Robert CLEMENTS
Will

Will of Robert Clements.

"Sept: 6th (58) I Robertt Clements of Haverhill being of perfitt memory blessed be God for itt doe ordaine & make this my last will, in manner & forme following ffirst I committ my soule into the hands of God my Creator & maker, beleeving thorough the mirritts Righteousness & obedience of Jesus christ my redemer to haue & enjoy life & Salvation Everlastingly by him. ffor my goods I giue first ynto my wife my house & house lott & all the acomadatos that belonged to itt which shee is to haue during her life & after her decease to returne to my childorns childorne that are in new england each his pportio to be delivered into ye hands of their parents for their childorns vse. I giue alsoe to my wife my best yoake of oxen I haue & three of my best cowes, & my mare which brought the mule & alsoe my swine & two of my best beds with theire furniture to them & six of my best peuter dishes six spoones, my best brasse pott, & three of my best kittles, and two spining t ... rnes & all hangles on the fire, with fire shoules & tongue & two of ye best coushens, one ... & a cupp, with all my wooden & Earthen vessells & all manner of clothing that belong to her, as also my byble candlestick & chamber pott. my will is that if there be any goods of mine come out of England this yere or the next my wife shall have fiue pounds of itt according to ye bill of lading. also I gieu my wife all Lining in my house excepting two paire of sheetes yt are for my bed & all the Corne in my house barne & growing on the land, & alsoe a debt of seaven pounds & sum odd mony in the hands of John Hutchins for the repaireing the house & fencing the house lott I giue to my wife alsoe what is due to me or will be from Mr Dumer by bills or Covinants, & alsoe the Cloth that is att the weavers with what woolen yearne & fflaxe is in the house, & alsoe three pounds which is in the hands of mr Cooke of boston I giue her two skillitts, two stockes off the best beese & two chests with Iocke & ease to them I giue to my wife the boards I bought at Salisbury to repaire the house. It is my will that one halfe of the goods which I giue my wife that if she spend not, at her decease it shall returne to my executors to be equally devided among them.

"I giue to my sonne Job Clement one fellee which will be two yer old next may, allsoe I giue him my best suit of apparell & my best cloake & best hatt, my best paire of shewes & stockens. I giue to my son Robert twenty pound due to mee out of my rentt in England, & which rentt is due to mee more I giue to my three sonnes John, Abraham & Dannell. All the rest of my estate in new england due to me upon bonds or bills or any account land or goods whatsoever I giue to my sonnes Moses Pengrow & Abraham Morrill & John Osgood whom I make my executors to see this my will performed & my debts paid & my body laid in ye graue. That which is struck out in the other Side at the lower end between the 4th & 5th line it was done before it was seald to, & her vnto I sett my hand & seale. I giue to mr ward or minester fiue pounds"

"Robert Clements" (Seal)

Witnesses:

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