Estate of William Sargent of Amesbury

Essex Probate Docket # 24708

 In the name of God Amen. the 24 day of March 1671/72 I William Sargent of ye town of Emesbury in ye County of Norfolk Massachusetts in Newengland Seaman being in pritty good health of body & of sound & pfect memorie (praise bee given to god for ye same) & knowing ye uncertainty of this life on earth & being Desirous to settle things in order doe make this my last will & testamt in manner & form That is to say First & principally I comend my soule to Allmighty God my Creator assurdely believing yt shall recieve full pardon & free remission of all my sins & bee saved by ye pecious death & meritte of my blessed Savioc & Redemmer Christ Jesus & my body to ye earth from whence it was taken to bee buried in such Decent & Christian manner as to my Executoed hereafter named shall be thought meete & convenient.
And as touching such wordly estate as ye lord mercy hath lent mee my will & meaning if ye same shal bee imployed & bestowed as hereafter by this will & Testament
Item I give & bequeath to my grand child William Challis five pounds & to my grandchildren Elizabeth, Lydia, Mary & Phillip watson Challis to each of them twenty shillings
Item I give & bequeath unto my grand children Dorothie & Elizabeth Colby to each of them twenty shillings Item I give unto my grand child William Sargent thirty shillings Itt I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth ye wife of Sam Colby five pounds Item I give all ye remayndere of my estate (these my legacies & my funeral charges being firste paid) unto my daughter Sarah both howsing & lands, chattels & other movables wt foever always pvided that if she die wth out children that these howsing & lands: to bee equally divided: unto my four children hereafter named, i: e: my sons Thomas & William & my daughters Mary & Elizabeth Item I do constitute ordaine & appointe my sone Thomas Sargent & my daughter Sarah Sargent Executors unto this my will & Testamt & doe make my loving brother in law Tho Bradbury & my esteemed friend Major Pike my overseers to take care that this my will may bee prformed according to ye true intente & meaning thereof
And to this my last will & Testament I doe hereunto fess my hand & seale ye day & year above named

William Sargent (Seal)
Signed, sealed and thto in ye prsence uf
Thomas Bradbury
The mark of MB Mary Bradbury
John Bradbury

Tho Bradbury & Jno Bradbury testisied upon oath yt they saw Wm Sargent senr. signe, seale & declare this to bee his will before ye court held at Salisbury 13 Aprill 75
Tho Bradbury rec

Entered and Recorded in ye County records for Norfolk (tit 3d pa 6 ye 29th of Aprile 1675) as atteste
Tho Bradbury recr

Source: "The Sargent Record," Edwin Everett Sargent (1899)

Submitted by: Jim Roaix

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