WILL of THOMAS EATTON, of the town of Shrewsbury, Mon. Co., "Being
fick of body." Dated 11th of 9th mo., Commonly Called November, "in ye sd
fhrewsbury," 1688. Proved by dec. of Judah Allen, Thomas Hillborn and Samuel
Dennis, before John Hance, Shrewsbury, Mon. Co., 13th of 10th mo., Called
December, [no year].
[On back of the will is the following: "Proved 14 Apl., 1712."] Gives: "to my Loving wife Jequisah [?] Eatton all my Farm both Upland & Meadow Lying in fhrewsbury and all "housings, orchards & the Mill thereunto belonging together with all other Appurtenances ... Untill the Child that "fhe now goes with fhall Come to ye Age of Twenty-one Years if a boy, if a Girl to the age of Eighteen Years or at the "Day of her Marriage ..." "When the Said Child fhall Come to the age afore mentioned then the sd farm and all ye "Premises ... to be Equally Divided between the sd Child and its Mother During her Naturall life and after her "Decease to Return to the Sd Child & his or her heirs ... if the faid Child fhall Dye before is Shall Come to the age "aforementioned then I give ... my faid farm and premises ... to my wife and her Children to them & to "their heirs ..."; "to my fon in la -- Joseph Wing all yt m (???) Acres of Upland and me -- in the new pur"chase near George Keith lying between Jedidiah All -- and francis Borden to him and his heirs ... The faid Meadow "Lyes in the Great Meadow near ye fd the sd land Lying for three acres and an half"; "to my friend John Dennis his heirs "... the fon of Robert Dennis Living at portsmouth on Rhoad Island all my two tracts of Upland and Meadow Lying "in the town of Dartmouth in New England Lying ... upon a Neck there Commonly Called Norkint neck the one "Tract Containing fixty four Acres with fix acres of Meadow belonging to it Lying in the Great Meadow as also another "tract ... lying in the aforesd Neck Containing forty acres of Upland wth feven Acres of Meadow ... Lying "upon the Island Called ye Cedar Island together with all my Right ... to one half fhare of Undivided land Lying "... in the sd town of Dartmouth ..."; "unto my Loving Mother Mercy Cariway Living in the town of Good"hust in the County of Kent in old England ye full & whole ballance of two bills due to me from Arthur Cook If my faid "Mother be living, but if Deceased then I give ... ye sd ballence of Money Due on the faid Bills to all her Children "to be Equally Divided between them ...." Residue of estate "to my loving wife Jequisah Eatton whome I make my whole & sole Executrix." Wits.: THOMAS EATTON Judah Allen Thomas Hillborn famuel Dennis |