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This last will and testament of Richard Nickoles, the 19 of November
1674.
Although weake in body, yet fitte in Mind and Memory:
1.1 give my soul to God, that gave it and my Body to be buried by my
Christian friends in hope of a joyful Resunection in the last days.
2.1 make my sonn John Nickoles my full and sole Executor of this my
will and to pay all Legasies according to this my will.
3.1 give unto my deare wife Ann four pounds a year yearly during her
widowhood to be yearly and payd by my sonn John Nicholes in
com or pork or in other provisions, and in case my wife do marry
agayne to my sonn John's content, then he pay her twenty shillings
a year during her life.
4.1 do give unto my sonn Thomas Nickoles my devident of land that
was given to me by the Town of Reading that lyeth beyond Spewidy
River with the three ackers of Meadow that belongs unto it when he
comes to the age of twenty one years.
5.1 do further will that my wife Ann shall have her liberty to live in
the house as long as she lives a widow with the beads and beading
that she usually lyes on with the use of such necessry household stuf
as she shall need to make use of and when she dies to dispose of as
she shall see cause to for her children.
6.1 do give unto my sonn James ten acres of land adjoining to James
Pike with a sledge of meadow called Lamkins sledge, and two acres
of meadow in darty meadow thus easterly and next to Mrs. Brockes
meadow, and this I give unto him when he comes to the age of
twenty one years.
7.1 do give unto my daughter Mary Nickoles thirty pounds to be
payed her by my sonn John as followeth: Ten pounds at the day of
marriage and five pounds a year until the twenty pounds be payd.
8.1 do give unto my daughter Hannah Nickoles twenty pounds to be
payed unto her by my sonn John Nickoles as follows: five pounds at
her day of marriage and five pounds a year yearly until the twenty
pounds be payd her.
9. Furthermore I do give unto my wife Ann one cow out of the stock,
which cow my son John Nicholes shall keep for his mother on the
paster in the somer and so in winter has her for his mother so long as she
keeps her a widow.
The mark of Richard O Nickoles
A true inventory of the estate of Richard Nickoles now deceased the 22
of November in the year 1674.
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This inventory was taken the 11th of December by Jeremy Swayn, Nathaniel
Goddin, & John Parker.
