This may be of interest to many of you who are Aquila's descendants. >Only days before his death at the early age of 52, Aquila, fearing that his >"weakeness" was fatal, dicated the following will: > > Witness by these presents that I Aquilla Chase of Newbury in the >countye of Essex in New England being weake in body, yett of sound & pfect >memory, for divers causes and considderrations me therunto moveing, doe make >this my last will and testament And doe dispose of my lands goods & >chattells as followeth, first I bequeath my soule into the hands of my >blessed Saviour & redeemer Jesus Christ In an assured hope of a resurrection >and my body to be buryed when it shall please the Lord to call me hence, To >my well-beloved wife Ann I give and bequeath, my house barne aand orchard >and all my lands both Eareable pasture and marsh meadow ground lyeing and >being in the bounds of the Towne of Newbury aforesayd together with all my >goods and chattells both within dores & without > All the sayd house and land before mentioned I give unto Ann my well >beloved wife dureing the time of her widdow hood, paying unto my daughter >Ann Chase five pounds, in corne or neate cattle, and five pounds more to pay >, unto my daughter Prisilla Chase, to be payd within twelve months, after >the day of their marriages, > Also I will that my wife give unto my sonn Thomas Chase at the age of >one and twenty, Tenn pounds in corne or neate cattle, pvided the sayd Thomas >doe abyde and serve with his mother to the sd age, And if his mother and hee >the sd Thomas see cause, that hee should serve for a trade, with any other >man soe that he have the benifitt of a trade, then his mother my well- >beloved wife, is to pay unto the sayd Thomas, but six pound in the like pay >before mentioned, for the rest of my children my will and testament is, That >Ann my wife, shall give unto them all shee sees good according to her >abilitye, and at the end of her naturall like, I give and bequeath all house >houseing & Lands before mentioned unto Aquilla Chase my eldest sonn, or if >Ann my wife marry , my sonn is to posses all my houseing and lands, paying >unto his mother three pounds p annum as long as shee liveth or three score >pound which shee pleaseth, > further my will is, that Aquilla my sonn shall pay to his brother John >Chase the summ of tenn pounds in corne or neate cattle, and tenn pound more >the sd Aquilla, is to pay unto his Brother Moses Chase Tenn pounds incorne & >cattle, > Also my will is that Aquilla pay unto my daughter Sarah three pounds >within two years after her mothers decease, and pay unto my daughter Mary >twenty shillings > and further my will is that Aquilla my my sonn pay unto his sister >Elizabeth foure pounds in the like pay, > Also my will is, that Aquilla pay foure pounds in the like paye to his >sister Ruth, > All which summs to be payd in two yeares after the decease of Ann my >wellbeloved wife. And I doe apoynt Ann my well beloved wife, to be sole >executrix of this my last well and testament, and further I doe apoynt >Ensigne Steven Greenleafe and Wm. Chandler to be the overseers of this my >last will and testament, Further my will is that Aquilla my sonn shall pay >unto his Brother Thomas Chase before mentioned the sum of ten pounds in the >like pay with the rest of my children and if any of my younger children be >not of age within two years after the decease of my wife, then they are to >stay for their portions till they be of age >In witness wherof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the 10th day of >december in the yeare of our Lord 1670 >Witness: The mark of Aquilla Chase >William Chandler >Steven Greenlefe >James Ordway >[The Probate Records of Essex County 2:217-219] >"The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway" Dean Crawford Smith NEHGS 1990 >pp168-170