Caleb Burbank of Boxford, yeoman, in perfect mind and memory, thought under indisposition of body. Just debts and funeral charges be paid in convenient time out of my estate. Hannah, loving wife, shall have use and improvement of all my estate during her natural life if she well and truly perform what I herein order her to do. Son David Burbank to have liberty to buy land if necessary for widow to sell any for her subsistence, if he will give so much as shall be judged worth of it by men of good judgment. Whereas Almighty God in his holy and wise judgment has so ordered that my daughter, Martha Burbank, is not capable of taking care of herself, my executors herein named shall take care of her and see that she is well and decently provided for during her natural life, and for that reason I have given the above said liberty to my wife to dispose of any of my lands. To son John 5 pounds in six years after my wife's decease, old tenor, or in what shall be equal thereto. To son Timothy five shillings in old tenor, or what is equal thereto, in six years after my wife's decease, the which is besides what I have already given him by deed. To son Asa, five shillings, etc. To six daughters: Hannah Hardy, Lydia Foster, Mary Wallingford, Ruth Hardy, Elizabeth Bailey and Margaret Hopkinson, to each five shillings, etc. To son David all my lands and real estate that belong to me, that is to be understood, what of my estate shall remain after my loving wife's decease, either real or personal, which she has not had reason to dispose of for her own use or use of my daughter Martha. Loving wife and son David joint executors. If son David be not twenty-one at my decease, living wife to be sole executrix until he is twenty-one. Sons-in-law William Hardy, Jr., and Edmond Hardy, overseers.

     Dated Dec. 14, 1744, and witnessed by Theophilus Pinder, Samuel Cole, Thomas Peabody. Proved June 25, 1750.