Will of Nathaniel Bassett

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 (research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md).