Person:Samuel Wheat (2)

Dr. Samuel Wheat's Estate

"Will of Samuel Wheat of Newton: dated May 6, 1770; prob. Sept. 18, 1770. To beloved wife Hannah, use and improvement of estate for life except wearing apparel to son Samuel. After her death, as follows: to son Samuel, all real estate, farming utensils, etc., he to pay the legacies and fully comply with all the orders relating to my daughter Martha and my wife's sister Mary Hovey: to son William Wheat, 10/ and he to be discharged from all debts: to daughters Lydia Beals, Mary Shepard, Hannah Gilbert, and Katherine Eustis, 10/ each: to daughter Jemima Parker £66.13.4 within one yr. from (wife) Hannah's death: to dau. Martha Wheat £133.6.8 and she to have the use of one room in the Newton House where I now dwell as long as she remains unmarried: to 3 grandchildren, children of late son Moses — Susanna Wheat, Mary Ann Brown Wheat, and Hannah Wheat, £13.6.8 each and my silver watch, to be paid by Samuel to Joseph Gilbert of Brookfield, trader, he to be trustee for the children: the principal to be paid them when they are 18. If wife's sister, Mary Hovey, outlive wife Hannah, she is to have the east part of the house for life, where Dr. Benjamin Parker 'now Bakes' and the priviledge of the garden called Aunt Mary's garden, and to have 3 cord of wood brought to her Door every Fall during her natural life. Any household furniture that may be left after Hannah's death to be divided among the 6 daughters: all books of History and Divinity to be divided among William, Samuel and the 6 daughters. Executors are wife Hannah and friend Lindsey George Wallis.

Wits: Samuel Hastings, Jonathan Jones, John Savage.

Sept. 17, 1770. Boston. Lindsey George Wallis declines to act. Hannah gives bond, Sept. 18, and signs X. Jonathan Jones is an innholder.

Abraham Fuller, Capt. Joshua Fuller and Mr. Peter Durell, all of Newton, to make inventory. Jan. 22, 1771; £151.17.0, personal and stock (including ½ a colt). (Original in Middlesex Co. Probates, Mass.)

The estate seems to have been valued too high by the testator and badly managed. The son, Samuel Wheat of Providence and wife Jerusha, deeded their interest in the estate for £200, June 7, 1771. As late as Sept. 18, 1792, after the death of his widow, Hannah, the estate owed unpaid legacies of £260.14.0: one item is for last illness and funeral, £10.8.0 due Capt. Thomas Eustis, the son-in-law. The heirs finally received only 3/6 on the pound. (Original papers, Middlesex Co. Probates)"^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} 18 Samuel⁴ Wheat, in Wheat, Silas C, and Helen D. Love Scranton. Wheat Genealogy: a History of the Wheat Family in America with a Brief Account of the Name and Family in England and Normandy. (Brooklyn, New York; Guilford, Conn.: S.C. Wheat; Shore Line Times Publishing Co., 1903; 1960)
   2:8-10.

   "10 Samuel⁴4 Wheat (Samuel³, Joshua², Moses¹) born Oct. 2, 1703, Watertown, Mass; died Aug. 9, 1770; married at Concord, Aug. 2, 1726, Hannah Hovey of Cambridge, b. July 7, 1706; died July 6, 1792, dau. of Joseph and Mary (Marrett) Hovey. Samuel was a prosperous physician and much respected citizen of Newton, and his name is found in land records of Middlesex and Suffolk counties. He lived near the meeting house in West Newton (Smith’s History of Newton)."