Transcription of the will of Lydia (Eliot) (Penniman) Wight, dates 22 December 1673

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Transcription of the will of Lydia (Eliot) (Penniman) Wight, dates 22 December 1673

The last will & Testament of Lidia Wight Being through gods mercy in good memory & understanding according to that measure the lorde hath given mee & yet my bodily infirmities putting mee in mynde that I have no longe to Continue in this world the refore in order to the finishing what concerns me I doe make this my last will as followeth[:] First & above all things I doe committ my Soule into the hands of my gracious god in Jesus Christ to dispose of me & accomplish for the good pleasure o f his grace for my present & ethernal estate & after my decease my body to be decently buryed according to the discretion of my loving husband & friends & as for that Small portion of worldly goods which the lord hath graciously given ^ left by th e last will of my former husband James Penniman I have according to my best understanding faithfully performed his will & have truly paid into my five daughters which are married, the full Summ of Twenty Pounds to each of them & as for what remain s in my hands which is cheifly a bond of Eighty pounds from my Son Samuel Penniman which is the remainder of the price of the several parcels of land which I have sold to him as appears by deede, I doe will that my daughter Mary Penniman shall hav e Twenty Pounds well & truly paid according to my former husbands will & then the remainder which is Sixty Pounds shall be paid Tenn Pounds to my daughter Lydia Addams & Tenn pounds to my daughter Sarah Robinson & Tenn Pounds to my daughter Bethia h Allen & Tenn Pounds to my daughter Hannah Hall & Tenn Pounds to my daughter Abigail Carie & Tenn Pounds & my great kettle to my daughter Mary Penniman & also my wearing apparrell & houshold stuffs at my husband Wights house my will is that as ne are as may be there be equally divided unto my Six daughters & I doe Constitute & appointe my Son Samuel Penniman to be my Executor & doe also request my Loving cousins Jacob Eliot and Thoephilus Frary to be Overseers unto this my will as doe witn esse my hand this Two & Twentieth day of December in the yeare of our Lord 1673.

Lydia Wight & a Seale
Witnesses
Edward West
Ephraim Wight

The above will was proved on 27 July 1676. Inventory of the estate of Lydia Wight, valued at 109 pounds, 11 shillings, was taken on 19 July 1676.

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