"ESTATE OF SAMUELL SYMONDS, JR. OF IPSWICH.
'I Samuell Symonds Junr, being very weake in body & of good memory, doe make this my last will & Testament in mannr & forme following viz: Imprimis haueing (I blesse God) rest in my heart concerning my euerlasting Condicon, through Jesus Christ my prtious Sauior, I doe giue unto my brother Harlakinden Symonds all my lande in wenham, & foure of my best bands. Item I giue to my brother John Symonds three pounds & ten shillings, to be paide next Michaeltide come three yeare, or within one month after his demand of it, in Case he cometh to Newengland in the meane time. Item I giue unto my brother Samuell Symonds, to my sisters Martha, Ruth, & Priscilla, & to my nephew Samuell Epps, Twenty shillings a peece, to be paide, within one yeare after my deceace. Item I giue to ray sister Mary Epps, the little peece of new holland cloth. Item I giue vnto Killigresse Rosse my Chest with the lock & key to it. Item I giue to my brother Samuell all my bookes. Item I giue vnto Rebecca warde fine shillings. Item I giue unto my brother William Symonds (whom I appoynt & desire to be my executor of this my will) all my lande at Chebacco, in Ipswch: & all the rest of my goods vndisposed of, haueing paid, & discharged all my debts, & duties. In wittness whereof I haue heereunto sett my hand, & seale, Dat 22th day of the nineth month Anno Dom 1653.'
Samuell Symonds.
Witness: James Chewte, Elizabeth Chewte, Samuel Symonds.
Proved 28: 1: 1654 by testimony of James Chute and affirmed by Mr. Samuell Symonds.
Copy of inventory presented 30: 1: 1654: in Lande about sixteene acers lying in Wenham late purchassed of Samuell Kent, 6li.; in lande at Chebacco falls about seaven Acres, 5li.; halfe a Mare & halfe a Colt, 20li.; in bookes & other goods, 10li.; total, 41li.
Copy of will and inventory, Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 161."