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From: Mariana <>
Subject: Will of Nathaniel Merrill, 8 Mar 1654
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 14:38:52

Estate of Nathaniel Merrill of Newbury

Witnes by these psents that I Nathaniell Merrill of Newbury in the Countie
of Essex being sicke of body but through gods mercy of perfect memory I do
here make my last will and testament, I first bequeath my soule into the
hands of my blessed Redeemer with an assured hope of a joyfull resurection,
and my body when it shall please the lord to take me out of this fraile
life to bee buryed in the burying place of Newbury, and for my worldly
goods I giue and dispose of as followeth Impr I giue and bequeath vnto
susanna my wife fiue akers of plowable land lying next to my brother Johns
land and halfe the marsh dureing her naturall life and a cow and three
heifers and all my household goods, And out of this estat so giuen to my
wife I giue and bequeath vnto my daughter Susanna fiue pounds when she
shalbe at the age of twenty yeares then I giue and bequeath vnto my Son
Nathaniell (whom I appoint as my true and lawfull heire) all my land and
freehold after my wiues decease, and all the working tooles & Implements of
husbandry and all the cattell and stocke besids And out of this stocke I
appoint that my Son Nathaniell shall pay theise legacyes as followeth, that
is I giue vnto my son John when he shallbee of the age of two and twenty
yeers the summe of fiue pounds, And also I giue and bequeath vnto my Son
Abraham at the age of two and twenty years fiue pounds, And I giue and
bequeath vnto my sonne Daniell also at the age of one and twenty years fiue
pound and I giue and bequeath to my son Abell fiue pounds also at the age
of one and twenty years, And I appoint my Sone Nathaniell to be my sole
executor and all my debts & funerall rites being discharged I appoint him
to haue all the rest of my goods & chattels vndisposed and I desire my
brother John merill and Anthony somerby to be the ouerseers of this my las
t will & testament In witness whereof I haue st my hand march the eight in
the yeare one thousand six hundred fifty foure but if gods puidence should
by losses & crosses |vpon ye estate| more than ordinary: then
proportionobly to be abated in the legacyes
his mark
Nathaniell n n merrill
Witness: Richard Knight, Anthony Somerby, John merrell
Proved Mar 27, 1655 by John Merrill and Anthony Somerby

Inventory of the estate of Nathaniell Merrill of Newbury, who deceased Mar
16, 1654-5, taken Mar 23, 1654-5, by Daniell (his D mark) Thurston, Richard
Knight and Archelaus Woodman: Ten akers of upland and thre akers of marsh
with the previledge of a grehold or commage, 20£; one cow and a calfe, 4£
15 s; three heifers of three yeare old & 2 claves 12£ 10s; two steers of
two yeare old & two heifers11£; three yearelings, 4£, one old cart &
wheeles and sled and an old barow, 1£; 2 spades, a mattock, a betle, 4
wedges, a crosscut & a handsaw & 4 axes and 4 hooes, 2£; 3 old tubs, a
fanne, an Iron staple & ring & 2 prongs & shovell, 10s; his weareing
apparell, 2£; ten bushells of malt & barly, 5 bushells of wheate & nine
bushels of rye & about 35 bushells of Indian corne, 10£ 16s; two muskets
and 2 swords with match & powder, 2£; cats & pease, 10s; sixe small swyne,
3£; 2 flock beds & bolsters & 2 paire of sheets, old, 4£; 2 old ketles, 2
skillets & a smal braspot & Iron pot, 1£ 10s; an old warming pan, fire
shovell, grid Iron, tongs, & other small Iron things & a spitt, 12s; 4
small pewter dishes & a skimmer, dishes & spoones, 12s; a truckle bedsted,
2 buckets and a pr of cottrells, 10s; a small cart rope & halfe bushell & a
pecke, 5s; a small cubberd & 2chests, 16s; one drinke vessell, 2 wheels,
one powdring tub, ten milk trayes & 3 cheesfats, 2£; total 84£ 6s; his
debts for Rent due to Mr Cutting, 5£; in small debts, 2£
Essex County Quarterly Court Files 3:10

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