Abstracts of Wills Thomas Tolman Senior.

     I Thomas Tolman senior of Dorchester being now entred into the Eightycth yeare of my Age but of good and sound memory do declare this my last will & Testament. Unto my eldest son Thomas Tolman I give my present dwelling house & barne with the half acre of land it stands upon as all the Land Meadow & Upland I gave him at his marriage & that his deeds make mention of. Moreover that six Acres I bought since his Marriage of Jonathan Birch to him his heires & Assignes forever provided that he my son Thomas his heires Executor administrators pay to my dau Sarah Leadbetter £15, to my dau Rebekah Tucker the like sum. My will is that my dau Rebekah be first paid because she may need it most, that my son pay £15 to the children of my dau Ruth Ryall deceased in silver or at money price if money be not to be had & to his Sister Hannah Lyon £6.10 in silver or at silver price the legacies to my dau Ruth Rials children & to my dau Hannah Lyon y first paym to be two years after my decease & the other four yeares after my decease. All legacies to be paid in 4 years one quarter each year. I give my son Thomas my great chub axe, unto my son John Tolman I give all the Meadow & upland that his deed from me makes mention of with the buildings thereon provided John, his heires, Executors or Administrators pay the summer following unto my dau Mary Collins £20, to my dau Hannah Lyon £10 one half in two years the other halfe at the end of four veares after my decease. My wearing apparel I give unto my two sons woolen and liuen equally to be divided between them but I will that my son John shall have my Iron hoopes & boxes that may be upon my wheels that shall be left for I have given my son Thomas a new sett of Iron hoopes heretofore and to my dau Hannah Lion I give my best bed I usually lye upon with the best paire of sheets & the best furniture belonging to it & bedstead & to my dau Rebecca Tucker mv second best bed with ye second best appurtenances thereto belonging. And I will that she my dau Rebecca shall have my lesser Kittle of Brass & Hannah my dau the biggest. As for my pewter my will is that my dau Mary shall have one of the biggest pewter platters & Sarah Leadbettcr the other biggest & Hannah my dau the third best & Rebecca my dau the fourth & the rest of my moveable household stuff to be lovingly divided between my three dau Sarah Hannah & Rebecca & an old brass pott I give my son John & my part of the Iron barr or crow. I constitute my two sonnes Thomas & John to be my Executors. My will is that there be no demanding of any Debt that any of my Children thinke I owe any of them or if any paper be found for what I have done for them be all qnitt this I write that peace & love may be continued amongst my dear children. Only if I dye before James Tucker pay me £10 in money of New England then my will is that he the said Tucker shall pay to Isaac Ryalls two oldest dau Ruth & Mary £5 apeice in currant money of New England if it be to be had if not then to pay in currant pay at money price as indifferent men shall judge if you cannot agree amongst yourselves & my will is ye said James Tinker doing thus shall have up his bond of £18 that I lent him & the remainder of what he borrowed I give to his wife Rebecca my dau in part of her portion beside what I have already specifyed I have set to this my hand & seale 29 Octo 1688. Peter Thachcr 29 8 88 Thomas Tolman & John Danforth 5.9 88. James Blake Present The Honbl Simon Bradstreet Esq Gov Isaac Addington & John Smith Esqrs Assist. Will presented for probate by Thomas Tolman Feb 5 1690-1. John Tolman the other Executor renounced his executorship when Messrs Thacher, Danforth & Blake deposed. Suffolk Wills Lib viii fol 41. Inventory of the estate taken July 23 1690 by John Breck, John Minot Amt £322.15 Mentions 8 Acres of land without the great lotts fenced £32. 26 Acres of land within fence £100. 6 acres of salt Marsh £42, dwelling house barne & orchard £100 Feb 13 1690- 1. Thomas Tolman deposed .