The Last Will and Testament of Edward Winslow |
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“The will of Governor Edward
Winslow... is preserved at Somerset House, London." |
| "I Edward Winslowe of London, Esquior, being now
bound in a voyage to sea in the service of the comon welth do make publish
& declare this to be my last will & testam't touching the
disposing of my estate. ffirst I doe give will devise & bequeath
all my lands & stock in New england & all my possibilities &
porcons in future allotm'ts & divicons to Josia my onely sonne &
his heires, hee allowing to my wife, a full third parte thereof for her
life also. I give to the poore of the Church of Plymouth in new
England Tenn pounds & to the poore of marshfielde where the chiefest
of my estate lyes Tenn pounds, also I give my lynnen wch I carry wth me to
sea, to my daughter Elizabeth & the rest of my goods wch I carry wth
mee I give to my sonn Josias, hee giving to each of my brothers a suite of
apparell & I make my said son Josias my executor of this my will, and
Colonell venables my overseer of my goods in the voyage & my fower
friends Dr Edmond wilson; mr John Arthur, mr James Shirley & mr
Richard ffloyde, overseers for the rest of my prsonall estate in England. witness my hand & Seale the eighteenth day of December In the yeare of our Lord God one Thousand Six hundred fifty & ffower. Sealed & subscribed pr me Edw" Winslow in the presence of Jon Hooper, Gerard Usher servant to Hen: Colbron |
| [Marshfield Records, I: 60, under date 3 Nov. 1656] "Att ye same Townes meeting it was ordered That mr Thomas Bourne and Joseph Beedell should Receave The Ten pounds which mr Edward Winslow gave To The poore of This Towne by will and ye sayd prtyes so betrusted To Rec: & dispose of The stocke in The Townes behalfe have disposed one Cow to Edward Bumpus & John Branch one Cow & John Thomas The Remainder & These prtyes that is Edward & both The Johns To keepe These Cowes & To Returne at ye end of The Tea(rme) (as the Towne hath formerly lett out ye poore stocke) The princip(al) being living To ye Towne & The Third of The Increase The having Two Thirds of ye Increase Themselves." |
Updated 18 May, 2005