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The Will of Edmund Ingalls

The will of Edmund Ingalls of Lynn was proved 14:9:1648. The following is copied from the original on file in the office of the clerk of courts at Salem, volume I, leaf 103.

August 28.Anno Dom:1648

I Edmund Ingalls if Linne being of perfect memory comit my soule to God my body to the graue, and dispose of my Earthly good in this wise.

Ffirstly I make my wife Ann Ingalls sole Exectrix:leauing my house & houslot together with ye Stock of Cattle & Corne wth her. Likewise I leaue Kathrine Skipper wth my wife.

Item. I bequeath to Robert my sonne & heire, foure pound to be payd in two yeeres time by my wife either in Cattle, or Corne; likewise I bequeath' to him || or his heires || my house & houslot after the decease of my wife.

Likewise I bequeath to Elizabeth my daughter twenty shillings to be paid by my wife in a heifer Calf in two yeers time after my decease.

Likewise to my daughter faith wife to Andrew Allin I bequeath two yeerling calues, and injoyne my wife to pay to him forty shillings debt in a yeers time after my decease.

Likewise to my Sonne John I bequeath the house & ground that was Jerimy
fitts lying by the Meeting house only out of it the sd John is to pay wthin foure yeers foure pound to my sonne Samuel and the ground to be his security: further I leaue wth the sd John. that three Acres land he hath in England fully to possesse & Enjoy.

Likewise I giue to Sarah my daughter, wife to william Bitnar my two Ewes.

Likewise to Henry my sonne I giue the house that I bought of Goodman west, & Six acres of grounr lying to it, & three acres of marsh ground  lying at Rumly Marsh, and this the sd Henry shall possesse in two yeers after my decease, Only out of this the 1d Henry Shall pay to Samuel my Sonne foure pound wthin two yeers after he Enters upon it.

Likewise I bequeath to Samuel my Sonne Eight pounds wch is to be discharged as above in the proomisses.

Lastly I leaue wth mary the heifer Calfe that formerly she enjoyed and leaue her to my wife for future dowry.

Finally I appoint Francis Ingalls my brother, & Francis Dane my sonne in Law overseers of my will, and order that those things that haue no particular Exemption in the will mentioned be taken away presently after my decease: I intreat my overseers to be helpfull to my wife for ordering those matters.

wittnesses to this will
william Morton: Edmund Ingalls
Francis Dane. his X marke.
francis Ingols
his 6 mark.