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Richard Kimball Will

The original will is on file in the probate office at Salem, MA. (Ipswich Deeds, Vol. IV, p. 12)

The last will and Testament of Richard KIMBALL senr of Ipswich in Essex in new England who although weske in body yet of prfect memory doe dispose of my land & estate in maner & form as followeth.
"To my Loveinge 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 yeare after my decease, and then at the years end, the forty pound due her acording to contract at marriage to be payd her and that hous-hold stuff she brought with her. And to have liberty to live in the parlor end of the house, the roome we now lodge in: and liberty for her nesessary vse of some part of seller: also the liberty of one cow in pasture, the executors to provide winter meate for the same, and to have one quarter part of the fruit of the orchard, and firewood as long as she lives ther., And if she disire to remove to her owne house, then to be sett in it with what she have by my executors and to be alowed forty shilling yearly as long as shee lives.

And to my Eldest son Henry, my will is to give him three score and ten pounds to bee payd Twenty pounds, a year & half after my decease, & the remaining part in the two years following after that.

"To my son Richard I give ffoerty pounds.

To my son John I give twenty pounds.

To my son Thomas I give Twenty five pounds to bee payd two years and a halfe after my decease, and to his children I give seaven pounds to be devided equally among them and paid as they come of age or at day of marriage, providing if any dye before then their share to be distributed eaually amongst th rest.

And to my son Benjamin, besides the two oxen, allready received I give the sum of twenty five pounds, ten pound to be payd a yeare and halfe after my decease. The rest two years ffollowing, also to his children I give five pounds, equally to be devyded, and payd, as they come of age, or at day of marriage, in case any dye before then their share to be distributed equally amongst the rest.

And to my son Caleb I give that peace of land knowne by the name of Tings lott, and all my land att Wattels neck with my marsh at the hundreds knowne by the name of Wiatts marsh, and all my workjing tools except two axes, al to be delivered present after my discease also I give fourteene pounds to his seaven children equally to be devided, to be payd as they come of age or Day of mariage, and if any dye before, that part to be equally devided amongst the rest.

To my son-in-law John SEVERNS, I give ten pounds to be pay'd two yeares & a halfe after my decease.

And to my Daughter Elizabeth I give thirty pounds, ten pounds to be payd, a year & halfe after decease, and the other two parts, the following two yearts after that.

To my Daughter Mary I give ten pounds, five pounds to be payd a year & halfe after my decease, the other five pounds the year after that.

To my daughter Sarah I give forty pounds, five pounds to be payd the yeare & halfe after my decease and the rest five pound a yeare till it be all payd, also to her children I give seaven pounds ten shillings to be payd to them as they come of age or at day of marriage, if any dye before, that part to be equally devyded to the rest.

And to my daughter Sarah above sd: I alsop give the bed I lye on with the furniture after one years use of it by my wife.

To my wife children viz. Thomas, Jerimiah, and Mary.

To Thomas and Mary I give forty shilling apeece to be payd a yeare & halfe after my decease, and to Jerimiah I give fifteene pounds to be payd 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 payd and equally devided to them at the age of sixteene, if either of them dye before then the whole to be given to the one that remaines.

I also give four pounds to my Couzen Haniell BOSSWORTH, And doe ordaine & apoynt my two sons above sd. Richard john KIMBALL to be my lawfull and sole executors.