Estate of Michael Carthrick of Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # None
I Michael Carthrick of Ipswich in New England Carpenter
being weake in body but of good memory thanks be to the lord doe make &
ordaine this my last will & Testament in mann & forme following first
I comitt by body vnto the earth there to be interred according to the discretion
of myne executrix and my soule into the hands of god that gave it and as
for my outward estate as folioweth
Imprimis I leave my wholl estate of which I am now possessed in the hands
of my wife to be improved by her for her owne & my childrens good vntill
my sonne John shall accomplish the age of 21 yeares alsoe I give vnto my
sonne John my howse wherein I now dwell withth e barne out howses frnces
& howslott wth all thapprtenancs to them belonging and alsoe all other
my lands & meadow of which I am now possessed to him & his heires
for ever when he shall accomplish the age of one & Twenty yeares to be
delivred vnto him in good condicon & repaire fitt for habitacon &
vse alsoe my minde & will is That my two children John & Mildred
shalbe brought vp by my wife vntill the tyme of the putting forth of my sonne
or at his full age & vntill the tyme of marriage or full age of my
daughter
Alsoe my will is that my sonne shalbe by my wife kept at schoole pvided there
be a schoole in the Towne where she liveth vntill the age of 14 or 15 yeares
yet soe as that at tymes his mother shall have power as the condicon of the
family & her necesseties shall require to take him off to be helpfull
to her in her businesse as the overseers & his mother shall see cause
further my will is that my sonne John at the age of 14 or 15 yeares as the
overseers shall thinke good shalbe putt out to some trade and that his mother
shall then furnish him with dubble apparrell & pay for his best advantage
wither for his putting forth or otherwise according to the discretion of
the overseers further I giue vnto my daughter Mildred ten pounds to be paid
vnto her out of the movable goods according to the appoyntmt of the overeers
when she shall have accomplished the full age of 21 years or at the day of
her marriage she marring with the consent of the overseers & her
mother:further in casemy wife shall marry whilst my children or either of
them be vnder age by will is that my wife & her husband shall both stand
bound to fullfill my will vnto my childlren according to the true intent
thereof and that her husband shall agree with my overseers for fullfilling
of the same in defect whereof or of the due vsage of my childlren or wither
of them my overseers shall have power to dispose of them by removing of them
or otherwise soe as the may see them supplied & educated according to
the true intent of this my last will and Testamt he or she paying according
to the pporcon of the charge that shall soe arise about the children And
further my will is that my wife shall not remove both or either of my children
out of this Jurisdiccon without the consent of my overseers ffinally I doe
make Sarah my loving wife sole executrix of this my last will & Testamt
desiring her to see all things therein to be pformed according to my Intent
& meaning therein specified as alsoe I doe appoynt our reverend &
faithfull Teacher mr. John Norton & Robert Payne oversers of this my
last will & Testamt and incase of the decease or departure of either
or both of them I give either or both of them power to appoynt an other or
others in his or their place or places
In wittnesse to this my last will & Testamt I have herevnto sett my hand
& seale the 16th day of the eleventh month 1646
Michael Carthrick
Sealed & delivred in the prsence of vs whose names are vnderwritten
Robert Lord
Edward Browne
Source: The will of Michael Carthrick of Ipswich, dated 16:11:1646 was proved
in the Ipswich court 30:1:1647. Copy is taken from the record contained in
the Ipswich Deeds, volume I, leaf 30, the original is missing. " The Essex
Antiquarian" Volume II P. 160-1
Submitted by: Roseanne
Montgomery