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# Know all men whom itt may concerne that I Robert Porter : of watterbury haue formerly giuen to my sonn : benjamin: thre parsells of land folowing which being now desesed [deceased] my desire is that if itt pleas god to giue him an heire: that the lands herafter: men- tioned: may fall to it but as i desire the lord may requite the wife of my sonn desesed: so these are to declare that i doo sequester: the right to the: use of the lands following to the wife of my son aboue said desed during her naturall life: vis [viz :]-[here are enumerated seven piece: of land, twenty four acres in all]-all which parsells of land as they ly my dafter [daughter] aboue said shall and may quiatly pesably ocupy poses and injoy [&c.,] my hand and seale this 19 feb 1689
Robert porter
t There are discrepancies as to dates which I am unable now to reconcile. His gift deed re- lating to his son Benjamin's widow bears date Feb. 19, 1659, which, in new style, should read Feb. 19, 1690; and yet, the said widow is stated on the record to have married Edmund Scott " sometime in June 1659."
James Brown
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proportion of fence in all the divisions. But he had a tardy, slip-shod way of doing things ; and when the crisis came, it was found that he had not rendered a full compliance with the conditions of the articles, and his allotments were condemned in 1682-3. He mended his ways, however, and his rights were restored. As a grantee, I do not find his name earlier than 1685.
Obadiah Richards appears to have been one of the rank and file of the young town-an excellent man, it is safe to say. He had a house and home lot on the north side of West Main street, next west of Philip Judd's. The lot (" his by purchase as a planter ") contained three acres, and was the first (going from east to west) which ran through to the back street. It was bounded, Jan. 1703-4, west on Thomas Judd's house lot, east on a house lot belonging to the heirs of Philip Judd, deceased.
Both Richards and his wife Hannah were members of Mr. Hooker's church of Farmington. After lingering for some time in poor health, he died Nov. 11, 1702. His inventory amounted to £138. (His widow died about May, 1725.) A year before his decease, he disposed of much of his estate by the following writing, which is recorded in Vol. I, Land Records, p. 102 :
This wrighting made ye seuenteenth of may one thousan seuen hundred and one witnesseth y' I obadiah Richards sent [&c.] for good and lawfull resins do gine, [&c.] unto my well beloued children as followeth first haning a pece of upland situated in sd waterbury lying norwest from woster swamp by estimation fifteen acers butting on euery sd on com on lands and I being by sickness layd by not able to labour and sd lands of no benefit without great chorg [charge] be- stoed on it and for ye ineuragment of my too soons John and Obediah to build on and breck up sd lands yt I and my wife hane som Releife by it do by this giue ye one half of sd land, to my soon John and ye other half to obadiah & to obadiah my part of sd buildings yt sd John and obadiah haue begun on these conditions not to com to full posession of it till after my death and after yt to alow my wife four bushills of grain by ye yeir such as ye land produces if they improue it and my soons john and obadiah to haue sd lands and buildings after my deceas as their own free estate [&c.] 2ly to my soons Thomas and ben in Richards my three acer lot yt lyes northward from ye town within ye com on fenc on ye same con- ditions yt john and obadiah has theirs [&c.] furder I sd obadiah Richards sent to my eldest soon John my a lot ment att bueks meadow [&c. ] for euer to be acount- ed to him and his acknowledgment as my eldest soon and after in other distributions to be but equall with ye rest of my children-ye obligation of john and obadiah
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to my wife if i dy before her is during her widowhood and thomas and benjamin is free from paying any obligation to my wife for ye lot i haue here giuen ym as witness my hand and sealle
Obadiah Richards Senr
Children :
1. John; b. 1667.
2. Mary ; b. Jan., 1669, m. George Scott.
3. Hannah ; b. Nov. 1671, m. John Scovill, (2d.)
4. Esther ; b. June, 1673, m. Ephraim Warner.
5. Elizabeth ; b. July, 1675, m. John Richards, son of Thomas.
6. Sarah ; b. April, 1677, m. David Seott.
7. Obadiah ; b. Oct. 1, 1679. He was bap. in Farmington, March 14, 1679-80, at the same time with his sisters, Mary, Hannah, Esther, Elizabeth, Sarah. He was a £40 proprietor, admitted, Dec. 1700 ; one of the committee that settled the bounds with Derby in April, 1703, and a fence viewer the same year. Soon after, when his rights had been made sure, and thick gloom was settling over the planters of Wa- terbury, he made his escape, and was next heard of in Lyme. There he died about 1707. In 1720, his administrators, Jabez and Sarah Watrous, sold out his lands, rights, &c., in Waterbury, to Joseph Lathrop of Norwich for £30.
8. Rachel; b. May 6, 1683, m. Jeremiah Peck, (2d.)
9. Thomas; b. Aug. 9, 1685. He was made a bachelor proprietor in 1707-8 ; m. Hannah, d. of Stephen Upson, (1st,) and d. in 1726. Estate, £288.
10. Benjamin ; b. April 5, 1691. He was accepted as a bachelor proprietor as soon as he was of age, and d. June 2, 1714, without a family. His brother John was administrator, his estate going to his brothers and sisters.
JOHN RICHARDS.
He was the eldest son of Obadiah, but appears not to have been an original proprietor. In 1700-1, Jan. 15, he purchased (of the executor) Robert Porter's £100 right, and the purchase was recorded in a formal way. And yet, he is always named on the division-lists as an £80 proprietor. He is first spoken of " Jan. 21, 1689," when he had a grant of land of four acres, on the usual conditions of building and " cohab- iting four years." In December, 1690, he received twelve acres, " abought three quarters of a mile up ye spruce brook aboue moun taylor on ye east sd ye great riuer on ye same conditions," &c. In 1692, Aug. 17, he got married, and soon after had a house on the west side of the "mill path." May 7, 1694, the town granted him " liberty to let his house stand where now it is and to have the land and to run to the rear of John Hopkins home lot he setting the fence on the north side the path that now leads to the corn mill and to relinquish that
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part of his lot that runs the north side the path."* The lot was afterwards (" March 28, 1694-5") granted in a more formal manner, butted south on Stephen Upson, west on John Hopkins and a great lot and on Thomas Warner, and north on the path leading to the corn mill. This land, called three acres, with the house, Richards sold in March, 1698-9, to Thomas Warner, taking in exchange Warner's house and lot on Bank street, near the present Baptist Church. Here he afterwards resided ; but in 1727, Sept. 28, he sold out for £100, conveying the property (two and three quarter acres of land) to Jonathan Prindle.
John Richards seems to have maintained a respectable stand- ing. He was several times collector of minister's rates, school committee, grand juror, &c. In 1700, 1701, 1712, 1713, 1720, he was selectman, and in May, 1723, a deputy to the General Court. He died early in 1735 .- Estate £1,605, 10s. 10d. His will was dated June 7, 1733, and proved April 22d, 1735. Several children are named.
His wife was Mary, a daughter of John Welton, to whom he was married Aug. 17, 1692.
THOMAS RICHASON.
He was an early but not a first settler of Farmington, and was one of the eighty-four proprietors of 1672. In 1674, he subseribed the articles for settling Mattatuck, and was suffi- ciently early in his movements, as a planter, to secure an old town plot lot, and a portion of fence in each of the four divisions. Though a very good man, apparently, ( I find him called Goodmant Richason at an early date,) he had not a "steady way," or was slow in meeting his engagements, and his rights were declared forfeited in 1682-3. But like others in a similar predicament, he bestired himself and regained possession. He had but a £50 right, and complained to the committee, in Feb. 1680-S1, that he was in want of land to
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* From this vote, it would seem that the land, at the time the house was erected, was common land, and that afterwards a road was run through it to the mill, leaving a small portion on " the north for northeasterly] side."
+ This term was formerly applied to persons of humble but respectable mediocrity as to character and position.
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improve. He had liberal grants at various times, and was a subscriber to Mr. Peck's settlement.
Thomas Richason owned a lot, in 1687, on the south side of the Green, west of Mr. Kendrick's; but whether he had a house there and lived in it, I am unable to say. In March, 1792-3, he bought of Thomas Newel for £60 three and a half acres on West Main street, near where Samuel J. Holmes now lives, where he afterwards appears to have resided. The lot had on it two houses, (one of which had been Thomas Han- cock's,) and was bounded in 1708, "west on the Porters," east on John Bronson, north and south on highways.
Thomas Richason d. Nov. 14, 1712, and his wife, Mary, one week afterwards, Nov. 21, both victims of the great sickness. Three of their sons, John, Israel and Nathaniel, also d. of the pestilence before the close of the year.
Children :
1. Mary ; b. Dec. 25, 1667.
2. Sarah; b. March 25, 1669.
3. John ; b. April 15, 1672, d. Oct. 17, 1712. He m. Ruth, a daughter of John Wheeler, and Elizabeth, a daughter of Nathaniel Arnold, Senr. He was admitted to bachelor privileges, May 15, 1699, but he had previously had liberal grants of land. The first of these was March 28, 1694-5- " four acres for a house lot on the north side the highway that leads to Farmington, the east side the high- way that ranges by Serg. Stanley's lot into the woods north, he fulfilling the tarms of original articles." This lot was on the east corner of East Main and Cherry streets, and on it Richarson, himself a carpenter, built a house. It was recorded to him Jan. 1703-4, and was described as lying northeast from the town, south and west on highway, and north and east on common land. This place he deeded at about the last named date to his brother Israel, receiving in exchange a house and lot of one acre next his father on the west side.
4. Thomas. He had a grant of land March, 1695 ; was accepted as a bach. pro- prietor, March 26, 1699 ; remained in Waterbury long enough to secure his right, and then removed to Wallingford. He was there in July, 1705. After his father's death, he returned to Waterbury, and was appointed fence viewer in 1713, " grave digger " in 1714, 1715 and 1716, and hayward in 1714, 1717 and 1718. In 1719, (March 30,) he sold his house and lot of six acres on the north side of West Main street, ( north and south on highway, east on Richards' land, and west on Ebenezer Richason's house lot, ) to Thomas Richards' and returned to Walling- ford, where he was living in 1722, a farmer.
5. Israel. He had a grant of land as early as March 28, 1694, four acres for a house lot, on the north side the town, "if it be there to be had, he fulfilling the tarms of the original articles." He became a bach. proprietor March 26, 1699. Before he had secured his right, he appears to have left the plantation. Dec. 21, 1702, the town granted him " liberty of two years before taking the forfeiture of
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his land and that if he come again in two years to live in the town to have his land, but if he do not then to lose his land that is now forfeited." He returned, and was grave digger in 1707, and surveyor in 1708 and 1709. His name he signed by a mark in 1709. He lived at first on a lot of one acre next his father, which the latter gave him March, 1699-1700, bounded March, 1703-4, east on Thomas Richason's house lot, west on Jonathan Scott's house lot, north and south on highway. This he exchanged, in 1703, for his brother John's place. He d. of the great sickness, Dec. 18, 1712, a few weeks before his wife and his oldest child Mary.
6. Rebecca ; b. April 27, 1679, and m. John Warner, son of John. This is the first recorded birth in Waterbury.
7. Ruth ; b. May 10, 1681, became the second wife of Henry Castle of Wood- bury. (Cothren. )
8. Johanna ; b. Sep. 1, 1683, m. Isaac Castle of Woodbury and Daniel Warner.
9. Nathaniel ; b. May 28, 1686. He was accepted as a bachelor, Jan 7, 1706-7. March 13, 1710-11, the proprietors gave him "four scor acurs of land on the north sid the road to Woodbury up the grat brok est from breck nek hill, one this condition that he tak it as his hole proprity as a bachelders acomydation and coninhabit ten years in the town in a seteled way and bild a tenitabel hous acording to originell artycels in five yers and coinhabit 5 yers after bilding his hous." Lieut. Stanley, Edmund Scott and Jeremiah Peck protested against this act of the proprietors.
Nathaniel Richarson, d. Nov. 3, 1712, his death securing his lands and rights, which went to his brothers and sisters.
10. Ebenezer; b. Feb. 4, 1689-90. He was made a bach. proprietor March 5, 1711-12, and m. Margaret, daughter of Thomas Warner. He was one of the earliest settlers at Wooster Swamp, living near "Wooster Brook." He d. June 30, 1772.
SCOTT.
Thomas Scott of Hartford, an original proprietor, but not a settler, of Farmington, had a son Edmund and two daughters, Mary, who m. Robert Porter, and Sarah, who m. John Stanley of Farmington.
EDMUND SCOTT, SEN.
He settled in Farmington, with children, at an early date, and m. the widow of Thomas Upson. His two youngest children, Robert and Joseph, were by her. He was one of the freemen of Farmington of 1669 and one of the proprietors of 1672. A subscriber of 1674, he was among the earliest that came to Mattatuck. His regular allotments of fence, &c., in- dicate that with him there was no vascillation of purpose, and that he discharged, seasonably, all his obligations. He is
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mentioned as grantee as late as Jan. 21, 1689-90, and d. soon after, before June 2, 1690. At the last date, his will was proved, but his inventory, showing a small estate of $17, 11s. 6d., was not presented to Court till April, 1691. His nine children are named on the probate record, several of whom remained in Waterbury.
Edmund Scott's house stood where Green Kendrick now lives. His lot contained two acres, and was bounded, Feb. 10, 1687-S, north on highway, south on common, east on John Carrington's land, west on Thomas Richason's land. His children were as follows, (not arranged probably in the exact order of age :)
1. Edmund ; m. Sarah, widow of Benjamin Porter, June, 1689.
2. Samuel; b. 1660, m. Feb. 1686-7, Mary Orvice. (W. S. Porter.)
3. Elizabeth ; m. - Davis.
4. Hannah ; m. John Bronson, son of Richard of Farmington, Oct. 1664 ?
5. Jonathan ; m. Hannah, d. of John Hawks of Deerfield, Nov. 1694.
6. George ; m. Aug. 1691, Mary, d. of Obadiah Richards, and d. Sep. 26, 1724, leaving an estate to be distributed of £605, 12s. He was a bach. proprietor, being admitted, it appears, Jan. 5, 1707-8, after he had been many years a married inan. He had a grant of a house lot of four acres, as early as Dec. 1687, described as "on the highway that runs over the Little Brook [North Main street] at the northeast corner of the town to butt easterly on the brow of the hill, [near Andrew Bryan's house, ] and so to run westerly over the brook and to butt northerly on a highway, [Grove street,] provided he build a house and live four years in the town." On this lot Scott built a house, and in Nov. 1702, it was recorded as butting west on a highway. He sold the place, Aug. 6, 1703, to Benjamin Warner, and in March, 1707-8, owned a house and lot of eight acres and a half on the north side of Grove street, near C. C. Adams' residence.
George Scott was townsman for four years in 1698 and afterwards, surveyor in 1701, 1704 and 1717, and school committee in 1710 and 1711. He signed his name in 1702-3 by proxy. Obadiah Scott, his eldest son, had a bachelor lot, being accepted Dec. 13, 1713. He d. in 1735. George Scott, the second son, was also a bachelor, admitted in 1715. He d. without a family, in 1725, and his estate was distributed to his brothers and sisters. The third son, William Scott, had a half bachelor lot, granted in 1722, he and John Warner, son of Ephraim, dividing between them the " fourth propriety lot."
7. David; was accepted as a bachelor proprietor at thesame time as his brother George. He had several grants of land, beginning as early as March 28, 1694, which were, of course, a part of his divisions on his £40 right. He was surveyor. school committee, and grand juror, at different times; and in 1710, townsman. He lived on the homestead of his father, and in 1710, enlarged his lot by purchase of John Carrington's heirs. After his death, his heirs, "March 8, 1734," sold the property for £100, to James Blakeslee, described as three acres with a house, near the meeting house, north and south on highway, east on Dea. Clark,
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west on Edmund Scott. He was a "husbandman." He m. June 10, 1698, Sarah, daughter of Obadiah Richards, and d. in 1727, his will being proved Dec. 5, of that year.
8. Robert; was admitted as a £40 proprietor May 15, 1699. Land was granted him by the proprietors in Jan. 1692-3 and afterwards. He owned the house lot which had belonged to Thomas Judd, Jr., which he bought in 1701. This place he conveyed Oct. 1708, in consideration of a mare, a colt and a cow and £5, 12s., to his brother Edmund. After he had secured his bachelor right, he removed from the town, and was in Hartford in 1708, 1716 and 1725, a bachelor, apparently. His £40 right he sold to his brother Jonathan.
9. Joseph ; helived in Farmington. I know nothing of him, except what may be gathered from the following extract from the Farmington record. It bears date Dec. 19, 1692, and illustrates Puritan manners and government. I suppose he was a literal bachelor.
"The towne by vote gane to Joseph Scott a Libertie to dwell a Lone prouided he do faithfully improue his time and be haue him self peasablely and honestly towards his neithbours and their Creatures and constantly attend the publique worship of god, and that he do give an account how he spends his time unto the townesmen when it shall be demanded." [Town Book, Vol. I, p. 49.]
EDMUND SCOTT, JR ..
He was a son of the preceding, and was accepted by the committee, in the place of William ILigason. He probably came to Mattatuck with his father and was made a proprietor when he became of age. He had a proportion of fence in the second division, which would indicate that he had become a proprietor in 1678-9, and had a meadow allotment at that time. His father gave him, in Feb. 1682-3, the house which he had built, or assisted to build, on the lot which the com- mittee had bestowed on him, (the son.) It stood on the south side of West Main street, near where John C. Booth lives. The lot contained two acres and was bounded, in June, 1691, north and south on highway, east on Mr. Peck's land, and west on Thomas Judd's land. He (Edmund, Jr.) conveyed it and the house, with the land which he had added to it, eight acres in the whole, in 1732, to his son Jonathan, the tract butting east on the heirs of David Scott, west on John Welton's house lot.
Edmund Scott, Jr., was townsman in 1701 and 1702, sur- veyor in 1710 and 1716, and grave digger in 1708, 1717, 1718, and 1720. He had a £70 right in the undivided lands. He d. at an advanced age, July 20, 1746, having outlived all the other settlers who became proprietors before 1780 .- Estate £443. His wife d. Jan. 17, 1748-9.
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Children :
1. A son ; b. Oct., 1690, amd d. Feb. 2d, 1690-1.
2. Sarah; b. Jan. 29, 1691-2, m. Samuel Warner, son of Thomas.
3. Samuel ; b. Sept. 1694; became a bach. prop. in 1715; resided at Judd's Meadow and d. April 30, 1768 .- Estate £294. His widow (Mary, daughter of John Richards) d. Sept. 5, 1776.
4. Elizabeth ; b. March 1, 1696-7 ; m. Samuel Warner, son of Daniel.
5. Hannah; b. June, 1700, m. in 1744, Ebenezer Elwell.
6. Edmund; b. May 10, 1703, m. Martha, d. of John Andruss, Aug. 12, 1730, and d. March 23, 1733 .- Estate £229. He lived at Judd's Meadow.
7. John ; b. Sept. 21, 1707 ; m. Eunice, d. of Thomas Griffin of Simsbury, and d. March 14, 1756. (His widow was living in 1766.) He lived in the southwest quarter, at Judd's Meadow, near " Meshadock."
8. Jonathan ; b. Aug. 4, 1711, and d. 1741, giving his property to his wife.
SAMUEL SCOTT.
He was admitted a proprietor, by act of the town, Dec. 30, 1684, receiving half an allotment of £100. He received, at the same time, a house lot on the east side of Bank street, all on condition that he should build a house according to the articles, and live in the town four years after building. These things he did. He was not in the town soon enough to have an early division of fence, or an old town plot eight acre lot ; but he was among those who participated in the land-division of 1688, after which time, his name disappears from the lists of proprietors. He did not remain long in the town after his propriety right had been secured. He probably left in 1689, or in 1689-90. He was not a subscriber to Mr. Peck's £60 settlement. April 28, 1691, he was " of Farmington," and at that date, sold and conveyed to his brother Jonathan all his lands, divided and undivided, in Waterbury, including his house and house lot of two acres, the latter bounded north on Stephen Upson's land, south on Richard Porter, west on high- way, east on common. He died in Farmington June 30, 1745, aged 85, and his wife died Nov. 28, 1748, aged 85.
JONATHAN SCOTT.
He was a son of Edmund, Sen., and is first mentioned on the records in Jan. 1689-90, when he received a grant of land on the west side of " Union Square," he to build a house and "inhabit " four years. It does not appear that he built upon this land. In Dec. 1690, he had ten acres granted him at Wooster Swamp. His name is not among the subscribers of
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the agreement with Mr. Peek, he then probably being barely twenty-one years of age. He became a proprietor by pur- chase of his brother Samuel, April 28, 1691.
Jonathan Scott had but little to do with the public business. He was fenee viewer in 1702, 1709 and again in 1717-noth- ing more. His name is rarely found on the records, and it is difficult to find his " whereabouts " from recorded evidence, con- veyances, &c. At first, he may have lived in the house he bought of his brother, in 1691. Afterwards, before Jan., 1703-4, he resided on the north side, near the west end of West Main street, on a lot of one acre and three quarters, re- corded April 27, 1717, and bounded north and south on high- way, east and west on the heirs of John Richason, dec'd. He signed his name by proxy, as did several of his brothers. The story of his captivity by the Indians, in 1710, I have al- ready related. He ultimately, or soon after 1720, removed to Wooster Swamp, in the north part of Watertown, near Scott's Mountain, where he built a saw mill, (spoken of in 1725, as belonging to him and his son Jonathan,) and lived with his sons. The tradition is that he was buried on Scott's Moun- tain, and his supposed grave is still pointed out. That part of the tradition, however, which relates to the circumstances and time of his death, as that he died by violence on his way to the north, at the hands of the Indians, after having had his tongue cut out, is without foundation in fact. He is believed to have been the earliest permanent settler of present Water- town. He d. May 15, 1745, and his wife, April 7, 1744.
Children :
1. A daughter; b. and d. Aug. 1695.
2. Jonathan; b. Sept. 29, 1696. After his return (in 1715) from captivity, he was made a £40 proprietor. In 1722, he was chosen pound keeper, and in 1723, surveyor, soon after which he appears to have removed to Wooster Swamp, at which place he had much land laid out on his own right and on that which was his uncle Robert's.
3. John ; b. June 5, 1699. He is said never to have returned from his captiv- ity, in 1709.
4. Martha ; b. July 9, 1701 ; m. Joseph Hurlbut of Woodbury.
5. Gershom ; b. Sept. 6, 1703, and d. June 24, 1780. His father gave him a house and lands at Wooster Swamp in 1731.
6. Eleazer ; b. Dec. 31, 1705. His father gave him a house and three acres of land at Wooster Swamp in 1733.
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7. Daniel ; b. Sept. 20, 1707. In 1735, his father gave him a part of his home- stead, three acres. He was a doctor.
JOHN SCOVILL.
IIe was an early settler of Farmington, and a proprietor of 1672. As a proprietor of Waterbury, he was accepted Jan. 15, 1677-8, as a substitute for Abraham Bronson. He probably did not join the settlement till late in 1678. His name is found in the second and fourth divisions of fence, and is on the list of those who had old town plot lots. He was one of those who tried the patience of the committee, till at last his rights were de- clared forfeited. He recovered his allotments by submitting, &c. He lived on a lot of two acres on the corner of West Main and Willow streets, where Mrs. Bennet Bronson now resides. But he found living in Waterbury a serious business, became discouraged, and went away. I know not the exact time. He was not a subscriber to Mr. Peck's settlement in 1689, but he may, notwithstanding, have been in town at the time. In 1696, he was " of Haddam," and July 18th of that year, he conveyed by deed "for divers valuable, good and lawful causes and considerations " to his " well beloved son John Scovill and his heirs for ever," all his estate in Waterbury ---- his lands and rights of land, divided and undivided, including his house and house lot of two acres, (butted south and east on highway, north and west on Dea. Judd's land,) together. with nine other parcels of land. He, however, reserved an in- terest in the estate of the value of ten pounds, the income of which was to be paid to his wife during her natural life, " should it please God to take me away before her," &c.
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