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scales and weights and steelyards, 3li. 19s .; two saddles, two gunnes, one sword and belt, li .; one table, six chairs, two joynd stooles, 1 forme, one cupboard, 4li .; handirons, tongs, bellows, gridiron, jacke, trammells, &c., 2li. 7s. In the but- tery, cellar and wash house : tubs, keelers, bowls, barrells and other lumber, 12li .; one furnace, 3li. In merchants goods : Holland, 16s. ; stockings, 2li. 4s. ; hats and blanketts, 3li. 10s. : severall pieces of Riband, galoom and buttons, 16li .; sewing silke, 2li .; pins and needles, 2li. 2s .; sowing seeds, 6s .; four Caps, 6s .; three pair of shooes, 12s .; Canvas, Codline and hooks, 1li. 4s .; Bonelace, handkerchief buttons, band strings, 16li. ; earthen ware, 3li. 18s. At sea : one quarter part of the Ketch Margaret, of 34 tunns & part of ye Cargoe, 80li .; one half of the Ketch, the Good Hope, of 36 tunns, 125li .; one half of the Cargoe of the same, 100li .; halfe of the Ketch, Susannah, of 28 tunns, 100li .; one halfe of the Cargoe of the same, 50li .; one halfe of the Ketch, the Hopewell, of 26 tunns, 94li .; one half of the Ketch, of 30 tunns, 100li .; half one single boat, 2li. 10s .; sail cloth, 27li .; Rope, 8li .; Debts due upon specialties, bonds, bills (errors excepted), 1228li. 11s. 10d .; Debts due upon account (errors excepted), 1589li. 12s. The whole estate in Lands, buildings, cattle, provisions, &c., 1222li. 2s .; household stuffe, 224li. 8s .; merchants goods and wares, 48li. 18s .; vessells and cargoes, 686li. 10s .; debts, 2818li. 3s. 10d .; total, 5000li. 1s. 10d. Debts due from the estate, 961li. 18s.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1671 by Margret Bishop, the widow.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 2,483. ESTATE OF JOHN BOYNTON OF ROWLEY.
"I John Boynton of Rowley being weeake of body but of Competent vnderstanding and memory doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament In primis I will and bequeath my soule into the hand of allmighty god that gave it and my body to the earth in hope of a blesed Resurection And as for my outward estate that god hath giuen me I will and dispose as followeth first I will and bequeath vnto my welbeloued wife Ellen boynton my house and orchard and barne and house lot with all the land aboue it being all estemated sixe Acres with one third part of my meadow beyond hounslay hill one acre of marsh at the oyster poynt and one acre of marsh at the farme or northeast feild and also two Rod in bredth of on the orchard that I bought of my Brother william boynton on
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that side next to my orchard from the street to Ipswich feild and two gates on the Commons and this I giue hir dureing hir naturall life also I will and giue hir all my stocke and moneables that I doe not dispose of to be at hir will and des- pose (if she need it not for hir comforthable mantenance) vnto all or any of my Children as she shall thinke most Con- venient As for my son Joseph Boynton I will and giue vnto him besides what he hath all Redy my Rough marsh my gate marsh at hogg Iland and the highway marsh in the same hog Iland marsh and my vpland in the farme and two acres of gate land beyond hounslay hill and one gate on the commons As for my son Calleb boynton I will and giue him all the land that I bought of my brother william boynton excepting the two Rod below the street that I haue given to my wife also one third part of my meadow beyond hounslay hill and out of this I giue him I will that he pay vnto my daughter Hannah as hir portion twenty pounds at the day of hir marriage or when she cometh to the age of twenty yeares as for my son Samuell Boynton I will and giue vnto him my land at Batch- eler feild and swampe by it also all my land at new plaine and one third part of my meadow beyond hounslay hill and two acres of salt marsh by the River side and I will that out of this that I doe gine vnto him he pay twenty pounds as a por- tion vnto my daughter Sara when he attaines vnto age to Receaue this that I giue 'vnto him as his portion John to haue the improvement till then
"As for my son John Boynton I will and giue vnto him my house orehard barne and all the land and meadow and gates that I haue giuen vnto my wife dureing hir naturall life to be his portion after his mothers decease also I doe further will and giue vnto him in hand as in Consideration of his service in helpeing of me since he was at age two heifers one gate on the commons and the mare and I will that out of what he hath and is to Receaue he pay twenty pounds as a portion vnto my daughter Mercy that now is married Also my will is that for my wifes more Comforthable Subsistance that my son John Boynton doe enter vpon the land I haue giuen vnto my wife prouided that he pay vnto his mother yearely dureing hir life forty shillings in Corne or to his mothers Content and that she haue halfe of the house for hir owne use and that he keepe hir one Cow sumer and wenter and fire wood what she shall spend to prouide Redy and laid at the doore and to let hir haue the use freely as hir owne of the trees that grow on the two Rod of the orchard that was my Brothers
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dureing hir life or else to pay hir three pounds | | yearly|| to hir Content which she shall chuse Also my will is that my son John Boynton be excequtor vnto this my last will and testament Unto which I set to my hand and sealle this Eighth of ffebruary 1670 it is also my will That if any of these my sons to whom I haue giuen my lands be minded to sell ther land or any part of it that they doe first offer it to some other of ther brothers that they may haue the Refusull of it before it be sould to any other out of the famelly."
John (his J b mark) Boynton.
Witness : Maxemillion Jewett, Samuell Brocklebanke, Wil- liam Boynton.
Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1671 by Lt. Samuell Brocklebanke and Wm. Boynton.
Inventory taken Feb. 27, 1670, by Maxemillion Jewet, Sam- uell Brocklebanke, William Boynton and Gorge Kilborne: in purse and apparell, 5li .; Bookes, 10s .; land and houseing and orchards at home, 83li .; land at Batcheler feild, 27li .; land at New plaine, 6li .; land beyond hounslay hill, 2li .; meadow beyond hounslay hill, 21li .; one aere of meadow at oyster point, 4li .; two aeres of marsh and upland at farme, 11li. 10s .; marsh in the hoge Iland marsh, 3li .; gates upon the commons, Sli .; two acres of salt marsh by the River side, 2li .; one paire of oxen with cart, plough, yoakes, Chaines, sithes, sickles, axes and all other such like Tooles as belongeth to husbandry, 18li .; two cowes and one steere, 11li .; two sheepe, 1li .; three swine, 1li. 10s .; one bed in the parlour with the furneture, 3li. 10s .; one bed in the Chamber with furneture, 1li. 15s .; more beding, 10s .; in linen, 5s .; in armes, 1li. 10s .; puter, brase and tinn with lookeing glase, smoothing Iron and Iron pot, 3li .; in wooden vessell, 1li .; chaires and chest, 10s .; tramells, tonges and such like things, 10s .; corne, 4li. 8s .; woullen cloath and yarne, 5li .; more woullen Cloth, 15s .; a paire of loumes, 1li .; wheels and cards, 5s .; a hive of Bees and an ould sadle, 1li. 5s .; heifer, 2li .; hay, 2li .; total, 233li. 13s. Debts due from the estate, 14li.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1671 by John Boynton, executor.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 2,957. ESTATE OF EDMOND FARRINGTON OF LYNN.
"The Last will and Testiment of Edmond ffarrington this 12 of august 1667 I Emond ffarington Being being sike of
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Body But of perffect memory Impr I bequeth my body to the Earth and my Soull to god who gaue it And my Estat in this world as followeth Imp. I giue to my wiff Elizabeth my half of my land and Corn mill durring Her naturrall liff and to my Son Mathue | | ffarrington || After Her deseas Itt I giue all my moueables to my wiffe It I giue my Sone Edward ffarrington Twenty shillings to be payd | | him || after my de- ceas Itt I giu to my Sone Roberd terry twenty shillings to be payd | [him || After my deceas Itt I giu to my daughter Elizabeth ffuller ten pounds to be payd her affter my deceas I make my Sone Mathuw ffarington my Exce| | qu| |tor of this my last will and testyment to wich I sett my hand thes day and year abou written."
Edmond (his E mark) ffarrington. Witness : Nathanill Kirtland, John (his [] mark) wit.
Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1671 by Nathaniell Kirt- land, Sr.
Inventory presented 25: 1m: 1671, by Elezabeth, the wife of Edmond ffarington, and Mathew ffarington, his son, taken by Joseph Armitage and Thomas Newhall: his wareinge aparill, 5li. 5s .; in bedinge and linene, 12li. 10s .; in brase and puetor, 4li. 16s .; in lumber, 2li. 5s. 6d .; total, 24li. 16s. 6d.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1671 by Mathew Far- ington.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 9,274. ESTATE OF AQUILLA CHASE OF NEWBURY.
"Witness by these presents that I Aquilla Chase of New- bury in the countye of Essex in New England being weake in body, yett of sound & pfect memory, for divers causes and considderrations me thervnto moveing, doe make this my last will and testament And doe dispose of my lands goods & chattells as followeth, first I bequeath my soule into the hands of my blessed Saviour and redeemer Jesus Christ In an asured hope of a resurrection and my body to be buryed when it shall please the Lord to call me hence, To my well- beloued wife Ann I give and bequeath, my house barne and orchard and all my lands both Eareable pasture and marsh meadow ground, lyeing and being in the bounds of the Towne of Newbury aforesayd together with all my goods and chat- tells both within dores & without All the sayde house and land before mentioned I give vnto Ann my well beloued wife
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dureing the time of her widdow hood, paying vnto my daugh- ter Ann Chase five pounds, in corne or neate cattle, and five pounds more to pay, vnto my daughter Prisilla Chase, to be payd within twelve months, after the day of their mariages, Also I will that my wife give vnto my sonn Thomas Chase at the age of one and twenty, Tenn pounds in corne or neate cattle, pvided the sayd Thomas doe abyde and serve with his mother to the sd age, And if his mother and hee the sd Thomas see cause, that hee should serve for a trade, with any other man soe that he have the benifitt, of a trade, then his mother my wellbeloved wife, is to pay vnto the sayd Thomas, but six pound in the like pay before mentioned, for the rest of iny children my will and testament is, That Ann my wife, shall give vnto them all shee sees good acording to her abilli- tye, and at the end of her naturall life, I give and bequeath all house houseing & lands before mentioned vnto Aquilla Chase my Eldest sonn, or if Ann my wife marry, my sonn, is to posses all my houseing and lands, paying vnto his mother three pounds p annum as long as shee liveth or three score pound which shee pleaseth, further my will is, that Aquilla my sonn shall pay to his brother John Chase the summ of tenn pounds in corne or neate cattle, And tenn pound more the sd Aquilla, is to pay vnto his Brother Daniell in the like pay viz. corne or neate cattle, further more my will is that my sonn in law Charles shall have boate loade of grass or sedge of the lower end of penny Iland as long as he liveth, and no body to molest him till he hath a boate loade, further more my will is that my sonn Aquilla pay vnto his Brother Moses Chase Tenn pounds in corne & cattle, Also my will is that Aquilla pay unto my daughter Sarah three pounds within two years after his mothers decease, and to pay vnto my daughter Mary Twenty shillings and further my will is that Aquilla my my sonn pay vnto his sister Elizabeth || Chase! foure pounds in the like pay, Also my will is, that Aquilla pay foure pounds in the like paye to his sister Ruth, All which summs to be payd in two yeares after the decease of Ann my wellbeloved wife And I doe apoynt Ann my well beloved wife, to be sole executrix of this my last will and testament, and further I doe apoynt Ensigne Steven Green- leafe and Wm. Chandler to be the overseers of this my last will & testament, ffurther my will is that Aquilla my sonn shall pay vnto his Brother Thomas Chase before mentioned the sum of ten pounds in the like pay with the rest of my chil- dren and if any of my younger children be not of age within
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two years after the decease of my wife, then they are to stay for their portions till they be of age In witness wherof I haue heervnto sett my hand & seale the 10th day of december in the yeare of our Lord 1670."
Aquilla (his mark) Chase (SEAL)
Witness: Wm. Chandler, Steven Greenlefe, James (his mark) Ordway.
Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1671 by Wm. Chandler and Ens. Steven Greenlefe.
Inventory of the estate of Aquilla Chase, deceased Dee. 21, 1670, taken Jan. 21, 1670 by Edward Woodman, Jr. and John Bayley : House, barne & orchard with twenty foure acres of Land adjoyning to it, 100li .; Twenty acres of marsh meadow ground or ther about, 60li .; one horse & one mare, 12li .; two oxen, two steeres, 18li .; foure cowes, 16li .; eleven swine, 7li .; Twenty sheepe, 13li .; Two heifers & three two yeare old beast, 12li .; one steare, three calves, 6li. 15s .; one feather bed with boulster, pillows, Rugg, blankett & curtaines, 8li .; Two rem- nants of cotten cloth, 1li. 16s .; remnant of searg, 16s. 3d .; weareing apparrell, 4li. 10s .; two shirts, 16s .; peice of new cotten, 18s .; table cloth, two pillo cases, 4 napkins, 1li. 4s .; peice of home made cloth, 1li. 4s .; one new curtaine, 12s .; six paire of sheetes, 3li .; linen yarne, 11li., 1li. 7s. 6d .; 20li. of woollen yarn, 2li. 10s .; one bed & blankett & furniture to it, 4li. 10s .; 70 bushells of Indian Corne, 10li. 10s .; 6 bush- ells of Barly, 1li. 4s .; wheate, Rye & pease, 1li. 16s .; old bacon, 10s .; saw, 10s .; pillion, 10s .; two wheeles, Ss .; mus- kett & sword and rest and pike, 1li. 11s .; sadle & bridle, 14s .; three Iron potts, hookes and tramell, 2li. 12s .; spitt. fire pann, tonges, peele, fryeing pann, greediron, two skilletts, 1li. 2s .; carpenters tooles, 1li. 14s .; 4 axes, 14s. 6d .; beetle & wedges, 5s. 6d. ; pewter platters, basen, pott, spoones, 1li. 12s. 6d .; A box Iron & heaters, 4s. ; earthen ware, 2s. 6d .; bookes, 8s .; two chests & a box, 9s .; baggs, 5s .; meale, 9s .; meate, 12li .; garden stuff, 10s .; hogg lard, 12s .; butter, 10s .; Iron geare & grinding stone, 1li. 2s. 6d .; the cart, dung pot & plow, 2li .; yoakes, & chaines, 16s .; old lumber, 20s .; hay boate, 15li .; total, 336li. 14s. 3d.
Copy, Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, pp. 134, 135.
ESTATE OF HENRY HERRICK OF BEVERLY.
"I Henry Herick of the Towne of Beverly in the county of Essex in New England being in a decaying estate of body but
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in pfect mynd and me[m]orye, through the Lords mercy do heerby make my last will and testament, wherby I commiting my body to the earth, and my soule to the mercy of god in christ Jesus, I dispose of my estate in order following. Impr I give vnto my deare & loveing wife Edith the westwardmost halfe of my now dwelling house, that is the lower roome and leantoo behind it, together with free egress and regress in and out of it, and also the vse of the cellar, well, yard, out houseing & garden, these to haue & inioy dureing her natu- rall life, further I gine to my sd wife foure of my best milch cowes & 4 sheepe which shee shall choose and all my household stufe, these to be at her absolute free dispose, also I giue vnto my sd wife, the sixt part of the fruits that shall be raysed from the corne lands, & orchard weh I leave with my executor Henry and in the possession of my sonn John Also I give vnto my sonn Thomas all my weareing apparell exsept my best great coate and that 20 Acres of land where his house standeth | |with ten pounds to be paid || by my son John w" my executor seeth need to supplye his wants, And if in case he live and dye a single pson, the lands shall remaine to my sonns Ephraim & Joseph, equally devided & the ten pounds to my sonn Beniamin, if not made vse of to supply him, Also I give my sonn Zackery one hundred Acres of land lyeing in Birch plaine weh I bought of ffrancis & Henry Skerry of Sa- lem with 5 acres of meadow lyeing in wenham meadow be- longing to it, and 16 acres of land more or lesse wheron his house standeth & fenced in by him, Also I give my sonns Ephraim, Joseph, and John, that farme I bought of mr All- ford the 20 acres giuen to Thomas being first measured out to him, the rest to be equally devided betweene them three, yet soe that Ephraim & Joseph may inioy what they have impued, and fenct, and John what is impued by Henry, soe as to pay the sixt part of the pduce to my wife before exprest. Also I giue to my sonn John the two lotts I bought of Henry Ren- nolds of Salem & Richard Kemball of wenham, also my sonn John is to have two acres of meadow in Bounkards meadow, also the bedding he lyeth vpon and my cart and plow with the chaine therof Also I give Ephraim moreover one milch cow & my best great coate and vnto Joseph I gine moreover two ewe sheepe & my timbar chaine, I give vnto my sonn Benia- myn all that pasture land, called my english pasture, wch joyneth on the east syde to Andrew Eliott, lyeing betweene the countrye high way & the mill River, I say all that land lyeing on the southeast syde of the sd country high way, the
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uch pasture land | | with the apptenances! | my will is shall re- maine in the hands of my sonn Henry to improve vntill Ben- iamyn be 21 years of age and in case he dye before he be 21 years of age I giue the sayd land to my sonn Henry, he paying vnto my children Zachry Ephraim Joseph & Elizabeth foure pounds a peece Also I giue vnto my daughter Elizabeth forty pounds viz. 14li to be payd by my sonn Henry within three months after the confirmation of my will and the rest to be made vp in 3 cowes & moveables allredy in her possesion, And to John the youngest yoake of stears, and whatsoever I gine to any of my children heerin mentioned by this my will, I giue to them, there heires executors administrators & as- signes for ever And for the rest of my estate, not aboue men- tioned I give it all to my sonn Henry, he payeing vnto his mother the sixt part of the increase of the corne land & orchard dureing her life, and pviding for her the wintering of foure milch cows 4 sheepe & her firewood redy cut for fire at the dore, for all the yeare long and liberty to keepe 3 swine at the dore, and (I giue my sonn Ephraim one acre of meadow in buncars Joseph 3 acres of meadow in buncars) And to have the pper vse of the parlour & leaneto behind it with free egresse & regresse to houseing yards for her, necessary occa- sions as is expresed dureing her life I say these things prem- ised I giue my sonn Henry my dwelling house out houseing orchard tillage land meadows pasture & woodland with my stock & whatever elce within dores & without, not above ex- cepted makeing this my sayd sonn Henry my sole executor of this my last will In wittnes whereof I have set my hand this 24 of november 1670."
Henry Herick.
Witness : Robt. Morgan, Nehemiah Grover.
Proved in Salem court Mar. 28, 1671 by the witnesses. Copy, Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 136.
Inventory of the estate of Henry Herricke of Beverly, taken Mar. 15, 1670-71 by John Rayment, Sr. and Isaack Hull, Sr .: his dwelling howse wth orchard & 70 acrees of land more or lesse adjoyning to the same, 180li .; the English pasture wth the marsh & orchard in itt, 80li .; the farme bought of Mr. Allford conteining 2 hundred acres, 300li .; the farme bought of Henry & Franncis Skerry, 106 acres, 160li .; the 16 Acres of land wch is built uppon by Zakery Herrick, 32li .; the 15 Acres of land bought of Henry Reinald & Rich. Kemball, 22li. 10s .; 6 Acres of meadow in the bounds of Topsfeild, 30li .; Eleaven milch cowes, 40li., 2 oxen & 2 steires, 201i., 60li .; one
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horsse, 6li., 2 maires & 2 Coltes, 10li., 16li .; 32 sheepe & 17 lambes, 20li., 6 swyne, 3li., 23li .; his wearing apparrell, 7li., one bedd wth furniture, 2li., 9li .; one featherbedd & bedd- stedd wth the furniture belonging, 6li .; one other bedd & bedsted wth furniture theirunto, 3li .; brasse and pewter wth Earthen vessells in sundry dishes, 9li. 14s .; 3 Iron potts & other iron necissaries, 3li .; 4 bibles with other bookes, 2li .; one muskett, one sword, one rapier, one smothing iron, 2li. 5s .; 4 spining wheeles, wooden vessells, tubbs, traies, pailes, etc., 2li. 4s .; one great Table, one cubboard, 2 chaires, 2 formes, 5li .; 5 chests, 2li. 15s., one bedd & 2 blanketts, 2li. 8s., 5li. 3s .; Tickin for bedd & boulster wth a sett of cur- taines, li. 10s .; 30 yarrd linnen cloth, a pillow, sheete & feathers, 5li. 2s .; 6 diaper napkins & 20 other napkins & 4 pil- lowbears, 3li. 14s .; 3 paire of sheets and one Table cloth, 4li .; one paire of cart boxes & hoopes, 2 chaines, 2 old axes, 2 old howes wth a grindstone, an iron Trevitt, 2 old tubbs, 2li. 5s. ; looking glasse, box and some other Trifles, 10s .; total, 974li. 17s.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1671 by Henry Herick. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 13,133.
ESTATE OF RICHARD POST OF (LYNN ?).
Administration on the estate of Richard Post, intestate, granted Mar. 28, 1671 to Mr. John Hathorne, who was to bring in an inventory to the next Salem court. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 141.
GUARDIANSHIP OF THOMAS SMITH.
Thomas Smith came into court Mar. 28, 1671, and made choice of his father-in-law, Ens. Tho. Howlett for his guardi- an, which was allowed. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 141.
ESTATE OF JOHN DENISON OF IPSWICH.
Administration on the estate of Mr. John Denison, intes- tate, granted Mar. 28, 1671 to Major Genrll. Denison, and Mrs. Martha Denison, relict of said Mr. John Denison, and they were ordered to bring in an inventory to the next ses- sions. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 141.
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ESTATE OF MRS. URSULA NORTH OF SALISBURY.
"In the name of G Amen The 19th day of may 1668 I Ursula North of the towne of Sallisbury in the Counti of Norfolke Massechusets in neweingland widdow being weck in bodi but of Sound and parfect memory prase be giucen to god for the Same And knowing the unsertanti of this life one arth and being desierous to settle things in order doe make this my last will and Tesstament in maner and forme folowing That is to Say first and principally I commend my soule to allmyti god my Creator Aseuredly beleiuing that I shall re- ceiue full pardon and free remiscion of all my sinnes and be Saved by the pressius death and meritts of my blessed Saviour and redemmer Christ Jesus and my bodi to the earth from whence it was tacken to be buried in shouch desent and Chris- tian manner as my executrix here after naimed shall bee thought meet and Convenient : and as touching such worldly esstate as the lord in marci haith lent me my will and meneing is the Same shall be employed and bestowed as hereafter is expresed by this my will and first I doe revock renounce frustrate and mack voyd all wills by me formerly maid or deClared by word or ritting and deeClare this my last will and testament and none Other : first I wil that all those debts and duties as I owe in rite and Conscience to ani maner of parsonn or parsonns whatsoever shall be wel and treuly Con- tented and payed or ordained to be payed wethin Conveniant time after my decease by my executrix It I giue and bequeath vnto my gran child Mare Winslo the wife of Nathaniel winslo my dwelling house and lands and meedo and Commennidg that beloingeth ther vntow lying and being in Salsbury for hor naterall life and vntow hor dafter hephzibah after lior mothers decease It I giue vntow Mary Jones the wife of Thomas Jones forti shilings It I giue vntow Susanah Martin the wife of gorge martin forti shillings It I giue and be- queath hephzibah winslo the daughter of Nathaniell winslo tenn pownd to be improufed for the vouse of the Child vntel it Come to eage: It. I doe mack and ordaine my grann Child mary winslo the wife of Nathaniel Winslo my Sole executrix also I do mack and or daine Richard wells and william bus- well both of Sallisbury Overseers of this my will and tessta- ment and for there Care and paines there in I beequeathe to each of them ten shillings as a token of my love and in witt- nes that this is the act: and deed of mee the Saide Ursula
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North I haue here vnto sett my hand and Seale the day and yere aboue ritten."
Ursula (her O mark) north (SEAL) Witness : Richard Wells, William Buswel.
"Allso vpon forrther Consederacion. I giue and bequeath vnto william buckly of the towne of Ipswitch in the Counti of essex : tenn pound : which is dew to me from the 'Said buck- ley in that bond of thirti pound : wittnes my hand sete the 24 of June 69."
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