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Personal Sketches 223
estates both reall & personall to be divided according as my executor shall
thing fitt betwixt them to each of them & their eaires forever.
Lastly, I do appoynt my loving brother Robert Gardner & my brotherin-law
Robert Carr, both of New Port in ye CoUony of Rhoad Island to be
my executors of this my last will & testiment & doe give them my sd
executors full power to actt & doe as they sheJl see fitt to be done for ye
benefitt of my above sd children be itt to sell lett or dispose of any manor
of way whatsoever.
" I do further give them full power if they se cause to sell partt or all of
my farme I now live on being ye half part of ye neck of land called Matapoysett
att Swansey in New England.
"In testimony whereof yesd Samuell Gardner hath hereunto set my
hand & efixed my seal this twenty-eighth year of ye Rain of our Sovarain
'Lor' William ye third King over England, Scotland, France & Ireland
Defender of ye faith etc.
Samuel Gardner, Seal.
Signed, sealed & acknowledged in presence of:
— — —
"James Cole
"James Brown
" 'M.' J. Cole—
"The X Mark
"Joanna 'Conant'
"The X Mark of Mary Earle.
"The above written will being not legally proved in regard the mtnesses
cannot swear that the testator was of sound memory and of well
disposing minde but upon their oath have according to their apprehensions
declared the contrary whereupon the sd will being voyde administration
is granted to the widow as the law directs as attests.
Feb. 16, 1696-97. J. Probate."
"
Jno. Saffin,
(This copy was duly authenticated by Arthur M. Alger, register of
Bristol county, Mass., July 8, 1903, under seal of the Probate Court).
(II) Samuel Gardner (2), son of Samuel, was born Oct. 28, 1685. He
was married Dec. 6, 1707, by Gov. Samuel Cranston, to Hannah, born Dec.
20, 1688, daughter of Philip and Mary Smith. He died Feb. 10, 1773, and
she passed away Nov. 16, 1768. Issue: Elizabeth, born July 4, 1728,
Ambrose Barnaby (born April 20, 1706, died April 18, 1775) ; Mary, born
Oct. 26, 1710, married Jan. 31, 1731, Barnard Hill; Samuel, born Oct. 30
1712, died young; Samuel (2), born Feb. 17, 1717, is mentioned below;
Peleg was born Feb. 22, 1719; Patience, born Feb. 1721, married March 30,
1738, Dr. John Turner; Hannah, born in 1724, died Dec. 24, 1811, married
Caleb Turner, who died July 20, 1757; Sarah, born in 1726, died Feb. 29,
1808, married April 19, 1744, John Mason (born Sept. 28, 1723, died Nov.
27, 1805) ; Edward, born April 22, 1731, died in 1795, married Jan. 11, 1756,
Esther Mason, born Sept. 2, 1735, died 1806; Martha was married to Job
Mason on May 10, 1753.
(III) Samuel Gardner (3), son of Samuel (2), was born Feb. 17, 1717.
He married Oct. 30, 1740, Content Brayton, who was born April 3, 1724,
daughter of Preserved and Content Brayton. Issue: EUzabeth, born
June 1, 1741, married March 18, 1762, Samuel Luther; Anne, born Feb.
26, 1743, married June 10, 1762, Richard Barton (born Feb. 9, 1738, died
March 1, 1797;) Samuel, born March 5, 1745, died Sept. 20, 1822, married