Name: dowfam3 -- Dowling Family Genealogy

Updated: 10-23-2019 00:10:42.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Nathaniel Merrill: Birth: BEF 25 MAY 1634 in Lawford, Essex, England. Death: 1 JAN 1682/83 in Newbury, Essex Co., MA

  2. John Merrill: Birth: BEF 16 FEB 1635/36 in Lawford, Essex, England. Death: 18 JUL 1712 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT

  3. Abraham Merrill: Birth: BEF 9 APR 1637 in Lawford, Essex, England. Death: 28 NOV 1722 in Newbury, Essex Co., MA

  4. Susannah Merrill: Birth: BEF 12 DEC 1638 in Lawford, Essex, England. Death: 10 OCT 1690 in Suffield, Hartford Co., CT

  5. Daniel Merrill: Birth: 20 AUG 1642 in Newbury, Essex Co., MA. Death: 27 JUL 1717 in Salem, Essex Co., MA

  6. Abel Merrill: Birth: 20 FEB 1643/44 in Newbury, Essex Co., MA. Death: 28 OCT 1689 in Newbury, Essex Co., MA

  7. Thomas Merrill: Birth: 1 NOV 1646 in Newbury, Essex Co., MA.


Notes
a. Note:   Nathaniel Merrill - March 8, 1655 Witness by those psents that I Nathaniell Merrill of Newbury in the Countie of Essex being sicke of body but through gods mercy of perfect memory do here make my last will and testament. I first bequeath my soule into the hands of my blessed Redeemer with an assured hope of a joyfull resurection, and my body when it shall please the lord to take me out of this fraile life to bee buryed in the burying place of Newbury, and for my worldly goods I give and dispose of as followeth Impr I give and bequeath unto Susanna my wife five akers of plowable land lying next my Brother John land and halfe the marsh dureing her naturall life and a cow and three heifers and all my household goods, And out of this estat so given to my wife I give and bequeath unto my daughter Susanna five pounds when she shalbe at the age of twenty yeares then I give and bequeath unto my son Nathaniell (whom I appoint as my true and lawfull heire) all my land and freehold after my wives decease, and all the working tooles & Implements of husbandry and all the cattell and stocke besids And out of this stocke I appoint that my son Nathaniell shall pay theise legacyes as followeth, that is I give unto my son John when he shalbee of the age of two and twenty yeers the summe of five pounds, And also I give and bequeath unto my son Abraham at the age of two and twenty yeare five pounds, And I give and bequeath unto my sonne Daniell also at the age of one and twenty years five pound and I give and bequeath to my son Abell five pounds also at the age of one and twenty years, And I appoint my son Nathaniell to be my sole executor and all my debts & funerall rites being discharged I appoint him to have all the reast of my goods & chattels undisposed and I desire my brother John merill and Anthony Somerby to be the overseers of this my last will & testament. In witnesse whereof I have set my hand. The marke march the eight in the yeare one NM thousand six hundred fifty foure of Nathaniell Merrill upon ye estate but if gods p'vidence should by losses & crosses ^ more then ordinary: then proportionably to be abated in the legacyes Wittnes Richard Knight Anthony Somerby pved in court held at ypswich John Merrell the 27 of (1) 55 by the oath of John merrill & Anthony Sumerby p me Robt. Lord cleric

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