Person:Stephen Greenleaf (2)

Will

"Because I know not the day of my death I make this my Last will and testat I bequeath my body to the earth and my soul to god yt gave it in hope of a blessed resurection

1 I give to my eldest sone Stephen Greenleif the one half of my house Lott that half next him, he makeing all the fence that lyeth against his own land I give him also my share of the yland that we bought between us of Ephraim winslow of Saulsberry with two acres of the meadow below the yland next Caleb Moodys meadow provided there be liberty for Edmund to make a fence across the yland from my [ditch?] to doctor dole his [ditch?], and what may be upon the yland may be used to repaire' the fence and that my sone Stephen with his brother Edmund and Caleb Moody that is mgadgee Doe their pro[___]n of the fence to secure their meadow

2d. I give to my sone John Greenlef besides what he hath already had my freehold Lott at plumb yland he payeing to his sister Mary five pound in pay when she shall be marryed or at 18 years of age.

3d I give to my sone Samuel Greenlef besides the Liveing he hath by deed of gift five sheep and all my weareing cloths.

4t. I give my sone Tristrum that Liveing at Har[__]choak the free hold lott with the house & fences to it, and the two river Lots of Salt marsh at [foss?] yland he payeing to his sister Mary five pounds in pay when she shall be marryed or at 18 years of age.

5 I give my Rate lott to be equally [divided?] [___], Tristrum, & Edmund [___] as they can they draweing lotts for yr shares and the Rate lott I bought of Benja Guttridge I give to my sone Stephen I doe appoint also my sone Stephen to pay to his sister Mary three score pound in pay and ten pound in mony within two years after she shall be 18 years of age or marriage.

6ly I give to my sone Stephen the Cha[__]er, to daughter dole the brass pot or the Litle Iron Ketle wch she will, and the litle silver cup in my cupbord and one sheep. And I doe hereby [___] that I gave him the meadow at Saulsberry next major pykes pasture. that he should have had a deed of gift of, I give to my daughter noice my gre[at?] platter and the silver wine cup to her daughter Elizabeth, I give the [_aker nut?] cup to my sone Stephen

7t I give to my sone Edmund Greenleif the rest of my Estate houseing land and meadow fence stock houshold stuff and tools he payeing to his sister Mary [sweet?] 8[_] pound in pay as soon as she shall be marryed.

Lastly. In case my sone Edmund Greenlef should dye without Issue Lawfully begotten of his own body then all which I have in this my will given to him I give to my sone Stephen Greenleff viz. house Lands &c. as beforementioned, He payeing to the rest of his brothers and sisters their surviveing proportion also the value what it may be valued at by two indifferent men, Reserveing to himself and Mary which I freely give three parts or shares of said Edmunds portion.

I doe appoint my sone Edmund Greenleif to be my sole executor and Caleb Moody & Wm Titcomb to see this my will performed as overseers of the Land. My desyre is that my well beloved wife shall Live [__] my sone Edmund But if in case my wife should see good to remove and Live otherwhere Then Edmund shall pay to his mother four pounds a yeare or else she [to?] have the thirds of the Land and further in case my sone Tristram dye without Issue Lawfully begotten of his own body Then the one half of the value of the Land given him by [me?], to be to his widow and the other half to be divided equally amongst the rest of the children. In full testimony that this is my last will & testament I have hereunto put my hand & seale [this 5?] August 1690

Stephen Grenlife & a seale"^[7]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} 9 Stephen² Greenleaf, in Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. (Providence, RI, 1897-1919)
   1:184.

   "9 Stephen² Greenleaf, Capt., (Edmund¹), of Newbury, b. 1628; m. 1st, Nov. 13, 1651 [Nb], (4) Elizabeth² Coffin, who d. Nov. 19, 1678[Nb]; 2d, March 31, 1679[Nb], Esther Weare [wid. of Capt. Benj. Swett and sister of Nathl. Weare]. Stephen and wife were members Nb. chh., 1674; oath al. 1678; rep. 1676, '86, '89, '90. … He was drowned at Cape Breton, Oct. 31, 1690; will Aug. 5, Nov. 25, 1690. Wid. Esther d. Jan. 16, 1717-8, age 89."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Stephen Greenleaf, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   2:308-309.

   "Stephen (Greenleaf), Newbury, s. of capt. Edmund, b. in Eng. m. 13 Nov. 1651, Eliz. d. of Tristram Coffin, had Stephen, b. 15 Aug. 1652; Sarah, 15 Oct. 1655; Daniel, 17 Feb. 1658; Eliz. 9 Aug. 1660; John, 21 June 1662; Samuel, 30 Oct. 1665; Tristram, 11 Feb. 1668; Edmund, 10 May 1670; Judith, 13 Oct. 1673, d. at 5 yrs.; and Mary, 6 Dec. 1676. His w. d. 19 Nov. 1678; and he m. 31 Mar. foll. Esther, wid. of capt. Benjamin Swett; was freem. 1677, a capt. rep. 1676 and 86; and d. 1 Dec. 1690, by drown. at Cape Breton. Prob. this was one of the conseq. of the sad crusade of Sir William Phips to Quebec. His wid. d. 16 Jan. 1718, aged 89. Eliz. m. 24 Sept. 1677, Thomas Noyes."

3. ↑ Baptisms at Ipswich St. Margaret's, in Boynton, Dorothy Greenleaf. Sara, First Wife of Edmund Greenleaf. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1968)
   122:31.

   "1628 Stephen (Greenleaf) son of Edmund and Sarah [baptized] 10 August"

4. ↑ Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
   2:604.

   "Greenleaf, Stephen, Capt., sr. ['cast on shore at Capbratoon coming from Canada and all lost.' (copy of vital records made by Henry Short about 1690.)], Dec. 1, 1690."

5. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
   3:244.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} "Captain Stephen² Greenleaf, in Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938)
   1:591-93.
7. ↑ Appleton, William S. Early Wills Illustrating the Ancestry of Harriot Coffin: with Genealogical and Biographical Notes. (Boston: Press of D. Clapp & Son, 1893)
   13-14.
8. ↑ The date of probate (25 November 1690) indicates that the 1 December 1690 date of death is too late.