Estate of Sarah Dillingham of Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # None
The following is an exact transcript of the will of widow Sarah Dillingham of Ipswich, made from the original on file in the Massachusetts Archives, this is said to be the earliest existing Essex County will.
This is the laft will and teftament of mee Sarah Dillingham of Ipfwich widowe
: ffor my foule I comend it into ye hands of God in ye mediacon of Jefus
Crift: For my temporall eftate:
I give to my onely child Sarah Dillingham my whole eftate in lands and goods
(except fuch pticular legacyes as heerafter are named) : and if my child
Dye before it fhall be marryed or attain to ye age of one and twenty years,
then my will is that the fame fhalbe devyded equally between my mother Thomafine
Caly, my brothers Abraham Caly and Jacob Caly, my fifter Bull and my fifter
Baft the wyves of John Bull and John Baft and my fifters Rebecca Caly and
emme Caly, or fuch of them as fhalbe lyving at ye tyme of ye death of fuch
child, all Which My mother brethren & fifters are now lyving in
England:
alfo I give to mr ward Paftor of ye Church at Ipfwich fyve pounds and to
Richard Saltonftall efqr. ten pounds and to mrs. Saltonftall his wife a filver
bowle
To mr Samuell Appleton fyve pounds and to his wife a filver porringer:
and of this my will I make executors ye faid Mr Saltonftall and Mr Appleton,
comittinge ye educacion and government of my faid child and ye eftate I leave
her unto their faithfull ordering intreating them in the bonds of Criftian
love to fee this my will fullfilled my due debts paid, my body decently buyried
and my child religioufly educated if God give it life, and that they will
order the eftate as they would doe their owne:
In wytnes that this is my true will made in my pfect memory though my body
be weake & fick I publifh it after it hadbenn read unto me in the prefenc:
of thofe whofe names Are under wrytten this xiiijth Day of July 1636
Sarah Dillingham
Tho: Dudley
Robert Lord
Phillip P fowlers marck
Source: Massachusetts Archives, Vol. B15, leaf.59.
Submitted by: Bob Bamford