Estate of Philip Call of Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # 4528
I Philip Call of Ipswich in New England in the county
of Essex being sick of body but Inioying my memorye and vnderstanding doe
make this my last will and testament, for my outward estate wch God hath
Given me I thus dispose after my debts are discharged. I giue unto my wife
mary call all myland in old England dureing her natural Life and after her
decease my will is that my sonn Phillip call shall haue and inioy the same
to him and to his heires for euer and Alsoe I doe giue vnto my sayd wife
mary call my House and Land about it in Ipswich in New england aforessyd
for the terme of her naturall Life and after her death my will is my daughter
mary call shall have and Inioye the same and my will is that if any of my
children departe this life before they come to age or the sayd lands come
into there posseion (?) then the surviveing shall haue and Inioy the whole
and my will is that my sonn Philip call shall haue a cow and mydaughter mary
a calfe to be impued for there vse & benifitt and for the rest of my
estate I giue vnto my wife for to helpe bring vp my children and after her
death what is left my will is shall be devyded amongst my children according
to her discression
Item I make my II wife II sole executrix of this my last will and testament
In witnes that this is my last will & and testament I haue heervnto sett
my hand the sixth day of may 1662 In witnes that this is my will This was
signed & published to be the last will and testament of Plipp call in
the presence of Vsphp Call
John Caldwell
Richard smith
Robert Lord
Source: The will of Philip Call of Ipswich was proved in the court at Ipswich
Sept. 30, 1662. The following copy of the instrument was taken from the original
on file in the probate office at Salem. "The Essex Antiquarian" V. X p. 169
Submitted by: Roseanne Montgomery