Samuel Newman, Senior
Last Will & Testament
[fol. 9] "The last Will .... of mr Samuell Newman
senir of Rehoboth exhibited to the court held att Plymouth,' 3 March, 1663.
"The 13th of November 1661 I Samuell Newman Teacher att Rehoboth" made his will.
Bequests were as follows.
"Imprimis That my Deare wife have the foure pounds yearly agreed upon
between my son Samuell and mee att his marriage together with such
privilidges specifyed in a writing given under his owne hand; upon which I gave him and
his all my lands sittuate in Rehoboth into his posession freely haveing Consented. that
his mother have halfe the great house orchyard before the Dore and one hundred pound
Comonage;"
"my land att Wenham and housing the whole farme which is lett for nine pounds yearly;
That my loveing wife have it During her life; and that then my son Antipas and
his Injoy it for ever onely that hee pay forty pounds in two yeare to
his three sisters and brother Noah; five pound apeece to each for the two
yeares"
"that my Daughter hopstill
have a featherbed; bolster pillowes 2 payer of sheets two blanketts and a Coverlid att her
marriage and if shee please her mother in her match; forty pounds more att two payments in
two yeares space after her marriage;"
"that Noah have all my bookes left but my concordance which
I give my wife During her life; and then to bee my son Samuells;
alsoe some few English bookes which my wife may give to any of her other children; are
excepted;"
"that my son Noah, att the tearme of three yeares end, after the Date heerof have a
younge horse or a mare . and my saddle;"
"if anything come over from old England, for mee more or lesse; that my Deare wife
have the Disposing of it; att her pleasure"
"that the poor of Rehoboth, have two pounds and of Weymouth one pound, within a yeare
after my Decease, my wife and the Deacons ordering it; alsoe it is my will that my
old servants Mary humpheres, of Dorchester; Elizabeth Cubby of Weymouth Elizabeth Palmer,
of Rehoboth, and Lydia Winchester my present servant have ten shillinges
apeece"
"If either of my Children Die unmarried that theire portion bee Devided equally
amonst the surviveing;"
"that all my Debtes being payed, my Cattle and houshold goods, bee to my wife for the
paying of the legacies;"
"that my Deare wife Sibbell Newman, bee the sole exequitrix, Of this my last Will;
and that Stephen Paine senir, Thomas Cooper Deacon, and Leiftenant hunt, bee my overseers;
to give theire advise to my Destressed widdow, as alsoe theire best healp as her needs may
call for it"
The witnesses were "John Kinksey" and Samuel Newman, Jr.
"John Kinksley was Deposed to this Will of mr Samuell Newman Deceased before mee
Thomas Willett; Dated this 4th Day of ffebruary 1663"
"An exacte Inventory of the (foods of Mr Samuell Newman of Rehoboth Deceased July the
fift 1663 Taken by Stephen Paine senir Deacon Cooper and Leiftenant hunt selected men for
this purpose being Inhabitants of the said Towne; July 31: 63 "The only real estate
mentioned is "a farme att Wenham" but the value was not stated.
