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Will of Edward Winslow
18
December 1654
| I Edward Winslowe of London. Esquior. being now bound in a
voyage to sea in the service of the comon welth do make publish & declare
this to be my last will & testamt touching the disposing of my estate.
ffirst I doe give will devise & bequeath all my lands & stock in New England
& all my possibilities & porcons in future allotmts & divicons to Josia my
onely sonne & his heires, hee allowing to my wife a full third parte thereof
for her life Also. I give to the poore of the Church of Plymouth in new
England Tenn pounds. & to the poore of marshfielde where the chiefest of my
estate lyes Tenn poundes., Also I give my lynnen wch I carry wth me to sea
to my daughter Elizabeth & the rest of my goods wch I carry wth mee I give
to my sonn Josias hee giving to each of my brothers a suite of apparell & I
make my said son Josias my executor of this my will, and Colonell venables
my overseer of my goods in the voyage & my fower frends Dr Edmond Wilson; mr
John Arthur, Mr James Sherley & Mr Richard ffloyde, overseers for the rest
of my prsonall estate in England.
witness my hand & Seale the Eighteenth day of December In the yeare of our Lord God one Thousand Six hundred fifty & ffower. Sealed & subscribed |