This was one of the easier wills to read of this time period, but still need help with a few words, please.
Usual beginning, then...; ffirst of all I give to Richard Robinson
3 pounds thirteen shillings four pence which I doe owe unto him to be ____________
att Whitsunday ? next after my death; also I give until the said Richard one black
colt, also I give I give unto the said Richard one oxgange of corne out of his four
oxgange when they be _______ att my wife ______________: also I give unto Thomas
Merry the sonne of Thomas Merry twenty shillings; also I give unto George
Merry six shillings eight pence; also I give unto Thomas Stockall my best clothes
Also I give unto my daughter Mary ___________one _______________also I give unto
William Watson the sonne of Robert Watson one little black ______, Also I give
Unto Richard Bennyson the sonne of Ralph Bennyson one ffoule to be taken of
____Saint _____day, and to be kept by his father; Also I give unto my Daughter Mary
my house with all appurtenances belonging to it where__________after
the death of her mother, to her and her heirs forever; paying unto William
Watson the sonne of Robert Watson six pounds when he ______to _____full
years of age ?; Also I give until my Daughter Anne Bennyson
one oxgange of land with appurtenances belonging to it to her and her
heirs for ever after the decease of her mother, also I give unto William Watson
the sonne of Robert Watson one halfe ______ with one halfe _____lying on the west ____
of that ______next to Elizabeth Maulson with all appurtenances belonging
to them after the decease of his? Grandmother; and the rest of my goods moveable
and immoveable my debts paid and funeral expenses ____________ to my wife Mary
Merry (above insertd “and my daughter Mary”) whom I make Executors of this my last will and testament thirteen shillings four pence is______________
For _____of her father _____ my sonne money which I owe him; ffor the black colt
And oxgange of land is for the _____passage ________him ____Mary my wife__________
this will Phillip Woodell John Richardson
Thank you,
Louise in California
