Person:Moses Pillsbury (2)

Probate

"I Moses Pillsbery of the towne of Newbury...weak of body...doe make this my Last will & testament...and for my worldly Goods Doe Dispose as followeth: It. I doe Give to my Beloved Wife pricilla I give and Bequeath the one third part of all my Estate Reall & parsonall: Imprimis I Doe Give & Bequeath to my Son Caleb pillsberry making him my heyer and sole executor all my housing & Lands and Meadows Both in Newbury and sailbury With all my priveledges in all Common & undivided Lands as also all my personal Estate goods & Chattels as if it had him in particular named, my sd son Caleb paying such Legacess as is heare after ordered & appointed It. I doe give to my son Joseph Pillsbury five shillings and also confirme to him all that land which I have formerly given him for his portion, also I doe give and bequeath to my son Moses pillsbery all my Rake Lott in Newbury. Besides what I have all Readdy Given him for his portion also I doe Give 7 Bequeath to my Son Amos pillsbury twenty pounds in money at ye age of one and twenty years; also I Doe Give & Bequeath to my Daughter Dorathy pillsbery ten pounds in money to be paid Within one Yeare after my Decease; also I doe Give and Bequeath to my daughter susanna Hovee five shillings in money to be paid Within five years after my Decease also I doe Give and bequeath to my Daughter Judith pillsbery ten pounds in money to be paid within two years after my Decease also I Doe Give & Bequeath to my Daughter Hannah pillsbery ten pounds in money to be paid within four years after my Decease also I doe Give to my Daughter Mary pillsbery ten pounds in money to be paid Within Six years after my Decease: the reason Why I gave my Daughter Hovee no more is because that I have Given her her portion Before My Will is that My Son Caleb Who is my Heyer and Executor Shall paee all my Debts and also Receive all my Debts also my Will is that my Said Son Caleb shall pay all ye Legacess in this my will given also shall my wife shall Enjoy one third part of my real Estate But for her lifetime & no longer."

[Signed] "Moses pillsberry"

Wit: Benjamin Morse, William Pillsbery, Experience Pillsbery.

The will was proved Nov. 3 1701, by Caleb Pillsbury who filed an inventory amounting to 1240, 18s. (Essex Co.,Probate,21974.)^[2]

1.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:437.

   "MOSES, Newbury, br. of the preced. freem. 1673, m. 1668, Susanna, wid. of Lionel Worth, d. of John Whipple,[1] had Joseph, b. 6 June 1670; Dorothy, 9 Apr. 1675; Susanna, 5 Feb. 1677; Judith, 16 Mar. 1679; Caleb, 27 July 1681; and Hannah, 3 May 1686; but I doubt that the last five must have been by a sec. w. Coffin's page does not allude to d. of the first. Yet as w. of Worth she had brot. a number.[1]"

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938)
   pp. 22-24.

   Moses Pillsbury, s/o William Pillsbury, b. Dorchester 1645, d. Newbury between 29 Apr and 3 Nov 1701, m. (1) Newbury Mar 1668 Susanna Worth, d/o Lionel Worth and Susannah Whipple, m. (2) Priscilla ---.