In the name of god Amen/ the sixth day of June one thousand six hundred & seaventy, I Richd Hitchcocke of Winter Harbour being Internally in bodily health, & of good & Prfect memory, thankes bee to almighty god, & calling it to remembrance, ye vncertenty of my transitory life, haueing an externall Malody vpon mee, yt is hastening mee to my end, do make constitute ordayn & declare this my last Will & testament in manner & forme following/ revoakeing, & adnulling by these Prsents, all & every testament & testaments, will, & Wills by mee heretofore made & declared either by word or writeing, & this is to bee taken onely for my last will & testament, & noe other/

And first being sorry & poenitent from the bottome of my hart, for my sins past, most humbly desireing forgiueness for the same, I giue & Committ my soule vnto Almighty god my Saujor, & redemer in whom & by the merritts of Jesus Christ, I trust & beleiue, (Lord helpe my vnbeeleife) assuredly to bee saved, and to haue full remission & forgiveness, of all my sins & that my soule with my body at ye generall day of resurrection shall rise agajne, with Joy and through the meritts of Christs death and passion, possess & Inherite ye kingdome of heaven, prepared for his Elect & Chosen, & my body to bee burjed in such place, where It shall please my executrix hereafter named to appoynt/

And now for the settleing of my temporall estate, & such goods Chattles & debts, as It hath pleased god fare aboue my deserts to bestow vpon mee, I do order give & dispose the same In manner & forme following/ That is to say first yt I will that all those debts, & dutys yt I ow In right or Conscience to any manner of Prson or Prsons wtsoever, shall bee well and truely Contented & payd, or ordayned to bee pd with in Convenjent tyme after my decease, by my executrix hereafter named/ Ite: I giue & bequeath one third part of all my estate, to my dearly beloved wife, the Wch shee shall haue & possess at & vpon my decease/ Item the rest of my estate in manner as followeth/ Each of my six children vidzt: Thomas Jerusha, Lydea, Rebeccah, Ann & Margerett, to haue a just & ?quall proportion, my sun at ye age of Twenty one years, & the rest at ye age of eighteen, & the house & Land after ye decease of his Mother, to fall into the hands of my sun Thomas, & If any of my aforesd children dy before the age aboue expressed, that then ye part of the deceased to bee ?qually deuided, amongst those yt surviue; to wch end & purpose, I Constitute make & ordayn my dearly beloved wife my executrix/ In witness wrof I haue sett two my hand, the day & yeare aboue written/

Witnesses to this Will/
     Bryan PendletonRichard ?? Hitchcock/
     Seth Fletcher/

AcknoWledged the same day before Bryan Pendleton Commissioner; Sworn to by both subscribing witnessses 20 Sept. 1671; recorded 31 April 1672: Inventory returned at ?278 by Thomas Powell and Robert Booth appraisers, brought in by Lucretia Hitchcock, the widow, 20 Sept. 1671