"Probate Records. Vol. X, 1723 to 1729. Page 282-3
Bird, Thomas, Farmington. Invt. £550-05-01. Taken 5 June, 1725, by Isaac Cowles and Daniel Judd. Will dated 29 April, 1725.
I, Thomas Bird, of the Town of Farmington, being visited with a distemper which of late has proved mortal to many, do make this my last will and testament: Item. I give unto my wife Sarah Bird, whom I have lately married, to be at her own dispose forever, all that personal estate that was hers at the time when I married her; also my smallest brass kettle and a churn and one paile; and also, during her natural life, I do give her the use, improvement and profit of 1-3 part of all my real estate, houseing and lands. Item. I give unto my three sons, viz., John Bird, Joseph Bird and Jonathan Bird, all my wearing clothes of all sorts, to be equally divided amongst them, my boots only excepted, which I give solely to Jonathan Bird. Item. Unto my two sons John Bird and Joseph Bird (besides what I have already given them), the 1-2 part of my land at a place called Green Swamp; also the lotts that were firstly my father James Bird's, lying in three of the divisions west from the reserved lands, to be equally divided between them (they not to have that lott which lyeth in the sixth and furthest division west, which I design for Jonathan, but the other three lotts, all lying in Farmington bounds). Item. Unto my three daughters, viz., Mary Bird, Rebeckah Bird and Lydia Bird, I give unto each of them £35, to be paid to them out of my personal estate, and they each of them to have liberty of pastering a cow at my pasture at Woolfpit Path while they are unmarried. Item. Unto my grandson James Bird, son of Joseph Bird, I give and bequeath all the right which did formerly belong unto my father James Bird and that tract of land not yet lotted out, lying west of that division of land in Farmington bounds called Panthorn Division, between the mountains; also, unto my sd. grandson I give my raper and belt formerly my brother James Bird's. Item. Unto my son Jonathan Bird, now living with me, I give and bequeath all the residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal, wheresoever and whatsoever it is, not before in this will disposed of, he to have and enjoy 2-3 part of the sd. real estate immediately after my decease, the other third part at the decease of my above sd. wife. I appoint my son Jonathan Bird sole executor.
THOMAS BIRD, LS.
Witness: John Hooker, Sen., Benjamin Andrews, Samuel Whitman.
Court Record, Page 88—7 June, 1725: Will proven.
Page 189—2 April, 1728: Thomas and James Burd now being both decd., this Court grant Adms. unto Samuel Burd and Mindwell Burd, both of Farmington."
