In the Name of God amen the Twenty Ninth Day of March 1728. I Allison Brown of Arrundel in ye County of York Yeoman being uery Sick & weak in body but of perfect mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God therefore Caling unto mind ye Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament that is to Say Principally and first of all I give and Recomend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to ye Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Burial at ye Discretion of my Executrix and Executors Nothing Doubting but at ye Generall Resurrection I Shall Receive ye Same again by ye Mighty Power of God and as Touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in this Life I give Demise and Dispose of ye Same in ye following Manner and formItem I Do give unto my three Sisters viz Eliza Stagpole Mary Carr & Katharine Lassell four pounds a Peice to be paid to them out of my Estate at ye Discretion of my Executrix & Executors and I do also give unto my three Sisters Children that are now born to Each of them four pounds a Peice as they Come to the age of one & Twenty years to be paid unto them out of my Estate at the Discretion of my Executrix and Executors.
Item I do give to my brother Andrew Browns Daughter Brown four pound Money to be paid out of my Estate when She Comes of age if She lives to that time.
Item I do give to my Dearly beloved wife Hannah the whole Improvement of all my lands mills moveables of any kind or Sort whatsoever within doares & without to be Improved to the best advantage as Shall be thought fitt by her & my Executors for her Comfortable Maintainance and ye bringing up my Children Andrew Brown and Eliza Brown untill they Come of ye age of one & Twenty years and my will is that my son Andrew Should be brought up to ye Colledge if it Can Possiably be Done by ye InCome of my Estate without wronging my wife & my Daughter.
Item I do Give unto my son Andrew Brown and to my Daughter Eliza Brown all my housing & Lands & other building to be Equally Divided between them when my son Cometh to ye age of one and Twenty Years Provided my Son be brought up to ye Colladge as aforesaid but if not then my will is that my Son Andrew Shall have two thirds of my land & buildings aforesaid & my Daughter one third part & no more and my will is and I do give to my wife Hannah and to my two Children all my moveable Estate to be Equally Divided between them three when my Son Cometh to ye age of one & twenty Years unto which Time my wife is to have the Improvement of ye whole for ye End as aforesaid I do Also give to my Dear Wife Hannah after my son Andrew Comes to ye age of one and Twenty Years one third part of the Income of my Estate During her Natural life to be paid her by my two Children according to what they or Either of them Injoy of it and I do appoint my wife to be Executrix with my father in law Mr Humphrey Scammon & Ensign Thomas Perkins whom I do appoint to be Executors to See that this my last will and Testament be Performed and I do hereby Desalow Revoke and Disanul all and Every other former Testament will Legacies & bequest and Executors by me in any ways before named Willed & bequested Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will & Testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day and Year before Mentioned.
Signed Sealed PublishedAllison Brown (Seal)
Pronovnced & Declared
by ye sd Allison Brown as
his last will & Testament
in ye Presence of us.
Marston Cabot
John Trewogy
Joseph Adams.Probated 1 May 1728. Inventory returned 27 March 1729, at £1241: 7: 0, by James March, Jabez Dorman and Jesse Town, appraisers.
