Person:Isaac Allen (12)

Probate

In the Name of God Amen. The Eighteenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Seven I Isaac Allen of Weston in the County of Middlesex & Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England yeoman. Being weak and infirm in body, tho' of a disposing Mind and Memory, Thanks be given to God, Calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing it is appointed to man once to die Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament That is to say, principally and above all I recom[m]end my Soul to God who gave it, And my Body to the Dust to be buried with decent Christian Burial at the discretion of my Executor. And as touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this Life, after my just Debts are fully paid, and Funeral Charges defrayed, I give and dispose of it as follows viz-

Imprimis - To my beloved wife Sarah Allen I give and bequeath the Sole and entire use of the west Lower Room in my dwelling House, and a right in other Parts of the House to use as she shall have occasion, and one half of the Cellar under the west End of the house, Ten Bushels of Indian corn, Two Bushels of Rie, one Bushel of Malt, Nine Score of good Pork, Two Barrils of Cyder the keeping of one Cow for her use, a horse to ride to meeting & at other Times when she shall have occasion, a Sufficiency of Wood for one Fire, and fit for the Fire and bro't to her Door and wool and Flax eno' to make her own Clothing and thirteen Shillings and four pence in Money; all & Each of these to be provided for and paid unto her, annually & every year by my Executor, so long as she remains my widow and no longer. And moreover I give to my beloved wife and to her Heirs and assigns forever, all the Household Furniture & utensils which she Bro't at our Marriage, and all her wearing Apparel.

Item. To my beloved Daughters Hannah Livermore & Mary Abbot I give all the Household Furniture and Utensils which were their own Mothers to be equally divided between them, Excepting their Mothers Looking glass which I give wholy to Hannah these as an addition to what they have before received out of my Estate.

Item. To my beloved Son Isaac Allen I give Eight pounds Eight shillings Lawfull Money as an addition to what he has before received out of my Estate, to be paid out by and at the Discretion of my Executor for the Benefit of s'd Isaac, within two years after my Decease.

Item. To my beloved Son Abijah Allen I give Twenty Six pounds thirteen shillings and Four pence Lawfull Money as an addition to what he has before received out of my Estate, To be paid to him by my Executor at the End of one Year after my Decease.

To my beloved Son Joseph Allen, whom I likewise constitute make and ordain Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, I give and bequeath all my Estate both Real and personal (excepting what is disposed of above) To him and his Heirs and Assigns forever.

And I do hereby revoke and diannul all and every other former Testaments, wills, Legacies and Bequests & Executors by Me in any ways before named, will'd & declar'd ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament. In Witness whereto I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the Day and year above mentioned.

[signed] Isaac Allen

Signed Sealed, published and pronounced & declared by the said Isaac Allen as his last will and Testament In presence of us. Sam'l Woodward, Jacob Coggin, Josiah Biglow

1. ↑ Historical Society of Watertown (Massachusetts). Watertown Records. (Watertown, Mass.: Press of Fred Barker, 1894-1939)
   2:18.

   Isaac Allin Son of Joseph. &. Elisabeth Allin was born Nouember : 10: 1701 :

2. ↑ Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Town of Weston, Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1707-1850: 1703-gravestones-1900, church records, 1709-1825. (Boston: McIndoe Bros., 1901)
   306.

   Sept. 25 1767 died Lieut Isaac Allen aged 66.

3. ↑ Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
   FHL film 0386001, Middlesex Probate File 321 "Isaac Allen 1767".

   Will of "Isaac Allen of Weston", dated 18 Sep 1767, proved 29 Dec 1767 (elsewhere on this page).