I John Neale of Salem, Senior, being sick & weake but of pfect memory Blessed be the Lord, doe make this my last will & testament, this 3d of may 1672. Impr whereas it is to be under stood, as by the last will & testament of my father in law, frances lawes deceased the house outhouses & land adjoyning &c as is exsprest in the said will will be to the use of my beloued wife while shee liues & further i doe giue & bequeath unto mary my beloued wife that pcell of land caled Tuckes lott containing about fower acres inclosed & lying in the Towne, for the time of her life, excepting on quarter of an acre of it, which sd quarter of an acre to the northward corner next the highwaye I giue & bequeath to my Daughter Lidea Hart & to her heires lawfully begotten of her owne body, for euer.

     It: I giue vnto my said wife, one dozen of napkins & a board cloath & 6 pillow beers, which shee shall make choyce of. It: besides the bed & furniture giuen her by her sd father, I giue & bequeath to her, one third pt of all my cattell and moueable goods & estat undisposed of heare after in this my will, that is to be understood when my debts are paid which my will is should be paid out of that pt of my estat to say my catell & moueable goods.

     It: I giue vnto my son, Jeremiah neale, that dwelling house & all the ground adjoining, (to say that house he now liueth in) except one acre of the land which I giue & bequeath to John my son Jeremiahs son, to be possest of it when he come of age, & alsoe excepting that end of the house from the chimney to the westward, & the use of halfe the oarchard & of about one quarter of an acre of ye ground for a garden & yeard room & which my will is that my son John neale shall haue the free use of he keeping of it in repaire untill such time as my son John shall come to enjoy after his mothers decease ye aforesaid pcell of land caled Tuck lott & then the whole to be my son Jeremiah and alsoe, it is to be understood, that my son Jeremiah neale is to pay out of the said house & land, aforesaid, to my two grandchildren, Mary & Sara neale, his two children, ten pounds each of them paiable at age or maried, Alsoe I giue to my son Jeremiah that peece of salt marsh I bought of the widdow moore & alsoe a peece of fresh meddow, by goodells lott soe caled. It: I giue vnto my wife the time of her life halfe that lott of ten Acres by Bracketts, for her use together with the other halfe, left her by her father & after her decease, I giue it to my son Jeremiah to Injoy it wholy to himselfe & his heares foreuer.

     It: I giue to my son John neale, that pcell of land caled tucks lott after his mothers decease, as is intimated before, excepting ye quarter of an acre giuen to his sister Lidea: alsoe I giue & bequesth to my son John neale, that ten acre lott caled Herberts Lott, and my will is that my son John shall pay or cause to be paid, to my daughter Lideas child Lidea, when she coms of age or maried ten pounds out of ye sd Tuckes & Herberts Lott, & in case ye sd Lidea my grand child doe not suruiue tell ye time then to pay it to ye suruiuing children of my daughter Lidea It: I giue to my son Jonathan the one halfe of the twenty Acres caled Loofes lott, be it more or less: It: I giue & bequeath to my son Jeremiah, my son Joseph & my daughter Lidea that fifteene acres land, caled watsons & Hales lott, to be equally devided between them, only it is to be vnderstood that my will is that the third pt to my daughter Lidea, is to be to her & (her) heirs lawfully begotten of her owne body for euer It: I giue to my son Joseph, that Acre of salt marsh adjoyning to the land of John Rowden.

     It: I giue to my Daughter Liddea: & to her heirs lawfully begotten of her owne body, the other halfe of Loofes lott soe caled, provided her mother, doe see cause & she cary it to her mother in a dutiful & penetenciall maner It: I giue vnto my son Jeremiah neale & his son Jon: to my son John, Jonathanan, Joseph & daughter Lidea, that swamp caled Adameses swamp, to be equally devided betweene them & my will is that my Daughter Lideas pt is to be to her & her heires lawfully begotten of her owne body It: after all my debts are paide my will is & I giue & bequeath the other two thirds of my cattle & moueable goods & estate to be equally devided betweene my fiue children to say Jeremiah, John, Jonathan, Joseph & Lidea.

     I doe desire my Loueing freinds, major wm. Hathorne, Capt walter price & Hilliard Veren senr to be my ouer seers of this my will to whome I refer the devission of that pt of my land to be devided or goods, amongst my children, soe that it may be equall & for theire peace. Lastly I doe appoynt my beloued wife, & my son Jeremiah to be my executors of this my last will and testament.

John (his O mark) Neale.

     Witness: Wm. Hathorne, sr., Walter Price, Hilliard Veren, sr.

     Proved in Ipswich court 28: 4: 1672 by Maj. William Hathorne, Capt. Walter Price and Hilliard Veren.

     Inventory taken 5: 4: 1672, by Hilliard Veren and John Pickering: Four acres of land inclosed called tuckes lot, 90li.; a dwelling house in which Jeremiah Neale lives with the ground adjoyning, about 5 acres, 150li.; 3-4 of an acre of saltmarsh bought of widdow more, 7li. 10s.; about 3-4 of an acre of fresh meddow by Goodells lott, soe called, 7li.; 5 acres of land by Good: Brackett's, 10li.; 10 acres called Herbert's lott, 25li.; 20 acres more or less called Loofes lott, 40li.; 15 acres called watsons & Hales lott, 35li.; an Acre more or less of salt marsh by John Rowden's, 10li.; about 8 acres of upland & swamp called Adamses swamp, 30li.; 5 cowes, 15li.; 6 oxen & 3 steers, 39li.; 3 yearlings, 2 calves, 5li.; 1 horse & 2 mares, 3li. yf alive, 8li.; 18 ewes, & weathers & rams, 11li. 4s.; 4 swin with sucking piggs, 2li. 4s.; about 5 acres of pease upon ye ground & other graine, worth little by reason of the drought, 2li.; two or three old tumbrells, slead, chaines, yoakes, plowes, wheele barrow & other plow tackle, 5li.; two guns, the lockes defective, 3 blades of swords, powder & bulletts, 1li. 10s.; salt meat, 20s.; bacon, 30s.; 3 hives of bees, som decayed, 10s.; 50 Bushells Indian corne at 30d. p., 6li. 5s.; 4 Bushells pease, 13s. 4d.; 9 Bushels mault, 1li. 16s.; dung forcks, pitchforkes, howes, axes, shovells & other tooles & old seithes, reap hoockes & other lumber, 1li. 10s.; brass kettles & 2 candle stickes, pestle & morter, 3li. 4s.; 3 old Iron potts & drippin pan, 1li.; 3 bras scilletts, chafindish, brass pott, warming pan, 1li.; tin ware, old earthware, trayes & dishes, 10s.; fetters & old horse tackle, grinston, 12s.; 3 old spinning wheeles, 7s. 6d.; a hauck, Andirons, tongues, fire shovell, bellowes & spitts, 10s.; old booke & bibles, 1li.; 6 pillow beers, a broadcloath & 1 doz. naptkins, 1li. 5s.; 8 pr. of sheets, 4 li. 16s.; 3 shurts, 15s.; 6 pillow-beers, 2 board cloathes, 6 naptkins & towells, 1li. 6s.; his wearing apparell, with a hatt, 5 li.; 4 pr. stockens, 3 pr. shooes, old. 1li.; about 20li. Cotton wooll, 16s.; sheepe wooll, 30li., 1li. 10s.; about 20li. of Hunney, 14s.; 2 old wenscot & 2 smale old board chests & a box & settle, 1li. 10s.; 3 or 4 basketts, brush, looking glass & som small old things, 6s.; 3 yards carsey at 5s. p., 15s.; 12 yrds. hoame mad cloath, 1li. 16s.; about 20 yrds cloath at the weavers, 2li. 10s.; about 40 yrds. at the weavers, 3li.; 10li. linen yarne, 1li.; a greene rugg, 18s.; reg rug, 14s.; old red rugg, 8s.; 3 pr. of old blanketts, 1li. 10s.; 12 chaires, 2 stooles, 2 tables, 1li. 6s; the feather beds, bolsters, sheets, blanketts, covering & appurtenances, 3li. 10s; a flock bed, bolster, sheets, blanketts, covering & appurtenances, 2li. 10s.; a truckle bedstead, 2li.; curtaines & vallens, 1li.; cotten yarne, 4s.; 1 pr. pillowbeers, 4s.; scales & waites, 5s.; a pcell of cheese, 1li.; cash, 3li.; a bedsteed, rope & matt, 1li. 5s.; 18 cord of wood in ye woods, 9s.; a conoe, 12s; 400 of board, 16s.; oweing to the estate, 25li. 12s. 3d.; total 593li: 14s. 7d. Estate debtor, 121li. 14s. 1d. Added to the inventory, barn apprized by Mr. Bartholmew Gedney & John Pickering, 23li.
     Attested in Salem court 28: 4: 1672, by Mary, the relict.