New Britain herald., 1923-08-06

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 I intend her them all as also the bes
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 I give to my Daughter Elizabeth y,
 suite of Landskipp hangings and t
 my Daughter Dorothy that of Suznn
 no. Item. I give unto Ralph Fenwicl
 now Scholar of Christ Church in OK
 ford Tenne pounds per Annum, to be,
 paid quarterly for ye terme of si,
 yeares from ye date hereof Also I give to every servant Twenty shillings foi
 every year they have been in my serv- Ice before ye day of my death. <.
 And I purpose, if God give life to adde a Codicill in remembrance ot some friends which now, I could not perfect.
 (The following is from the codicilD : do also hereby revoke and make void ye gift of whatever sum or summes of money are, given formerly by my will to my Sister Culliek and her Children. or to all or any of them. And I doe give and beaueath to her my Said Sister and her Children all my Lands, Chattells, real and per- sonal that are in New England and my debts that are oweing thereunto mee, to be divided amongst them into so many parts as there are persons of them and in such manner as yet her Eldest some may have double DOT ton. And likewise that out of it may be had Five Hundred pounds which doe give to ye publique use of that .1a 70 friend MT. Edward Hopkins think it fit. And to be employed and used to that end as my said Loveing friend shall order and direct. Also I doe hereby give and bequeath to my Love- ing friend MT. Robert Leenes ye summe of Twenty pounds to buy him Books. also desire my deare friend and father-in-law Sir Arthur to accept ye meane re- of forty shillings to buy a ringe, which doe hereby will and beoueath unto him. And likewise forty shillings a piece to every one of his children for the like purpose. (Sim1- lar bequest are made to six other persons to buy rings).
 This is true Coppy of the aforesd attested Coppy, examined together with him whose name is hereunder written as Attest.
 Pi me Robert Howard, Notary Pub lioue, Massachusetts Collonee. Noveae Angle 10. March 1858.
 THOMAS WALKER.
 The inventory of MT. Fenwick's es- tate at Saybrook, Conn.,, was De livered in the General Courte at Hart ford, 18th day of May, 1860 by MT. John Cullick ammounting to 941 pounds besides mares and horses in he woods, the number and value of them unknown
 (Manwarings Digest of Early Conn. Records Vol PIP. 51 to 55).
 "Saybrook is one of the most an ,ient towns in the state. Lord Say md Seal. Lord Brook and other gen. lemen of distinction, dissatisfied with the civil and religious state if thinks in England in the time If Charles I contemplated a removal o America: accordingly, in 1882 they procured of Robert, Earl of War wick. a patent of all that territory which lies west from Narrangansett iver a hundred and twenty miles on he sea coast; and from thence in lat tude and breadth aforesaid to the ,outh Sea.
 Tn the summer of 1889, Col. aeorge Fenwick, one of the patentees, rrived from England and in honor f Lord Say and Seal and Lord srook gave the tract about the mouth of the river the name of Say rock. From this time, to December. 644, he superintended and governed he inhabitants, and then sold the of Saybrook to Connecti- ut Colony; as his associates had giv- n up their contemplated removal to .merica- (Barber's Connecticut His orical Collections, pp. 532-30
 fy Great Brass Kettle, a Bible and
 Bodkin.
 1899. Susannah Shepherd sen. Hartford. I give to my daughter usannah Pratt Chests & two Boxes nd all that is in them. the one 'ainscott Chest, the other marked w. S. I give to John Pratt, Jr a little 'ott, a great Skillet. and a frying an and Table. And to my son Will am Goodwin's daughter Susan, l i've my great Brass Kettle and a ible & a Bodkin. I give to Nath- niel Goodwin's daughter Methetabell,
 trundel Bedd, Boulster & Blank f tts. I give to Hezekeah Goodwin ,y biggest Iron Pott X warming pan. give to William Goodwin's wife my 'edding gown. And to my son Nath. oodwin's wife my gowns & a serge own & a paragon Gown.
 he Use of My Syder Mill and Press.
 1898. Joseph Mygatt sen. Hartford.