This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bennett Sweet Aldrich Taft Hill Crane Dunn Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BRD.2ACEB/6232 Message Board Post: Transcribed from SAMPUBCO copy by Sheryl Romasco Worcester, MA Will book Vol Northbridge 66 page 495 Will of Robert Bennett In the name of God Amen. I Robert Bennett of Northbridge in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of a sound disposing mind and recollecting the mortality of my body do make this my last will and testament. My worldly estate I dispose of in the following manner. First I give unto my son Rufus Bennett all my real estate with all the buildings thereon standing except my half of the farm which I have purchased of Jacob Hill. I also give him all my farming utensils of every kind. I also give him all my wearing apparel, cloaks and boots. Item I give unto my daughter Amy Sweet, the widow of John Sweet deceased, three hundred dollars to be paid within two years after my decease and if not then paid to be on interest till paid. I also give her one third of all my indoor movables. Item I give unto my daughter Anna Aldrich, the wife of Major Lyman Aldrich, three hundred dollars to be paid within two years after my decease and if not then paid to be on interest till paid. I also give her one third of all my indoor movables. Item I give to my daughter Abigail Taft, the wife of Zadoch Taft, three hundred dollars to be paid within two years after my decease and if not then paid to be on interest till paid. I also give her one third of all my indoor movables. Item I give unto my grandson Robert B Bennett my half of the farm which I bought of Jacob Hill to come into possession of it at my decease, his father Rufus Bennett have the use and income of it till that time. The said Robert B Bennett is to pay Robert Bennett Sweet ten dollars when he comes in possession of the aforesaid legacy. And I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Rufus Bennett sole executor of this my last will and testament and I do order him to pay all my just debts and my funeral charges and he is to secure all my debt on note or books account to pay all my bequests and to see that this my last will and testament is carefully and faithfully executed. Signed, sealed, declared and pronounced to be my last will and testament in presence of John Crane Northbridge July 15 1826 David Dunn Henry Dun Worcester SS To all people to whom these presents shall come Nathl Paine Esq Judge of the Probate of Wills in the county of Worcester within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts sendeth Greeting Know ye that on the fifth day of January Anno Domini 1830 the instrument hereunto annexed, (purporting to be the last will and testament of Robert Bennett of Northbridge in the County of Worcester deceased, was presented for probate by Rufus Bennett the Executor therein named; then present Henry Dunn one of the witnesses thereto subscribed, who made oath that he saw the said testator sign sand seal and heard him disclose the said instrument to be his last will and testament and that he with John Crane and David Dunn subscribed their names together as witness to the execution thereof in the said testators presence and that he was then (to the best of the deponents judgment) of sound and disposing mind. I do therefore prove, approve, and allow of the said instrument as the last will and testament of the above named deceased, and commit the administration thereof in all matters the same concerning and of his estate whereof he died seized and possessed in said Commonwealth unto the before named Executor, well and faithfully to execute the said will and to administer the estate of said deceased according thereto, who accepted said trust and has given bond to exhibit an inventory and to render an account of his proceedings when thereunto lawfully required. In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and year above written. Nathl Paine