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THE ONLY STEAMBOAT BUILT ON NORTH RIVER.
About this time William Hall went to Hingham and Luke Hall continued building here, and in 1837, built the sch. " WILLIAM HENRY," 110 tons, of Provincetown. Also in 1837, the bark " PILOT," 199 tons, of Boston, and probably the sch. "JAMES FRANCIS," 101 tons of Provincetown, which was built in Marshfield, in 1837, and in 1838, the sch. "JOSHUA BROWN," 112 tons of Provincetown, from which port she was whaling in 1845. In 1838, was built here the seh. "DANIEL FRANCIS," 113 tons, of Provincetown ; also in 1839, the brig " PHOENIX," 150 tons, of Provincetown. The sch. " ROVER" was built at the Ferry for Asa Curtis, who afterward sold her. Tueker in his "Maritime Geography," 1815, says " Americans excel in shipbuilding and new ships form a considerable part of their export trade." In 1839, was built at this yard the only steamboat ever built on North River. She was named for a powerful tribe of Indians, whose camping ground was on the Scituate bank of North River, extending from the Block House Yard to Union Bridge. This was the steamboat " Mattakees," sometimes called in her registers " MATTAKEESETT," 21 tons, built in 1839 by Luke Hall, and owned by him and Moses F. Rogers, Proctor Bourne, Jabez Hatch, Azel Ames, and Israel Carver of Marshfield, Horace Collamore, Ephraim Randall, John Holmes, of Pem- broke and George Curtis, of Hanover. This was virtually a com- pany that formed to build her. Her length was 49 feet, breadth 14 feet, depth 3 feet, and round stern. She was built with the intention of using her to tow out new vessels and also packets up and down the river, there being then three packets running on the river, but they had to use too short a tow line, or rather the river was too crooked to permit the use of a proper tow line. She was in the ice nearly opposite or a little below Till Rock all one winter. After she proved herself a failure on the river, she was taken to Boston and sold where she was used for towing scows, &c. She was employed for a time prior to her sale towing scows loaded with iron to the anchor works in Hanover, and doing some freighting business on the river. While on the river, Byron Simmons, George Harvey and a Mr. Hewitt went on her at different times. After she was sold she was enlarged to 43 tons, and in 1846 was owned by Cephas Brackett of Boston. She was rebuilt in 1849, but what finally became of her does not appear. The last vessel built here is said to have been the sch. "ORLEANS " of Orleans, 100 tons, used fishing in the summer and coasting in the winter, carrying
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LAST VESSEL BUILT AT THE FERRY.
grain, etc., in the North Carolina trade. A stone appropriately cut should be erected on the site of these yards before the location is lost, and we hope some public spirited citizen, or descendant of the shipbuilders, will before it is too late, per- manently mark the spot where so many vessels were built.
CHAPTER XX.
SCITUATE HARBOR YARDS. 1650-1864.
WILLIAM JAMES, JOHN KENT, JOB OTIS, JOHN NORTHEY, WILLIAM VINAL, SAMUEL KENT, ANTHONY WATERMAN, OTIS BRIGGS, JAMES SYLVESTER BRIGGS, BARNABAS WEBB BRIGGS, J. O. CURTIS, WILLIAM VINAL, JR., HENRY VINAL, WILLIAM BRIGGS, & CO., MELZAR S. TURNER, LUTHER BRIGGS, EDWIN OTIS, ANDREW COLE.
HIP building was probably first carried on at the Harbor by U William James. Deane says he probably came from Marshfield as early as 1650, but he did not settle at the Harbor until 1673. He may have built here as early as 1650, but no proof has been found by the author of his having built any vessels before settling at the Harbor. He dug a dock and located his yard at the head of it, where Dunbar's wharf has since been built. The dock is still known as "WILL JAMES' DOCK." He left no descendants of record; his house was where "Young's Tavern" afterward stood. The first white settlers were using heavy timber at an early date, as the fol- lowing verdict shows :
" 1673. Verdict that Experience Litchfield came by his death in attempting to carry a heavy stick of timber on board a boat at Rho- dolphus Eellme's landing place at Hoop pole neck, his feet slipping up and he falling on a plank and the timber on his head, he dying at his father's house the same day."
Hoop-pole neck was near Great neck, north of the Harbor toward the Glades. The first drowning accident recorded as hap- pening at the Harbor was in 1676 :
" Joseph Ellis at Scituate with John Vaughan and Daniel Hicks, Jr., going into the water at the Harbor to swim, said Joseph Ellis
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THE EARLY FISHERIES.
was drowned. Jury's verdict that the water in the said Harbor was the sole cause of his death."
The first mill in town was a wind-mill on the northeast part of the 3d cliff, erected by William Gilson in 1636. The first tide mill at the Harbor was built by John Stetson, who in 1730 purchased the Wanton Estate in Scituate. It does not seem out of place to record here the death of two daughters of a minister long settled in this town, pastor of the First church .* The first taken from the Postscript to Boston Evening Post, Jan. 15, 1759 :
" Death, on the 9th of this inst. died, & on the 11th was decently interred, Mrs. Bathsheba Emmes, wife of Mr. Sam'l Emmes, of this town, & youngest daughter of the Rev. Mr. Shearjashub Bourn, of Scituate, in the 29th year of her age. As she served God from her early youth, & lived a virtuous life, so she had the comfort of it when drawing near to death."
And the second taken from Boston Evening Post, Feb. 11, 1760 :
" At Scituate, the 28th of January, died with Christian resignation, Mrs. Desire Bailey, wife of Mr. Benjamin Bailey and daughter of the Rev. Mr. Shearjashub Bourn, of that town, Æt. 31."
The fisheries were an early source of income to the inhabi- tants of the Harbor village. In 1680, Cornet Robert Stetson, of Scituate, and Nathaniel Thomas, of Marshfield, hired the Cape Fishery for bass and mackerel. In 1770 over 30 vessels were fitted out from Scituate. In 1828 over 15,000 barrels of mackerel were taken by Scituate vessels. In 1830 thirty-five vessels were fitted out from the Harbor for mackerel fishing in the summer and were employed during the winter in the him- ber and grain coasting trade. Deane says that in 1830 there were "two regular packets from the Harbor carrying on an almost daily intercourse with Boston." Charles T. Torrey, t the martyr, in his book entitled "Home, or the Pilgrim's Faith Revived," written during his incarceration in Baltimore jail, says :
" The Eastern border, for some twelve miles rests on the seashore. It is a long, rocky beach on which the surges never cease to beat, which has been the last sand touched by many a shipwrecked sailor,
* See Wanton Yard Chapter.
+ See chapter Scituate Miscellaneous.
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and is interrupted by several high hills or cliffs. In some past century these cliff's were long promontories jutting out into the ocean waves. Storm after storm has beat upon them and now more than two-thirds of their soil has fallen and been washed away. Twenty years ago I remember riding on firm soil at a safe distance from the then peaceful brink of one of the cliff's, more than a hun- dred feet beyond the present reach of the fierce waves. And the huge rocks that once dotted the top, now help to break the power of the waters, far out from the shore. These cliffs in 1622 were cov- ered with the cornfields of the Indians. At the foot of them stood their wigwams. Near by, stands the old mansion, or its successor, built on the soil they gave the friendly Christian Tanner. Between another and a rocky headland, is our little tide harbor, giving shel- ter to our fishing craft and a few vessels engaged in the coasting trade."
The early papers record many of these shipwrecks and besides the following, many are recorded under other chapters. From the Boston Evening Post, Feb. 1, 1768 :
" Last Thursday night the slp. 'Egmont,' Wm. Wilson, master, from. the Island of St. John's, bound to this place, was cast away at Scituate ; the vessel lost but the people saved."
From the Boston Evening Post, May 9, 1768 :
" Capt. John Doubleday in a brig from the Mount, on Friday morning, the 15th ult., in thick weather, ran ashore on the rocks near Scituate, but. luckily got off again but received so much damage in her bottom that they could scarcely keep her above water till they got into Plimouth Harbor, from whence after taking out part of her cargo, she came up to town last. week."
From the Boston Evening Post, Mon., Oct. 11, 1773 :
" We hear that a slp. belonging to Scituate, Wm. Willson, master, bound from Kennebeck to this place, loaded with lumber, was stranded on Hamp- ton Beach last Saturday fe'n'night. Capt. Willson & one man and a boy took to a boat which soon after overset in the surf and the two former were drowned ; 3 other men and a woman staid on board the wreck but 2 of them with the woman were washed off and drowned. It is said that a vessel was also drove ashore the same day on Plumb Island."
Scituate Harbor offered every facility for shipbuilding excepting that large vessels could not be gotten over the bar, there being seldom more than ten feet of water at full tide. The two points which form the harbor are Crow Point and Cedar Point. On the northeast, or Cedar Point, there is a light-house, now unused, which was erected in 1811. Through the untiring efforts of the HON. GEORGE LUNT, the Govern- ment has built a breakwater from this point, and has partially
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VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE PRIOR TO 1700.
dredged the harbor. Had Mr. Lunt lived and been able to carry out his plans of making Scituate Harbor safe for a port of refuge with a guiding light at its entrance the loss of life would have been undoubtedly much less the past year on Scituate's eight miles of rocky coast. In early times the shores of the harbor were skirted with timber to the water's edge, which made shipbuilding an easy matter for the early settlers com- pared with their descendants who had to cart timber ten and twenty miles. The following are some of the vessels built in Scituate and it is possible many of them were built at the Harbor.
John Kent probably built here as early as 1700. One of his descendants, Samuel (referred to further on) built here a hun- dred years later. There was built in Scituate, in 1698, the ship "PROVIDENCE," 100 tons, Capt. Thomas Lillie ; owners Capt. John Thomas, Samuel Lillie, John Borland and Joseph Brigham of Boston ; also the same year, 1698, the ship " BLES- SING," 90 tons, Capt. Richard Lillie ; owner Sam'l Lillie of Boston ; also the same year, 1698, the slp. " ADVENTURE," 15 tons, Capt. Daniel Weare ; owner Peter Butler of Boston. In 1699 the slp. "JAMES & THOMAS," 30 tons, was built at Scituate ; owners, James Pitts, merchant, and Thomas Sav- age of Boston, also the same year, 1699, brig't'n "SWANN," 45 tons ; owners, Joseph Jackson, William Clarke, Richard Middlecott, John Eyre, Thomas Cooper and George Hallett, all of Boston ; also in 1699, slp. "MARY & ABIGAIL," 30 tons, Capt. Thomas Newman ; owners John Foster and Dame Mary Phips of Boston ; and also in 1699, Brig't'n "SPEED- WELL," 50 tons, Capt. Thomas Simpkins ; owner, Samuel Lillie of Boston.
Job Otis succeeded William James at his yard. The only vessel there is positive proof of having been built by Job Otis was in 1700, referred to in the following oath made Oct., 1700 :
" Isaac Little, of Marshfield, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, made oath that the Katch 'LITTLE OTIS,' of Scituate, within the said Province, whereof Samuel Prince is at present master, being a round sterned Vessel of the burthen of about Thirty Tons, was built at Scituate aforesaid, in this present year 1700, And that fob Otis, of said Scituate, together with him the said Isaac Little, are at present owners thereof, and that no forreigner, -directly or indirectly, hath any share or part or interest therein
Sworne before William Stoughton, Esq., Lieutenant Gov. &c., & William Payne, Deputy Collector."
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VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE EARLY IN 1700.
There was also built at Scituate in 1700 Brig't'n "UNITY," 60 tons, Capt. Samuel Simpkins ; owner, Samuel Lillie. The Northeys were also interested in Scituate vessels if they did not build at the Harbor themselves. John Northey came from Marblehead in 1675, and has descendants now living in Scit- uate. The following is a copy of an oath taken by him :
" January 2nd, 1700. John Northcy, of Scituate, in Province Massachusetts Bay, in New England, made oath that the Katch "SARAH'S ADVENTURE," of Scituate aforesaid, whereof John Horton, Jr., is at present master, being a round sterned Vessel * * * of 40 tons, was built at Scituate aforesaid in the year 1699, and that David Jacob, Nathaniel Tilden, Joseph Otis and David Northy, all of Scituate, and Samuel Lillie of Boston, * * together with the said John Northy, are at present owners thereof sworne before me, William Stoughton, Lt. Gov., &c., & William Payne, Dep Coll."
A ketch or "katch " as they used to spell it, was always a small vessel rigged something like a sloop, with one or two masts, very much like the modern yacht. There was built at Scituate (possibly at the Harbor) the following vessels. In 1700 the brig't'n " AMITY," 25 tons ; owners, John Frizell, merchant, and John Ruck, of Boston; in 1701, brig't'n "SWANN," 60 tons ; owners, Capt. Thomas Parker and Samuel Lillie, of Boston ; and the same year, 1701, the ship "JOHN & ELIZABETH," 70 tons ; Capt. Thomas Chitty ; owner, John Frizell, Boston. Also in 1701, the bark " DRAGON," 65 tons ; owners, Capt. John Ruggles, John Devin and George Robin- son, of Boston, and William Smith, of Charlestown. In 1702, the brig't'n " DRAGON," 40 tons, Capt. John Jinkins ; owner, Samuel Lillie ; and the same year, 1702, the sloop " INDUS- TRY," 40 tons, Capt. Thomas Barnes ; owners, James Barnes and Elisha Bennet, Boston ; and the same year, 1702, brig't'n "FRIENDS' ADVENTURE," 50 tons ; owners, Captain Jona- than Evans and Samuel Lillie, Boston ; and also the same year, 1702, brig't'n "JOHN," 40 tons, Capt. John Gurny ; owner, John Frizell, Boston. In 1703, the brig't'n " CHARLES," 30 tons ; owner, John Frizell, of Boston ; and the same year, 1703, the brig't'n "SEA FLOWER," 60 tons ; owner, Samuel Lillie of Boston ; also in 1703, the brig't'n "SPEEDWELL FRIEND," 20 tons ; owners, David Northey and Samuel Northey, Jr., and John Northy of Scituate ; and the same year, 1703, the sloop "ENDEAVOR," 36 tons ; owner, Samuel Marshall, of Boston. In 1705 was built the brig't'n "THREE
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VESSELS BUILT BY WILLIAM VINAL.
SISTERS," 90 tons ; owners, Daniel Oliver, merchant, and Nathaniel Oliver, of Boston. In 1706, the sloop " DOVE," 30 tons ; owners, John Foster, Esq., Gilbert Bant, John Eustice, and William Cole, of Boston. For the next seventy years the records of shipbuilding are missing, therefore the history of shipbuilding for those years will remain nearly blank unless the British Government sees fit at some future time to return the valuable papers they confiscated at the time of the Revolution. It was probably by some oversight that the records from 1675 to 1715 were left. The next earliest records we have found ( ~ vessels that were built in Scituate, and probably at tl Harbor, are the following : 1780, sch. "HANNAH," 27 tons, 1 Cohasset ; owners, Nehemiah Manson, of Cohasset, Ignatius Vinal, and Luther Holbrook, of Scituate. In 1785 the brig "FAME," 140 tons, of Boston ; and the same year, 1785, the sch. "PATTY," 56 tons, of Newburyport. In 1795, the sch. " SOPHIA," 67 tons, of Boston. In 1796, the sch. "INDUS- TRY," owned by James Little and others, of Scituate. In 1797, the sch. "LIVELY," 28 tons; owned by Joseph Jen- kins, at Scituate. In 1798, the sch. "LUCY," 39 tons ; owned by James Lither and Jedediah Little, and Israel Merritt, of Scituate. The same year, 1798, the sch. "POLLY," 39 tons, of Boston ; owned by Jane and Nathaniel Waterman, of Boston, Nathaniel Wade, Jr., Nathaniel Turner, Jr., and Nathaniel Baker, of Scituate. In 1800 the sch. " HARRIOTT," 60 tons, owned by Lemuel and Levi Vinal, and Consider Mer- ritt, of Scituate ; afterward sold to Bowdoinham. In 1801 sch, "ELIZA," 99 tons, of Boston.
William Vinal (whose son William built here later) built vessels at Scituate harbor as early as 1786. He was also largely interested in the fisheries. Major William, as he was called, was a son of Israel, Jr., and a descendant of widow Anna Vinal, who was in Scituate as early as 1636, with three children. William afterward projected a settlement at Quincy Point. Among the vessels he built at the Harbor are the fol- lowing : 1786, sch. "SALLY," 54 tons; owners, Nathaniel Wade, Jr., Thomas Mann, Barnabas Webb, Stephen and Wil- liam Vinal, Scituate. 1793, sch. "POLLY," 52 tons ; owners, Nehemiah Manson and William Vinal, shipwright. 1794, sch. "FANNY," 67 tons, of Scituate ; Elijah and Oliver Jenkins, and William Vinal, Jr., Scituate, owners. 1795, sch. "BET- SEY," 35 tons, of Scituate : William Vinal, owner. 1796, sch. "SALLY," 54 tons, of Scituate ; Samuel Curtis, Deborah
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SAMUEL KENT, SHIPBUILDER.
Mann, Barnabas Webb, Stephen and William Vinal, owners. 1796, sch. "LYDIA & POLLY," 102 tons, of Scituate ; James Little, Oliver and Elijah Jenkins, and William Vinal, own- ers. 1797, sch. "FISH HAWK," 46 tons, of Scituate, Charles Ellms, Levi and William Vinal, owners. 1798, sch. "BET- SEY," 60 tons, of Scituate. Nehemiah Manson, Lemuel and . William Vinal, owners. 1800, sch. "ROVER," 89 tons ; owners, Nehemiah Manson, James Collier, William Vinal, Ira . Bryant, Cushing Otis, of Scituate, and others. She afterward hailed from Boston, was changed from a schooner into a brig in. 1804, and on Feb. 14, 1811, at Boston, was ordered to be sold for the payment of seamen's wages. In 1800 sch. "LIBERTY," 88 tons, of Scituate, Charles Ellmes, David Otis, Lemuel and William Vinal, owners.
Samb built more vessels than any one else at the Harbor dur- ing the first part of this century. His yard was lo- cated on the creek or inlet near the mouth of Satuit Brook, which was then quite clear and deep. It was on the Harbor side of the creek, and not far from the " Old Tavern House," which is still used for a public house. His residence stood on the present site of Mr. Ellm's grocery store. The first bridge over Satuit brook was built prior to 1648. This stream, for which the town was named, is scarcely a mile in length, and falls into the creek at the Harbor. The early settlers found beaver dams across it. East of the Harbor the territory was called Little Marsh in 1636. From the Boston Evening Post, of May 20, 1771, is taken an item relative to the Kent family, but not this immediate branch.
" Last Tuesday died Mr. Samuel Kent, of Charlestown, in the 57th year of his age, whose death (on account of his remarkable diligence, upright- ness and goodness in the public as well as the private affairs of his life), is very justly regretted by all who knew him."
Samuel Kent, the shipbuilder of Scituate was a descendant of John Kent, of Dedham. After much time and labor among the Dedham church, town, and other records, and the same records of Charlestown, Cambridge, Boston and Scituate, the following genealogy has been compiled :
KENT GENEALOGY.
The first of this name we find in New England is " Jo. Kent,
370 KENT - THE FIRST OF THAT NAME IN NEW ENGLAND.
aged 23, sailed from London in 1635 in the ship William & John,' bound to St. Christopher."*
The next earliest accounts of the Kent family are found in the "Dedham Records of Church and Cemetery," and the - * Dedham Records of Births, Marriages, etc." Joshua Kent was in Dedham in 1643. He was admitted into the church there in Sept., 1644. In November, 1644, he went to England, the church records say, "with our testimoniall." He returned from England in 1645, bringing with him two brothers, one of whom was John, the direct or common ancestor of Samuel Kent, the shipbuilder, and the others of that name in Scituate and Marshfield. There was born to Joshua Kent, and Mary, his wife, Dec. 17, 1646, a dau., whom they named Lydia. Joshua became a freeman in 1646. In October, 1647, "for reasons not well satisfying his friends or church," accompanied by his wife, he went back to England, where he found the government in a very unsettled condition, trouble "having again arisen." Becoming disheartened at the convulsions of his native land, he and his wife returned again to America in Octo- ber, 1648. Another child was born to them Jan. 27, 1650, whom they named Sarah. A third dau., Mary, was born Oct. 10, 1651. Mary Kent, deceased, Nov. 28, 1676 ; but whether it was the mother or child the records do not state.
John Kent, I., bro. of Joshua, was received into the church at Dedham, May 16, 1652. He was a freeman in 1654, and mar. March 21, 1662, Hannah Grizold (also found recorded as Grizwold and Grissell.) She died in Charlestown, Mass., January 9, 1690-1. They removed to Charlestown, where they were admitted to the church April 13, 1663. Their children were, I. Hannah, b. July 2, 1667; mar. Joseph Cahoon. II. John. III. Mary, b. Feb. 3, 1669-70. IV. Joshua, b. June 15, 1672, d. soon. V. Joshua, baptized July 5, 1673, afterward of Boston. VI. Joseph, baptized October 17, 1675, (mar. Rebecca Chittenden. ) VII. Samuel, b. Mar. 23, 1678, d. aged 25 years. VIII. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 18, 1680, afterward of Scituate. IX. Lydia, b. July 16, 1683. X. Mary, b. May 12, 1686. XI. Susana, b. Aug. 13, 1689.
JOIN II., son of John I., mar. Dec. 22, 1692, Sarah Smith. They had children born in Charlestown. 1. Sarah, b. Oct.
*" Emigration to America, by Hotten."
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11, d. Dec. 24, 1693. 2. John, b. Sept. 29, 1694, baptized in Cambridge. 3. Hannah, b. Mar. 5, 1695-6, baptized in Cambridge. 4. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 8, 1697-8, baptized in Cambridge ; d. in Scituate Jan. 8, 1702. In 1698, John, the father, and Sarah, his wife, removed to Scituate, where the following children were born to them. 5. Ebenezer,* b. May 28, 1699, who mar. in 1728, Huldah Whittemore, and in 1738 was captain of S. Henley's Snow, "Rebecca." 6. Benjamin K., b. Jan. 8, 1701. 7. Sarah, b. Sep. 10, 1702. 8. Samuel, b. Dec. 18, 1703. 9. Ezekiel, b. Oct. 8, 1705. 10. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 18, 1708. This family removed from Scituate to Marshfield about 1709-10, and accounts of some of their fam- ilies can be found in this book at the end of the history of the Scituate branches. t
EBENEZER VIII., bro. of John II., and son of John I., went from Charlestown to Scituate where he married in 1703, Han- nah Gannett. They had children: 1. Abigail, b. Oct. 12, 1706 ; d. March 12, 1709; 2. Mercy, b. July 31, 1708; 3. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 6, 1710. 4. Isaac, b. Sept. 27, 1712. 5. Mary, b. 1715. 6. Ebenezer, b. 1717. We will now go back to
Joseph, 6, son of John I., mar. Nov. 26, 1702, Rebecca Chittenden of Scituate (mar. by Rev. Mr. Cushing). She d. Apr. 2, 1762, in her 81st year. He d. May 30, 1753. By his will, probated June 30, 1753 } ; he devised to his wife the use of all his estate except that given to Samuel. He gave his negroes, "Peggy to Mehetabel, Venus to Rebecca, Jenny to Benjamin and Violet to Stephen."
Joseph and Rebecca (Chittenden) Kent had children: I. Joseph, b. Mar. 5, 1703-4, afterward of Boston, gentleman. §
*For descendants see Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown," K to Z, p. 571.
+" On 20th of May, in the year of our Lord 1700, John Kent, of Sittnate, brought to record a stray horse, as he sayd, of a darke hay coler, with two notches or peeces cut out of the near eare towards the top on each side one, said beast being taken dainag feasant in Inclosures."-Sci uate Records.
¿See Genealogies & Estates of Charlestown, K to Z, p. 572.
{WILL OF JOSEPH KENT.
In the name of God Amen I Joseph Kent of Boston in ye County of Suffolk & Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England Gent'n do make and ordam this my last will & testament & I do hereby give and bequeath all iny estate both real and personal that I now have or hereafter may have as wages prize money &c dne or that shall become due from any person or persons whatever to my brother Benjamin Kent of Boston aforesaid Geut'n his heirs & assigns and I do hereby nominate and appoint
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