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Moses and his brother William were in Spencer's garrison in 1693. They lived on Pipe Stave Hill, South Berwick.
"In the name of God Amen The Twenty first Day of Aprill in the year 1726 I Moses Goodin husbandman... Do make and Ordain this my Last Will and Testament...
Imprimis I Give and Bequeath to my Beloved Wife Abigail one third part of my life Stock, with all my household Goods to be to her Sole Use and at her Absolute Dispose Togeather with the Use of my Dwelling house & the Land that Lyes to the Westward of the Way leading by My Said House towards York to be to her sole Use During her Naturall life with the Utensils and Instrumts for Husbandry Nesessary to Carry on her part of the Land Item I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter Martha five Pounds to be paid in Province Bihls in Two years after my Decease by my Executrs I haveing Given her a Cow & Calf already
Item I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter Patience five Pounds to be paid in Province Bills within Two years after my Decease by my Executors She having Already had a Cow & Calf.
Item I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter Mary five Pounds to be paid in Province Bills within Two years after my Decease She haveing Already had a Cow and Calf.
Item I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter Abigail ten Pounds to be paid in Province Bills within two years after my Decease
Item I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter Phebe five Pounds to be paid in Province Bills within Two years after my Decease haveing had a Cow and Calf.
Item I Give and Bequeath Elizabeth ten Pounds to be Paid in two years after my Decease in Province Bills. Item I Give and Bequeath to my Daughter Margaret ten Pounds to be Paid by my Execrs within two years After my Decease in Province Bills
Item I Give and Bequeath to my two Sons Moses and Aaron (whom I appoint the Executors of this my Last Will & Testament) to be Equally Divided Between them And to Enjoy in Severalty to them and their Heirs and Assigns for ever my Homestead Housing & Lands in Berwick and a forty Acre Lot on the Rocky hills and a Peice of Land of about Eighteen Acres At the Pipe Stave Hill with my Comon Rights in Said Berwick Together with the two thirds of my live Stock and the Remaining Utensills and Instruments of Husbandry hereby Obliging them my Said Two Sons their Heirs & Executrs to afford and Provid fire wood for their Mother During her Widowhood In Wittness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal the Day & year above written.
Signed Sealed Pronounced & Declared by the Said Moses Goodin as his Last Will & Testamt in ye Presence of ye Subscribers.
Moses X Goodin
Job Emery
John Goodin
Signum Thomas Alden"[1]
A true & perfect Inventory of… moses gooding latte of barwick… taken the twenty ninth day of june in the year 1726
To his waring cloths..................................12 = 01 = 00
To his armer..............................................06 = 16 = 00
To beeds & beeding & beed sheets.........46 = 05 = 00
To pots & kitles & skillets & one trammel.04 = 06 = 00
To puter & earthen ware & wooden ware &
[ ]..............................................................05 = 02 = 04
To tongs & a fier shufel & drinken glasses.00 = 12 = 00
To two frien panes & glass bottels & books.01 = 14 = 06
To woolen yarn & wool & two spening
wheals..........................................................06 = 01 = 00
To milks veasels & a flax come & sider
casks............................................................03 = 05 = 08
To cheers & cheestts & a looking glass & corn &
porke...........................................................05 = 13 = 00
To chanes & ould iron & slides & yokes & raks &
axes..............................................................06 = 05 = 00
To five cowes & one heafor & one bull...36 = 00 = 00
To four oxen & twenty ould sheep & 16
lambs...........................................................48 = 00 = 00
To three yearling & one two year ould & five
swine............................................................12 = 05 = 00
To one hors & coltte & one cowe & three pounds of
cloth.............................................................18 = 04 = 00
To a pair of shilards [?] & two baskitts boxes &
[ ]..............................................................02 = 08 = 00
The homstteed with the bulding thir one.420 = 00 = 00
To sixty acers att the Rocke hills............060 = 00 = 00
To eighteen acers att the pip sttafe hill...18 = 00 = 00
To a grins stone & tabel.............................00 = 14 = 00
Nathan Lord his N Mark
James Grant
John hupper"[2]
In 1738 Abigail was accused of receiving stolen goods.
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