"Probate Records. Vol. VII, 1700 to 1710. Page 190-1.
Coale, Nathaniel, Sen., Hartford. He died 20 April, 1708. Invt. £572-09-08. Taken 3 June, 1708, by Cyprian Nickcolls, Sen., Hezekiah Willis and Thomas Hosmer. Will dated 17 April, 1708:
I, Nathaniel Coale, of Hartford, do make this my last will and testament: I give and bequeath to my wife Mary Coale one-third part of all my moveable estate forever (my sd. wife to let Ebenezer Benton have a bed out of it), and also one-third part of all my real estate to improve during her natural life (only my said wife is to pay one-third part of the purchase money for that land I bought of Ichabod Coale). Also, I give my said wife the improvement of the south end of my house, to live in, and one-third of the barn, during the time she shall remain a widow. Item. I give to my son Nathaniel Coale all the rest of my moveable estate not given to my wife, as also all my land (except the improvement of one-third part of them given as above to my said wife). Also, my will is that Ebenezer Benton should be maintained by my wife and my son jointly so long as my wife shall remain a widow; but if she should marry, that then my son Nathaniel Coale shall take care to maintain him during his natural life if my son Nathaniel should live to survive him; and that my said son shall have what estate was given to maintain the said Ebenezer Benton, not yet disposed of, for his maintainance. And I do make and constitute my son Nathaniel sole executor of this my last will and testament.
NATHANIEL COALE, SEN, LS.
Witness: Hezekiah Willis, Jonathan Webster.
Court Record, Page 112—7 June, 1708: Adms. to Nathaniel Coale, with will annexed. Will proven.
Page 114—5 July, 1708: Invt. Exhibited.
Page 12 (Vol. VIII) 1st May, 1710: This Court order and appoint Lt. James Steele, Samuel Kellogg and Thomas Seamore, of Hartford, to dist. the houseing and lands late belonging to Nathaniel Coale, Sen., of Hartford, decd., between the relict and the son of the sd. decd., according to the intent of his last will, viz: To the relict (now wife of Jonathan Bigelow, Sen.), so much of the sd. lands (the homelott excepted) as is the full 1-3 part of the whole with the homelott, without any allowance for the houseing and buildings; and to Nathaniel Coale, son of the sd. decd., all the houseing, barn and other buildings, and the residue or other 2-3 of the sd. lands."
