Elisha Ward

Suppose He was estranged...

HIS MOTHER LEAVES HIM 20 SHILLINGS, ETC

WILL OF HANNAH BRIGHAM-EAMES-WARD

FIRST: I will that all those debts and duties as I do owe in Right or conscience to any person or persons whatsoever shall well and truly be paid in convenient time after my decease by my Executor hereafter named.

Item: I give to my well beloved son Gershom Ward whom I likewise constitute make and ordain my onely and sole executor of this my last will and testament and all my lands and other Estate which I shall dye seazed by him freely to be possessed, he fulfilling those things hereafter specified: First I will that he the aforesaid Gershom doe take the sole care of my daughter Hannah Eames and provid for her both in sickness and in health with the help of what Estate she hath and what of right belongs to her during her Natural Life. And further it is my plesuer that the Bed and Bedding which she uses and a white cow and all the puter that I shall leve that is marked with Eames leters with all her other things be called hers : it is my will also that his heirs or administrators stand obliged to the performance hereof and her funeral to be at his charge.

Item: I will that there be paid unto my four other children by my Executor above named to wit: to William and Nahum Ward and to Mary Keyes and Bethiah Brigham twenty shillings apiece within one year after my Decease and if Elisha shall ever come again that my executor pay him twenty shillings also and if any of my children should dy before the time of payment then to their heirs also. I apoint my well beloved kinsmen Samuel Goodenow and Joseph Straten to be the over seer of this my will. Ratifying

and confirming this to be my last will and testament in witness hereof I have set my hand and seal the Day and yeare above written. her

Signed Sealed Published Hannah H Ward (Seal) pronounced and Declared mark by the said Hannah Ward as her last will and testament in the presents of us the subscribers viz :

John Brigham (original signature.)

Joshua Rice

Joseph Straten

Will filed Dec. 1719.

Record of Probate 27 June 1720

Inventory 2 Feb. 1721.

Source: BOOK: History of the Brigham Family, p 77-80