I Will that my just Debts and Necessary Charges be payd and discharged. I will and bequeath to my Children Rebecca Brooks and Thomas Row and the Heirs of Anna Clark, deceased, five shillings to be equally divided among them and payd by my Executor hearafter mentioned.
I will and bequeath to my Daughter Anna Thurston two pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, and to my Daughter Deborah Pool six pound thirteen shillings and four pence, these sums of money to be payd to them out of my personal Estate if there be left enough besides to satisfy my Debts and Charges and if there should not be enough besides my Debts and Charges, My Will is that my four sons hereafter mentioned pay each an equal part of said legacies
I Will and bequeath all of my estate not otherwise bequeathed to my fours Sons, Benjamin, James and Henry to be equally divided among them saving two pound thirteen shillings and four pence wich I Will to Benjamin more than an equal share and further I Will to Henry more than an equal Share, my Garden in front of the House, as the fence row is extending from the Road to a large Apel Tree Northerly and two Cow pens now Walled in, joining the field.
I also Will to Henry My Son Henry to have his parts where he and I now Dwell and the others as much maybe, where their Respective Houses now stand
Finally, I constitute my Sons Benjamin and Henry jointly and severally my Sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament. Witness my Hand and Seal on the Day afore written.
Syned Sealed and published pronounced and Declared the sd. Benjamin Tarr the Testator, to be his last will and Testament in presence of us besides.
Benjamin Tarr's mark
Ebenezer Cleaveland
Andrew Woodberry
Caleb Pool
Presented 5 April 1784 by Benjamin, the only surviving executor. Cleaveland and Pool were present.
Source: Copied from the original at Mass Archives, July 8, 1999.
Submitted by: Diana Nelson
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