"Probate Records. Vol. IV, 1677 to 1687. Page 236-7.
Benton, Ane, who died 19 April, 1686. Invt. £60-12-06. Taken 14 May, 1686, by Stephen Hosmer, Jacob Wells.
The last Will of Ane Benton, made the twenty-sixth day of march, one thousand sixe hundred and eighty sixe: Being in sound mind & perfect memory, and not knowing the day of my death, doe Comit my soule into the hands of my Redemer, and my body to Comly buryell. I doe dispose of that estate god has betrusted me with as follows: I give to my son Ebenezer what of my estate is not hereafter excepted, if he Lives to nede it. Yn my will is that my dafter Lydia shod have my litell brass ketell; and my dafter Hannah should have my litell Iron pote and all my wareing aparell, except won arporne, which I give to my son Ebenezer. Al the rest, both Lining & wollen, should be divided between my dafters Lydia and hanah equeilly, and allso my pewter to be devided betweene them, and my 2 skillets I give ym. I give to Lydia 1 fine pille-bere and 1 paire of sheats and 1 paire of Coten pille beares, and to my dafter Hanah 1 paire of sheats and the best of the Coten pilleberes; allso Lydia must be paid the three pounds of what I tooke up in my husbands aparell out of the household stuff; and all these Legaseys to be paid them, the son at twenty-one years, and the dafters at eightene years of age. I desire my loveing brother Nathaniel Cole to be Executor.
ANE X BENTON.
Witness: John Willson, mathew Grant.
No Court Record found."
