Will of Nathaniel Bassett

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title
Will of Nathaniel Bassett
type
will
date
1709/10
repository
Barnstable County Probate
reference
Barnstable Probate 3:144-148
seen
transcript
access
public

Known from a WikiTree transcript. "I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Mulford my box that was and my Chest that was her Mothers and my great Chest that I gave to her mother and I also give unto her my sd Daughter my great Byble and my great Booke that is an exposition upon the epistle of Plimemon & also so much of my estate as will by each of her children a pocket Byble."

The residue clause, from the same transcript (WikiTree Bassett-174; checked): "I give and bequeath unto six of my children viz. Mary Mulford, Samll Bassett, Hannah Covell, Joseph Bassett, Sarah Nickerson & Nathan Bassett all the remainder of my estate to be divided amongst them so that each of my sd three sons have double to each of my sd three daughters," with the wish "that they provide and set up some suitable Grave Stones to my Grave after my burial." Mary Mulford and Sarah Nickerson were sisters: Mary the ancestor of the Holbrooks, Sarah of the Ellingwoods (Cape Cod ancestry of Hope Holdershaw and Hannah Brown).

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  2. title: "Will of Nathaniel Bassett"
  3. type: will
  4. date: 1709/10
  5. repository: Barnstable County Probate
  6. reference: "Barnstable Probate 3:144-148"
  7. seen: transcript
  8. access: public
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  11. Known from a WikiTree transcript. "I give and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Mulford my
  12. box that was and my Chest that was her Mothers and my great Chest that I gave to her
  13. mother and I also give unto her my sd Daughter my great Byble and my great Booke that
  14. is an exposition upon the epistle of Plimemon & also so much of my estate as will by
  15. each of her children a pocket Byble."
  17. The residue clause, from the same transcript (WikiTree Bassett-174; checked): "I give and bequeath
  18. unto six of my children viz. Mary Mulford, Samll Bassett, Hannah Covell, Joseph Bassett, Sarah
  19. Nickerson & Nathan Bassett all the remainder of my estate to be divided amongst them so that each of
  20. my sd three sons have double to each of my sd three daughters," with the wish "that they provide and
  21. set up some suitable Grave Stones to my Grave after my burial." Mary Mulford and Sarah Nickerson were
  22. sisters: Mary the ancestor of the Holbrooks, Sarah of the Ellingwoods (`research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md`).
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