1 pan & other burn iron 	02:13:00
a silk scarf 										00:07:00
1 ?? gun 2 bloke syth and tackling one handsaw 			00:17:00
1 yoak 1 wheelbarrow bridle and sadle 					00:05:06
in the hands of Thomas fouler junr 						03:00:00
in the hands of John Nichols 							00:07:00
upland & meadow 									35:00:00
1 bed 1 balsier 3 pillows 2 blankets and a rug 				02:00:00
7 sheets 2 for pillow bers 2 little table cloths 4 napkins 		03:07:00
7 yds of new cloth old shirt and drawers 					01:00:00
1 ??? brass holder 1 iron pott and hangers, old slice 			01:02:00
pewter, tinn, earthen ware looking glass old box 			00:14:00
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Debts paid out of the total 32:18:04               				82:04:00
Profess William Brown esquire of Ruth Knight ???? [2 lines illegible]

Administration upon the estate of Philip Knight, granted 24: 9: 1668, to his wife Margery, who brought in an inventory amounting to 106li. 18s. Court ordered to the eldest son, 20li., and 10li. each to Philip, Rebeca, Elizabeth and Mary, at age or at marriage, and the widow was bound for the children's portions.

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Inventory of the estate of Phillipe Knight, 
taken by John Putnam and Thomas Fuller:
Two cows, 				 8li.
two steres, 				 9li.
two young cattle, 			 4li.
one mare,					 5li.
five swine, 				 5li.
feather bed with furniture,  	 9li.
puter, 					      15s.
wereing clothes, 			 4li.
wooding lumber, 			 6li.
Beefe & porcke, 			 2li.
Irron were, 				 8li.16s.
Brasse were, 				 2li.12s.
Indian Corne, 				 6li.
Rie & Barley, 				 2li.
hoopes, 					 3li.
hempe & flax, 				 3li.
Cotton woole, 				 2li.
two beeds & furniture, 		 5li.
five pare of shetes, 			 3li.10s.
three pare of pillowbyes, 		      15s.
table cloth & napkines, 		 1li.
five sackes & winno shette, 	 1li.
new Cloth & one Wallett, 		 1li.10s.
 			 total, 	     106li.18s.

There were five children, Jonathan, aged 26 years; Phillep, aged 23 years; Rebeca, aged 17 years; Eliza, aged 13 years; Mary, aged 11 years.

[February 20, 1659:] I Richard Langer of Hingham being of perfect memory yet very aged not knowing ye day of my death do make this as my last will and testament and do hereby will and give to my daughter margaret's eldest son Joshua Lincon all my land lying in ye Towne of Hingham in New England. That is to say those two home lotts that I bought of my sone in law Thomas Lincon with my great lott lying meere Gland tydings Rocke and my lott of meadow at Conyhasset whom I make my whole and sole executor furthermore I give my Greene Rugg to my daughter margaret she giving as a gift from me my other two daughters Dinah and Elizabeth four shillings each of them witness my hand this 20th of february 1659
Richard Langer his marke
witnes Nico Baker

[May 2, 1661: Nicolas Baker attested that he witnessed the signing of the will.]

[February 18, 1660/1: Inventory of Richard Langer of Hingham included 4 acres of land given for 2 house lots, a 10 acre lot, a 1 1/2 acre of meadow, beding, wearing apparel, iron things, old chest, and debt owed to him for a total of £21.02.00.]

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[July 21, 1685:]
The Will of Simon Lynde

In the name of God Amen. I Symon Lynd of Boston in New England Merchant being at present in good measure of health and of good and perfect memory for wch and all mercies desire to acknowledge and praise Almighty God who hath from my Mothers womb preserved and provided for me all my life; wch now by course of nature cannot be long before disolution do therefore make ordain and declare this my last will and testament in manner and form following roxxxing and by these presents making void all or every other or former testament or testaments will or wills xxx befor made by me either by word or writing and this to be taken for my last will and testament and none other .
First I give and committ my soul into the hands of Almighty God my Creator and trusting through the alone meritts of his dear son and my for ever glessed Saviour and Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ for Life and Salvation, although I have in no measure rendered me to the Lord according to mercies received yet looking towards his holy Temple and depossing in his mercies and merritts who Delights to forgive - much that great Honour may come unto his great name I trust and cast my self upon him who will not quench the smoaking Has now break the bruised road and my body to be desent by buryed according to the disscrtion of my Executors hereafter named. And as for my temporall estate I give bestow and bequest to the same in manner and form following after my debts and funeral charges be satisfied First xxxing alread given and bestowed upon and unto each of my two sonns Samuell and Nathaniellxxxx estate of and in which they are seized and in possession I do hereby give and bequeath unto my son in law George Pordage and his wife Elizabeth my daughter and the the heires of her body forever my new and old house in Boston wherein I now dwell and my house at the gate which I bought of the Konvins together with the land or grounds belonging to both or either of them so far westerly and southwesterly as to the nearest house goxxx Edward Shippey and my self and southerly with the lands lately the moarsies and now W John Horberts and extending northerly three foot below the porch of my old house I dwell in and not farther and from there to run west and by north nearest to the aforesaid fence between Edwar Phippey and me so that it may bound four foot - southerly from the standing or upright post of my White Horn Ridge there leaving the late spring now surrounded with an elder hedge in my orchard fully and clearly northerly and then to run from the said three foot northerly distance from the porch of my said old dwelling house and nearest east south east to the right fence next my gate at the street where a Locus tree standeth planted wch shall be the north and north easterly bounds of what I give my said son Pordage his wife and her children as aforesaid, he my said son-in-law Pordage his wife or children allowing and deducting thirteen and ten pounds money or as money out of the faxx bequest wch ye give my said daughter Elizabeth Pordage and his xxxx xxxx Item my xx and will is that my sonn Benjamin his charge and maintenance at Harvard College in Cambridge till he have commencement of Art be paid and allowed out of my estate and in no wise to be charged unto him hoping his continue his studies and belong to the said Colledge so long . Item I give and bequeath unto my said son Benjamin my Daughter Hannah and my daughter Sarah to each of them severally six hundred pounds a piece in or as money. Out of the best of my remaining estate to be paid unto them respectively at their age of one and twenty years or day of marriage and in case any of them three dye in their non age or unmarried then and in such case my will is that the share or portion of all or any of them three so dyeing shall be shared and divided to and amonst all the rest of my aforementioned six children or so many of them I mean: Samuel, Nathanial, Elizabeth, Benjamin, Hannah and Sarah as shall be then survieing. Item I do give and bequeath unto my grandchild Mary Lynd - daughter to my sonn Samuel twenty pounds and alike twenty pounds to my grand child Endeth Pordage and twenty pounds to the child of my son Nathaniel born or that hopefully soon may be, to be paid in some convenient time to their respective fathers or mothers for them. Item I do give and bequeath unto my kinsman Enoch Lynde sonne of my deceased brother Mathew Lynde twenty five pounds to be paid within twelve months after my decease and accquit him also of what he is justly amountable to me for a cargo I inxxx him with considerable provided he accept the said bequest thankfully and give a full and general discharge according to the directions of my executor. Item I give and bequeath to Benjamin Delany my honoured master six pounds in money to be paid within one year after my decease. Item I do hereby order and appoynt my Executor hereafter named to give and distribute within twelve months after my decease four score pounds unto xxxx poor families such as are Godly and have real need of which to wit fourty shillings in or as money to each said family. And the rest and remainder of all my estate real and personal whatsoever I do hereby order and appoint that the same go equally divided into seaven parts which seaven parts I do give and bequeath as follow xxxx Into my said son Samuel two seaven parts thereof and into my sons Nathaniel, Benjamin, daughters Elizabeth, Hannah and Sarah the remaining five seaven parts (to wit each one of them the said Nathaniel Benjamin Elizabeth Hannah and Sarah one seaventh part to their own respective and xxxx and disposed forever hoping this my will and fatherly care toward and for them on xxx all love to each other will be thankfully accepted; wch if any one or more of my said six children so far dislike of as to make any publique contention and proceedure in law upon the same in contradiction to what I have hereby ordered and bequeathed such child or children for opposing (wch God forbid) his here their legacy hereby given shall be null and void and their portion or legacy got and fall to the rest of my children obedient and thankfull in what I have hereby willed and appointed; But trust the Lord will grant them his fears to obey him and love one another that the God of Praise may rest and abide with them and I do hereby make ordain and appoint my said sonns Samuel Nathaniel and Benjamin Executors of this my last will and testament. [The will continues for another page in legalese and witnesses.]

[December 23, 1687: the will was approved and recorded.]

[January 4, 1687: The will of Simon Lynde was approved and sons Samuell, Nathaniell, and Benjamin Lynde named executors.]

[December 20, 1687: Inventory of Symond Lynde includes dwelling house and land in Boston £3645; other land and buildings in diverse parts £2531; 1/4 part Ronok Island and stock £60; 100 acres land at Paneatuck £290; 1/4 part of a saw mill at Havarill, land at Groton, household stuff, books, apparel, horse and cow, jewelry, English money. Total value around £7400. Inventory signed by Samuel Lynde, Nathanial Lynde, and Benjamin Lynde.

[March 23, 1694/5: A list of debts belonging to the estate of Simon Lynde includes 32 person with amounts ranging from £0.7.8 owed Joshua Lamb of Roxberry to £590 owed Stephen Burton of Bristol. Total of all debts is £1818.15.4

[The probate index says the will, inventory, and settlement are "on file".]

[November 25, 1664:] I John Newgate of Boston in the Massachusetts Collony of New England this twenty fifth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty & four being of Reasonable health respecting my age & perfect memory blessed be god do willingly & with a free heart commit my soul into the mercyfull hands of God my saviour & my Body to Earth from whence it came there to Rest until the Day of the Generall Resurrection when we shall appear before the Judgments seat of Christ not Doubting but that I shall receive the same againe by the mighty power of God not a corruptible mortall weak & vile body as now it is but an uncorruptible Immortal strong & perfect body like unto the glorius body of my Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ. And my Estate I Dispose of as followeth -- -- Imprimis my Debts being paid & funerall Discharged I give and Bequeath unto my welbeloved wife Ann Newgate my farm at Rumly Marsh with all my lands belonging thereunto & my house at Charlestowne with the Orchard thereunto belonging & my house in wich I now dwell with the appurtenances thereto belonging and the house in which my sonne in law Symon Lynde now dwells in, with all the ground thereto belonging during her naturall life, she the said Ann continuing in the state of widowhood paing unto the Colledge in Cambridge the summe of five pounds P. and during the said time of her widowhood for the security of such payment my said farm is already bound & ingaged. But if my said wife should happen to marry again then my will and mind is that she shall have only the thirds of all my said houses & lands in Boston of my said farme at Rumly marsh but not the thirds of my said house & land at Charlestowne for that the said annual pay to the Colledge is after such marriage of her the said Ann to be paid by others. Item I give & bequeath unto my son Nathaniel Newgate my said farm with all the lands thereunto belonging & my house & ground at Charlestown for him my said son Nathaniel his heirs & assignes, to possess & enjoy them, next & immediately after such marriage of her the said Ann as is aforesaid, or otherwise next & immediately after her decease if she continue in the state of Widowhood, he my said son Nathaniel his heirs & assigns paing the said annual payment of five pound to the Colledge next & immediately after he shall possess & enjoy the said farm in lew of such annual payment I do give him my said house and ground at Charlestown as is aforesaid also yielding & paying unto her my said wife one third part of the rent of ye said farm during her natural life after such marriage as aforesaid. Item I give and bequeath unto my said son in law Simon Lynde my said house in Boston aforesaid in wich I now dwell with the appurtenances thereto belonging & the said house in wich he the said Lynd now dwells with all the ground thereto belonging. for him my said son Lynde his heirs & assignes to possess and enjoy. next & immediately after the decease of Ann my said wife or otherwise after such marriage of the said Ann yielding & paying unto her during her natural life a third part of the annual rents or profits thereof. Also two hundred and twenty pounds within six months next & immediately after he shall possess & enjoy the said houses & lands (videlct) one hundred & ten pounds to my son in law Peter Oliver that married with my daughter Sarah & the other hundred & ten pounds unto my son in law Edward Jackson ye married with my daughter Elisabeth. And if either my son Jackson or my said son Oliver shall depart this life before their said legacyes shall be payable ay aforesaid then my will & mind is yet the same shall be payed unto my said daughters Elisabeth and Sarah each of them a hundred & ten pounds and in case they shall also depart this life before the same shall be payable as aforesaid then my will & mind is that the one hundred & ten pounds shall be equally divided the children of the said Elisabeth & the other hundred & ten pounds equally divided between ye children of ye said Sarah. Item I give & Bequeath unto my grandchildren John Oliver & Thomas Oliver sons of John Oliver deceased the sum of twenty pounds (vizt to the said Jno Oliver my grandchild the sum of ten pouns & to the said Thomas Oliver the other ten pounds to be paid unto them when they shall accomplish their several ages of twenty years. And in case either of them depart this life before he hath accomplished his said age then that sum which survives shall have the others portion. Item I give & Bequeath to all the children now living that my daughter Elisabeth had by the said Edward Jackson her how husband the sum of ten pounds apiece to be paid unto the said Edward their father or Elizabeth their mother each of them shall be then living within one year after my decease & they to improve it for their said children until they shall accomplish their several ages of eighteen years or days of marriage which shall first happen. And in case any of them shall depart this life before they shall attayne their several ages of eighteen years or days of marriage as is aforesaid then those children which survive shall have the others portion proportionally divided amongst them. Item I give and bequeath to all the children now living that my daughter Sarah had by the said Peter Oliver her now husband, the sum of ten pounds apiece to be paid unto the said Peter Oliver if then living or Sarah their mother within one year after my decease & they or either of them to impove the same for their children until they shall accomplish their several ages of eighteen years or days of marriage wich shall first happen. And in case any of them depart this life before they shall accomplish their several ages of eighteen years or day of marriage then those children which survive shall have the others portion proportionably divided amongst them. Item I give & Bequeath unto all ye children now living that my daughter Hannah had by my said son in law Simon Lynd ten pounds apiece to be paid unto the said Simon Lynd their father if then living or Hannah their mother within one year after my decease & they or either of them to improve the same for their said childrens use, until they shall accomplish their several ages of eighteen years or days of marriage, then those children which survive shall have the others portion proportionally divided amongst them. Item I give & bequeath to the child now living of my son Nathaniel Newgate the sum of ten pounds to be paid unto the said Nathaniel within two year after my decease & he to improve the same for his said childs use until he shall accomplish ye age of eighteen years or day of marriage which shall first happen. Item I give & bequeath unto my brother in law Thomas Townsin of Linne to be paid unto him within three years after my decease. Item I give and Bequeath unto my wife's sister that married with William Newgate my Uncles son living in London the sum of five pounds to be paid within one year after my decease. Item I give & Bequeath to Jonathan Jackson son of ye said Edward Jackson the sum of five pounds to be paid unto him within half a year after my decease. Item I give unto ye free scoole of the town of Boston to be improoved towards the yearly maintenance therof the sum of ten pounds to be paid within three months after my decease. Item I give & Bequeath to Mr. Jno Willson Pastor of the Church at Boston the sum of eight pounds to be paid unto him within three months after my decease. Item I give & bequeath unto such Ministers within this jurisdiction as are conscionable in their places & yet have but small maintenance the sum of thirty pounds to be paid to the said Mr Jno Wilson & he to dispose thereof as he shall seemate, to the intent aforesaid the said sum to be paid as aforesaid with in three months after my decease. Item I give & bequeath to the poor of the Church of the said Boston the sum of ten pounds to be disposed of by the Deacons of the said Church as they shall see need. Item I give & Bequeath to my said daughter Jackson a filt salt & a gilt wine cup. Item I give & bequeath to my said daughter Oliver a silver beer bowl & a silver wine cup. Item I give & Bequeath to my said daughter Linde a silver pottinger and four silver spoons the rest of my plate I leave to my said wife to dispose thereof as she please. Item I will that watsoever goods of myne there shall appear to be more then is bequeather as aforesaid be equally divided between her my said wife & my four children namely Nathaniel Elizabeth Sarah & Hannah. And hoping of the faithfulnes of my said sons in law Edward Jackson & Simon Lynde to perform the trust herein committed unto them. I do make ordain & appoint them Executors of this my last will and testament. And also my said son in law Peter Oliver my overseer of this my said last will and do give unto him my said son Oliver for his care & oversight therof the sum of ten pounds over & above what is before unto him bequeathed the same to be paid unto him by my said executors. Hereby ratifying & confirming this my said last will & testament. All all other former wills testaments gifts & bequests I utterly revoke & make voyd forever by these presents. In witness wherof I the said John Newgate hath hereunto put my hand and seal the day & year first written - John Newgate & a seal
This being the last will & testament of the said John Newgate containing sixty one lines on the other side & twenty eight lines on this side & wich was sealed & subscribed published with these words (said) in ye 11th line on the other side (she) in the 14th line (not) in ye 15th line (not living) in the 55th line (be) in the 3 line on this side interlined.
Before sealing in presence of Robert Howard Not. Publ. & Mary Howard.
At a meeting of ye Governour Mr. Tho. Danforth & Recorder in Boston the 11th day of september 1665 Mr. Robert Howard notary publick & Mary his Wife deposed on their corporal oathes that having subscribed their names as witnesses to this instrument were present on the day of the date thereof & did both see & hear Mr. John Newgate sign seal & publish the same to be his last will & testament & that when he so did he was of a sound disposing mind to their best knowledge.
Edward Rawson Recorder

An after addition to ye aforegoing will.
Whereas in my bequest on the other side to my son in law Simon Lynde it is thus expressed (and the said house in wich he now dwells withall the ground therto belonging) my intent & meaning is that inclosed land lying next above that land late in ye possession of Governor Endicott together with the house the said Lynde lives in with the Orchard & rest of the ground about the same house, all wich containeth four acres more or less further in will & mind is that Thomas Tounsen of Linn have his legacy above mentioned within one year after my decease. And that Bequest of then pounds to ye free School in said Boston I the said John Newgate do hereby make voyd whatsoever is avoewritten to the contrary therof notwithstanding. In witness xxx I the said John Newgate have hereunto subscribed my name & put to my seal this eighth day of May one thousand six hundred sixty & five.
John Newgate & a seal

[Followed by statement of witnesses and notary and recorder.]

[September 6, 1665: Inventory of the goods and estate of Mr. John Newgate. 190 items are listed including household items, clothes, cloth, furniture, food, lumber, animals, houses, and land totaling £2496.13.11]

[August 6, 1676:] In the name of God Amen I Ann Newgate Widdow being now well stricken in age yet through the mercy of god in health of body and understanding of the minde do declare this as my last will and testament. First that I do give & bequeath unto Nathanael Newgate the son of my son Nathanael Newgate deceased that five acres of marsh which I purchased of Edward Weeden of Rumbly Marsh, and it joines to the farme which my husband gave to his son Nathanael Newgate, but being now deceased the right of inheritance belongeth unto his son Nathanael and his heires forever. I am willing therefore as a testimony of my deare and tender love to my abovesead grand son Nathanael Newgate to cast in my small gift of that five acres of marsh abovementioned to him the said Nathanael Newgate to have and to hold and peaceably to injoy with all the priviledges and accomadations thereunto belonging without any disturbance or molestation under what pretence soever to him I say and to his heires for ever to possess & injoy.
Secondly I do give unto my granddaughter Elizabeth Lynde my silver girdle chain and to Nathanael Lynde my silver tankard and the rest of my plate and my gold rings I would have them divided among the children of my son & daughter Lynde.
Thirdly I do give to Jonathan Jackson twenty shillings, and to Sevid Jackson twenty shillings and to Hannah Smith that was maide twenty shillings and to Goody Hale ten shillings, and I do give to those of our Bretheren that are of our private meeting forty shillings to bee disposed of where there is most need among them and to sister Matson the elder woman ten shillings and to sister Alcock that was ten shillings, not doubting of the fidelity of son Lynde but hee will justly truly and speedily perform this my last Will and Testament in the feare of God to whose gratious blessing I have him and his together with all mine desiring of god that the pure mercies of the Covenant may bee their everlasting portion, in Christ I Rest and am your deare and loving Mother in the Arms of Christ for ever.
Ann Newgate & a seale
Signed and sealed in the presence of us the 6 of August 1676
Penelope Belingham
Ann Manning.

[April 8, 1679: Simon Lynde appointed to administer the will of Ann Newgate.]

[March 26, 1679:]

Inventory of the Estate of Mrs Anne Newgate deceased
apprized by us hereunder written - vis.
money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  £16. 8.  8
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. 9.10
her cloths, linnen, etc . . . . . . . . . . . 9.15.  9
five acres of marsh, bequeathed . . 20.
xxx and rings bequeathed . . . . . . . 12.23
This inventory above written . . . . £61.  7. 3
amounts unto sixty one pounds seven shillings 
and three pence, being apprized by us here 
underdescribed according to the best of our 
indgens and conscience.
     John Coney Junior
     Roger Ludd

[January 1, 1683:] The thirty first day of January in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred eighty and three and in the thirty sixth yeare of the reign of our sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the grace of Gof of great Brittain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith. I john Ripley of Hingham in the county of Sulfolke in New England being weake in body yet of perfect memory prayse be given to God, do make and declare my last will and testament in manner and forme following. First and principally I commit and commend my Soule into the hand of God and my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hopeing for Salvation both of Soule and body by the mercies of God in the merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ. And concerning the disposeing of my temporall extate I give & bequeath the same as followeth (to wit) I give and bequeath unto my loveing wife Elizabeth Ripley severall parcels of land lying and being in Hingham aforesaid as followeth that is to say all my lot of upland lying in the worlds end neck containing about three acres be the same more or less. Item: I give and bequeath unto the said Elizabeth Ripley my wife my share of a lot of land given to me by my father Hobart lying in the township of Hingham to the southward of the great lots on the great plain. Item I give and bequeath unto the said Elizabeth Ripley my wife my share of another lot of land given to me by my Father Hobart being the twenty fifth lot in the second division of Conihasset. Item I give to the said Elizabeth Ripley my dwelling house and barn all which parcels of land with my dwelling house and barne my minde and will is that the said Elizabeth Ripley my wife shall from and imediatly after my decease have hold uns occupy possess and enjoy to her and her heires and assignes for ever which I freely give to her to give sell and dispose of as shee shall see meet for her comfortable subsistance after my decease. Item I give and bequeath to the said Elizabeth Ripley my wife the use of severall parcels of land and meadows & commons during her naturall life as followeth (that is to say) all my house lots & orchards as they lay together are bounded with the land of Francis James towards the northwest and with the street towards the southeast the whole piece being about eighteen acres; and also five acres of salt meadow lying at old Planters hill joyning to the meadow of Nathaniel Beales and three acres of salt meadow lying at Connihasset meadow joyning to the meadow of Samuel Thaxter and two acres of fresh meadow lying in the Crooked Meadow near to the meadow of Joseph Jacob and halfe an acre of salt meadow at the beach island and halfe an acre of fresh meadow at Connihasset mear the house of Ibrooke Tower. Item I give and bequeath to the said Elizabeth my wife two acres of fresh meadow lying at the end of John Oatis house lot. Item I give & bequeath to the said Elizabeth Ripley my wife severall divisions of land lately granted to me by the Town of Hingham as followeth (that is to say) all my lot of land in Connihasset upland being my first division there joyning to the land of Captn John Jacob. Also my lot in the second division of Connihasset near the lot of John Fering, and my lot in the third division near the land of William Hearsey and my lot in the fourth division next the land of John Leavit. Item. I give to the said Elizabeth Ripley my wife my share of a cedar swamp lying in Plymouth Colony which I purchased of Thomas Highland late of Scituate. As also thirteen of my shares in the undivided commons in Hingham. All which parcels of land & meadow and commons my minde and will is that the said Elizabeth Ripley my wife shall from and imediatly after my decease possess and enjoy during her naturall life. Item. I give and bequeath to the said Elizabeth Ripley my wife all my movable goods and household stuffe corn cattle and chattels whatsoever and all my debts which are oweing to me from any person. Item. I give and bequeath to my son John Ripley my son Josiah Ripley and my son Hezekiah Ripley five acres of salt meadow lying at the old Planters hill be the same more or less as it is bounded with the meadow of Nathaniel Beale, my minde & will is that of this meadow my eldest son John shall have a double share the other two share and share alike. Item. I give and bequeath to my son John Ripley, my son Josiah Ripley and my son Hezekiah Ripley my lot of land in the second division of Connihasset to be divided in equall shares, as also one acre of fresh meadow lying at the end of John Oates lot to be divided among in equall shares. Item. I give and bequeath to my son Joshua Ripley two acres of fresh meadow lying in the Crooked meadow near ye meadow of Joseph Jacob as also my lot in the fourth division bounded with the land of John Leavit, and halfe an acre of salt meadow at the beach Island and halfe an acre of fresh meadow at Connihasset near the house of Ibrooke Tower. It. I give and bequeath unto my son Jeremiah Ripley and my son Peter Ripley all that my lot of land lying in the third division as also one acre of fresh meadow lying at the end of John Oatis land and three acres of salt meadow lying in Connihasset meadow bounded on the one part with the meadow of Samuel Thaxter which lot of land and two pieces of meadow my minde and will is that my two sons before named Jeremiah Ripley and Peter Ripley shall have divided in equall shares to them. Item. I give and bequeath unto all my six sons (that is to say) to my son John Ripley, to my son Joshua Ripley, to my son Jeremiah Ripley, to my son Josiah Ripley, to my son Peter Ripley, and to my son Hezekiah Ripley, severall parcels of land & commons, to my eldest son John a double share and to all the rest share & share alike as followeth (that is to say) all my house lots in Hingham as they lay together are bounded with the land of Francis James towards the northwest, as also my lot in the first division of Connihasset, also I give to all my six sons beforenamed in equall shares my part of a cedar swamp in Plymouth Colony which I purchased of Thomas Higland late of Scituate and I do give unto my son John Ripley three shares of the undivided commons, and ten shares to my other five sons, to be equally divided amongst them. And my minde and will is that my six sons mentioned in this my will and testament shall from and immediatly after the decease of Elizabeth Ripley my wife shall have hold use occupy possess and enjoy all the severall parts & parcels of land meadow and commons which I have given to them in this my last will, to them and their severall heires & assignes for ever provided that if any of my sons shalbe minded to sell any part of what I have here given to them, they shall not have power to sell to any other but one or more of their brothers. And it is further my minde and will that if any one of my sons shall dye childless, that their portion of land and meadow which I have here given to them shalbe equally divided amongst the rest of my sons. It. I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Elizabeth Ripley all the rest of my estate not mentioned in this my last will and testament. And I do hereby appoint and ordain my two sons John RIpley and Joshua Ripley to be joint executors to this my last will and testament revoakeing makeing frustrate and void all and every will & wills made my me heretofore either in word or writing and this onely to be taken for my last will and no other. In witness whereof I the said John Ripley have hereunto set my hand and seale the day and yeare first abovewritten.
John RIpley a marke & seale
Read signed sealed published & declared by the said John Ripley to be his last will & testamt. in the presence of
Rebeccah Hobart, David Hobart.
[will exhibited to court on March 27, 1684 and the witnesses made oath that it was his last will.] o

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[January 25, 1779: Inventory of Noah Ripley's estate included: real estate £1075, live stock £145, and several dozen other items for a total estate of £1955.13.]

[A list of paymets to 14 people from the estate of Noah Ripley, totaling £71.06. The only familiar name in the list is Ebenezer Kent, who was either Noah's father-in-law or brother-in-law.]

[Sarah, Lincoln, and Abigail Ripley, all children of the late Noah Ripley above the age of 14, chose Capt. Ezra Jones of Barre for the guardian.]

[Oct 26, 1778: Noah Ripley's son Peter, declines to be administrator of his estate.
Jan 4, 1779: Noah Ripley's widow Lydia, declines to be administrator of his estate.]

[Jan 5, 1779: A bond of £2000 posted by Noah Ripley Jr. with sureties Dan Hawes & Ebenezer Kent.]

[Jan 5, 1779: Letter committing Noah Ripley Jr. with the task of handling the estate of Noah Ripley.]

[July 4, 1780: Accounting of the estate; after some additional assets and expenses, estate value was £718-7-6.]

[April 1, 1788: After adjusting for the currency change to silver and allowing for the final expenses, the estate value was £80-16-9, which was distributed to the heirs.]
[March 25, 1795: Quitclaim deeds from Noah's children to Noah Ripley, executor of Noah Ripley's estate. John P. Heywood and Lydia Heywood received 3 pounds 4 shillings and 3 pence paid by Noah Ripley for the Quitclaim.]

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[June 30, 1656:]
The last will and testament of william Riplye of Hingham.
In ye name of god Amen. I William being sick and weak of body but of perfect memory do make this my last will.
Imprimis I give and bequeath my Soule to god and my body to be buryed.
Item I give unto my eldest sonne Jno Riplye: the dwelling house he now dwells in together with all ye barnes and other out houses and all ye yards: orchyards gardens gardens together with all the fenceing there unto belonging : but my sonn Abraham shall have liberty to use ye new barne for his corne and other occasions & ye new leanets for his cattle for ye terme of four yeares with out molestation.
Item I give unto my sonn John all ye land with in that field namely ye lott ye town gave me lying for four acres and ye lott wch I bought of Jno foulsham lying for four acres & ye lott wch I bought of Thomas Thackster lying for five acres, & ye lott wch I bought of Stephan Payne lying for four acres with all privilidges & appurtenances belonging to these said lotts. Item I give unto my sonn Jno my planting lott wch I bought of Jno Prince lying for three acres upon ye worlds end next unto Jno Tucker north: next unto Jeremy Beales eastward: butting upon ye sea west & south.
Item I give unto my sonn Jno four acres of salt meadow wch I bought of Jonas Austen lying at Lyfords Likering next unto Thomas Lincorne west, next unto Nathaniell Beales east butting upon ye old planters hill north & upon ye neck south.
Item I give unto my sonn Jno: of fresh meadow wch I bought of Thomas underwood lying in Crooked meadow with a little piece of meadow belonging to ye same meadow lying next unto Samuell ward eastward and ye River southward. Item I give unto my sonn Jno a piece of salt meadow lying at Conyehassett for three acres more or less it is in ye third devision.
Item I give unto my sonn Jno my horse & ye horse colt yet come of my mare: two oxen Collier & Buck four cowes three sheepe ewes with 3 lambs: eight goates: & halfe ye dry goates goates and halfe ye kids all these above sd to him and his heires and assignes for ever.
Item I give and bequeath unto my sonn Abraham Riplye ye home lott which I bought of Thomas Underwood together with the orchyard and fencing and other appurtenances thereunto belonging: wch said lott lyeth for five acres next unto Jno Lasell east next to Jno Otis west also I do give unto my sonn Abraham all ye fresh meadow yet lyeth at ye end of ye said home lott.
Item I give unto my sonn Abraham all ye salt meadow wch I bought of Thomas underwood lying at ye wear: next francis James southward and Robert Joanes north.
Item I give unto my sonn Abraham ye great lott wch I bought of Thomas underwood lying for fifteen acres next unto Jno Lasell southeast & next unto Cornelius Cantleburry northwest butting on ye river.
Item I give unto my sonn Abraham ye planting lott which I bought of Thomas underwood lying in the neck for three acres: next unto Mathew Cushen north and next unto Jno Beales sourth: butting upon the sea westward and Michaell Pearse eastward.
Item I give unto my sonn Abraham two old oxen called Broad an Browne: and two stears of five yeares old: one young steere 2 yeares old, three young cowes and eight milch goates and halfe ye drie goates & halfe ye kids: two ewe sheepe and two lambs: and five wether sheepe and two rams
Item I give unto my sonn Abraham my mare of 3 yeares old.
Item I give unto my sonn Abraham my fether bed and greene rug and one blankett and one broad brasse kettle and one iron pott and a chest yet ye cover is loose: and a little cofer and three empty barrell. The cart and wheeles and plowes and plow irons with all ye chaynes shalbe equally divided between my sonn Jno & Abraham.
Item I give unto my sonn Abraham one swine of a year old and ye vantage: all these abovesaid lands and meadows and cattle that I do give and bequeath unto my sonn Abraham shalbe to him and his heires and assigns for ever.
Item I do give unto my sonn Jno Riplye my best cloake and 2 pieces of clouth of ye same so much as will make a suit of apparrell and one pair of shoes and a payer of stockins; and my best hat and my great bible. Item I give unto my sonn Abraham my book of Masters and all my other apparrell: and for my debts due unto me: from several persons as they do receive any they shalbe equally devided between ye said Jno & Abraham. And what debts is due for me to pay: the said John Riplye and Abraham shall pay it equally together: and for the fullfilling of this my will I do make my sonn Jno Riplye and my sonn Abraham Riplye executors joyntly together in wittnes hereof I have here unto sett my hand and seale this thirty day of June in ye yeare 1656.
William Riplye & a seale.
Wittness Mathew Cushin
John Thaxter

[January 24, 1656: witnesses deposed and will recorded.]

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[July 20, 1656: William Riplye Inventory]

A true inventory of all ye houses and lands, goods and 
chattells of William Riplye of Hingham deceased.
         July 20 1656
Impres A dwelling house and barnes and other out
houses with seaventeene acres of land adjoyning to it                   080.00.00
Item A home lott lyeing for five acres with a pcell of fresh
  meadow lyeing for one acre and the fourth parte of an acre       040.00.00
Item A planting lott lying for three acres in ye neck                      002.00.00
Item A great lott lyeing for 16 acres over ye fresh river                016.00.00
Item A planting lott lying for three acres at ye worlds end            008.00.00
Item 4 acres of salt meadow lying in Langfords Likeings medow 020.00.00
It. A pcell of fresh meadow in crooked meadow                         005.00.00
It. 3 acres of salt meadow in Conyhasset meadows                     003.00.00
It. A pcell of salt meadow lyeing by ye ware River                      006.00.00
Item 1 acre of salt meadow & a pcell of fresh meadow 
  at Conyhassett                                                                        002.00.00
Item sixe oxen                                                                           034.00.00
Item seaven cowes                                                                    028.00.00
Item one steere of 3 yeare old                                                   003.00.00
Item two yearlings                                                                     003.00.00
Item five sheepe 7 uether sheepe & 6 lambs                              014.00.00
Item 16 goates 4 ueather 1 ram & 14 kids                                012.00.00
Item one horse one mare and one foale                                     028.00.00
Item one fetherbed one greene rug one brasse kettle 
  one iron pott one chest one cofer 3 barrells                             016.00.00
Item A cart and wheels plowes and plow irons & chaynes         006.00.00
Item Wearing apparrell and bookes                                          016.00.00
                                                                                                 ---------
                                                                          Sum is          332.00.00
                           Joshua Hubberd
                           Mathew Hawke
Jno Riplye deposed before ye court 29th January 1656 that this
was a true inventory of his fathers Wm Riplyes estate to ye
best of his knowledge
                       Edward Rawson Recordr

The 15th 12th month 1642 I desire to comend my soule into the hands of the lord Jesus Christ, I desire my goods may be equally divided to my wife & all my children, only my sonne John Roffe must have ye howse & land more then all the rest of my children and that their porcons shal be divided when they be 21 yeares of age if they marry not before in case my wife dye or marry then the goods shal be divided; otherwise not till my eldest childe come to be 21 yeares of age But still to remayne in their mothers hands with the rest till that either of them are 21 yeares of age or marry.
If any of my children dye then that porcon shalbe equally divided betweene my wife & the rest of my children I doe give vnto my wife one great brasse pott and one great brasse pann, and a great brasse posnett and a chafing dish and five pewter platters I doe give vnto my Kinsman Thomas Whittear a swarme of bees. I desire my brother John Roffe and my Cosen John Saunders of Sallisbery and William Mondy of Newberry to oversee my will and order it to my desire & accordinge to my will wittness hereunto I wit my hand
Henry Roffe

Thomas Hale
Thomas Cowllman
william Mose
This will was proved in Ipswich Court 28th, first mo 1643

An inventory taken of the lands goods and chattells of the late deceased Henry Rolfe of Newbury the first day of ye first month 1642

In sxxxx in howse & land, 		 £30
Six kowes, 					 £30
foure oxen, 					 £24
one bull & one steere, 3 yeare old, 	   £7.10s
three beasts, two years old, 		   £8
two beasts, one yeare old, 		   £2.10s
three Calves, 					   £1.  4s
three hoggs, 					   £1.  4s
in bees, 						   £7.10s
in haye, 						   £4
in Soyle, 						   £1
in Cart, Shead & 3 Yoaks, 		   £1.  6s
    within the howse: 
one fetherbed & flockbed, 		   £3.10s
Six fether pillowes, 					18s
4 Coverleds, 					   £2
5 blanketts, 					   £1.10s
3 paier of Sheets, 				   £1.  8s
2li. and a halfe of bee wax, 			  2s.6d
In bowlster case & pillow & napkins, 	10s
In porke, 						   £2.  7s
In butter & cheese, 					12s
in barrells & butte[r] Cherne & other lumb., 18s
in pewter, 						   £1.  7s.6d
in brasse, 						   £3.13s
a brasse pott, 					   £1
in iron potts, 					   £1.  6s
A chafing dish & a posnet, 			  5s
12 bushells of indian corne, 		   £2.  2s
9 bushells of wheate, 			   £2.  0s.6d
2 bushells of pease, 					  9s
In hogsheads & howes & other lumber, 	16s
In apparrell, stockins & shoes, 		   £3
In muskett & fowling peeces & 2 Swords & bandileers, 	 £1.19s
In working tooles & lanthorne, 			15s
In bookes, 					   £1
In spining wheeles, 					10s
In a chest & chaiers & other lumb., 		16s
In harrow tines, 					10s
total 						       £153.  8s.6d


John Woodbridg, 
Henry Short
Richard Knight:
This inventory was proved in Court

The nuncupative will of widow Honor Rolfe, as shown in the following depositions, was proved in Ipswich court 30:7:1651. These depositions are found on record in the Ipswich Deeds, volume I, leaf 123, the originals being missing.

Henry Largin of Charlstowne * * * * [the paper was burnt]
house of Thomas Blanchard on N * * *
where widdow Honour Rolfe lay * * *
berry lay sick. Shee did declare h * *
be; that her sonne Benjamin Rolfe should have the substance of her estate, which was her owne p'per estate, and that he should be her sole executor. only she gave these particulers as followeth. her bedding & clothes, linnen & woollen. she gave to be equally devided betwixt her two daughters. Also shee gave twenty shillings of piece to her foure grandchildren to be given them five yeares after her death. alsoe one little cowe she gave to her daughter that lives at Newberry. also of foure peeces of brasse shee gave two to her sonne Benjamin, which he should choose, & to each of her daughters one. the rest shee gave to her Sonne Benjamine. Saveing two pewter platters which she gave to each of her daughters one. and further she expressed her mind about a barne that is built upon part of her sonne Benjamin's ground. she gave to her sonne John Rolfe all her interest in the ground that the barne stood upon. this is the substance of her expression as farr as he can remember.

memorandum that part of the 22nd the whole 23. 24 & part of the 25 lines were blotted out
Ri. Bellingham.

Taken upon oath by the said Henry Largin this 20.12.1650 who further saith that the said Honor Rolfe was of a disposeing memory. before me
Ri. Bellingham.

The Testymoney of George Vaghan aged about 23 yeares concerning the last wife of Honor Rolfe widdow deceased: 19th of 10th month 1650.

This deponent saith that himself being in presence together with Henry Largin some two daies before the death of the above said testator, he heard her make this her last will in manner following.

Inprimis she bequeathed all her estate in generall to her youngest Sonne Benjamine Rolfe onely excepted these pticulers which follow:

Item to her foure Grand Children she gave twenty shillings a pece, to be paid them foure or five yeare after that time. Item all her Right in halfe an acre of Ground on which the Barne stands and a yonge fowe she gave to her sonne John Rolfe:
Item a little Cowe that she had she gave to her daughter Hannah Dole.
Item all her weareing Cloathes & bedding she gave to be equally devided betweene her two Daughters Anna and Hanah: these pticulers above said this deponent tooke spetiall notice of; & further he saith not: only a day after her sonne in lawe Richard Dole comeing to her desired this Depnent to Aske her what she would doe with the three pounds ten shillings in England, & shee Answered that she would that her sonne Benjamine should have a sute of Cloathes out of it, & the rest he should have meaning her said sonne in Lawe Richard Dole. The word Bensamine enterlined.
Taken upon oath this 20th of the 12th mo 1650 before me William Hibbins
The Court upon the Testimonyes of George Vaughan & Henry Largin of Charlestowne as fare as there Testimonys doe agree is the will & Testamt of Honour Rofe & by them prued in the Court held at Ipswich the 30th of (7) 1651
By me Robert Lord Cleric.

I Elkanah Welch of Charlestown xxx xxx xxx make this my last will & testament. I give & bequeath to my daughter Elisabeth Welch all my personal estate to her for ever. The reason I do not give any thing to xxx xxx my daughter, to xxx B Blyth widow my daughter, Mary Diksdoll my daughter, Doxxx Delaney my daughter, Paul Welch my son, nor to the children of my sons Joseph Welch or Thomas Welch is because my estate is small & not sufficient really to recompence my daughter Elisabeth for her xxx can cost xxx the xxx great xxx in providing for xxxx xxx me. To this time & I constitute that Elisabeth sole executrix of this my last will & testament as to my xxxxx & do not xxxxx in this my last will is xxxx & xxxx, dexxxxx conveyed is to that Elisabeth. Signed sealed & xxxx as the last will & testament of the sd Elkanah this 21st of January, 1755 in presence of Pedidials Caskes and Daxxx Delanxxx Elkanah Welch his mark.

To the Honorable the Judge of the Probate Court in and for the County of Middlesex:
Respectfully represents Charles L. Welch, Marlborough in the County of Middlesex, Horatio Nelsen Welch who last dwelt in Marlborough in said County of Middlesex, died on the eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, intestate, possessed of goods and estate remaining to be administered, leaving as his only next of kin, the person whose name, residence, and relationship to the deceased is as follows, viz.:
Charles F. Welch residing in Denver Colorado, a son of said deceased.

That your petitioner was requested by said deceased to administer on his estate, and that there are no debts. Wherefor your petitioner prays that he may be appointed Administrator of the estate of said deceased.

Dated this tenth day of December, A.D. 1887.

Charles L. Welch

The undersigned being all the parties interested in the foregoing petition, other than creditors, consent that the same may be granted. Clotanles??? F. Welch

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Middlesex, ss. Probate Court
To Frank L. Putnam, William Eazer and William Johnston
Greeting: You are hereby appointed to appraise, on oath, the estate and effects of Horatio Nelsen Welch ??? Marlborough in said County of Middlesex, deceased, intestate, which may be in said Commonwealth. When you have performed that service, you will deliver this order and your doings in pursuance thereof to Charles L. Welch, administrator of the estate of said deceased, that he may return the same to the Probate Court for said County of Middlesex. Witness my hand and the seal of the Probate Court, this Thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.
Jorge M. Brook, Judge of Probate Court.
Middlesex, SS. Marlborough, Feby 13 A.D. 1888. Then the above=named Frank L. Putnam, William Eager, and William Johnston Appraisers personally appeared and made oath that they would faithfully and impartially discharge the trust reposed in them by the foregoing order.
Before me, Josiah L. Welsh, Justice of the Peace

Pursuant to the foregoing order to us directed we have appraised said estate as follows:
Amount of real estate as per Schedule exhibited . . $---
Amount of Personal Estate as per Schedule exhibited . . $ 1,280.33
[Money in bank $1,260.33, clothing $20.]
Frank L. Putnam
William Eager
William Johnston
Middlesex, SS. Marlborough Feby 22 A.D. 1888. Then personally appeared Charles L. Welch the administrator of said estate, and made oath that the foregoing is a true and perfect inventory of all the estate of said deceased that has come to his possession or knowledge.
Before me Josiah S. Welsh Justice of the Peace.

Case A-62796 Thomas Welch et als. nomination.
Worcester SS. April 11, 1786
Personally appeared Thomas Welch, Silas Welch & Mary Welch, minors, children of Silas Welch late of Bolton in said county deceased & made choice of Simon Meriam of said Bolton yeoman for their guardian during their minority.
Coram Jah Wilder Jus. P.
To the Hon. Jos. Dorr. Esqr. Judge etc. etc.
[May 16, 1786, petition for administration by Mary Atherton (Silas' widow Mary re-married Jonathan Atherton in 1786). John Whitney appointed administrator. Bond of £2000 Simon Houghton & Nathaniel Holman, sureties.]

[May 16, 1786 letter committing John Whitney with the task of handling the estate of Silas Welch including paying all debts and making an inventory.]

[May 16, 1786 warrant of appraisal of estate of Silas Welch. May 22, 1786 inventory by David Nunes, Nathl. Longley, and Oliver Whitney showed a value of Real Estate of £80-14, and a value of Personal Estate of £1z6-19-3. The personal items included one bed, beding, bedstand, pillows, table cloths, waistcoat, plates, pots and pans, linin wheel, woolen wheel, clearing hoe, 1 cow, and five sheep.]

[July 4, 1786 warrant for partition issued to Joseph Atherton, Jonas Houghton & Nathaniel Longley. They filed their report, which was allowed Feb 6, 1787. The land of Silas Welch included three properties:
25 acres of land near Capt. Houghton appraized at £41.5.0
26 acres at sawmill brook appraised at £35.2.0
7 acres by Jonas Welches at £11.11.0
total £87.18.0
18 acres was assigned to the widow Mary Atherton from the land next to Capt. Houghton. An accurate description of the land was given; it bordered Cap. Jonas Houghton and Thomas Welch, and was valued at £29.6.0 which was exactly one-third of the total. The remaining 7 acres of the first property was given to eldest son Thomas Welch; his landed abutted the above land plus the property of Samuel Snow and Jonas Welch. Thomas was also given 13 acres of the sawmill brook land, which was next to Capt Jonas Houghton's land and Live Wilder's land and the road. The value of his land was likewise £29.6.0. The second son, Silas, received 10 1/2 acres at the sawmill brook, appraised at £14.13.0 The daughter Mary Welch received the 7 acres near Jonas Welches, bound by the Town way and lands of John Hoppin, Jonas Welch, John Houghton, and William Mather. Mary also received 2 1/2 acres of land at the sawmill brook next to the land of Silas, for a total of £14.13.0.]

[Feb. 6, 1787, a corrected inventory of £18.18.10 for the personal estate. Then a full accounting of expenses of administering the estate, amounting to £10.18.8.3, leaving £8.0.1.1. This amount was then divided among the beneficiaries: £2.13.4 to widow Mary, £2.13.4 to eldest son Thomas, and £1.6.8 to each of Silas and daughter Mary.]

[1788, the previous distribution to widow Mary and the 3 children was corrected and the entire sum of £8.0.1.1 was to be given to widow Mary Atherton.]

[March 2, 1787: Receipt of Jonathan Atherton & Mary Atherton for the full balance of the estate]

In the name of God, amen. The fifteenth day of February Anno Domino one thousand seven hundred. And in ye 13th year of my Majesty Reign King William the Third over England. I Thomas Welsh last of Charlestowne in the County of Midd. in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England yeoman. Being sick and weake of body but of good xxxx understanding and memory thanks be given unto God therefore. Calling to mind & the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all man once to die. Do make and ordain this my Last Will & Testament in mannor and form: following that is to say,, First and principally I command my soul into ye hands of God that gave it me. And for my body I command it to ye earth to be buried in Christian and decent manner at ye Tixxxtion of my xxxx hereof xxxx named, nothing doubting but at ye generall resurrection I shall xxxx the Savior again by the mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to xxx me in thy life. I give devise bequeath and dispose the Land in mannor and form following. Item: my debts and funerall expense of me and my wife being paid, herein after being proved so far. Item: I give and bequeth to my son Thomas Welch his heirs and assigns for ever. All my upland and meadow on ye lower side of the way over against my house xxxx, from mr Lynds house and land over to Caleb Croxxxly and bounding upon goodman Hicks and Capt. Mindy Marsh xxx acres more or less. To enter upon and soround the land after mine and my wife's deceased. It. I give and bequeath unto my son Elkanah my xxx dwelling house barn and all of land adjoining and orchard being about five?? acres more or less, and all my pasture land in Cambridge Land and my four acres of marsh being in two parcels and my wood lot of fifteen acres to him his heirs and assigns forever to enter upon and receive ye after mine and my wife deceased. It. I give to my son Jonathan that land whereon his house stands. Bounded from the corner xxx upon ye top of the hill down xxx, be it fifteen acres more or less, to him his heirs and assigns forever, to enter upon and receive ye land at mine and my wifes decease. Item. I give to my daughter Dorea Eagarland ??? her heirs and assigns for ever, my acres of land by the bridge to enter upon and receive ye land at mine and my wifes decease. It. I give to my grandchild H[rip in paper] xxx xxxx David, five pounds in or of money, having [rip in paper] xxxx, to be paid out of my Estate by my executor hereafter named xxxx mine and my wifes decease. Item. I give to my grandson Thomas son of my son Thomas forty shillings, and to his three sisters xxxx xxx shillings xxxx in money, to be paid out of my Estate after mine and my wifes decease. Item. I give to my beloved wife the whole imxxx amount of all my Real and Personal Estate for her comfortable xxxx xxxx during her natural life. It. What xxxx shall go xxx xxx & deceased I give to divided in equal proportion to and among all my children that shall still be living. It. That parsal of land lying by Dsalan Hastings paid it eight or ten acres more or less. I xxx it my hand of my Executor hereafter named, hereby fully impowering him to make Lxxx to pay all debts to pay funerall charde, that shall xxx, and other judicxxxx expenses that may necesarrily arise. And if there be any other land what so ever not here in mentioned nor disposed of, it may have slipped my memory, I do fully xxx by impower my executor hereafter named to make xxx thereof, and to divide the proceed thereof, to say, after mine and my wifes decease, in equal proportion to and amongst my children that then shall be living. And further it is my will that if any of my children above mentioned shall be dissatisfied and not contented with his or her Loxxxx afore mentioned, he or she or they shall be utterly debarred and excluded from the xxxx of his her or their xxxx or legacy. and the land shall be equally divided to and amongst those of my said children that shall xxx and xxx xxx xxx with his her or their legacy xxxx xxx of this my last will and testament, (hereby revoking and disolving all other wills or xxxxx xxxx before made at any time) I do make ordaine and appoint my xxx son Thomas Walsh sole Executor requesting my loving friends, Sam Phippe and Eleazor Phillipps to be xxx xxx xxx out to xxx my xxx Executor in his managment of the truth of my good xxx and comfor of my Dear wife, and to xxx thy my will xxx xxxx. In xxxx whereof I have xxxx xxx my hand and xxx thy fifteenth day of February Anno D. seventeen hundred, xxx year of his majority reign King Wm the 3rd over England xxxx aforesaid xxx xxx & xxxx John Gould Joseph Whissomell Saml Phipps
Thomas [his mark] Welch

[Middlesex: May 26 1701. It appears that the will was contested by eldest son Thamos, and several depositions were made from other people saying Thomas Sr was of sound mind when he wrote his will. I think Thomas complained that Elkanah received the house. It appears that the judge allowed the will, and there is a lone page of writing about who was paid what, but it is so hard to read...]

Case A-62796 Thomas Welch et als. nomination.
Worcester SS. April 11, 1786
Personally appeared Thomas Welch, Silas Welch & Mary Welch, minors, children of Silas Welch late of Bolton in said county deceased & made choice of Simon Meriam of said Bolton yeoman for their guardian during their minority.
Coram Jah Wilder Jus. P.
To the Hon. Jos. Dorr. Esqr. Judge etc. etc.

[May 16, 1786. Bond of £500 paid by Simon Houghton & Jonas Welch, sureties. "That if the above-bounden Simon Meriam nominated and allowed to be guardian unto Thomas Welch aged 17 years, Silas Welch aged 15 years & Mary Welch aged 15 years of their own election children of Silar Welch late of Bolton, ..."]

[ May 16, 1786 letter from Hon. Joseph Dorr nominating and appointing Simon Meriam of Bolton to be Guardian of Thomas Welch aged 17 years, Silas Welch aged 15 years and Mary Welch aged 15 years, their non election children of Silas Welch late of Bolton...]


In the name of God, Amen. I Thomas Welsh of Leominster in the county of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, yeoman, being advanced in years, but of sound disposing mind and memory and concidering the uncertainty of human life, do make and establish this my last will and testament in manner and form following. viz.
First. I will and order all my just debts and funeral charges to be paid as soon as convenient after my decease.
2. I give and bequeath unto my four sons, Thomas Welsh, Stillman Welsh, Phineau W. Welsh and Horatio N. Welsh, their heirs and assigns ten dollars each. I also give to my said son, Horatio N. Welsh all notes, claims and demands I may hold against him at the time of my decease, which with what I have hertofore given to my said sons is their full share of my Estate.
3. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Lucy Powers Welsh, five hundred dollars, to be paid to her, her heirs or assigns by my Executrix herinafter named.
4th. I give, devise and bequeath unto my beloved wife Betsey Welsh all the rest and residue of my Estate, whether Real Personal or miscal(??) and when and wheresoever the same may be found, to be hers, her heirs and assigns forever.
Lastly thereby constitute and appoint my said wife Betsey Welsh, the sole Executor of this my last will and testamont.
In interess whereof, I the said Thomas Welsh have herunto set my hand and seal this twenty eighth day of June, A.D. 1842.
Thomas Welsh
Signed, sealed & declared by the said Thomas Welsh to be his last will & testament, in presence of us, who at his request, in his presence & in the presence of each other have hereunto let our names as witnesses.
Wm. Pervy
H.W. Tarbell

[Judge of Probate then approved the document.]

*Worcester County Probate Records Book 95 Page 302

[January 1, 1856: $3000 bond to George Woods & Henry A. Woods, sureties.]

*Worcester County Probate Records Book 250 Page 596

[January 1, 1856: letter appointed Betsey Welch administratix of estate.]

*Worcester County Probate Records Book 165 Page 340

[October 22, 1856: order of notice of appointment of Betsey Welch as executrix plus Betsey' affadavit that she posted notifications at the Hotel and J.L.S. Pinces Store in Leominster.]

*Worcester County Probate Records Book 305 Page 384

Thomas Wisswall is fined five shilllings for not appeareing to serve on the jury.

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23 of ye 4th month 1657. This writing witnesseth that I Thomas Wiswall of Cambridge doe promise in case of my sonne Enoch's marriage that I will give unto my aforesaid sonne Enoch Wiswall all my lands and houses in Dorchester both unto him and unto his heirs forever viz: the house that formerly once belonged unto Mr. Maverick and the lands appropriated thereunto the house sometimes of Abraham Dille and the land propperly pertayning thereunto the land once belonging unto Richard Williams yea all my land in Dorchester, more or less, whether already Inclosed or not and all my marsh thereunto belonging together with all the right and privileges before or after the date hereof belonging justly to me the abovesaid Thomas Wiswall. In witness hereunto I subscribe my hand.

Thomas Wiswall
Elizabeth Wiswall X her mark
Witness Henry Withington, John White.

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Thomas wiswall is released from all ordnary trayneings, paying 5s. p. ann. to ye military company of ye place where Hee lives.

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Elder Thomas Wiswall of Cambridge of Cambridge Village, being bound by the Govr & magts. assembled in Genll Court to answr for breach of the law by putting in a double vote for one man, in the Eleccon of magts, was legally called, & made no appearance, and is to be sumoned to the next Court at Cambridge.

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This is an Inventory of the Estate of Elder Thomas Wiswall of Cambr 
village who decead. 6 December 1683 Apprized by us the subscribers.

His wearing cloaths both linnen & woollen 					006 07 00
    In the lower Lodging Room
A featherbed, a feather bolster, 2 feather pillows a straw bed
& Rug, a blankett & bedstead with curtains altogether 			005 00 00
4 pr of old sheets, 4 pillowbeers 							001 05 00
2 Table cloaths, 11 napkins, 4 Towells 						001 00 00
a Table, a form, 6 joynd stools, a little Table 					001 05 00
A great chair, 2 small chairs, 6 cushions 						000 08 00
A chest, 2 Thinks, a warming pan 							000 15 00
A small cupboard, 4 bibles, 4 Psalm books, 6 other small books 	001 08 00
2 old brushes a little looking glass 							000 02 00
2 old hogsheads, a tub, 2 trays, 2 milk bowls 2 small beer barrells 	000 08 00
An old bridle & saddle, a pannell 							000 10 00
A churns, 2 sacks, a grid Iron 								000 05 00
A dwelling house & barn with a small orchard to It & about
two hundred & seven acres of upland & meadow wX of yr is 		220 00 00
about six acres of ye land yE is broak up
Abt a yeer & half service in a man servant 					008 00 00
A pcceii of stone fence abt ye aforesd land 					007 00 00
The Irons to the pump 									000 05 00

Apprised the 14. Decemb 1683 by us
Thomas Prentice
James Trowbridge
William Bond

Decemb' 18. 83 This inventory was sworne to in Court by 
    Noah Wiswall & Ebenezar Wiswall, admrs.

Jonathan Remmington Clericus 

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