Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

14 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAEN8TABLE FAMILIES.
money ($1,666.67) for the sole use and benefit, and for the encouragement
and support of a professor of Physic and Surgery at
the University in Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, aforesaid ; or any other town or
county in said Commonwealth where such professor shall be
appointed to reside, the one moity or half part thereof to be paid by
my executors hereafter named in four years after my decease, and
the remaining moity or half part thereof to be paid by my executors
hereafter named after the decease of my wife."
In the codicil the whole is made payable after the decease of his
wife.
He also bequeathed to the University at Cambridge, to be deposited
in its library,
10 Books of Bishop Butler's Analogy of Natural and Revealed Re-
ligion.
6 Books by Rev. Henry Grove on the Lord's Supper, and
3 sets of Dr. Evans' Sermons on the Christian Temper.
After the decease of his wife and the payment of the legacy^'to
Harvard College, he devised the use and improvement of the | remainder
of his estate, forever, to the thirteen Congregational
Churches in the County of Barnstable. In making this division, he
proportioned the amount given according to the amount of practice
he had obtained in each of the several parishes. This fact is not
stated in the will, but I have it on good authority. I have reduced
his fractions to their least common denominator, 56, instead of using
8th, 14th, 28th and 56th, as he does.
To the Congregational Church in the East Precinct in Barnsta-
ble, (of which he was a member,) 7 56th8.
To the West Church, Barnstable, 5
" Church in Sandwich, 4
" " in Falmouth, 4
" West or First in Yarmouth, 6
" East or Second, 4
" North or First, Harwich, 4
" South or Second, 3
" Church in Chatham, 4
" " South Eastham, 5
" " North " 3
" " Wellfleet, 3
" " Truro, 4
56 56ths.
The east parish in Yarmouth is now the town of Dennis ; the
north in Harwich, Brewster, and the south in Eastham, Orleans
Provincetown was included in Truro.
Respecting the management of his real estate after the decease
of his wife, he directed as follows