Person:Jeremy Belcher (2)

Jeremiah Belcher's Unrecorded Will

"He made a will, the original of which is in the possession of his descendant Warren⁷ Belcher, Esq., of Winthrop, Mass., but the instrument was not offered for probate, and therefore never recorded in any registry, so it is herewith given in full, for preservation:

'The last Will and Testement of Jeremiah Belcher, Living in Boston, being at this present time through God's goodness in health, Revoking all other Wills.

1. I do commit my Soul into the hands of God who gave it, who I trust hath redeemed it, and purchased it with his precious Blood. And my body to decent Christian burial in hope of a blessed resurrection.

2. And as to my worldly goods I do give and bequethe forever to my three sons, Edward, Joseph, and Ebenezer Belcher, all that my Farm, lying and being within the bounds of Boston and Lin, as they have already divided it, as also the salt-marsh lying within Boston bounds.

3. I do give unto my Daughter, Sarah Dole, my house and land in Boston which I am now possessed of after my desese, that is to say she paying to me the just sume of £30 money as I shall have occasion to call for it, but if it so be I shall have no occassion to call for it, then my will is that after my desese the £30 be paid to my three sons, Edward, Joseph and Ebenezer to be equetly divided, that is to say, ten to each of them, within one year after my desease.

4. I do give to my son Edward my silver Tankard and two silver spoons. My will is that my Grandson Jeremiah the son of Edward Belcher, may have the silver Tankard, after his father's deseace.

5. I do give to my two sons Joseph and Ebenezer each of them a silver cup and two silver spoons. I also give to my daughter Dole two silver spoons.

6. What remains of my estate after my desease to be equetly divided amongst my children. Lastly, I do appoint my three sons already named, Executors of this my last Will and Testiment.

As Witness my hand and seal, Aug. 28, 1719.

In the presence of us James Gooding Henry Emmes Mark Day

Jeremiah Belcher.' "^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Jeremy Belcher, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   1:235.

   Jeremy (Belcher), b. about August 1641 (aged 81 years 6 months at death on 6 February 1722/3 [NEHGR 60:251, citing gravestone, Revere cemetery]).

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} "Jeremiah Belcher of Ipswich", in Bartlett, J. Gardner (Joseph Gardner). The Belcher Families in New England. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr, Jul, Oct 1906)
   250-52.

   Jeremiah² Belcher (Jeremiah¹), born in June, 1641, located about 1665 at Rumney Marsh (which embraced what is now Revere, Chelsea, and East Boston, and was a part of Boston until 1739, when the town of Chelsea was incorporated). He first leased a farm of Gov. Bellingham (the original indenture, in the beautiful handwriting of the governor, being now [1906] in the possession of Warren⁷ Belcher, Esq., of Winthrop. Mass.), and later purchased lands in what is now Lynn, Revere, and on Breed's Island (then called Hog Island). He appears to have been a prosperous farmer, as in 1702 he paid the highest tax in Rummy Marsh, on a farm worth £25 rent per year, two oxen, eight cows, two horses, one hog, and one hundred sheep. (Boston Record Commissioners' Report, vol. 10, page 143.) Late in life, he deeded lands to his sons Edward, Joseph, and Ebenezer, which they divided among themselves. (Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol. 28, page 136.) … Jeremiah² Belcher died Feb. 6,1722-3, aged 81 years, 6 months, according to his gravestone, which is still standing in the old Revere cemetery.

3. ↑ Jeremiah Belcher, in Find A Grave.