Person:Mehitabel Spring (1)

Probate

In the Name of God Amen the Twelfth day of January Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred & Fifty Seven. I Mehetable Brigham Of Marlborough in the County of Middlesex Widow being advanced in years and Labouring under many Bodily Infirmities but of a Sound & Disposing mind and memory Thanks be given Unto God: Therefore calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for Men once to Die, Do make and Ordain this my Last Will & Testament That is to say Principally and first of all I Give and recommend my Soul to God that gave it; and my Body I Recommend to the Earth, to be Buried in Decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executor; Nothing doubting but that at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the Mighty Power of God. And as Touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in this life I Give, Demise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and form-

I Will and Give unto my Son in Law Benj'a Brigham of Marlborough Husbandman and to his Heirs forever all my Household Goods Such as Beds & Beding, Pewter, Brass, Iron & also all my wearing apparrel with all my Bond Bills or Notes and all the Money which I shall Die Siezed and Possessed of Together with all or any other Estate which I shall Died Siezed & Possessed of for his Prudent care and attendance upon me Since my Late Husbands Decease - whom I also Constitue make and ordain Sole Executor of this my Last will & Testament And I do hereby utterly disallow Revoke & Disannul all & Every other or former wills Legacies & Bequests by me in any way before Willed and Bequeathed Ratifying & Confiming this & No other to be my Last will and Testament In witness wherof I have hereunto set my Hand and seal the Day & Year above written.

[signed] Mehetable [her mark] Brigham

Signed Sealed & Published Prounouced Published [sic] & Declared by the said Mehetable Brigham as her Last Will & Testament in Presence of us Witnesses. Joseph Brigham, Levina Brigham, Benj'a Woods

Proved 10 Dec 1759^[2]

1. ↑ Bond, Henry, M.D., and Horatio Gates Jones. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston (1860): To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860)
   442.

   Children of Henry Spring and Mehtiabel Bartlett: 4) Mehitabel, m. (1) 21 Mar 1698-9 Jonathan Stimson, m. (2) 17 Feb 1729-30 Gershom Brigham of Marlborough.
   [Note: Bond lists her after sister Ann, b. 21 Sep 1671, which is presumably the basis for the estimated birth "Aft. 1671".]

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
   FHL film 0386001, File File 2686 "Mehetable Brigham 1759".

   Will of "Mehetable Brigham Of Marlborough", dated 12 Jan 1759, proved 10 Dec 1759 [elsewhere on this page].