MySource:Quolla6/Will of Thomas Scudder, 1686

From: Source: Holman, Alfred L. A Register of the Ancestors of Dorr Eugene Felt and Agnes (McNulty) Felt. Chicago. Privately Printed. 1921. fide http://groups.msn.com/AncestorChroniclesOurKinAndTheirTimes/weeklyancestor.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=76384

WILL OF THOMAS SCUDDER.

In ye name of God Amen

I Thomas Scudder of Huntington upon Long Island in ye County of Suffolk & Province of N. York in America being in a competency of health & having my perfect memory have made this my last Will & Testamt in manner & form following--

Impmis--I give & bequeath my soul to God my maker & Redeemer & my body to ye earth from whence I was taken to be laid in decency according to the discretion of my Executors--

Item--I give & bequeath to my son Timothy Scudder my farm at Crab Meadow both upland & meadow with all its rights & privileges after Walter Noakes seven years expiration which began in 1685--And that lot at ye Harbor on ye South of Capt. Fleet, also that piece of Meadow that lyeth on ye north side of Jonathan Rogers--Also a bed which is to be at ye disposal or his mother--Item--I give & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Noakes a cow--I give & bequeath to my daughter Mary Arthur a cow--Item--I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Concklyn twenty pounds--Item--I give & bequeath to my daughter Cleman twenty pounds--Item--I give & bequeath to my daughter Mary (or Marcy) twenty pounds--All the rest of my lands goods & chattels not given & bequeathed I give & bequeath to my loving wife Mary Scudder & to my son Benjamin Scudder Equally to be divided between them and after the natural life of my wife both land & meadow housing & orchards to return to my son Benjamin and what goods & moveables my wife possesseth at her death to be at her disposal And thos that I have committed my trust to see the performance of this my last Will & Testamt is my loving wife & my son Benjamin whom I make my full & whole Executrix & Executor of this my Will & Testamt to see all things done & performed according to the just intent there of--

In Witness Whereof I have subscribed my hand & set to my seal ye seventh day of December in ye 2d year of his Matyes reign & in ye year of our Lord 1686.

                                              Thomas Scudder
   Signed Sealed & published in ye presence of
      Thomas Powell
      Joseph Bayley