Person:Zebediah Allen (1)

Probate

FHL Film 0386002, Middlesex Probate File 363 Zebediah Allen 1777

In the Name of God Amen The Seventh Day of July A.D. 1767

I Zabediah Allen of Sudbury in the County of Midd'x within his Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England yeoman, Being weak in Body but of perfect mind & Memory - Thanks be given to God therefore Calling to mind the mortality of my Body & Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die, Do make and ordain this my Last will & Testament Principally & first of all I recommend my Soul into the Hands of God who gave it, & my Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in Decent Christian Buriall at the Discretion of my Exetor, Nothing Doubting but at the General Resurrection I Shall Receive the Same again by the mighty power of God, and touching Such worldy Estate where with God has Blest me in this Life, I Give Demise & Dispose of the Same in the following manner & form, after my Just Debts & funeral Charges paid &c.

Imprimis: I Give to my Beloved wife Mary Allen the Use & Improvement of all my Real Estate, with the Improvement of Two Cows & a hors[e] to Ride on when she may have Occasion for her Comfortable maintenance Dureing her Natural life & to Dispose of as She pleases.

Item I Give to my Dutifull Son Nehemiah Allen five Shillings to be paid him by my Executor in Three Months after my Dec. which with what he hath already had is to be his full part out of my Estate.

Item I Give to my Dutifull Son Jonathan Allen five Shillings to be paid him by my Executor in Three months after my Deces. which with what he hath already had is to be his full part out of my Estate.

Item I Give to my Dutifull Son Zabediah Allen five Shillings to be paid him by my Executor in Three Months after my Deceas[e], which with what he hath alre[a]dy had is to be his full part out of my Estate.

Item I Give to my Dutifull Son John Allen five Shillings to be paid him by my Executor in Three months after my Deceas[e], which with what he hath already had is to be his full part out of my Estate.

Item I Give to my Dutifull Daughter Mary Farrar Six pounds Thirdteen Shillings & four pence to be paid her by my Executor in Three Months after my & my wifes Deceas[e], which with what she hath alre[a]dy had is to Be her full part ouf of my Estate.

Item I Give to my Dutifull Daughter Susannah Rice Six pounds thirteen Shillings & four pence to be paid her by my Executor in Three months after my & my wifes Deceas[e], which with what she hath alre[a]dy had is to be her full part out of my Estate.

Item I Give to my Dutifull Daughter Dorothy Glezen Six pounds Thirteen Shillings & four pence to be paid her by my Executor in Three Months after my & my wifes Deceas[e], which with what She hath already had is to be her full part out of my Estate.

Item I Give & Bequeath to my Dutifull Son Josiah Allen all my Quick Stock Excepting Two Cows which I Gave the Improvement of to my wife & at her Deceas[e] I Give them to my Executor, also all my husbandry Tools, also I Give to my Dutifull Son Josiah Allen all my Lands & Buildings which I now posess & Injoy, to him his Heirs & Assigns for Ever; after my wives Deceas[e], also all my wareing apparill.

I Likewise Constitute make & ordain my Beloved Son Josiah Allen my Executor in Trust of this my Last Will and Testament; and I Do here by Utterly Disalow, Revoke and disannul all & Every other former Testament Will, Legacies and Bequests & Executors by me in any ways Before named Willed & Bequeathed, Ratefying & Confirming this and no Other to Be my Last Will & Testament; In Wittness where of I have here Unto Set my hand & Seal the Day and year above Written

Zebadiah Allen

Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and Declared by the Said Zabediah Allen as his Last Will & Testament in presence of Us the Subscribers. Samuel Choate, Ephraim Curtis, Joseph Curtis.

Proved 22 Jul 1777

1. ↑ Historical Society of Watertown (Massachusetts). Watertown Records. (Watertown, Mass.: Press of Fred Barker, 1894-1939)
   2:21.

   Zebediah Allin son of Benjamin & frances Allin was born : January the 19 : 1701/2.

2.   Note: Source:Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Genealogical History of the Rice Family : Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, p. 29, gives two marriages for Zebediah, the second one to Hannah Grout in 1761. However, the will clearly names his wife Mary, and it was his son Zebediah, of Barre, who married Hannah Grout, with whom he had at least 6 children born in Barre 1762-1770.