Daniel Smith, Jr.

alt bdate 6/27/1648

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WILL OF DANIEL SMITH (No. 2 in Smith Family).

I, Daniel Smith of Watertowne, in ye Countie of Middlesex, being very sick and weake in my bodie and daily looking when my leaving shall be, yet through ye mercie and goodness of God I am in my understanding and memorie sound, and doe declare this to be my last will and testament as followeth: I return my spirit unto God yt gave it and my bodie to the earth from whence it was taken to be decently burled at ye discretion of my executor, hopeing at the last day to have a glorious resurrection both of bodie and soule through ye merits of ye Lord Jesus Christ.

I give unto my deare and loving wife, my whole both houses and lands and moveables for her comfort and maintenance and ye bringing up of my children so long as she shall contenue a widdow after my decease, but if she shall see reason to marrie again, then my will is, she shall injoy the thirds of ye yearly income of my lands and that onely.

I give unto my two eldest sons, namely Daniell Smith and John Smith, after my wives decease or marriage, my houseing, both dwelling house and barne with all my lands both meddow and upland equally to them and their heirs forever. They paieing out of them as is after expressed and if eighther of them die before they atttained to ye age of one and twentie years, then my will is that my third son, namely, Joseph Smith, shall injoy the part and proportion of him that dies as before and if all my three sone doe live, then my will is that my son Joseph, abovesaid, shall have an equall portion with his eldest brethren to be paid him out of my houses and lands, but not in house and land. I give unto my oldest son Daniell Smith abovesaid my horse and armes and furniture for ye horse with all my wearing cloath both linen and woolen. My will is that my moveable estate after my wives decease or marriage be equalie divided among all my daughters and what my mother's will and mind was to bestow upon any of my daughters my will la yt it should be performed without any alteration.

And I doe nominate and appoint my deare and loveing wife to be sole executrix to this my last will and testament and doe earnestly desire my g-ood friends, John Bisco and William Bond, Sr., to be overseers of this my will to be helpfull to my wife in her desolate condition in ye performance of this my will and in looking after my children, and as a confirmation of this my will I have set to my hand this one and thirtieth of May, sixteen hundred eighty and one.

DANIELL SMITH, 21, 4 mo. sworn by the witnesses as attests. JONATHAN REMINGTON, Clerk.

As witnesseth, JOHN BISCO, WILLIAM BOND.

History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut:, By Richard Anson Wheeler, p. 725-6