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Impri' I Giue and bequeath unto my well beloved Wife all my moucables Estate within Dowres and without During her life for her Support & Maintainance and what is left after her Decease to my two sous to be Equally Divided between them
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Item I Giue and bequeath to my two sons Humphery and Samuel Seamon all that Tract of land and Marsh at Sawco & Goose fear the Marshes to be Equally Divided between them the upland I give Humphery forty acres more then Samuel Humphery to have his part lowermust by the River Side as for my land at Dunstant I Give it Equally between them to Divided as they Shall See fitt all which Land & Marshs I give to them & their Heirs forever.
Item I Giue and bequeath unto my three Daughters Eliz- abeth Halye Mary Pudinton Rebbecca Billing fourteen pounds a peice to be paid them by my two Sons Humphery & Samuel Scamon
Item I Constitute make and ordain my two Sons aforese with my wife to be Executors & Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament and I hereby Vtterly Disallow & Dis- onull all & Every other former testament and wills and leg- eces by me in any wayes before this Time made willed and bequeathed Certifying and Confirming this To be my last will and Testament I Do Desire & appoint my beloved friends Roger Dearing & Richard Cutt Sen' to See this my will Performed In Wittness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Twelfth Day of March Anno Domini one thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen fourteen
Signed Sealed & Delivered
the mark
In ye Presence of us.
Robert Elliot
Humphery
Scamon (Seal)
Richard Cutt -
Richard Cutt Jun'
of
Probated 28 Jan. 1727-8. Inventory returned 14 June 1720, at £792, by Paul Thompson Richard Stimpson and Daniel Smith, appraisers.
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Probate Office, 3, 264.
In the Name of God Amen in ye first place I committ my Soul to God that gave it and my Body to ye Dust to be Decently Buried
Item my will is that my Son William administer on y-e one half of my Estate after my Decease which I give unto his Son William when he Shall arrive to ye Years of twenty and one paying out to his Sister Elizabeth twenty pounds when She Shall arrive to ye Years of Twenty and one or before if She Marry, and if Both or either of these my Grand Children die under age then their father Shall have his or her parts for his own vse and Benifit.
allso I give unto my Sone William all my Stock and moveable Estate for Divers Reasons and ye money which Anthony Freeman is to give for two acres of Land which I have Promised him where his House Stands paying for it as Land goes other where and that my Son william Shall be at all ye Charge of my Present Sickness and funeral out of it.
also my Will is that my Son Joshua Shall have 3 piggs and five Shillings in money and that he administer on the other half of my Land which I give to his two Eldest Sons Benja- inin and Jonathan when they Shall arrive to ye years of twenty and one and if these my Grand Children Shall die under age then it Shall go to the Rest of ye Sons and for the Division of ye Land my Will is that they Divide it lengbt ways and that William Shall have the hovse and orchard in his part for his Son William and for Sarah my Wife my will is that Joshua pay her Yearly ten busbells of Corn and one Hundred weight of meat of what Sort She pleases and the one half of all other things which She Stands in Need of during her Natural Life here upon ye Forfiture of ye vse of the land and that my Son William also find her ye Same
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Dowrey and at her Death Both to bear an Equal part in Decently buring of her his his wm X Beal William mark
mark X Black
Sam" ffitts
his Thomas X Hall mark
Probated 1 Jan. 1727-8.
Probate Office, 3, 271.
In the Name of God Amen I Elizabeth Johnson of York in the County of York in ye Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England widow of Samuel Johnson late of sª york Deceas'd being uery Sick & weak of Body but of Sound mind and memory do make this my Last Will and Testament
First I yield up my precious immortal Soul into the Hands of my most merciful Redeemer hoping in his merits alone for Pardon & Saluation & my weak & frail Body I comit to ye Earth to be Decently interred at the Charge of my Children or otherwise as ye Law directs hoping for a glorious Resurrection at the last Day by Jesus Christ who is the Resurrection and the life and as for Such worldly Estate as God has been bepleased in his Providence to bestow upon me I dispose of it as follows
Imprimis I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Ruth Young Eight Shillings to be Paid by my Son Benjamin within Two Months after my Decease
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary Willson the Small Trunk covered with Yallow Leather
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Item I give to my Daughter Sarah Simpson Eight Shil- lings to be paid by my sª Son Benjamin within Two Months after my Deccase
Item I give unto my Son Samuel Johnson one Ewe & Lamb.
Item I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Hannah John- son the Feather bed yt I usually lie on with the Boelster Coverlett and one Pair of Blankets also my great Iron Kit- tle two Pewter Platers five pewter Plates and one pewter bason one pewter Quart Pot and all my wearing Cloaths & my Camblet Riding hood.
Item I give & bequeath unto my Son Benjamin Johnson all that is more then Twenty Acres of my part of ye Land I had in Partner Ship with my Sister Sarah Black on yo North East side of the Little River to him and his Heirs & assigns forever & one Cow one three year old Heifer & all my Younge Neat Cattle (Except one two Year old Heifer) & all my Sheep & Swine & a Part with my Daughter Keziah in all my Moveables not already bequeathed of what Kind Soever only the Saw Adse & Chizzells & two Augers I giue to Benjamin alone as also the Chest.
Lastly. I give to my Daughter Keziah (whom I do hereby Constitute & appoint the Sole Executrix of this my Last Will & Testament) a part in all my Moveables not allready herein bequeathed to be Divided betwixt her & Benjamin as abovesd & the two year old Heifer above Excepted out of Benjamins part as also I give to sª Keziah one large Pewter Platter In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal this Twelfth Day of July Anno Domini 1726, in ye Twelfth year of King Georges Reign The word [Younger] between line 30 & 31 & ye word [Keziah] between line 26 & 27 were Interlined before Singing. her Signed Sealed Published
Pronounced & Declared by Elizabeth Johnson (Sea!) the within Named Elizabeth mark Johnson as her last Will &
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Testament in Presence of us the Subscribers. Jer : Moulton her Joanna X Grow Mark Jos : Moody
Probated 1 April 1728. Inventory returned 2 May 1728, at £100: 8: 6, by Joseph Banks. Joseph Sayward and Jos: Moody, appraisers. Additional Inventory of £6: 10: 0 returned 30 June 1729, by " Keziah Johuson alias Holman" executrix.
Probate Office, 3, 274.
In the Name of God amen the Twenty Ninth Day of March 1728. I Allison Brown of Arrundel in ye County of York Yeoman being uery Sick & weak in body but of per- fect mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God therefore Caling unto mind ye Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament that is to Say Prin- cipally and first of all I give and Recomend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to ye Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Burial at ye Dis- cretion of my Executrix and Executors Nothing Doubting but at ye Generall Resurrection I Shall Receive ye Same again by ye Mighty Power of God and as Touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in this Life I give Demise and Dispose of ye Same in ye fol- lowing Manner and form
Item I Do give unto my three Sisters viz Eliza Stagpole Mary Carr & Katharine Lassell four pounds a Peice to be paid to them out of my Estate at ve Discretion of my Exec- utrix & Executors and I do also give unto my three Sisters Children that are now born to Each of them four pounds
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a Peice as they Come to the age of one & Twenty years to be paid unto them out of my Estate at the Discretion of my Executrix and Executors.
Item I do give to my brother Andrew Browns Daughter Brown four pound Money to be paid out of my Estate when She Comes of age if She lives to that time.
Item I do give to my Dearly beloved wife Hannah the whole Improvement of all my lands mills moveables of any kind or Sort whatsoever within doares & without to be Improved to the best advantage as Shall be thought fitt by her & my Executors for her Comfortable Maintainance and ye bringing up my Children Andrew Brown and Eliza Brown untill they Come of ye age of one & Twenty years and my will is that my son Andrew Should be brought up to ye Col- ledge if it Can Possiably be Done by ye InCome of my Estate without wronging my wife & my Daughter.
Item I do Give unto my son Andrew Brown and to my Daughter Eliza Brown all my housing & Lands & other building to be Equally Divided between them when my son Cometh to ye age of one and Twenty Years Provided my Son be brought up to ye Colladge as aforesaid but if not then my will is that my Son Andrew Shall have two thirds of my land & buildings aforesaid & my Daughter one third part & no more and my will is and I do give to my wife Hannah and to my two Children all my moveable Estate to be Equally Divided between them three when my Son Com- eth to ye age of one & twenty Years unto which Time my wife is to have the Improvement of ye whole for ye End as aforesaid I do Also give to my Dear Wife Hannah after my son Andrew Comes to ye age of one and Twenty Years one third part of the Income of my Estate During her Natural fife to be paid her by my two Children according to what they or Either of them Injoy of it and I do appoint my wife to be Executrix with my father in law Mr Humphrey Scammon & Ensign Thomas Perkins whom I do appoint to be Executors to See that this my last will and Testament be
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Performed and I do hereby Desalow Revoke and Disanul all and Every other former Testament will Legacies & bequest and Exceutors by me in any ways before named Willed & bequested Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will & Testament in Witness whereof I have here- unto Set my hand and Seal the Day and Year before Mentioned.
Signed Sealed Published Allison Brown (Seal)
Pronounced & Declared
by ye sª Allison Brown as
his last will & Testament
in ye Presence of us.
Marston Cabot
John Trewogy Joseph Adams.
Probated 1 May 1728. Inventory returned 27 March 1723, at £1241 : ": 0, by James March, Jabez Dorman and Jesse Town, appraisers.
Probate Office, 4, 2.
In the Name of God Amen June the 15th Day 1724 in ya Tenth of King George ouer Great Brittain &c I William Fernald Sen of Kittery in the County of York within ye Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England being Aged & in an ill habbet of Body but of Sound and Perfect Memory : (Praise be given to God for y" Same) & knowing ye oncertainty of this life on Earth and being Desirous to Serle Things in order, Do make this my last Will & Testament in Manner and form following that is to Say first and Principally I commend my Soul to Allmighty God my Creator, Assuredly believing that I shall Receive full Pardon & free Remission of all my Sins & be Saved by ye Precious Death & Merits of my blessed Saviour & Redeemer Christ Jesus & my body to ye Earth from whence it was taken to
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be buried In Such Desent & Christian Manner as to my Ex- ecutors hereafter named Shall be thought meet and Conven- ient & as Touching Such worldly Estate as ye Lord in Merey hath Lent me my Will and Meaning is, the Same Shall be Imployed & bestowed as hereafter by this my Will is Expressed : and first I do Reuoke Renounce frustrate and make Void all Wills by me formerly made, And Declare & Appoint this my Last Will and Testament.
Item I give & bequeath unto my Eldest Son William Fer- nald & his Male Heirs Lawfully begotten yt Island whereon I formerly Dwelt Comonly called or known by ye Name of lay clain Island with ye Dweling House & all out Housing Gardins orchards & all other ye Priviledges & Appurtenances thereunto belonging I having given him ye one half of sd Island when I first Left it & went over to ye Main to Live ye other half I give & Resign to him Now he paying me fifty pounds for ye Stage point According to a Greement, and to pay me one Hundred pounds more in Currant Passable money of New England at or before ye first Day of June Next Ensuing ye Date hereof and to Sumner me and my Wife Elizabeth During our Naturall lives Twelve Sheep Yearly : & to provide and bring in place at my house a Proportiona- ble part of fire wood which I and yr Mother May have occa- tion to Burn with ye rest of y four Brothers Yearly During my & my Wifes Natural Life.
Item I give & bequeath after my & my Wife Elizabeth our Decease, unto my Two Sons Benjamin Fernald and Eh- enezer Fernald & to yr Male Heirs Lawfully begotten : My Homesteed ffarn Containing abovt Eighty five Acres of Land be ye Same more or Less with ye Dwelling house out housing & Barn Garden orchards and all other ye Priviledges & appurtenances of one kind or another thereunto belong- ing or in any ways appertaining to them and there Heirs lawfully begotten forever and to be Equally Divided betwixt them ye said Benjamin Fernald & Ebenezer Fernald they or their heirs lawfully begotten paying one Hundred pounds
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that is to say Benjamin Fernald & his Heirs to pay to my Daughter Elizabeth Dearing or to her Children fifty pounds in Currant passable money in New England within ye Space of three Year Next Eusuing after my Decease and my Son Ebenezer Fernald & his Heirs to pay to my Daughter Tem- perance More or her Children fifty pounds in Currant passa- ble Money of New England within ye Space of three Years , Next Ensuing after my Decease Furthermore my Said Sons Benjamin & Ebenezer Fernalds Shall forthwith Repair and make up all ye fences about & belonging to the Said Farm and ye Dwelling house to be repaired by them so as to make it comfortable to Dwell in and Shall cut and make & house all ye fodder that Shall be growing on ye Said Farm this Pres- ent Year and also shall have ye use of ye oxen on ye said place this Present Year and then afterwards they Shall have ye whole farm and Stock of Cattle with ye oxen Yeilding & paying ye one half of ye produce thereof to me and my wife during our Natural lives Excepting & reserving to my own & my Wives use and Improvement during our Naturall lives the orchard that is on ye said Farm and my said Sons Benjamin & Ebenezer Fernalds shall plow plant & Sow and Manage ye Said Farm as any other person Might do If it were leased & rented out to them and my Said Sons Benjamin & Eben- ezer shall provide & bring in place to my house their Pro- portion of fire Wood which I & my Wife may have occa- tion to burn with the rest of their brethren Yearly during mine & my wives Natural life and after mine & my wives decease my abovesaid Sons Benja & Ebenez" Fernalds Shall be possest Quietly & peaceably of ye whole farm with the orchard for ever on the Conditions above said the Said farm to be Divided in Equal Shares between them.
Item I give and bequeath to my Two Sons Nathaniel Fer- nald and Tobias Fernald and to their Male Heirs lawfully begotten by them all that my farm or Tract of Land with a Dwelling house and barn thereon lying & being at ye head of Spruce Creek in ye Township of Kittery forever ye Said .
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Farm Containing abovt one hundred acres be it more or less According as it is butted & bounded with all the Priviledges & Appurtenances there unto belonging to them & their Heirs forever after ye Decease of me & my wife to be divided between them my Said Sons in Equal Shares or portions, and I Do hereby order & appoint my Said Sons Nathaniel Fernald & Tobias Fernald their Heirs lawfully begotten by them to pay as followeth that is to say my Son Nathaniel Fernald or his Heirs Shall pay to my Daughter Margarett Cotton Deceased, her Children fifty pounds in Currant pas- sable money in New England within ye Space of three Years Next Ensuing after ye Decease of me and my wife to be Divided in Equal Shares among them and my Son Tobias Fernald or his Heirs Shall pay to my Daughter Sarah Dam or her Children fifty pounds in Currant money in New Eng- land within ye Space of three Years Next Ensuing after ye Decease of me and my wife & further more my two said Sons Nathaniel & Tobias Fernald or their Heirs Shall pro- vide & bring in place to my house their Proportion of fire wood which I and my wife may have occation to burn with ye rest of their Brethren during mine & my wives Natural Life.
Item I giue to my Daughter Elizabeth Dearing & to her Children fifty pounds in Currant passable money in New England to be paid to her or them by my Said Son Benja- min or his Heirs within ye Space of three Years Next Ensuing after mine and my wives Decease
Item I give to my daughter Temperance More & to her Children fifty pounds in Currant Money passable in New England to be paid to her or them by my sd Son Ebenezer Fernald or his heirs within ye Space of three Years Next Ensuing after mine and my wives Decease.
Item I give to y" Children of my daughter Margret Cot- ton Deceast fifty pounds in Currant passable money in New England to be paid to them & Divided in Equal Shares among them by my Said Son Nathaniel Fernald or his Heirs within three Years Space after ye Deccase of mo & my wife
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Item I give to my Daughter Sarah Dam & her Children fifty pounds in Currant Passable Money in New England to be paid to her or them by my sd Son Tobias Fernald or his heirs within ye Space of three Years Next Ensuing after Mine and my wives Decease.
Item I give to my Daughter Lydia Fernald & to Such as Shall legally Represent her fifty pounds in Currant passable money in New England to be levied & raised out of my Estate not herein above or before Disposed off to be paid to her by my Executrix within ye Space of four Years Next Ensuing after my Decease
Item I Give to my Grandaughter Elizabeth More fifty pounds in Currant passable Money in New England to be levied & raised out of my Estate not herein above or before Disposed of & paid to her by my Executrix within ye Space of four Years Next Ensuing after my decease.
Item It is my Will & desire that whensoever it Shall please Allmighty God to call and remoue my selfe or wife or both out of this world by death that my five Sons Wil- liam Fernald Benjamin Fernald Ebenezer ffernald Nathaniel Fernald & Tobias Fernald be at ye Charge of Decently bury- ing us as they Shall Think fit and at ye place where I do appoint that is to Say Near the Barn on the Northerly End thereof in my home stead farm the Charge of our interment to be born in Equall Shars by my abovesd Sons and their Heirs.
Item I Give to my Dearly beloved Wife Elizabeth Fer- nald all the remainder of my Estate both real and personal not in these presents or heretofore by me Disposed off wheresoever & whatsoever together with the one half of the incom or produce of my farm whereon I now Dwell & of my Farm at Spruce Creek above mentioned for her Comfortable Support during her Naturall life and to Dispose of as She in her prudence Shall See fit among our above Named Chil- dren & Grand Children or those that legally Represent them.
In Witness whereof I have hercunto Set my hand & Seal.
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Memorandu ye word Sent of between ye Second & third line & male between ye Ninteenth & Twentieth line and ye word Next between ye twenty Eighth & twenty ninth live in ye first page & male between the fourth & fifth line & pay to between ye twelfth & thirteenth line in page 2ª and Grand Children between ye twenty Sixth & twenty Seventh line in the fourth page were interlined before Signing.
Signed Sealed Published
William Fernald (Seal)
pronounced and Declared by the said William Fernald as his last Will & Testament
in Presence of us the
Subscribers . M Hunking John Newmarch Tobias Langdon Richard Cutt
Probated 2 Sept. 1723, Inventory returned at £ 2674: 15: 0 by Richard Cutt, Robert Cutt and Withers Berry, appraisers 25 Sept. 1728.
Probate Office, 4, 28.
In the Name of God Amen the Sixth day of January Anno Domini Seventeen Hundred and Twenty four/ 5 I Baker Nason of Berwick in ye County of York and within his Majestyes Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England house Carpenter being at present of perfect Mind and Thanks be Giuen unto God but Calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for All Men once to Dye do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament That is to say principally and first of all I Giue and Recom- end my Soul into the hands of God that Gave it and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be Buried in Decent Christian burial at ye Discretion of my Exccut" nothing
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Doubting but at the Generall Resurrection I Shall Receive ye Same Again by ye Mighty power of God and Touching Such woridly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I Give Demise and Dispose of the Same in the following Manner and form -
Imprimiss I give and bequeath To Elizabeth my Dearly beloued wife the whole Income of all my Estate both of buildings and Lands both homested and out Lands to her own use During her Naturall life with all Moueables.
Item I Give unto my Three Sons Samuel John & Joseph all my whole Estate In houses barn orchard homestead out Lands and Meadow Ground to be Equally Divided among them only my Son Samuel to have the first Choice the fun- erall Charges and all Debts to be Paid out of ye Moveable if Sufficient if not out of my other Estate, and If Either of my Said Sons Should Dye without Issue then the Estate to Return to the other Sons Equally to them and their Issue forever and the Legacys hereafter Named Shall be paid Equally by my sª three Sons Samuel John and Joseph.
Item I give unto my Seven Daughters Patience, Elizs- beth Sarah Hepsebeth Lydia Mary and Prudence and my Granddaughter Mary five pounds in Money, a pice to be paid Two Years after my Youngest Son Comes of Age.
Item I give unto my Grandson Stephen and to his Heirs for ever a Peice of Land about an acre joyning on the End of that Land his father Wood bought of Benjamin Nason up towards the High way Leading to Kittery and Bounded on an Elm Stump about West from the high way or howso- ever otherways Bounded. and I do hereby Constitute make and ordain my said wife Elizabeth to be my Executrix and my sª Son Samuel to be my Executor to this my last Will and Testament of all and Singular Lands House Barn Living Messuage, and Tenements by me Possessed and Enjoyed and I Do hereby Utterly Disallow Revoke and Disannull all and Every other Wills Legucies and bequests and Executors by me in any ways before Named willed and
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bequested Ratifing and Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament.
In witness whereof I haue hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day and Year above written. his
Signed Sealed Published
Baker
X mark
Nason (Sea!)
Pronounced and Declared By the sd Baker Nason as his last Will & Testament
In ye Presence of us ye Subscribers his William X Hearl Jun" mark Walter Abbott John Bradstreet
Probated 30 June 1729, Inventory returned at £674: 19: 0 by James Grant, Benja Libby and Richard Lord, appraisers 9 Sept. 1729.
Probate Office, 4, 57.
In the Name of God Amen the Twenty Second day of September in the third Year of the Reigne of King Georg the Second Over great Brittian &e' Annoque Domini One Thousand Seven hundred and Twenty Nine I Gabriel Ham- bleton of Berwick in the County of York within his Majes- ties Province of the Massa's Bay in N: England Yeoman Being by the providence of God in a Low Condition of Body as to health & not knowing how Soon it may please God to Remove me out of this world by Death and Considering the Mortallity of my body that I must Certainly dye - Do make and Ordain this my last Will & Testament in Manner fol- lowing Viz -
First I Give and Freely Surrender up my Soul to God that gave it to me hopeing for mercy from him in and Through Jesus Christ and my body I Bequeath to the Earth
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till the Resurrection Decently to be Intered as my Execu- trix hereafter Named Shall Think fit and as to Such worldly Estate as God has been pleased to Bless me with I Give and Dispose thereof as Followeth Vizt
Imprimiss I Give and bequeath to Judith my well beloved wife all my house and land where I now live with the Barn Orchard & Appurtinances For and Dureing the full Term of Tenn Years from the Date hereof And from the End of Said Term of Tenn Years from this Date my said Wife Shall have one halfe of my land where I live as aforesaid and all the House and halfe the barn for and Dureing the Term of her Widowhood But if She Shall Marry at any time after my Decease then She Shall have but only her Dower or thirds Dureing her life.
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