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Signed Sealed Published Pro- novnces and Declared by the Said Henry Libbee as last Will and Testament In ye Presence of us the Sub- scribers viz. Sam" Small
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George Meserve his Gideon X Bragdon
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Probated 20 Nov. 1732. Inventory returned 11 Dec. 1732 at £ 322: 13: 0, by Samuel Small, Daniel Fogg and Gideon Bragdon, appraisers.
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Probate Office, 4, 136.
. In The Name of God amen The Eighteenth Day of Ianu- ary anno Domini one Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty & Two/ Three I Withers Berry of Kittery in ye County of Yorke in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England yeoman Being very sick & weak in Body but of Perfect mind and Memory Thanks be Given to God There- fore calling into mind the Mortality of my Body Do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament that is to say Prin- cipally & first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into ye hands of God that Gave it and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at ye Discreation of my Executrix hereafter Mentioned and as Touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in this life I give Demise & Dispose of the Same in the Following Manner and form.
Imprimis I will that all my Just Debts be Paid by my Executrix
Item I Give to my much Respected friend the Reverand M' John Newmarch five Pounds in Money to be paid to him by my Executrix.
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my Honoured Mother Elizabeth Curtise all and Singular my Lands Messuages & Tennements wheresoever & whatsoever freely by her to be Possessed & Enjoyed and to her Dispose forever and also all my Personal & Moveables Estate whatsoever forever.
Item I constitute make & ordain my abovesaid Honoured Mother Elizabeth Curtis my Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament and I Do hereby utterly Disallow revoke & Disannul all other & Every other former Testaments Wills & Legaces & Executors by me in any ways before Named willed & bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will & Testament In Witness whereof
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I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the day and year aboue written.
Signed Sealed Published
The words & Executors were Interlined before signing
Withers Berry (Seal)
Pronounced & Declared by the Said Withers Berry as his Last Will & Testament In ye Presence of us the subscribers.
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Sarah X Keen
mark her Mary X Shepard mark her Mary X Rogers mark her Patience X Spinney
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Brought in for probate by the mother Elizabeth Curtis 4 Jan. 1732, to whom Letters issued.
Probate Office, 4, 140.
In The Name of God amen this Second Day of april in the Year of our Lord God one Thousand Seven Hundred & Twenty Eight and in ye first Year of King George's the Sec- onds Reign &c. I Gilbert Warren Sent of Berwick in the County of York &c Husband being infirm in Body but of Sound and Disposing mind thanks be to God for it Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament Principally and first of all I Give and Recommend my soul into the hands of my blessed Redeemer and my Body I recommend to the
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Earth to be Deceantly Interred at ye Discreation of my Ex- ecutor & Executrix hereafter named in this Instrument Nothing doubting but in yº General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the Mighty power of God and Touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in this world after my Debts and funeral Charge are paid I Give and Dispose of the same in ye Man- ner and form following.
Imprimis I Give and bequeath to my Daughter Jane Stockbridge five shillings
Item I Give and bequeath to my Daughter Margaret Hearl five Shillings
Item I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife Sarah to be to her Sole use and Dispose to her or her Assigns for Ever al the Rest of my Estate both Real and Personal.
finally I Constitute my said Wife and my Son in Law John Thompson to be Joynt Executrix and Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby Revoaking all former Will or Wills by me made or Caused to be made
Signed Sealed Pronounced and Declared to be ye Last.Will and Testament of Gilbert Warren aforesaid In Presence of
Hump Chadbourn
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his Sam" X Savery mark Thomas Gooding
Gilbert
Warren (Seal)
Probated 17 April 1733.
Probate Office, 4, 146.
In The Name of God Amen I Benjamin Proble of York in ye County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England being of Sound mind and memory Do
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make this my Last Will and Testament this Sixteenth Day of December in ye Year of our Lord 1723. first & above all I Comend my Spirit unto God that Gave it as a faithfull Creator & my Mercifull Father in Iesus Christ and then I Comit my Body to the Dust Decently to be Buried by my Executrix hereafter Named in hope of a Glorious Resurrec- tion to Life Eternal. and as for my worldly Estate which God has Graciously Given I Dispose of It in Manner Follow- ing after my Debts and funeral Cost is Paid.
Imprimis I Give my Beloved Wife Mary (besides her thirds according to the Laws of this Province) the use of the one half of my Dwelling House & Barn & orchard During her natural life and if she shall Need it to have ye Vse of ye whole Dwelling House.
Item I Having already Given unto my Eldest Son John all my Land at Scituate in York and the one half of my Part in the Saw Mill there : I Do Give him or Confirm to him the other half of my Part in said Mill after ye Decease of my Self & Wife.
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my three Daughters Han- nah Judith & Abigail Ten pounds Each thirty pounds the whole to be paid by my Youngest Son Jedediah.
Item I Give & bequeath unto my Said Youngest Son Jed- ediah all my Home Stead Land Dwelling House Barn & orchard together with my whole Stock of Catle sheep &c : after his Mothers Decease
I also Give and bequeath unto my said Son Jedediah all that my Thirty acres Grant weh lyeth above my Home place towards Scituate between ye Land of James Grant and the Land of Josep Bean and further I Give and Bequeath unto my Said Youngest Son Jedediah all my Ten acres of fresh Meadow Lying on ye Brook weh Runs Through Joseph Bragdons & Joseph Wears Meadow about a Mile above sª Bragdons and Wears Meadow.
Finally I make and Constitute my Wife aforesaid ye Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament.
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In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day Year above written.
Signed Sealed & Delivered Benjamin Preble (Seal)
Published Pronounced and Declared by Benjamin Preble abovesaid to be his last Will and Testament in Presence of Nathaniel Leeman Mary Leeman Samuel Moodey
Probated 17 Oct. 1:32. Inventory returned 5 May 1732. at £161: 6: 0, by Joseph Moulton, James Grant and Jonathan Bean, appraisers.
Probate Office, 4, 148.
In the Name of God A Men Jacob Willett Late of the City of London and Now Resident in ye Island of Barbados Mer- chant being Very Sick and weak in Body, but of Sound & Good mind and Memory Praised bee ascribed to the Lord God for y? Same and knowing the uncertainty and frailty of the life and Bood of all flesh and also for the Better Settle- ment of my Estate in this Island Doe make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in Manner and forme following. and first I Recommend my Soul to God my maker.
Secondly I Doe constitute ordain and Appoint my Trusty and well Beloved friend M' Ralph Lane of the Said Island of Barbados to by my Executor in Trust to take Care for acting and to Accomplish all my affairs herein this Island and New England So far forth as concerns my Estate in Either of the afore mentioned Countrys, and that only for v. Good benefit and advantage of my wife and Children in old England.
Thirdly and. Lastly I Do appoint my Trusty Friend Mr Ralph Lane to be not only my Executor in Trust to take
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care for all things concerning my funerall Expences thereon for which he is to be Satisfyed and this I Do Publish and Declare as my Last Will and Testament in Barbados In Testimony whereof I ye Said Jacob Willett have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this 4th Day of September 1677 Signed Sealed & D D Jacob Willett (Seal) In the Presence of Ann Emroy Mary X Willson her Mark Henry Hunt
· Probated 1 May 1733.
Probate Office, 4, 159.
In the Name of God Amen I Nathan Lord Sen' of Ber- wick in the County of York in the province of the Massa- chusetts Bay in New England Yeoman being weak in body but of perfect mind & memory Thanks be unto God There- fore calling unto mind the Mortallity of my body And knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye Do make & Ordain this my last Will & Testament (that is to Say) Principally and first of all I Give and recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it Trusting in the Merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of all my Sins and Eternal life And my body I recommend to the Earth to be Decently Interr'd at the Discresion of my Exec's hereafter Named Nothing Doubting but at the Gen" Resurrection I Shall receive the 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 Dis- pose of the Same in the Following Manner and Form.
Imp" I Give and Bequeath to my well beloved Wife Mar- the one halfe of my Real Estate Dureing her Natural life
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and the one halfe of my personal Estate forever to be Dis- posed off by her Will or other Instrument in writing as She Sees meet.
Item I Give & bequeath to my Son Nathan all my land on the South Side of the way that leads to York Called ye great Field with all Trees Fences and all the Appurtenances thereto belonging to him his Heirs & Assignes forever Ex- cepting one Acree Next to Joseph Hodsdon's Land by the brook which I reserve for a burying place with Liberty of Egress and Regress forever And Excepting also that the Spring in the said Field by the highway Shall be Common to ye rest of my Children that may have Occation to use it.
Item I Give and bequeath to my Son William all my Right Title Interest Claim & Demand to and in the Land that was my Brother Abraham Lords formerly of Berwick Deceased and after him was my Cozen William Lords &ct And on part of which Robert Knight Sen" who Married my Sª Brothers Widow Now Lives &et to him his heirs and Assignes forever Together with five pounds in good province Bills of Credit to be paid within a Twelve month after my Decease by my Execrs.
Item I Give and bequeath to my Son Richard Twenty Acres of land at Piles's brook to him his heirs and assigns forever also Five pounds in Good publick bills of Credit to be paid within a Twelve month after my Decease by my Execs I have done Considerably for him in the Purchases he has made.
Item I Give and Bequeath to my Son Samuel for whom I have done Considerably already Two Acres and halfe of Marsh at Sturgeon Creek which is now in his Improvement To him his Heirs and Assigns forever And also five pounds in good Publick bills of Credit to be paid him within a Twelve month after my Decease Together with all that Land that lies to the Southward of the brook that Runs Through the Land I bought of the Grants and is a part of that Tract & which he has Improved for Some time to him his Heirs and Assignes forever.
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. Item I give and Bequeath to my Son John all that Land now in his Tenure and Occupation where he lives which I formerly bought of Silvanus Nock And Contains Twenty five Acres Be it more or less with all the Appurtenances to him his Heirs and Assignes forever also my Wood lot part of the Land I bought of the Grants & lyes Next Adjoyning to his own Land which he bought of M' Emery to him his Heires & Assignes Forever Provided he leave away for his Brethren to pass to and from their own Land in Said Tracts & provided he pay Fifteen pounds in good publiek bills of Credit to my Execut" within a Twelve Month after my Decease. . .
Item I give my Son Abraham all the Land on the North Side of the Highway where he now lives with all Biuldings Trees Fences and all the Appurtenances to the Same belong- ing to him his heirs and Assignes forever.
Item I give to and among my Sons Nathan William Richard Samuel John and Abraham all my Right to and in the Common And undivided Land in Berwick aforesd to them their heirs and Assigns forever.
Item I Give and bequeath to my Daughters Martha Chick Judith Hambleton Mary Emery Sarah Roberts and Ann Furbuish Twenty pounds Each in good Publick bills of Credit to be paid them Respectively or their Representatives in the Law within a Twelve Month after my Decease by my Exe- cut's And I give also to my Said Daughters one halfe of my houshold goods to be Equally Divided amongst them after my Decease.
Item I give and bequeath to my grand Daughter Eliza the Wife of Noah Emery Five pounds in good Publick bills of Credit to be paid by my Executors within a Twelve after my Decease.
Item I give to the Church in Berwick Twenty pounds in good publick bills of Credit to be Laid out in apeice of Plate for the Communion Table to be paid by my Executors within Twelve Months after my Decease.
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Item I give to my Minister a Gold ring to Remember me by after my Decease.
Finally I Constitute make and ordain My Sons Nathan And Abraham (To whom I Give and Bequeath the Remain- der of my Estate Both Real & personal to them their Heirs and Assignes forever) to be the Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby Utterly Dissallowing Revokeing and Dissannulling all & Every other Former Testaments Wills Legacies and Bequests & Execute by me in any ways before Named Willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Con- firming this and no other to be my last Will & Testament.
In Wittness where of I have hereto Set my hand and Seal the Sixth Day of July In the Seventh year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord George the Second by the grace of God of Great Brittian France & Ireland King Defend of the Faith &c' Annoque Domini 1733.
Signed Sealed Published pronounced
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And Declared by the Said Nathan Z Lord (Scal,
Nathan Lord As his Last
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Will & Testament.
In the presence of us the Subscribers
Joseph Hodsdon Samuel Hodsdon Richª Shackley
Prolated 24 Sept. 1733. Inventory returned 15 Oct. 1733, at £1876:2: 2 by James Grant. Benj Libby, and Joseph Chadbourn, appraisers. Debts due the Estate from Joseph Kili - gore, Roht Gray, Ebenez: Hilton, Richard Chick, William Moore, Jno Smith, Ichad Good- win, John Cooper & Nathan Lord Jun.
Probate Office, 4, 177.
In the Name of God Amen the ninteenth Day of July Anno Domini one Thousand Seven Hundred thirty & three. I William Peppervell of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusets Bay in New England Mer-
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chant, being aged & weak in Body but of perfect mind & memory, thanks be given unto God : therefore calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body, do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament that is to Say Principally & first of of all, I Give & Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it, & my Body I Recommend to ye Earth to be Buried in Decent Christian Burial at ye Discretion of my Creator believing that at the General Resurrection I Shall receive the Same again by the Mighty Power of God, And as touching Such Worldly Estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I Give, Demise & Dispose of the Same in the following manner & form.
Imprimis, I give & bequeath unto Margery my dearly beloved Wife Six Hundred Pounds in good currant Money, or Bills of Credit of this Province and one Horse, & two Oxen, & two Cows to her, her Heirs & Assigns forever. I also give unto her during her natural Life the Use Improve- ment Benefit & Income or produce of the Moiety, or one Half Part of the Farm or Place whereon I now dwell, & which I do now possess; together with half my Dwelling House out-Houses & Barns, of every Denomination, and the one half part of my Orchard, and Liberty to cutt & carry of from any of my Lands, what fire wood & Timber she shall or may have Occasion to make Use of, And the Use of all my Plate & Houshold-stuff which I shall leave at my Decease (Excepting & Reserving only Such Parts or Parcels of my Houshold-stuff as I Shall hereafter in these Presents give away) during the Term of her natural life abovesd pro- vided & be it hereby always Understood that my said Wife Margery do upon her accepting & receiving what I have herein given unto her Renounce & Quitt all Claim to any Right of Dowry & power of Thirds of in & unto my Estate & every part thereof for Ever.
Item, I give unto my well-beloved Daughter Mary Frost Besides what I have heretofore given her) Five Hundred Pounds, part of which Sum to be that which her Husband
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John Frost Decesd was indebted unto me at his Decease ; the Remainder of the Said Sum of Fve Hundred Pounds to be paid to her by my Executor in good currant Money or in Bills of Credit of the aforsd Province within the Space of one Year next following after my Decease & if it Should so be that She should depart this Life before it be paid to her, then the said Money or Bills Shall be Divided among her Children in equall Shares or Portions
Item. I give to my well-beloved Daughter Margery Gun- nison (besides what I have heretofore given to her) Two Hundred Pounds in good currant money or in good Bills of Credit of the aforesaid Province to be to her by my Execu- tor within the Space of one Year next Ensewing after my Decease. I also give to her during her natural Life Half an Acre of Land at the Point in Kittery aforsd as it is now but- ted & bounded, and the Dwelling House that is on ye Said Land wherein She did formerly Reside, and also the Liberty & Power to Dispose of the sd House & Land to any one of or among her Children their Heirs and Assigns for ever as She in her Discretion Shall See fit; but if it should so be that she should depart this Life before the Two Hundred Pounds be Paid paid to her & She make any alienation or Conveyance of ye Said Land & House then the said Money with the House & Land afors' Shall be Divided amongst her Children in Equall Shares or Portions.
Item, I give to my well beloved Daughter Dorathy Wat- kins (besides what I have heretofore given to her) Five Hundred Pounds in good currant Money or in Bills of Credit of the aforsd Province to be paid to her by my Executor within the Space of one year next following after my Decease, And if it should so be that she should depart this Life before the said five Hundred Pounds be paid to her, then it Shall be paid to and divided amongst her Children in equall Shares or Portions. I also give to my said Daughter Dorathy Watkins her Heirs & Assigns my Negro Man servant Named George or one Hundred Pounds in Current Money or in
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good Bills of Credit of ye aforsd Province in the Room or stead of him ; And I do hereby order that if the said negro Servant do faithfully & truly Serve untill he Shall come to the age of Forty years that then he shall have his Discharge Liberty & Freedom given him.
Item : I give to my well beloved Daughter Iane Clark (besides what I have heretofore given her) Five Hundred Pounds in good currant Money or in good Bills of Credit of Credit of the aforsd Province to be paid to her by my Exe- cutor within the Space of one year next after my Decease. And if it Should so happen that She should derart this Life before it be paid to her then it Shall be paid to & Divided among her Children in Equal Shares or Portions.
Item. I give to my son in Law George Jackson Ten Shil- lings to be paid to him by my Executor in Currant Money or Bills of Credit of ye aforsa Province within the space of a year after my Decease
Item : I give to my Grand children, the Children of my Daughter mary Frost as followeth viz' To Will" Frost Ten pounds and to Iohn Charles, George, Joseph, Andrew, Sarah, Abigail Miriam, Iane, Dorathy, Frost's to Each & ever of them Twenty Pounds in good currant Money or Bills of Credit of the aforessd Province, to be paid to them by my Executor when they Shall be of the Age of Twenty one years, or be Married, And if it Should so happen that any of my abovenamed Grand-children Frost's should depart this Life before that he or she Shall be of A Lawfull Age or Married then what I have herein given to the Decesd shall be paid to & Divided among the surviving Brethren & sisters in Equall shares or Portions by my Executor.
Item : I give to my well Beloved Daughter Miriam Tyler, (Besides what I have heretofore given to her) Four hundred Pounds in Good Currant money or in Bills of Credit of the Aforesaid Province to be paid to her by my Execr within the Space of One Year next Following after my Decease and if it Should So be that She Should Depart this life before the
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Said money or bills be paid to her, then it Shall be paid to and Divided among her Children in Equal Shares or portions
Item. I Give to my beloved Grand children Peletiah & Ioel Whittemore Twenty pounds to each of them. And to Willm Whittemore ten shillings and to Mary March (their sister) ten shillings in good currant Money or Bills of ye aforsd Province to be paid to them by my Executor when they Shall be of Lawfull Age and if it should so happen that any of them Should depart this Life before what is herein given be paid to him or her then what I have herein given to the Decesd Shall be paid unto & divided equally among those that shall Survive of them or Such as Shall Legally represent them.
Item. I giue to my beloved Grand-children the Children of my Danghter Ioanna Jackson Decesd as followeth. Vizt to Margery Jackson the Land, House, & Orchard that was formerly Maj Francis Hooks Esq" Decesd to her and her Heirs for ever provided & on Condition that She lives and dwells on the Said Land, & if She shall not dwell there then to be paid by my Executor one Hundred Pounds in Currant Money or Bills of Credit of the aforsª Province when She shall be of Lawfull Age to receive it or Married & my Executor his Heirs & Assigns to Enjoy & possess the said Land & House & Orchard for ever. And to Mary Elizth Ioanna Dorothy, & Sarah Jackson, one Hundred pounds to Each & every of them to be paid to them in Currant Money of Bills of Credit of the aforsd Province by my Executor when they shall be of Lawful Age or Married; but if it should so happen that Any of my abovenamed Grand Chil- dren Jacksons should depart this Life before lawfull Age or Married then the Surviving of them or such as Shall legally represent them shall have divided in equal shares or Portions that which Should have been paid to the Decesd.
Item : I give to my beloved Grand children William, An- drew, Miriam, Mary & Katharine Tyler's Twenty Pounds to each of them & to my Grandson Pepperrell Tyler Forty
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Pounds ; to be paid to them by my Executor in currant Money or Bills of Credit of the aforesd Province as they shall be of Lawfull Age or married; and if it should so happen that any of abovenamed Grand-children Tyler Should depart this Life before Lawful Age or Married then such of them as shall survive or Legally represent the Decesd Shall have divided in equal shares or Portions among them that which should have been paid to the Decesed.
Item : I give to my beloved Grandsons Andrew & John Watkins Twenty pounds to Each of them, to be paid to them in good currant Money or Bills of Credit of the afore- said Province by my Executor when they shall be of Twenty one Years of Age, And if it should so happen that either of them Should depart this Life before he he Shall be of that Age then the Sum of Forty Pounds shall be paid unto the Surviving Brother.
Item : I give to my beloved Grandsons William Clark one Hundred pounds & Benjamin Clark Fifty pounds to be paid to them by my Executor in Currant Money or Bills of Credit of the aforsaid Province when they shall be Twenty one years of Age. And if it should So happen that either of them should depart this Life before he shall be of the Age above mentioned, then the Surviving Brother if he liveth to the Age of Twenty one shall have paid to him the sum of one Hundred and Fifty Pounds.
Item : I give to my beloved Grandaughter Sarah Frost the Wife of Charles Frost ten pounds in Currant Money or Bills of Credit of ye aforesa Province to be paid to her within the Space of one Year next after my Decese by my Executor : I also give to Each of her Children viz Charles, Sarah, Margery & Iane Frosts' Twenty Pounds in Currant Money or in Bills of Credit of this Province, to be paid to them when they Shall be of Lawful Age or Married by my Executor, & if it should be that any of them should depart this Life before that the sum herein given be paid them the Decesd's Part Shall be divided in equal shares amongst them that shall survive.
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Item : I give to my beloved Grandaughter Margery Went- worth one Hundred & Fifty Pounds in currant Money or Bills of Credit of the aforsd Province, to be paid to her by my Executor within the Space of one year next Ensewing my Decease. I also give to her Son Andrew Pepperrell Wentworth Thirty pounds & to her Daughter Sarah Went- worth Twenty pounds in Currant Money or Bills of Credit of the aforsd Province ; to be paid to them by my Execu- tor when they shall be of Lawfull Age or Married, and if it should so be that Either of them should depart this life before lawful Age or Married then the sum of Fifty Pounds Shall be paid to the survivour of them :
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