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APPENDIX.

THO: WELLS, HIS WILL.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRSENTS, that I, Thomas Wells, of Ipswich, in the county of Essex, being weake of body, yet of p'fect memory blessed be God, doe make this my last will and testament in maner following, viz:

I comend my soule into the hands of my blessed Redeemer, in hope of a ioyfull resurection vnto eternall life att the last day, and my body to be decently buryed.

Item. I give and bequeath vnto Abigaill my wife eight pounds yearly, to be payd vnto her out of my Lands where now I dwell dureing her life, in leiw of her dowrye; and this is to be payd yearly in wheat, malt, porke and Indian corne, in equal p'portion, and to be good and marchentable, and payd at the current marchentable price, as such is then payd at heere in Ipswich. Alsoe I give vnto her to have one of the best roomes in the house, viz: either the hall or the parlour, (at her choice,) and to enioy the same dureing her widdowhood, and to have free liberty to bake, brew and wash, &c., in the kitchen, and free liberty to lay her corne, meale, and mault, &c., in the hall chamber, and free vse of garden ground, where she liketh best, and to have it well fenced in, and to have land duly tilled to sow flax-seed on, and that yearly as she shall see cause; and freedom in both cellars as shee needeth, and shall have suficiency of firewood p'vided and seasonably layd in, and that yearly at the cost of my executor; and free liberty to keepe three or four hens and a pigg or hogg in ye ground and yards; and shall have the sixt part of the

fruite that shall yearly grow in the orchyard, and shall have the free vse and liberty of all these dureing her widdowhood.

Ite. I give unto my said wife the old bay mare (she uses to ride on) and the bridle, pillion seate, and pannell, and two cowes, (att her choice), and to have the keepeing of a horse or mare and two cowes for her vse both sumer and winter, and good houseroome for them in winter, and these to be well kept, at the cost of my executor, dureing her widdowhood; allsoe I give vnto her, the bible she uses, and the booke called the Soule's P'paration for Christ, and that of Perkings upon the Creed, and the bedsted we lye on, and the beding, curtaines and valens thereunto belonging, (exsepting the blue rugg,) and to have the best green rugg in leiw thereof; and I give unto her the best chest, and the inlayd box with T W upon the lidd, and to have one halfe of the lynen and lynen cloth, and the third of the woolen cloth yt is in the house or in yarne or cloth at the weaver's, and the third of the woole in the house at my disease, and one halfe of the pewter that was her own father's, and the pewter pint pott, and a brase or iron pott (at her choice); and I give vnto her the iron skillet and some of the best spoones, and a good poringer and a coopell of saucers (at hir choice), and the best low chaire, and hir little chaire and a good cushen, and one of the great wheeles and a little spinning wheele, and the warming pan, as leagasies.

Ite. My will is that my sayd wife shall have the free use of any kettle (of myne in the house) or milke vessells, &c., shee needeth, and of any other small things in the house (that's myne) as though they were hir owne, and that without controule, and to have freedome at the well for watter, and liberty for hir clothes or anything elce to be spred, &c., where she pleaseth, and these dureing her widdowhood.

Ite. Whereas John Wells (my second sonn) hath received of me a deed of gifts, of all the lands I had at the town of Wells in the province of Maine, being the quantity of thre hundred and fiftye acres (more or less) arrable meddow and pasture, together with two cowes and ten pounds fifteene shillings yt I have payd (at his request) vnto Stephen Kent, of Haverill, in cattle, vpon a bill due from Francis Littlefield, (his father-in-law), with several other things, all

wch he hath received of me in liew of his portion, and accordingly my will is, that the same soe stand.

Ite. I give unto my sonn, John Wells, ten pounds to be payd vnto him or his assigns within three years next after my decease, five pounds thereof in cattle, neate and in good condition, and the other five pounds in wheat, malt and Indian corne, in equall p'portion, and all good and marchentable, and at the current marchentable price, as it then goes heere in Ipswich, and to be delivered at my now dwelling house; p'vided that my sonn John Wells be then living; and I give vnto him my cloke, and one of the great pewter candlesticks wth the top thereof, and two great saucers and two little saucers more, and I give vnto Sarah his wife (my daughter-in-law) one five shilling piece of gould, as leagasies.

Ite. Whereas my two eldest daughters, viz: Sarah Massie, of Salem, and Abigaill Tredwell, of this towne, hath eache of them had thirtye pounds in leiw of there portions, my will is that Sarah Massie, or her assignes, shall have a good cow, or to the value of four pounds ten shillings, in other cattle, neate and in good condition, (bulls only exsepted,) and not to exceed eight years of age, and to have the same delivered here, where now I dwell, wthin one yeare and a halfe next after my decease, and alsoe, to have the benefitt of the grase of a little peace of salt marsh ground, adioyneing to the northwest end of Mr. Wade's, neare vnto Hogg Iland, and my daughter Sarah to enjoy the vse of this vntil the decease of my brother Massie, her father-in-law, and then to returne vnto my executor.

Allsoe I give vnto Abigaill Tredwell, my daughter, my six acre lott of salt marsh, &c., that lyes in Plumb Iland, to her and her heires of male, or a good cow, to be delivered vnto her in good condition, within one year and a halfe next after my decease.

Ite. I give and bequeath vnto Thomas Wells, my youngest sonn, two hundred and fiftie pounds sterl. in leiw of his portion, to be payd vnto him, his heires or assignes, out of my housen and lands where now I dwell, within seven years, foure month and nyne or ten days, next after the sayd Thomas Wells, my sonn, doe come to the full age of one and twenty yeares, viz: one hundred pounds to be

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