Person:Matthew Allen (3)

Will

The Last will & Testament of me Mathew [sic] Allen of the town of Dartmouth In the county of Bristoll [sic] being Sick & weak in Body but of Sound mind and Perfect memory, do in manner and form following: First I will that all just Debts Be faithfully & truly Discharged. Item I give unto John Calvin my son in law And Dorothy his wiffe [sic] that thirteen pounds money being Due to me the said Mathew [sic] Allen by Bill or Bond Dated the fifteenth Day of Febry one thousand Six hundred eightty [sic] & three.

Item my will is that my loving wife Sarah Allen Shall have convenient house & room and a suittable [sic] maintenance out of my Estate during her widow hood [sic] and at her Day of marriage to forgoe the same & then to [ ] [ ] Neat Cattle not Exceeding three years old Nor under two years old. Item I give unto my son Samuel Allen the one halfe of all my lands that I have in the town aforesaid both divided & undivided upland & meadows.

Item I give to my Son Mathew [sic] Allen the other halfe [sic] of all my uplands and Meadows that lyeth in the town aforesaid, and that Samuel Deliver said land to his Brother Mathew [sic] when he Cometh to the age of one & twenty years.

Item I give unto my Daughter Miriam Easton one Cow.

Item I give unto my Daughter Deborah Allen one cow. I give unto my Daughter Mary Allen one Cow.

Item I give unto my Daughter Hassadyah Allen one Cow to be Delivered unto the said Hassahdiah when she Comes to the age of Eighteen Years of Aged.

Item I give unto my Son Mathew [sic] Allen one Cow & to be Delivered unto the Said Mathew [sic] at the age of one & twenty years.

And all the Rest & Residue of my Personal Estate Goods & Chattells whatso Ever [sic] I Doe [sic] give & bequeath unto my Lovenig [sic] wife Sarah Allen My full & Sole Exeratrise [sic] of this my last will & Testament. Also I Doe [sic] Desire Henry Tabor John Russel and Nathaniel Howland Ederatrises [sic] where & when she stands in Need.

In witness whereof I have sett [sic] my hand this Seventh Day of February in the year one thousand Six hundred Eighty Eight.

Signed and Sealed in the pressence [sic] of John Russell, Thomas Taber, Val Hudleston; Mathew [X mark] Allen [Seal]

(Posted at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/5171/8703bly.txt)

1. ↑ 1046. MacDonald, Jak (jacmac43 -@- yahoo.com), “Descendants of George Allen of England and Sandwich,” http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jacmac/allen.htm, Viewed 7/20/2007.

   Passenger list shows Matthew as age 6, and list of 16 and over men able to bear arms from 1643 shows him (generally thought to be more accurate)

2. ↑ Id.
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   Savage's: MATTHEW, Sandwich 1643, s. of George the first of the same, liv. later at Dartmouth, there (as I learn from the Quaker rec.) by w. Sarah (whose surname was Kirby), m. June 1 1657, had Dorothy, b. 8 Apr. 1659; Miriam, June 1661; Deborah, May 1663; Samuel, Feb. 1666; Mary, Nov. 1668; Ahazadiah, not s. 27 Apr. 1671; and Matthew, 10 June 1677.