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schoole, and in the feare of God ; and theire portions to bee paid before the age of twenty and one yeares, as the provi- dence of God shall giue occasion. And my will is that if any of them dye before the said tearme of yeares, the portion should bee deuided among the rest of my children. And that this my will may bee performed, I doe earnestly intreat my much hon- ored frends and beloued in the Lord, Mr. John Haynes, Mr. Edward Hopkins, Mr. John Webster, with or deare and louing . Pastor, Mr. Thomas Hooker and Mr. Samuell Stone, to bee ourseers of this my last will and Testament, not doubting they will indeauor the performance of the same. In testimony of my loue to them, I doe bequeath, out of my whole personall estate, 10l. a peece. Allso, I doe bequeath vnto my Father and Mother, 20l., and if they bee dead my minde is it should bee giuen vnto my brother and his children. My meaning is, my land and howse shall bee accounted a parte of my sonne Will- iam, his portion. And my will is, if those my ourseers doe thinke my second sonne fitt to make a schollar, for his naturall parts, and allso in the gifts of his mind hopefull to keepe the fire vppon the Alltar, my will is hee should bee sett aparte for that seruice.
This is my last will, as wittnes my hand, the day and yeare aboue.
William Whiting.
Aprill 2d, 1646. Whereas by the providence of God, I am intending a voyage, my will is that my sonne Joseph shall haue an equall portion with my sonne John and my sonne Samuell, out of my whole personall estate. Allso, I giue my sonne William, 50l. more. I giue vnto my daughter Mary, 10l. more. Allso, I giue vnto my sister Wiggen, 5l. and vnto her children, 3l. a peece. I giue vnto Margery Parker, 10l. My former will, my mind is, it should bee in force ; and these last legacies should bee paid at the age of 21. The rest to bee paid in one yeare after my decease.
pr mee,
This was done in the presence
William Whiting. of Mr. Edward Hopkins.
[261] In a letter to Mr. Hopkins hee did further express him- self, as folloth :
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Sr, I left my last with you. God hath increased my number. My mind is that the last should haue an equall proportion with the rest. And whereas I did referr some trust with Mr. Haynes, I doe now referr all vnto you, and the rest expressed therin.
William Whiting.
And vppon his death bed hee did declare, as followth :
It is my minde, if the Lord take mee away at this present, before I can draw vp any further will, that the children wch God hath giuen mee since the will was made wch I haue in Mr. Hopkins his hands, shall haue an equall proportion in all my estate, together with the rest of my children, as I haue there deuised. Allso, I confirme ten pounds giuen to Mr. Hopkins, ten pounds giuen to Mr. Webster, ten pounds to Mr. Hookers children, ten pounds to Mr. Stones children, ten pounds to the pore, fiue to Hartford and fiue to theise other two townes Wyndsor and Wethersfeild, and fiue pounds to Mr. Smiths children, of Wethersfeild.
July 24th 1647. William Whiting .*
In the presence of Henry Smith,
Jeames Cole.
APRIL 24th, 1649.
The Courte taking into serious consideration Mr. Whitings Will, and judging it necessary for the preuenting of future dif- ference to express theire judgements therevpon, doe conceiue that it was according to his true meaning and intent that the last sonne borne after his death should haue an equall portion with the rest of his sonnes, except the eldest; And they doe conceiue that twenty pound should be paid to Mr. Hooker vp- pon a speciall consideration, viz : for the putting forth of his worke vpon the 17th of John ; and the ten pound giuen in his last writing to Mr. Hookers children, to bee in leiw of the ten pound giuen in his first writing to Mr. Hooker as ouerseer. Allso, they doe conceiue that the fiue pounds giuen to Mr. Stone, in his first writing, should bee paid, and the ten pounds giuen in his last writing to Mr. Stones children, to bee in leiw of the ten pounds giuen Mr. Stone, in his first writing, as ouer-
* Administration granted to the widow of Mr. Whiting, Sept. 2, 1647. The estate distrib- uted, Oct. 3d, 1654. See pages 157, 262.
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seer. To his Father etc. twenty pounds, fiue pounds to his sister Wiggen, and three pounds a peece to her children. Ten pounds to Margery Parker ; fiue pounds to Mr. Smiths children ; fiue pounds to the mending of the highwayes, and fiue pounds to the pore of Hartford ; fifty shillings to the pore of Wyndsor, and fifty shillings to the pore of Wethersfeild.
That legacy giuen to Mr. Haynes is left to further considera- tion.
Theise are the aprehensions of the Courte for the present, till other and better lighte appeares.
It was further declared by the Courte, this 24th of March, 1659, that it is theire aprehensions, according to their present lighte, that whereas Mr. Whiting giues his wife her widdowes estate in her howse & land in Hartford, vntill his sonne William comes to the age of 21 yeares, that it was his intent and mean- eing that his said wife should injoye his said howse and land vn- till William bee of the age aforesaid of 21 yeares, though shee bee marryed before.
And whereas, hee giues her one fourth prt of his whole per- sonall estate, It is in like manner theire aprehensions, the 24th March, 165 g, that it was his intent & meaning that his said wife should not haue a fourth prt of his howsing & lands.
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APRILL 20th, 1649.
An Inventory of the Estate of Mr. William Whiting, deceased.
In the parlour ; It: A featherbed, 2 flock bedds, 2 pr of
sheets, blankitts, stooles, a clock, a safe, a bedstead, £. s. d. cradle, cobirons &c. valued at,
17. 06. 00 In the Hall ; It: a table, a courte cubberd, 6 joint stooles, .
3 chaires, 6 cushions, and andirons &c. valued at, 04. 17. 00 In the parlour Chamber ; It: 2 flock beds and boulsters, 03. 00. 00 It: 2 featherbeds, boulsters and pillowes, 14. 00. 00 It: 6 blankitts, 1 pr sheets, 2 coverlitts & a trundle bed, 07. 01. 00 It: a coverlitt, vallance, curtaine, cubbert cloth, 2 small carpets, 09. 00. 00 It: a bedstead, 2 chaires, and 4 stooles, 02. 06. 00
It: a cubberd, a window cushion, cobirons and 3 p of bellowes, 02. 02. 08 It: 8 paire of fine sheets, 6 large table cloaths, 12 pillow beers, 4 doz. fine napkins, and 6 shorte table cloaths, 19. 06. 00 It: a chest contayning seuerall remnants of wollen and
linnen, intended for the vse of the family, valued at, 10. 00. 00
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It: a trunck and 4 window curteines, 00. 18. 00 . In the Hall Chamber ; It: 6 cushions, 2 greene carpetts, a coverlitt, a sett of curtaines and valence of greene say, 5 old curtaines and valence, 07. 12. 00 It: a chest & 4 truncks 1l. 10s .; 2 remnants of Kither- mast stuff, 2l., 03. 10. 00
In the closett ; It: seuerall pewter dishes cont: 91lbs .; a flagon, 2 candlesticks & a chamber pott, valewed at, 06. 10. 00 In the garritt ; It: a flockbed, 2 boulsters, a blankitt, 2 ruggs, 2 pillows and a bedstead, 05. 00. 00
It: 5 pr of sheets and 5 doz: napkins, 05. 00. 00 In the kitching chamber ; It: a bed, 2 couerings, a pr of sheets, and two bedsteads, 03. 10. 00
In the Kittching ; It: 2 brass potts, 5 iron potts and an iron kettle, 4 brass panns and 6 brass kettles and 9 skilletts, 14. 10. 04
It: a pott posnett, a brass morter & chafing dish, 01. 00. 00
It: 12 old pewter dishes, 6 porringers, 2 quart potts, 1 pinte, 2 chamber potts & a roster, 02. 03. 04 It: a frying pan, gridiron, 3 spitts, a jack, racks and cobirons, 01. 17. 00
It: a furnace, 2 dripping panns, and a grater, 03. 04. 00
It: in tubbs and keelers &c., . 02. 10. 00 ·
It: a new iron kettle & a warming pann, 00. 13. 04
It: in plate and mony, 14. 10. 00 ·
161. 06. 08
In the closett, more ; It: in wampum, 39. 09. 00
It: in howes and hatchetts, shoes, nayles, pinns, paper, shott, fish hooks, and all blades, 16. 19. 00 It: in Beaner, 101. 4s .; It: in Amunition & gunpowder, 71. 10s., 17. 14. 00 It: in shagg cotton, stockings, hollands, deare skinns & 9 yards stuff, · 19. 03. 00
It: in hatts, capps, gilded looking glasses, 7 peeces tape, tinn cupps and dram cupps, 04. 13. 06 It: 25 yards greene tammy, 2l. 18s. 4d .; 13 peeces of duffles, 130l., 132. 18. 04 It: in looking glasses, pewter bottles, brass ladles, brushes, bells, thimbles, boxes, kniues, sissers, combs, Jewes harps, 19. 06. 02 01. 06. 08 It: 4 small brass kettles,
It: 2 Racoone coats, 1 Wolf skin coate, 4 Bear skinns, 3 Mooss, 06. 10. 00 It: one small haser, 27 .; It: 2 prof stilliars, 17. 10s., 03. 10. 00 It: Tobacko pipes, 1l. 10s .; It: in bookes and apparell, 257. 26. 10. 00 It: in beauer, mooss and wampum, more, 250. 00. 00 It: in 2 great gunns, anker, a cable, & hides, vppon Cariso :* adventure, 61. 11. 06
* Curacoa ?
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It: in skinns, and debts, vppon a voyage to Verginia, in
anno 1647, yet due, . 67. 10. 00
It: in Tobacko, at Verginia, 65. 00. 00 It: in the proceed of corne and porke, sould in anno 1648, 48. 00. 00 Il: in oyle, soape, vinegar and other goods from Dela- war, ye last yeare, 30. 00. 00
It: in trade at Long Iland, 30. 00. 00
It: in stock for trade at Waranoco, 100. 00. 00
It: in goods sent from England, 65. 19. 03 · It: in p't of a pinnace, 40. 00. 00
៛ It: in debts in the book, whereof } is doubtful, . 372. 00. 00
It: in debts at Dillaware, wch are harserdous, 90. 00. 00
It: in debts heere, vppon Mr. Whitings last voyage to Dillawar, 15. 00. 00
It: a debt of Steph: Luxford, very doubtfull, 15. 12. 00
It: a hhd. of Beauer, very haserdous, at least in great p't, sent for England, in Trerice, valued at, 50. 00. 00
It: goods and debts at Piscataway, very haserdous, 150. 00. 00 It: 7 cowes, a bull stagg and a young bull, 5 calues, and
9 other cattle, at Warranoco, & 1 at the sea side, at 102. 00. 00
It: 2 mares, 3 horses and 3 colts, 77. 00. 00
It: 20 hoggs, small and great, that were killed, 45. 00. 00
It: 23 store hoggs, 207 .; It: beefe in the tubb, 107., 30. 00. 00 ·
It: howsing and land at Wyndsor, at 300. 00. 00
It: howsing and land in Hartford bounds, . 400. 00. 00
2854. 00. 00
Debts owing by this estate, about 977.
This" aprizement was made the day and yeare before expressed, according to the best light that then appeared, by vs, Nathaniell Warde, John White.
[263] The last Will and Testament of MR. THOMAS HOOKER, late of Hartford, deceased.
I Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, vppon Connecticutt in New England, being weake in my body, through the tender visitation of the Lord, but of sound and perfect memory, doe dispose of that outward estate I haue beene betrusted withall by him, in manner following :-
I doe giue vnto my sonne John Hooker, my howsing and lands in Hartford, aforesaid, both that which is on the west, and allso that wch is on the east side of the Riuer, to bee inioyed by him and his heires for euer, after the death of my wife, Susanna
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Hooker, provided hee bee then at the age of one and twenty yeares, it being my will that my said deare wife shall inioye and possess my said howsing and lands during her naturall life : And if shee dye before my sonne John come to the age of one and twenty yeares, that the same bee improued by the ourseers of this my will for the maintenance and education of my chil- dren not disposed of, according to theire best discretion.
I doe allso giue vnto my sonne John, my library of printed bookes and manuscripts, vnder the limitations and provisoes hereafter expressed. It is my will that my sonne John deliuer to my sonne Samuell, so many of my bookes as shall bee valued by the ourseers of this my will to bee worth fifty pounds ster- ling, or that hee pay him the some of fifty pounds sterling to buy such bookes as may bee vseful to him in the way of his studdyes, at such time as the ouerseers of this my will shall judge meete ; but if my sonne John doe not goe on to the per- fecting of his studdyes, or shall not giue vpp himselfe to the ser- uice of the Lord in the worke of the ministry, my will is that my sonne Samuel inioye and possesse the whole library and manuscripts, to his proper vse for euer ; onely, it is my will that whateuer manuscripts shall bee judged meete to bee printed, the disposall thereof and advantage that may come thereby I leaue wholly to my executrix ; and in case shee departe this life before the same bee judged of and setled, then to my ouerseers to bee improued by them in theire best discretion, for the good of myne, according to the trust reposed in them. And howeuer I do not forbid my sonne John from seeking and taking a wife in England, yet I doe forbid him from marrying and tarrying there.
I doe giue vnto my sonne Samuell, in case the whole library come not to him, as is before expressed, the sum of seuenty pounds, to bee paid vnto him by my executrix at such time, and in such manner, as shall be judged meetest by the ouerseers of my will.
I doe allso giue vnto my daughter Sarah Hooker, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, to bee paid vnto her by my exec- utrix when she shall marry or come to the age of one and twenty yeares, wch shall first happen ; the disposall and further educa-
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tion of her and the rest, I leaue my wife, advising them to at- tend her councell in the feare of the Lord.
I doe giue vnto the two children of my daughter Joannah Shephard deceased, and the childe of my daughter Mary New- ton, to each of them the sum of ten pounds, to bee paid vnto them by my sonne John, within one yeare after hee shall come to the posession and inioyment of my howsings and lands in Hartford, or my sonne Samuell, if by the decease of John, hee come to inioye the same.
I doe make my beloued wife Susanna Hooker, executrix of this my last Will and Testament, and (my just debts being paid,) doe giue and bequeath vnto her all my estate and goods, moueable and imoueable, not formerly bequeathed by this my will. And I desire my beloued frends, Mr. Edward Hopkins and Mr. William Goodwyn, to affoard theire best assistance to my wife, and doe constitute and appoint them the ouerseers of this my will. And it hauing pleased the Lord now to visitt my wife with a sicknes, and not knowing how it may please his Matie to dispose of her, my minde and will is, that in case shee departe this life before shee dispose the estate bequeathed her, my aforesaid beloued frends, Mr. Edward Hopkins and Mr. William Goodwyn, shall take care both of the education and dispose of my children (to whose loue and faithfullnes I com- mend them,) and of the estate left and bequeathed to my wife, and do committ it to theire best judgment and discretion to manage the said estate for the best good of mine, and to bestow [264] it vppon any or all of them in such a proportion | as shall bee most sutable to theire owne aprhensions ; being willing onely to intimate my desire that they wch deserue best may haue most ; but not to limmitt them, but leaue them to the full scope and bredth of theire owne judgments; in the dispose whereof, they may haue respect to the forementioned children of my two daughters, if they see meet. It being my full will that what trust I haue comitted to my wife, either in matter of estate, or such manuscripts as shall bee judged fitt to bee printed, in case shee liue not to order the same herselfe, bee wholly trans- mitted and passed ouer from her to them, for the ends before specified. And for mortallity sake, I doe put power into the hands of the forementioned beloued freinds, to constitute and
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appoint such other faithfull men as they shall judge meete, (in case they bee deprived of life or libberty to attend the same, in theire owne persons,) to manage, dispose and performe the es- tate and trust comitted to them, in as full manner as I haue comitted it to them for the same end.
This was declared to bee the last Thomas Hooker.
Will and Testament of Mr. Thomas
Hooker, the seuenth day of July, 1647,
In the presence of Henry Smith, Samuell Stone, John White.
[265] An Inventory of the estate of Mr. Thomas Hooker, deceased, taken the 21st Aprill, 1649.
In the new Parlour ; It: 3 chaires, 2 stooles, 6 cushions, a clock, a safe, a table, window curtaines &c., 05. 00. 00 In the Hall ; It: a chest of drawers, and in it, 2 dozen of dishes, a pewter flagon, basons, candlesticks, saw- cers, &c., 06. 00. 00
It: in ammunition, 47. It: in a table, & forme, and 4 wheeles, 1l., . [05. 00. 00]
In the ould Parlour ; It: 2 tables, a forme, 4 chaires, 4 stooles, 4 table carpetts, window curtaines, andirons and doggs &c. in the chimny, 09. 00. 00 In the Chamber ouer that ; It: a featherbed and boulster, 2 pillowes, a strawbed, 2 blankitts, a rugg, and cou- erlitt, darnix hangings in 7 peeces, window cur- taines, curtaines and valence to the bed, a bedstead, 2 chaires, and 3 stooles, andirons &c. in the chim- ny, & a courte cubberd, 14. 05. 00 It: curtaines and valence to the same bed, of greene say, and a rugg of the same, with window curtaines, 05. 00. 00 In the Hall Chamber ; It: a trunck of linnen, cont: 20 pr sheets, 8 table cloaths, 5 doz. napkins, 6 pr of pillow beers, and towells, 27. 00. 00 It: a bedstead, two truncks, 2 boxes, a chest & a chaire, 03. 05. 00 In the Kittchin Chamber ; It: a featherbed, a quilt bed, 2 blankitts, 2 couerlitts, 1 boulster, a flockbed and boulster, a rugg and blankitt, a chest & ould trunck, and a bedstead, 12. 00. 00
In the chamber ouer the new Parlour ; It: 2 featherbeds, 2 boulsters, a pr of pillows, 5 blankitts and 2 ruggs, stript valence and curtaines for bed & windowes, a chest of drawers, an Alarum, 2 boxes, a small trunck, 2 cases of bottles, 1 pr of dogs, in the chim- ney,
21. 00 00
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In the garritts ; It: in corne and hoggsheads and other houshould lumber, 14. 15. 00 40. 00. 00
It: in apparrell and plate,
In the Kittchin ; It: 2 brass kettles, 3 brass potts, 2 cha- fing dishes, 2 brass skilletts, a brass morter, a brass skimmer, and 2 ladles, 2 iron potts, 2 iron skilletts, a dripping pann, 2 kettles, 2 spitts & a jack, a př of cobirons, a p" of andirons, a prof doggs, fire shouell and tongs, 2 frying panns, a warming pann, a grid- iron, 7 pewter dishes, 2 porringers, 1 pr of bellowes, a tinn dripping pan, a roster, & 2 tyn couers, pott- hooks and trammells ; all valued at 12. 10. 00
In the Brew howse ; It: a copper mash tubbs, payles, treyes, &c. 04. 10. 00
In the sellars ; It: 2 stills and dairy vessells, 06. 00. 00
It: in yearne ready for the weauer, 03. 00. 00
It: 2 oxen, 2 mares, 1 horse, 2 colts, 8 cowes, and 2 heifers, 3 two yeares ould and 6 yearlings, val- ued at, 143. 00. 00
It: husbandry implements, 05. 00. 00
It: Howsing and Lands within the bounds of Hartford, on both sides the Riuer, . 450. 00. 00
It: Bookes in his studdy &c., valued at 300. 00. 00
It: an adventure in the Entrance, . 50. 00. 00
1136. 15. 00
The foregoing perticulars were prised the day and yeare aboue written, according to such light as at p'sent appeared,
by Nathaniell Ward, Edward Stebbing.
[266] The last Will and Testament of MR. HENRY SMITH, late of Wethersfeild, deceased.
I Henry Smith, of Weathersfeild, being at present in health of body and soundnes of minde, considering my mortallity, and knowing it to bee my duty to prouide for my family and settle my estate, that I may leaue no occasion of trouble to my chil- dren when I am gonn, and that I may free myselfe from distrac- tions of this kinde, if it shall please God to visitt mee with sick- nes before I dye; I doe therfore leaue this testimony vppon Record, as my last Will and Testament.
First, I doe professe my faith and hope to bee in the free grace aloane of God in Jesus Christe, whose I wholly am, and to whome I haue for euer giuen vpp my selfe, both soule and
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body, being fully perswaded of his vnchangeable loue and good- will, both in life and death to mee and mine, according to his covenant, viz : I am thy God, and the God of thy seed after thee.
Then for my owtward estate, wch because it is but little, and I haue well prooued the difficultyes of this Country, how hard a thinge it will bee for a woman to mannage the affaires of so great a familye as the Father of Mercyes hath blessed me with- all ; and haue had allso experience of the prudence and faithfull- nes of my deare wife, who shall, in parting with me, parte allso with a great parte of her liuelihood; I do therfore bequeath and giue vnto her, the full power and dispose of all that estate wch God hath giuen mee, in howses, lands, cattells and goods whatsoeuer, within dores and without ; onely providing, that in case shee marry againe, or otherwise shee bee able comfort- ably to spare it from her owne necessary maintenance, that shee giue vnto my sonne Samuell that parte of my howselott that was intended for my sonne Perrigrine, lyinge next to the burying place, and the land I haue beyond the great Riuer eastward ; and allso, to him and my second sonne Noah, fiue acres apeece of meadow, with vplands proportionable therevnto, and to the rest of my children vnmarried twenty pounds apeece, at the age of one and twenty yeares, or at the time of her death, wch shall come the sooner. And for my two daugh- ters that bee married, my desire is, that they may haue twenty shillings a peece, and euery one of theire children, fiue shillings a peece, either in bookes or such other thinges as my wife shall best please to parte withall. And I desire the Church, whose seruant I now am, to take the care and ouersight of my family, that they may bee brought vp in the true feare of God ; and to see that this my will bee faithfully prformed. In witnesse hereof, I haue subscribed my name, the 8th May, 1648.
Henry Smith.
[267] The Inventory of Mr. Henry Smith of Weathersfeild, lately deceased.
Imp": wearing clothes,
20. 00. 00 It: Bookes,
It. 3 feather beds, with all thinges belonging to them, two sutes of linen, 40. 00. 00
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It: 2 flock beds, with two sutes of Linnen, and all things belonging to them, 08. 00. 00 It: Table linnen, 47. It: one carpett, Il. It: chests and truncks, 1l. 10s., 06. 10. 00
It: 4 cushion stooles, 15s. It: 9 cushions, 17. 10s., 02. 05. 00
It: Tables, chaires, stooles, and other things belonging to them, 01. 10. 00
It: Cob irons, trammells and other fire irons, 02. 08. 00
It: Brass, iron potts, & pewter and such like, 15. 00. 00
It: Beare vessells, tubbs, and other wooden vessells, 02. 00. 00 It: Armes and Ammunition, 04. 00. 00
It: Axes, howes and other husbandry tooles, 03. 10. 00
It: in Corne, 147. 10s. It: in Maulte, 2l, 8s., 16. 18. 00
It: Meate and Bacon, 67. It: Bees, 8l., 14. 00. 00 It: Howses and lands, 1807. It: a Horse and Mare, 237., 203. 00. 00
It: 3 Cowes, 15l. It: one last yeare heifer, 1l. 10s., 16. 10. 00
It: one sow and 2 piggs, 01. 10. 00
It: due to the estate in debts, 40. 00. 00
397. 01. 00
Owing from the estate, 026. 02. 06
The sum remaining is 370. 18. 06
Jeames Boosy,
Sammuell Smith.
[268]. The last Will and Testament of GYLES GIBBS, of Wyndsor, deceased.
Know all men by these presents that I, Gyles Gibbs, of Wyndsor, on Connecticutt, yeoman, being weake in body but of perfect vnderstanding and memory, doe ordaine this my last will and Testament, as followth;
Impr: my will is, that my sonne Gregory bee put forth an Apprentice to some godly man, for the space of fiue yeares, at the discretion of my execut: and the ouerseers of this my last will ; and if hee submitt therevnto and stay out his time to the likinge of my ouerseers, I doe then bequeath vnto him my lott ouer the great Riuer, to him and his heires foreuer, in case my said ouerseers haue any incouragement to judge him worthy ; otherwise at theire discretion, I bequeath him 5l. to bee paid him at the age of 21 yeares. Allso, I giue to my two sonnes, Sammuell and Beniamin, 20l. a peece, and to my daughter Sarah, 20l., to bee paid them at the age of 21 yeares. And to
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Jacob, my sonne, I giue my howse and lotts, meadow, home- lotte and great lott and lottes whatsoeuer on this side the great Riuer, after his mothers life. And to my wife, I giue all my lottes, howses, all my househould goods, cattells and chattells, my debts being discharged ; provided that in case my said ouerseers haue no good incouragement concerneing the dispo- sition of my sonne Gregory, but doe judge him vnworthy a fathers blessing, vnder theire hands, my will is that my execut: shall haue the said lotte towards the education of my children, vntill my sonne Jacob shall attaine the age of 21 yeares ; and then my will is that my sonne Jacob shall haue it to him and his heires for euer. And Executrixe of this my last Will, I appointe Katherine, my wife. And ouerseers of this my Will and Testament, I appointe the Deacons of the Church of Wynd- sor, at all times in being. Blessed bee God.
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