Richard York 1672 Will

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Contents 1 WikiTree Pages of Interest 2 Bibliographic Notes 3 Richard York 1672 Will 4 Sources

WikiTree Pages of Interest

• Richard York (1602-1672)
• Richard York Family Notes 2022
• Richard York and Elizabeth Child List 2022

Bibliographic Notes

• 1907. Albert Stillman Batchellor, Probate Records ... Vol 1, 1635-1717 in New Hampshire State Papers, 40 vols. (1867-1943), 31:134-136 (Richard York, 1672, Dover); digital images, InternetArchive.
• 1885. William Mitchell Sargent, The York Family (Portland, Me.: S. M. Watson, 1885), 14; digital images, InternetArchive.
• 1885. William M. Sargent, "The York Family", The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, 2 (1885):217-229; 3 (1886):17-25; digital images, Hathi Trust, includes transcript of will at 2:218-219; placed Richard's death as 1674.
• 1674. Register copy of his inventory, courtesy of Scott Carles, https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/8996/media/007636243_00085.png?securityToken=xw0c0690131f478608ddda3a95d92d337ee9313f7a99db0000&maxWidth=1600
• 1672. Register copy of his will, courtesy of Scott Carles, https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/namespaces/8996/media/007636243_00084.png?securityToken=xwc387059f6c453c1484a3e96d390c81f3e9313f7a99db0000&maxWidth=1600

Richard York 1672 Will

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF RICHARD YORK, OF DOVER.

In y” name of God Amen y” lator will & testam' of Richard
Yorke who being well stricken in yeares but ripe in memory this
23: day of Aprile 1672, viz. J, doe leave & bequeath to my son
Jno. Yorke y' I now live in my farme y” dwelling houses & out
houses p'iuledges & y” apptnances thereunto belonging together
w" y” stocke w” shall remaine upon y” farme after my decease & y”
legacies here mentioned shalbe paide & what stock of cattle &
sheepe & swine shalbe left after y” legacies be paide shalbe equally
devided between my son Jno. Yorke & daughter Elizabeth & my
son Benjamin Yorke & my daughter Grace Yorke and likewise
alsoe I doe leave & bequeath to my wife Elizabeth Yorke during
her life time one third p" of y" estate & one cow only my son John
Yorke paying y” just debts to any pson or persons y' can be made
justly appeare. Also I do leave and bequeath to my son Sam-
uel Yorke five pounds alsoe I doe leave & bequeath to my daughter
Rachele Halle five pounds & also I doe leave & bequeath to my
son Beniamin Yorke that tract of land wº" I hold by Towne Grant
Scituate lying & being near y” second fall of Lampill River adjoin-
ing unto y' which was lately Jnº. Martyns lott together wº one yoke
of oxen & alsoe doe leave & bequeath to my daughter Grace
Yorke tenn pounds also leave & bequeath unto my two grand-
children Rich: Yorke & Benjamin Yorke fiftie shillings apeese Alsoe
to my daughter Grace Yorke legacies is to be paid at her day of
marriage or eighteen years of age.

Now I, Richard liuing & being ripe in memory doe now acknowl-
edge this to be my last will & testam' signed sealed & acknowl-
edged, in the presence of us to be his act and deede dat" y” 23 of
Aprile 1672.

[SEAL] [UNSIGNED]

Witnes us the mark of
Nicho ( ) Doe.
ffrancis Thorn

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