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WILL OF RICHARD KEMBALL

for ease of reading, spelling has been modernised, and paragraphs and punctuation have been inserted

The last will and testament of Richard Kimball senior of Ipswich in Essex in New England who although weak in body yet of perfect memory. I do dispose of my lands & estate in manner & form as follows.

To my Loving wife my will is that she dwell in my house and have Improvement of my ground and meadow belonging thereto with the use and increase of my whole stock of cattle, one whole year after my decease, and then at the year's end, the forty pounds due her according to contract at marriage to be paid her and that household stuff she brought with her.

And to have liberty to live in the parlour end of the house, the room we now lodge in: and liberty for her necessary use of some part of the cellar: also the liberty of one cow in pasture, the executors to provide winter meat for the same, and to have one quarter part of the fruit of the orchard, and firewood as long as she lives there., And if she desires to remove to her own house, then to be set in it with what she have by my executors and to be allowed forty shillings yearly as long as she lives.

And to my eldest son Henry, my will is to give him three score and ten pounds to be paid twenty pounds, a year & half after my decease, & the remaining part in the two years following after that.

To my son Richard I give forty pounds. To my son John I give twenty pounds.

To my son Thomas I give Twenty five pounds to be paid two years and a half after my decease, and to his children I give seven pounds to be divided equally among them and paid as they come of age, or at their day of marriage, providing if any die before then, their share to be distributed equally amongst the rest.

And to my son Benjamin, besides the two oxen already received, I give the sum of twenty five pounds, ten pounds to be paid a year and half after my decease; the rest two years following. Also to his children I give five pounds, equally to be divided, and paid, as they come of age, or at day of marriage. In case any die before, that part to be equally divided amongst the rest.

And to my son Caleb I give that piece of land known by the name of Tings Lott, and all my land at Wattels Neck with my marsh at the hundreds known by the name of Wiatts Marsh, and all my working tools except two axes, all to be delivered present after my decease. Also I give fourteen pounds to his seven children equally to be divided, to be paid as they come of age or on their day of mariage, and if any die before, that part to be equally divided amongst the rest.

To my son-in-law John Severans, I give ten pounds to be paid two years & a half after my decease.

And to my daughter Elizabeth I give thirty pounds, ten pounds to be paid, a year & half after my decease, and the other two parts, the following two years after that.

To my daughter Mary I give ten pounds, five pounds to be paid a year & half after my decease, the other five pounds the year after that.

To my daughter Sarah I give forty pounds, five pounds to be paid the year & half after my decease and the rest five pound a year till it be all paid. Also to her children I give seven pounds ten shillings to be paid to them as they come of age, or at day of marriage. If any die before, that part to be equally divided between the rest.

And to my daughter Sarah above said:  I also give the bed I lie on with the furniture after one years use of it by my wife.

To Thomas and Mary I give forty shillings apiece to be paid a yeare & half after my decease, and to Jeremiah I give fifteen pounds to be paid at the age of one & twenty.  I give also eight pounds to the two eldest daughters of Gyes Cowes (that he had by his first wife) to be paid and equally divided to them at the age of sixteen. If either of them die before then, the whole to be given to the one that remains.

I also give four pounds to my cousin Haniell Bossworth

And I do ordain & appoint my two sons above said Richard and John Kimball to be my lawfull and sole executors.

And my Cousin Haniell Bosworth above said to be my overseer that this my last will and Testament be duly and truly performed And thus I conclude with setting to my hand and seal the fifth of March 1674.

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Richard Kemball, his mark and seal.

  This will is proved in court held at Ipswich the 28th of Sept 1675,by the oaths of Decon Pengry And Aron Pengry to be the last will of Richard Kimball to the best of their knowledge and that they know of no other.

Attest Robert Lord." Note: The inventory of his estate, which was taken on 12 Jul 1675, and returned to court 28 Sep 1675, amounted to £737 3s 6d.  He had already given to his children at their marriages.

[Ipswich of Massachusetts Deeds, Vol. IV, p. 12.]

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