"2. Zacheus2 Curtis (Zacheus1) was born about 1647, as his age was given as twenty-two in 1669. … In 1675 he served under Capt. Gardiner in King Philip's war and was in action in the Narragansett fort fight. He lived in Rowley Village (Boxford) … He was selectman of Boxford in 1693,1705 and 1708. …
Zacheus Curtis died between April 18 and July 17, 1712, the dates of the codicil to his will and the probate of the document. In the will his wife Abigail and his sons James, Zachariah and Joseph, and his daughters Sarah Scales, Mercy, Prudence, Ruth and Deborah Curtis are mentioned, and the sons Zachariah and Joseph are named as executors. In the codicil several specific legacies are created, as 'my best coate, my pistoles & Rasor' to his son James, 'my Carbine' to Zachariah, 'my Muskett' to Joseph, 'Mr. Mathers book of eight sermons,' 'the great chaire,' etc. The land devised to his sons was entailed. Administration cum testamento annexo was granted to the son James on July 9, 1716, and he returned an inventory of real property valued at £232. He petitioned the court for permission to sell sufficient land to discharge the debts and legacies, amounting to £64:1: 8, 'the estate being all Reale & entailed by the deceased in his last will,' but the request was denied on November 13, 1716, by the Supreme Judicial Court. The administrator accounted in 1723, and in 1731 the dower of widow Abigail was set off."
