Posted on: Hampshire Co. Ma Wills Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ma/HampshireWill?read=3 Surname: OMSTED, OMSTEAD, BROWN, MARSH, HAMMOND, WOLCOT, SMITH ------------------------- Probate and Family Court Hampshire Division 33 King Street Northampton, Massachusetts 01060 Volume 8: 26-27 In the Name of God Amen, I Jabez Omsted of Ware-River in the County of Hampshire and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in in New England, being of lawful Age and Sound Mind, this Day calling to mind my own mortality, do make this my last Will and Testament, revoking all former Wills, or anything of that Nature or kind, by me heretofore made. And in the first place, I do commend my Spirit into the Hands of God who gave it, and my Body to a decent Burial, the rites of which to be performed in Such manner, as Shall be that to be best by my Excecutrix; and as to the Worldly with which God has blest me I do dispose of it in manner and form following. [Imprimis?] After my Debts and funeral Changes are paid, I do give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Martha, all my personal estate, of what nature or kind Soever, forever. Item I do give her the improvements of one third part of my real estate during her natural Life, and I do also give her the improvements of my whole estate, till my Son Moses comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Son Moses all my real estate upon his paying the legassies hereafter mentioned. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Son Jeremiah five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Son Israel five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to the Children of my Daughter Thankful Brown deceased five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Daughter Hannah Marsh five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give end bequeath to the child of my Daughter Hammond deceased five Shillings lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give end bequeath to my Daughter Dorcas Wolcot five Pounds lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Marsh five Pounds lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give and bequeath to my Abigal Smith five Pounds lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age. Item. I do give end bequeath to my Daughter Prudence five Pounds lawful money to be paid by my Son Moses when he comes of age with the interest. And I do constitute and appoint my well Beloved wife Martha Omstead Executrix of this my last Will and Testament. In witness of all which, I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this Twenty fourth of Feb.[anno Domini] Seventeen Hundred fifty two. Signed Sealed and Published In Presence of Job Lane his Jabez X" Omstead John Downing mark Hampshire Js March 22nd 1753 [said] John Downing & on the 29th of the Same month Job Lane The Witnesses to the foregoing Will which was then presented for probate appearing made oath That They Saw Capt. Jabez Omstead The Testator Sign & Seal & Heard him pronounce & declare the Same to be his last Will and Testament & that he was of Sound Mind & Memory when he did it & that they Signed as Witnesses to the Same in the [said] Testators presence wherefore at a Court of Probate holden at Northampton within & for the County of Hampshire on the Second Tuesday of April being the 10th day of [said] month [anno Domini] 1753 [p] Timothy Dwighte Esq. Judge of [said] Court - The foregoing Will as ratified approved & Confirmed [P]. March 22. John Dawning & [same month?] 29th Job Lane Sworn in Comnform April 10th 1753 [approved] as to the [Personal] Estate (as to the Conveyance of the Personal Estate which only is hereby conveyed) as the last Will & Testament of Said [Deceased]. . [P] Timothy Dwight