Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Wills Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/HampshireWill/4 Surname: Edwards ------------------------- Hampshire County, Massachusetts, Probate Book 3, p 294 I Sam'll Edwards Sen'r of the town of Northampton in the County of Hampshire in the Province of the Massachusets Bay in New England & Husbandman being in Years & also weak in body & Aoorehensive of my Approaching End but in sound understanding memory Do make Constitute & appoint this to be my Last Will & Testamente Imp'eis I Give up my Sout into the hands of God my Creator & of Jesus Christ my Redeemer desiring that it may be accepted not upon the account of any? of mine but on the Account of the Righteousness & Sacrifice of Christ and my body I Commit to decent burial in hope of A blessed Resurrection at ye last Day & As for that Outward Estate which God hath mercifully bestowed on me I Doe dispose of it after ye discharge of my dur Debts & fineral Expenses in manner and form following First I Give to my beloved Wife Sarah ye thirds of my housing and landsduring her natural life & the thirds of my moveable Estate to be at her free disposal for Ever. It'm: I Give to my Eldest son Sam'll my lot on thee plain with the house that is thereon my lot alsoe by Mr Dwights on ye other side of the Mill River & my two lots by the Hogs bladder & my lot in the middle of Munhane? together with one half of my woodlands to him & to his he's for Ever It'm I Give to my Second Son Nath'll my house & homestead with all that appertains thereunto both upland & meadow my lot in Old Rainbow my lot at Munbane ditch & my lot by the Pound together with the half of my Wood lands to him & his heirs for Ever. It'm to my three Eldest daughters who are Married Vi? Sarah Abigail & Hannah I Give besides what they have & to Ruth my youngest daughter who is yet unmarried hath Received no portion I Give fifty pounds in pay Received from me already Ten Pounds A Piece in Pay And I Order my Executors to pay what is assigned to my Daughters with Speed they can Conveniently at the furthest with half a year after my decease of my Wife & Lastly I do appoint my Two Sons Sam'll & Nath'll to my Executors In Testimony that this is my Last Will & Testam'te I have hereunto Affixed my hand and Seal this Eighth day of April An Com One Thousand Seven Hindred and twelve & Anno Reg'ee Magn Britt ? & Hib Undecimo Sam'll Edwards. Proved 10 May 1712