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Source:  THE FISHER GENEALOGY By Phillp A. Fisher, 1898

[Joshua Fisher son of Anthony & Mary Fiske Fisher, of Syleham, England
came to New England in 1639 with wife, Ann Luson and daughter, Mary.
Joshua settled first in Dedham and from there going to Medfield at its
settlement in 1650.  The value of his property in 1652 was 180 pounds.]

WILL
In the Year of our Lord one thousand six hundred seventy four the second
daye of May, 1.  Joshua ffisher of Medfield Senior...brought to old age
and being thourby with the inffirmities...wife Ann...the bed with all
belongings in the little chamber next to the stairs and all soe two good
blankets more and two payres of sheets and two pillows and that trunke
now standing in the bed Chamber below marked A.F. with what soe ever is
now in it and all hir wearing apparrell as well linen as wooling and one
payer of andirons...and payier of tongs one trammel...and two  heaters
one payere of pothookes two brass vesselles...bellows...two chairs two
fouer ffooted stolles two chushings such as she shall chuse and three
puter dishes two of the..and one...and three bushels of Endian corne and
forty pound wayt of butter and forty pound of chese and fifty pound
wayght of porke and one cow such as she shall chuse and all my fire wood
that is cut out when god shall take me away whether in the woods or in
my yard and soe much more of my moveable goods as shall be vallued at
ten pound in such as she shall chuse or also soemuch in good and
merchantable wheat as com to ten pound, and fifteen pound in good and
curant ne England mony and further my will and desire is that my above
said wife may live in that end of the  house that I live in according to
the will of my son John ffisher deceased untill such time as the heirs
shall cum of age (and then to injoy...with the benefit of any one now of
the apple trees in the orchard) and then too live in the other end and
there to injoy During the terme of her naturall life all such Liberties
and prevelidges as are enjoyed in my deed of gift fformerly made to my
son John ffisher...
Unto my daughter Marcy Battle the wife of Thomas Battle and her heires ffor ever thirty pound...to grandson Joshua 60 pounds it being already in his hands payd to him out of that Estate which I had in his fathers
hands...to Mary Clap my grand daughter and wife of Thomas Clap 5
pounds...John ffisher grand child, son of Joshua ffisher 5 pounds...to
Hannah B...grand child 5 pounds...John ffisher son of my son John
ffisher all land in Medfield, etc....further that John ffisher son of my
son John ffisher within the space of two years after he shall com to one
and twenty years of age shall pay 40 pounds to his brother Jonathan
ffisher...Vigilance ffisher my grand child son of my son Joshua ffisher
40 shillings...and I constitute appoint and ordain my trusty and well
beloved cosen Daniel ffisher of Dedham and Joshua Fisher my grand child
executors of this my last will...
                                  Joshua ffisher
John Wilson
Ralph Wheelocke