Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

206 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
things in order, do make tliis my last will and testament in manner
and forme following, viz : first and principally, I give and
committ my soul to God in Jesus Christ my Saviour and Redeemer
throw whose pretious death and merrits I hope to find ye free
pardon and remition of all my sinnes, and everlasting salvation,
and my body to ye earth from whence it was talien, to be buried
in such decent manner as to my Executor hereafter named, shall
seem meet and convenient, and as touching my wordly estate
which God hath in mercy lent unto me, my will is to bestow ye
same as hereafter is expressed, and I do hereby revoke and make
void all wills by me formerly made and declared and appoint this
to be my last will and testament.
Imprimus my will is that all those debts and duties which I
owe in right or conscience to any person or persons whatsoever,
shall be well and truly contented and paid when convenient by my
Executor.
Itt. I give and bequeath unto Patience my loving wife,
besides ye liberty to dispose of all ye estate which she brought
with her or had at ye time of our intermarriage, and besides ye
forty pounds I then promised to give her, in case she should survive
me, I give unto her my best bedd and bedstead with all ye
ffurniture thereto belonging.
Itt. I give and bequeath to my eldest son John Crocker my
now dwelling house and lands both upland and ffresh meadows
adjoyning and belonging thereunto now and of late under my
occupation and improvement to have and to hold to him his heirs
and assignes foreve^he or they paying to ye s'd Patience my wife
twenty pounds of ye fores'd forty pounds she is to receive, and I
do also hereby confirm to him my son John his heirs and assignes
forever all those parcels of land I heretofore gave unto him and
are well known to have been in his quiet possession for sundry
years ; I further also give and bequeath to him my son John my
two oxen which he hath had in his posession some years.
Itt. I give and bequeath unto my son Job Crocker besides ye
land I heretofore gave him and known to be in his possession,
twenty acres of that fifty acres at ye ponds which I purchased of
John Coggin to have and to hold to him my son Job his heirs and
assignes forever and .that he chuse it on which side of s'd land he
please.
Itt. I will and bequeath to my sons Josiah and Eliazer
Crocker besides those lands I heretofore gave to ea'eh of them
and are in their particular knowne possession, all my upland at
the marsh together with all ye marsh adjoining thereunto, (except
such particular parcel or parcels thereof as I have heretofore
given and is possest of late by anj' other or is in these presents
hereafter mentioned,) to be equally divided between them ye s'd
Josiah and Eliazer to have and to hold to them their heirs and