Person:Benjamin Nason (3)

Will Dated 28 Jun 1714 probated 11 Aug 1714; Ch. named in will mentions sons, Benjamin and William; daughters, Lydia, Mary, Patience, Phebe, Anne, and Sarah Source Page: Probate Office, 2, 95.
Name: Benjamin Nason
WILL OF BENJAMIN NASON 28 Jun 1714 - 11 Aug 1714: In the name of God Amen I Benjamin Nason of Berwick in the County of Yorke in the Province of the MassachuSetts Bay in New England being weak of Body but of Sound Memory & not knowing how it may please God to deal with me do make & ordain this my Last will & Testament in manner and form following. I Comit my Soul to the Lord IeSus Christ & as for my worldly Estate I dispose thereof as Followeth.

Imprs after my Iust Debts & Funerall Charges are paid I say I dispose thereof as Followeth. (1) I give & bequeath unto my Son Benjamin Nason my homeSteed Vizt all the land thereto belonging wth all the bluildings gs Housing out housing thereto belonging I Say I give all my homeSteed lands to Benjamin & his Heirs for Ever; (Excepting twenty Acres out of the Same wch I give & bequeath to my Son William Vizt Six Acres at the water Side & fourteen acres at the head & in Case William die wthout Issue the Same to revert to Benjamin & his Heirs Also the Meadow belonging to the homeSteed farm--I give & bequeath to my Son Benjamin & his Heirs forever; & my fifty acres at the beaver dam, and my part of the Neek land betwene Quamphegen falls & Salmonfalls to him my Sd Son Benjamin and his Heirs forever; and also all my personall Estate within dore's & without Cattle Sheep Swine horsekind tackling & all other named or not named of what Nature kind or quality Soever household goods and whatsoever the Same Consists of I say I give and bequeath to him my Said Son Benjamin forever. & as for my hundred acres land or there abouts Ioyning to Spruce Swamp I give my Executor full power to make Sale thereof for the payment of my Debts if the Case So requirs or if he finds away to discharge them more for his Advantage then the Sd land to be to him and his Heirs; after they are discharged.

Item I give & bequeath Unto my Six daughters Vizt Ledia, Mary, Patiance, Febee, Anne, & Sarah, three pounds p ps in or as money to be paid them by my Executor when he can most Conveniantly do it to Such as are of age & the others when they come of age/

Item I ordain and appoint my well beloved Son Benjamin Nason to be Sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament.

In Wittness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal the 28 day of Iune Annoq Domini 1714.
Benjamin Nason (Seal)

Signed Sealed published
& Declared to be his last
will and Testament in the
preSence of us.
Mary Spencer
William (his mark) Newton
John Croade

Probated 11 Aug. 1714.

BENJAMIN (son of Richard1 Nason), Berw., m. 1st 30 June 1687 Martha Canney; in 1705-6 his w. was named Sarah, and he in. 3d 27 Dec. (1708) Elizabeth (Martyn 15) (Kennard)

Lieutenant HUMPHREY3 CHADBOURNE (3. Humphrey2 William1), born Kittery circa 1653; died Berwick 1694 (BVR, 205); married before Sep 1678 when their first child was born SARAH BOLLES, born Wells 20 or 26 (Early Marriages of Strafford Co NH) Jan 1657, died probably Berwick after 10 Nov 1707 (letter of son Humphrey, below) and before Dec 1708 (when Benjamin Nason married third), daughter of Joseph and Mary (Howell) Bolles. The widow Sarah (Bolles) Chadbourne married second (as widow of Williamêapparently a transciption error, Early Marriages of Strafford Co NH) after May 1700, when Benjamin's last child with his first wife was born (KVR, 12) Benjamin Nason of Berwick, who died 1714. Benjamin had married first (by Rev John Pike) 30 June 1689 Martha Canney, b 5 Feb 1669, d before 1708, daughter of Thomas; and married third Portsmouth NH 27 Dec 1708 (NEHGR 5:40; LND, 504) Elizabeth (Martyn) (Kennard) Furber. (See Joseph Anderson, "Mary Nason, Wife of William Chadbourne of Berwick, Maine", TAG, Apr 1993.)

In Jan 1690/1 Sarah witnessed the will of her brother-in-law Charles Frost (MW, 118). A land record has been found in which Benjamin and Sarah, his wife, conveyed property in Berwick (YD 7:50). Both were signed with her distinctive, large "S".

In the collections of the Maine Historical Society, a letter from Humphrey4 Chadbourne to his cousin Joseph Bolles survives to reveal the second marriage of the widow Sarah (Bolles) Chadbourne:

Pray Lit. For Mr Joseph Bolles At Ipswich []

Barwick

Novembr ye 10th 1707

Loving Cozen my Love Remmberd to yu hoping this will find yu in good health as I am at this present time I am desired by my Mothor to send to yu she hath bin sick & under ye doctors hands all this sumer [crossed out] summer & is Like to be for all winter If she lives for she has Lost ye use of her lims & can not stride nofurthor than she is helpt She Remmbers her kins love to yu & desires it to Let it not be known that yu owe her money but keep it privt be cause she has a Cross Husband he is for geting all she has in ye world & that will not Content him but he thretens to take away all that I have to [too] I lately went to see her & was privte with her & she Cryd bitterly & told me his unkindness that he intended quickly to try wth me for what Estate I have for he says it is his wives & he is informed to [too] that mother has mony in yr hand which he intends [crossed out] presently to fetch but pray let it not be known that I sent to yu nor to any body lest it should come to his Ears & should fix up more strife If he should send tel him it is payd long ago & yu have nothing to say to them when you have perusd this burn it & keep all privit for news we have none

Mr Wise is publishd to Cozen Mary Shipway & is to be Ordained in this month

Loving Cozen
Humphry Chadbourn

(MHS, Coll. S-1664)

Sarah Bolles has a well-established royal descent from Edward I, King of England (1272-1307) and many earlier Kings of England, Scotland and France, as published in Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists by Frederick Lewis Weis, 7th Edition [1992] compiled by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. Her father, Joseph Bolles, was baptized at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England 19 Feb 1608, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Perkins) Bolles Esq of Oberton Manor (ibid)