- The following is the will of William SARGENT ca 1606-1675, as recorded in Edwin Everett Sargent's book, "The Sargent Record," self-published in 1899.
In the name of God Amen. the 24 day of March 1671\72 I William Sargent of ye town of Emefbury in ye County of Norfolk Maffachufettf in Newengland Seaman being in pritty good health of body & of found & pfect memorie (praise bee given to god for ye same) & knowing ye uncertainty of thif life on earth & being Defirouf to fettle thingf in order doe make thif my laft will & teftamt in manner & form That if to fayFirst & principally I comend my soule to Allmighty God my Creator affurdely believing yt fhall recieve full pardon & free remiffion of all my fins & bee faved by ye peciouf death & meritte of my bleffed Savioc & Redemmer Chrift Jefuf & my body to ye earth from whence it waf taken to bee buried in fuch Decent & Chriftian manner af to my Executoed hereafter named fhall be thought meete & convenient.
And af touching fuch wordly eftate af ye lord mercy hath lent mee my will & meaning if ye fame fhal bee imployed & beftowed af hereafter by thif will & Teftament
Item I give & bequeath to my grand child William Challis five poundf & to my grandchildren Elizabeth, Lydia, Mary & Phillip watson Challif to each of them twenty fhillings
Item I give & bequeath unto my grand children Dorothie & Elizabeth Colby to each of them twenty fhillings
Item I give unto my grand child William Sargent thirty shillings
Itt I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth ye wife of Sam Colby five poundf
Item I give all ye remayndere of my estate (these my legacies & my funeral chargef being firfte paid) unto my daughter Sarah both howfing & landf, chattelf & other movablef wt foever alwayf pvided that if fhe die wth out children that these howfing & landf: to bee equally divided: unto my four children hereafter named, i: e: my fons Thomaf & William & my daughters Mary & Elizabeth
Item I do conftitute ordaine & appointe my fone Thomaf Sargent & my daughter Sarah Sargent Executors unto thif my will & Teftamt & doe make my loving brother in law Tho Bradbury & my efteemed friend Major Pike my overfeerf to take care that thif my will may bee prformed according to ye true intente & meaning thereof
And to thif my last will & Teftament I doe hereunto fess my hand & feale ye day & year above named
William Sargent (Seal)
Signed, fealed and thto in
ye prfence uf
Thomas Bradbury
The mark of MB Mary Bradbury
John Bradbury
Tho Bradbury & Jno Bradbury testified upon oath yt they faw Wm Sargent senr. figne, feale & declare thif to bee hif will before ye court held at Salifbury 13 Aprill 75
Tho Bradbury rec
Entered and Recorded in ye County recordf for Norfolk (tit 3d pa 6 ye 29th of Aprile 1675) as attefte
Tho Bradbury recr
He died in MAR 1673/74 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He will was proved on 13 APR 1675 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
The inventory of the estate of "Willi. Sargent, Senr.," taken 8 April 1675 by Thomas Sergeant and John Weed, totalled ?196, of which the real estate totalled ?137 10s., including "housing & lands about the house & orchard on both sides [of] the country way," ?85; "half the lot in the tide meadows, ?16; "a Higledee Pigledee lot in the salt marsh" ?25; "a lot lying in ... Lyons Mouth," ?5 10s.; "a lot in the great swamp," ?2; "a lot in ... Bugmore," ?4.
He has Ancestral File Number 8JD9-XN.
In the General Court of records of Massachusetts Colony in April, 1633, by an act of the court, protecting certain grantees of land then at Agawam, now Ipswich, Massachusetts, in their rights and "Willm S'jeant" was one of those grantees.. He took the oath of allegiance to the Colony and King in 1639. He was one of the first settlers of Newbury in 1635. He was at Hampton, New Hampshire in 1639, and is taxed in Salisbury New Town, December 25, 1650, 7s.4d. He was next located at same place, now Amesbury and Merrimac, in 1655 where he resided until his death in 1675.
. From site. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b406.html], "COLBY FAMILY & OTHERS" by owner Ronald M. Colby. Mar 2011.
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1606 - Abt 1675 (69 years)
