Imprimus I Give to Rebeka my wiff: one Cow and two heyfers that are Caled hurs also my litle Grey mare: Also I give to my wiff an anuety of five pounds a yeare: to be pd yearly: fivty shilings in Corne And fivty shilings in Catle: the Corne part to be pd half in wheat & malt and the other half in indian Corn: this to be pd at Ipswich wher my wife shal appoint: also that my wifes goods be returned to her she brought.
It I Give to my Son Samull Howlit fivety accers of land by mecher of that which I formerly intended for my Son John Howlet & also two twenty Accer lots in the thick woods in topsfeild & also foure Accers of medo. [It I give to my dafter Sarah Comings fower accers of the hasakey medo lying at the moth.
It I Give to my son Samull howlet the rest of the hasekey medow at the bridg. 'written in margin]. Also my wil is that my Son Samull Howlet shall paye fivety shiling yearly of the anuety of five pounds that I have Given to my wife in specea according to my will.
It I Give to my wife a Ketle in stead of a bed teck I promesed.
It I Give to my dafter Sarah Comings 4 pownds to be pd with in fowr yeares after my dessas if she be living elc to her heyers: Also 20s to allis Comins at her mariag or at 18 yers of age.
It for my dafter mary perly I have Given her twenty thre pownds which my wil is shud be made up of fivty powndes the one half of it within a year after my Desseas the other half within thre years after my desseas.
It I Give to mary Howlit my Son John Howlits dafter forty five pounds to be pd to her at the age of eighten years or at her daye of maryag, if she live not to receiv it thaen my wil is that ther shal be ten pownds pd to my Son John Howlits wiff.
Lastly I ordain my son william Howlit my Sole executor of this my last wil and testyment to whom I give my depts being pd all the rest of my estat housing Lands Goods & catle Utensils of all sorts and depts from whome soever due unto him & his heyers forever. I doe appoint my Loving freinds Capt. John Applton: major Samull Applton and John whipple senior the overseers of this my last will and Testement: & I doe herby Give them power to determin any differanc that may arise betwen my executor and any of the Legetes aforsaid a bought the payments aforesaid
It my will is that my Son Thomas Howlits wife shall injoy that hundred accers of land I possesed him of til his eldest dafter be at the age of eighten years or at her daye of mariag & then she shal Injoy one quarter of the it: also when my Son Thomas howlits yongest dafter is of the age of eighten years or at her daye of mariag she shal injoy on quarter of the hundred accers given to her sd father: & after ther mothers desseas they shal injoy the other fivty accers equally devided betwen them my wil is that if one of my Sonn Thomas Howlits dafters dy befor she is possesed of her potion it shal goe to her sister my wil is that if my Son Thomas howlits two dafter dy befor they are eighten years of age or ar maried that then my dafter in lawe my Son Thomas Howlits wiff shal injoy all the hundred accers of land her lif and at her desseas shall paye out of it, to my choldren then living one hundred pownds which shal be equally divided among them in confermation wherof I hav set to my hand and seal this forth of november 1677.
Thomas (his T mark) Howlit (SEAL)
Witness: John Appleton
Samuell Appleton
John Whipple
Proved in Ipswich court Sept. 24, 1678 by Capt. John Appleton, Maj. Samuell Appleton, Capt. John Whipple.
Source: Printed "Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts;
1635 - 1681," In three volumes,The Essex Institute; Salem, MA; 1916
Submitted by: Richard A. Howlett
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