Estate of Robert Hunter 0f Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # None

this 5th of the 6th month 1647
I Robert Hunter weake of body but of pfect memory praysed be god doe make & ordayne this to be my last will & Testament. first all my debts being paid I leave my howse & lott to my wife Mary Hunter for Terme of her life.
Item all my goods within the howse I give to my wife
Item I give vnto Thomas Birkby one little browne heffer that coms two yeares and my shop geare
Item I give vnto some poore in the Church of Rowley ten pounds to be paid out of two mares of which ten pounds then shillings I give to Richard Clarke
Ite ten shillings to John Dresser
Item to John Burbant 10s.
Item to willm Jackson 10s
Item to Jane Grant I give 10s.
Item to Sisly wood 10s.
Item to Margaret Crosse 10s.
Item I give to william Stickne 20s. & all my workiday clothes
Item to Thomas Elethorp 10s.
Item I give to mris Shove 40s which I desire may be for helping her sonne when is to || goe ||[to]Cambridg
Item I give to John Trumbell 20s.
Item to Edward Sawier 10s.
Ite to Thomas Tenny I give 10s. and the remainyng 20s of the 101 I give to mris Shove
Item as for all the rest of my goods & Chattells I leave vnto my wife Mary Hunter whom I make sole executrix of this my last will & testament I [n] prsence of vs

Robert Hunter
Humfry Rayner
Maximilian Jawet his mke

Memorand for the Inheritance of my howse & lott In case Abell Langley settle here & carry well towards his Dame my minde is that he shall have the Inheritance of them, but if not then I leave it to be disposed of by the Church for the vse of the poore of Rowley.

Item it is the will of the said testator that if the above said Abell Langley have a call to goe for England to settle any estate he hath there that then he shall have libty to goe and returne but in case he goe & doe not returne to live here in such convenient tyme as may be thought fitt by the Church then the said Abell Langley shall not have power to sell or dispose of the Lott or howse but they shall fall into the hands of the Church at Rowley to be disposed of as abovesaid.

Source: The will of Robert Hunter, dated 5 : 6 mo : 1647, was proved in the Ipswich court 28 : 7 : 1647. The copy is taken from the record contained in the Ipswich deeds, volume I, leaf 25, the original being missing.
"The Essex Antiquarian" Vol. III, #1, p. 8-9

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