John Burnham, II

Estate of John Burnam (son of Deacon John Burnam, Sr.) of Ipswich

(Chebaco), Essex Probate Docket # 4116:

In the name of God, Amen. I John Burnam, Senr of Chebaco, in Ipswich

In the County of Esix In the province of Massachusetts Bay in New

England, Yeoman, being att this present time through Gods Goodness of

Good understanding and firm and sound in memory and of a Disposing mind

tho very weak and infirm of Body, not knowing how soon it may please God

to call me hence to my long home. I Do here by these presents make this

to be My last will and Testament. I Committ My Imortall Soull into the

mercyfull hand of that Gracious God who gave it and my Body to the Grave

and to a Descent Buriall in hopes of a Glorious Ressurection thro Jesus

Christ who i trust hath Redeemed my Soul from Death. And as to what

Outward of this World God in the Way of his Good providence Bestowed

upon me, I give and Bequeath as hereafter followeth.

1. I Do hereby Give & Bequeath as hereafter followeth. JOHN Burnam &

THOMAS Burnam all my housing & upland & Marsh & Meadow Ground that i do

now posess & Enjoy to be Equally Divided Between them Both for Quantity

and Quality only my Son JOHN Burnam Shall have my Dwelling house &

homestead with the outhouses adjacent which i now inhabit and half of

all my Land Lying most Convenient to it as aforesaid & my said son

THOMAS Burnam Shall have the Dwelling house that lyeth abut Southwest

from my now Dwelling house & his half of the said Land to be to him as

may be most convenent adjoining thereunto.

2. Also I Give my said two sons all my Quick Stock to be Equally

Divid Between them & also my Carpenters tools & untensills husbandry all

to be Divid as they Shall agree, or as judicious men Chosen Between them

Both Shall Determine. They Equally paying the Legacies & performing the

Severall Dutys that be hereafter Mentioned & they Equally to pay all

Debts that my be Due from the Estate & Equally to receve all that my be

Due to the Estate & my two Said sons John & Thomas Burnam to have their

Equall Share of all my Common Rights.

3. I do hereby Give & bequeath unto my well Beloved wife SARAH

Burnam all my household Goods & furniteur of Every Room in my House to

be att her Dispose among her Chilldren as she may See cause or for her

own use. also two Cow & then Sheep, ewes to be provided by my said two

Sons Equally and from time to time to be Equally Maintained Both winter

& sumer by them for her own proper use Behoff and Benefit also my Said

wife shall have the use of one end of my now Dwelling house which She

Shall Chuse & what priviledg She may have Occasion for In the Cillar &

so as to the Ovens, well & other necessaries & convenenices that she may

stand in need of; My said two sons shall Equally provide and maintain a

good able horse Sutable for thir mother's use and also to pay her yearly

Equally Between them the full sum of Seven pounds In money or in other

species as money also they Equally are and shall provide firewood for

one fire-room Drawn home and ready cutte fitt for her use and all these

severall perticulars shall be continued and performed By my said two

sons to my said wife Sarah so long as she remains my widdow.

4. I Give to my Eldest Daughter SARRAH wife of Jacob Brown what she

hath allready had which is her portion also i give her ten shillings in,

or as money as a token of my Love to be payd Equally by my two sons

above named in one year after my Decese.

5. I give and Bequeath to my youngest sons JONATHAN Burnam & ROBERT

Burnam forty pounds apice In money or other specie as money to be paid

to them when they arrive successivley at the age of twenty and one years

By my said two sons John & Thomas Burnam Each of them their Equall part

which is forty pounds apice.

6. I hereby Give and Bequeath to my three youngest Daughters viz.

MARY Burnam ELIZABETH Burnam & HANNAH Burnam Each of them thirty pounds

apice in money or other speces as money to be paid to each of them

succesfully upon marrage or when they arrive succesfully att the full

age of twenty and one years the three said Legacies which amount In the

whole to Ninety pounds to be equally paid as abovesaid by my two sons

John Burnam & Thomas Burnam.

7. I Do hereby constitute & appoint by trusty and well Beloved

freinds Mr. William Thompson & Leutt John Cogswell to be overseers of

this my Last will and testament & they to be satisfied for what trouble

they are att in sevin herein & in witness that this is my last will and

testament I the said John Burnam have thereto Set my hand and seal this

seventeenth Day of December Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred & Eight.

JOHN BURNAM Senr.

Signed Sealed as the Last will & testament of the sd Jno Burnam Senior

In presents of us three witnesses.

William Thomson

John Cogswell, Junr.

Mathe Rust Sen.

Copia Vera as on record

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Attest Daniel Rogers, Regstr.

Source: "Genealogical Records of the Three Brothers, John, Thomas and

Robert Burnham" Vol II, by Roderick H. Burnham, Longmeadow, Mass., 1869,

pub., Hartford Conn., by Case, Lockwood & Brainard.