Will of John Wild

Date: 28 Jun 1727 [unknown]
Location: Braintree, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Surname/tag: Wild

Transcription of Will of John Wild

In the name of God amen the twenty eighth day of June in the year of our Lord 1727 I John Wild of Braintree in the County of Suffolk husbandman being very weak & low in body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given to God therefore calling to mind the mortality of body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give & recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and for my body I recommend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion of my executors and as for such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give & dispose of the same in the following manner & form.

First I give to my son John Wild ten pounds in good payable money to be paid to him in two years after my decease by Jonathan Wild and the confirmation of all that he had had of me heretofore.

Secondly I give unto my son Samuel Wild thirty five acres of land adjoining to his homestead be the same more or less & one third party of my cedar swamp he paying to his sister Sarah Newcombe or to her heirs thirty pounds in good payable money at my decease.

Thirdly I give to my son William Wild two hundred pounds in good payable money & one third part of my cedar swamp & all my wearing apparel of every sort all to be paid unto him or his son Jona. Wild all my homestead on both sides of the way and all the buildings & fences thereon and one third party of my cedar swamp & all my fifth part of the sawmill with all the priviledges belonging to it and all my stock of cattle of every kind and all my right to the cart & ploughs & tackling belonging thereto and all my out lands not before mentioned wherever it shall be found and all the debts justly due to me he paying to his brother John Wild ten pound in money in two years after my decease and to his brother William Wild two hundred pounds in money at my decease and to his sister Sarah Newcomb or her heirs thirty pounds in money at my decease

also I give to my daughter Sarah Newcomb sixty pounds in good payable money and all my household moveables not before mentioned to be paid to her or her heirs at my decease,

also my will is that Jonathan Wild pay to Daniel Wild the son of William Wild thirty pounds in good payable money when he comes of age.

also my will is that Jona. WIld pay all my funeral charges and all my just debts.

also my will is that my son Samuel Wild have twenty pounds in good payable money paid to him or his heirs by Jonathan Wild in three years after my decease for this trouble in executing this my last Will & Testament.

and I do hereby constitute make & ordain my two sons Samuel Wild & Jona. Wild my only & sole executors of this my last Will & Testament and do hereby utterly revoke & disannul all & every other former Testament by my in any ways before this time named willed & bequeathed ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year above written.

John Wild (& a seal)

Signed sealed published pronounced & declared by the said testator as his last will & testament in the presence of us the subscribers.

Thomas Bolter

John Holles

Richard Thayer

Source

• Suffolk County Probate Records, Vol 31, p 90, John Wild, Case Number: 6323. FHL Film # 007703081, image 665 of 858. Link to page at familysearch.org; Link to page at ancestry.com.