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Married:
- Will of Martin Underwood:
August this 23, 1663 In the name of God Amen; I martaine Underwood dwelling in Watertowne being in perfect memory do ordaine this as my last will and testament. First I do comend my soul unto God from whome I have received it and my body to ththe earth believing and expecting a resurection unto eternal life in and through the meritts of Christ Jesus. As for my temporall estate I do bequeath it all unto my deare and beloved wife and doe make her sole executor of all my estate wheather lands, chattels, or moveables and after her death I do give and bequeath my house and homestall and barne with all my lands in Watertowne, and all my rights belonging to me now or may be hereafter unto my kinsman Nathan ffiske: Provided that in case my deare wife have need to make use of any part of that estate bequeathed until my cousin Nathan ffiske for her reliefe and comfort then it is my minde and will that she shall have full liberty to make sale of any part of the before bequeueathed estaate for her comfortable subsistence: and arther in case my cousin Nathan ffiske should dye without heyres, executors or assigns it is my minde and will that my cousen John fiske his brother shall injoy all that I have bequeathed until my Cousin Nathan ffiske: and further it is my minde and will that in case any of my sisters children should after my decease come over into this country to lay claime to any part of my estate before bequeathed and given; then it is my minde and will that so many of them as shall come over shall have twenty shillings apeece to be paid out of my estate in one thing or another as my executors can best pay and further it is my minde and will that after my debts and funerall expenses be payed that wtever of my estate shall be left indisposed by my wife and not given by her sall all fall into the hands of my Cousen Nathan fiske; whome it is my desire after my wifes death that he should be the heyre and owner thereof; I say him that is my Cousen Nathan fiske his heyres, executors, administrators or asins and in case my kinsman Nathan fiske should dye without heyres, executors, administrators, or assigns, then it is my will that my kinsman John ffiske his brother shall injoy all that my kinsman Nathan fiske should have injoyed if he had lived until which will and last testament I have set my hand and seale.
Martin Underwood (seal)
John Eddie
Thomas Underwood
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