Page 107-8-9 Name: Sergt. John Porter Location: Windsor
Invt. £849-06-00. Taken 2 February, 1698-9, by John Wolcott, Deac. Joseph Loomis and Lt. Matthew Allyn. Will dated 7 September, 1698.
I Sergt. John Porter of Windsor do declare this my last Will & Testament. I give to my wife, if she survive me, the use of all my houseing and homested on the east side of the highway before my Door until the heirs hereafter mentioned Come of age. Also I give her a third part of all my improved Land during her widowhood, excepting only my pasture by Mr. Allyn's. If she marry again, then my three sons, John, Daniel and David Porter, shall have liberty to pay to their mother £5 a year instead of a third of the land, or else she to hold of the land her life-time. Also I give her £50 out of my moveable Estate to her free dispose, and the use of my young Children's portions until they come of age. I give to my son John Porter, besides his house and Lands adjoining to it that I have given him a Deed of, I now give him 13 acres of my Land in Plymouth Meadow. I give him 1/2 of my 2 Woodlotts, the one called Poquanuck Path Lott, the other called the Woulfe pit Lott. I give to my son Daniel Porter all my House & Land on the East side of the Great River that now doth or hereafter may belong to my Estate, and my Pasture by Mr. Allyn's house as it bounds north & East on Mr. Allyn's Land, with all the Tackling and Arms provided him for Trooping, and 100 of Apple Trees that he shall choose out of my Nursery. I give to my son David Porter my Dwelling house and Barn, Orchard, Garden, Outhouseing, Cyder Mill & Press, wth the Furnis in the House, the muck in the Yard belonging to it, with the 4 acres of Homelott on the West side of the Highway adjoining Timothy Loomis his Lott. I also give him 5 acres of my Plymouth Meadow Lott. I give him the other half of my 2 Woodlotts mentioned in my son John's Legacy. As for the House & Homelott my son-in-Law Peter Mills now lives on, my Will is that he and his now wife shall have it their live's time, the property to remain as it is at present. And after the decease of the sd. Peter and his now wife, that house & Homested to be to their Eldest son, & to be reconed to my daughter Joannah at £13-10-00 of her portion. The remainder of my Moveable Estate, with 6 acres of Land bounding East on the 8 acres of Woodland I gave to David, that shall be equally divided among my six daughters. What I owe to be paid out of my Personal Estate, and what is due to me to belong to my Personal Estate. I appoint my wife and son John Executors. I desire my Brother Timothy Loomis and my son Thomas Moore to be Supervisors.
Witness: Timothy Loomis, Joseph Porter.
John Porter sen., Ls.
Court Record, Page 82--2 March, 1698-9: Will & Invt. exhibited by Joannah The Relict. Proven.
Page 50--(Vol. IX) 4 February, 1717-18: Upon Motion of Joannah Porter to the Court to set out of the Estate of John Porter to her according to the Will, Objection was made that there was no attested copy of a Will.
Page 53--4 March, 1717-18: This Court appoint Daniel Loomis, David Loomis and John Palmer to set out to her some Estate.
