Ebenezer James PEABODY

                   NOTE:
      Detail of will is in PAF Notes
      Name Peabody or Pabody

WILL AND INVENTORY OF "JOHN PABODY LATE OF NEWPORT IN RHOAD ISLAND."John Peabody Seniour aged about seaventy five yeares of age being sick and weake but in perfect memory, for the setling of my Temporal estate in Ordr: Doe make this my Last will and Testimony in manner and forme following Item I give unto my beloved son John Peabody All my Lands and houseing situate and lying in the Precincts of the Towne of Newport in the Collony of Rhoad Island and butted and bounded according to the severall Deeds Respecting the severall parcells of Land (vizt) One parcell of Land Containing about Twenty foure acres formerly bought of Mr Thomas Ward Allsoe about twenty acres of Nathaniel West alsoe about Twelve acres of William Withington Alsoe about Six acres of Mr Edward Smith Obadiah Holmes William Davell James Man Alsoe one parcell about one acre and a halfe of land and one Dwelling house and one orchard bought of Jonathan Davell: with all and singular the meadows pastures Outhousing hovills Orchards According to the respective bounds of every severall Deed Item I give unto my Beloved Sonne John Pabody One paire of Oxen Together with all the Tackling Carts Ploughs Chaines whatsoever Item I give unto my son John One Negar boy called by the name of Thomas Honyball for Twelve yeares Terme But if he have occasion to sell him hee shall not sell him for above twelve yeares as before mentioned from the day of the Date hereof Item I give unto my Six Daughters 24lbs pounds in New England silver money to be equally Divided betweene them To Mary Wood foure pounds Likewise to the rest Hannah Reed Elizabeth Davell Deborah Moone An Catrill Jane Smith and alsoe unto my grand children tenn shillings a peece in silver money that are now borne att the Day of the date hereof. All wch money is to be paid by my Executor hereafter menconed: within -- months after my Decease Item I Doe hereby appoint my sonne Jnø: Pabody to be my Executor to pforme this my Last will and Testimony in manner and forme before expressed -- Alsoe I Doe Appoynt Mr James Barker Senr and his sonne James to be my Overseers to see this my Last will and Testimony bee pformed to the manner and forme before menconed: and for their care & paynes I Doe freely allow Mr James Barker and his son James Barker the Overseers ffive Shillings in silver money Which money is to be paid by the Executor: and In Testimony whereof that this my Last will and Testimony whereunto I have Sett my hand and seale this 22th of March In the yeare of our Lord and Saviour 168 6/7 in the third yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Signed Sealed and Delivered in ye the marke of prsence of John I P Pabody [s] Nathaniel Holmes Peter Taylor The Inventory, taken April 18, 1687, shows "cash in a bag," £36-10s; a good supply of household effects, tools, cattle, etc.; the negro referred to in the will, appraised at £18; "alsoe we are Informed," say the appraisers, "yt there is 3 Cows at Dartmouth and the 1/2 of two year old Cattle at Little Compton." Total valuation, £103-4s. Proved at Boston before Gov. Andros June 22, 1687, and recorded in Suffolk County.