"Probate Records, Vol. XII, 1732 to 1737. Page 372-392.
Gilbert, Ebenezer, Farmington. Invt. £3824-12-08. Taken by Samuel Hooker, Samuel Cowles and Jonathan Lewis. Will dated 17 July, 1726.
I, Ebenezer Gilbert of Farmington, do make this my last will and testament: I give to my wife Esther Gilbert £300 and the use and improvement of 1-2 of my eastermost dwelling house in Farmington. I give to my 3 sons, Moses, Ebenezer and Jonathan Gilbert, all my house and lands in Farmingtown, Hartford and Simsbury, all in sd. County, to be equally divided amongst them, excepting that my eldest son Moses shall have my sd. dwelling house in Farmingtown abovesd. and beyond his other brothers' parts. To my daughter Sarah I give and bequeath £200, reckoning what she hath had already as part thereof, to be paid to her within the space of 4 years after my decease. And if her children all die without issue, then her portion is to return to her surviving brother or brethren or their heirs after her decease. And my will is that the cloth I have now at the clothiers shall be for clothing for my sd. Three sons, and not be inventoried as part of my estate. I appoint my wife and eldest son Moses Gilbert executors.
EBENEZER GILBERT, LS.
Witness: William Burnham, John Woodruff, Dinah Deming.
Court Record, Page 50—3 August, 1736: Will exhibited in Court and proven.
Page 113 (Probate Side, Vol. XIV): Articles of agreement made and concluded by Moses Gilbert, Jonathan Gilbert and Ebenezer Gilbert, sons and heirs to the real estate of Mr. Ebenezer Gilbert, late of Kensington, in Farmingtown, decd., made and concluded this 12th day of April, Anno. Dom. 1743, is as follows: To Moses Gilbert the dwelling house; also 4 acres of land bought of Thomas Hancox and Stephen Post; also the lott bought of Benjamin Judd south on land bought of Seymour; and half that land I bought of Doctor Timothy Porter; and 30 acres that I had of Benjamin Loomis; and 9 acres that I had of Mr. Wyllys; and half that house and land and barn that I had of Stephen Andrews; and that land that I had of Thomas Rowley and John Steadman; and the 1-2 of the farm that my father bought of Daniel Clark (the east side of sd. farm); and also half of that land father bought of Richard Seymour. We are now to understand that the aforesd. Moses Gilbert doth firmly agree that his brother Jonathan Gilbert and any after him shall have a liberty of 1½ rods or 2 rods in breadth from the east side of his part in the farm to the west side of sd. land, beginning at the street and so running by the fence that runs near east and west on the south side of the orchard on which my dwelling house stands, and from that fence to run southwest or west in the most direct and convenient way to pass in to come to the sd. Jonathan Gilbert's land in sd. farm. And further, I, the sd. Jonathan Gilbert, do hereby firmly agree that the sd. Moses Gilbert shall have the same quantity of land that the sd. way takes up, out of my part in sd. farm, and be added adjoining to his, running north and south the whole length of the farm. And further, I, the sd. Jonathan Gilbert, do hereby promise to make all the fence on the south side that shall be occasioned in fencing off the sd. passway from the rest of the farm forever. Now the term of time that the whole of this agreement hath reference to, is to be understood is forever. As witness our hands, 9th day of April, 1737.
MOSES GILBERT, JONATHAN GILBERT, EBENEZER GILBERT.
And to Jonathan Gilbert 1-2 of the farm that was Daniel Clark's, the west side of sd. farm; also 7½ acres on the east side of the highway, with the barn on the sd. lott; and that 50 acres, be it more or less, that I bought of Edward Allyn; and half of that land that I bought of Doctor Timothy Porter; and half that house and barn and land that I bought of Stephen Andros (Andrews).
EBENEZER GILBERT, MOSES GILBERT.
To Ebenezer Gilbert the house and land that I had of Mr. Wyllys, and my division of land over the Great River, and also the land that I bought of Cyprian Watson.
MOSES GILBERT, JONATHAN GILBERT.
And further, there is one certain piece or tract of land in sd. Farmingtown bounds, butted and bounded south on land of Gershom Hollister, west on a highway, north and east on Col. John Chester's land, within which boundaries is contained about 3½ acres, which sd. piece of land shall remain to each of us as tenants in common. To which agreement we the sd. heirs have hereunto set our hands and seals, and acknowledge the same before the Court of Probate in Hartford on the 3rd day of April, 1743.
MOSES GILBERT, ls. JONATHAN GILBERT, EBENEZER GILBERT
4 April, 1741: Then received of Moses, Jonathan and Ebenezer Gilbert, in notes to the value of £109-10-00, payable to me, which is in full for the remaining part of the legacy due to my children by virtue of ye will of Mr. Ebenezer Gilbert decd. I say received by me.
GERSHOM HOLLISTER.
Witness: Esther X Gilbert, Elizabeth X Gilbert."
