Ipswich Deeds 1:6-7
The first of March, 1643.
In the name of God, Amen: I, Robert Andrews of Ipswich in New England, being of perfect understanding & memory, doe make this my last will & testament. Imprimis: I comend my soule into the hands of my mercifull Creator and Redeemer, & I doe comitt my body after my departure out of this world to be buried in seemly manner by my friends &c. concerning my estate: Imprimis. I doe make my eldest sonne John Andrewes my executor. Item: I give unto my wife Elizabeth Andrews forty pounds, & to John Griffin the sonne of Humfrey Griffin sixteene pounds, to be pd untoe him when he shal be twenty one years of age, & if he shall dye before he comes to that age it shall return to my two sonnes John & Thomas Andrews. Item: concerning my sonne Thomas Andrews my will is, that he shall live with his brother John Andrews three years, two of which he shall be helpfull to his brother John Andrews in his husbandry, and the last of the three years he shall goe to schoole to recover his learning, and if he shall goe to the university, or shall set himself upon some other way of living, his brother John shall allow him ten pounds by the yeare for foure yeares, and then fifteene pounds by the yeare for two yeares succeeding after. Item. concerning the four score pounds which is to be paid unto my sonne in law Franklin's daughter Elizabeth Franklin my grandchild, my will is that if she die before the debt is due, it shal be thus disposed, tenn pounds of it shall goe to my sonne Daniel Hovies child Daniel Hovey my grandchild, and the other seventy pounds shall be divided between my two sons John & Thomas Andrews, and if those my two sonns should dye, then thirty pounds should be divided between my kinsman John, Thomas & Robert Burnum by equall porcons, & twenty more should goe to Humfry Griffin's two other sonnes, and the other twenety shall go to Daniel Hovey, and because my sonn John Andrews is yet under age, I do comend him unto Thomas Howlet as his guardian untill he shall come of age.
Robert Andrews
Witnessed hereof
William Knight
John Whipple
Thomas Scot
Joseph Metcalfe
This will was proved in the Court holden at Ipswich, 26th of ye first month, 1644.
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