Imprimis: I give and bequeath to Mary my well beloved wife the free use and produce of my homsted and housing and lands that I shall die seized and possessed of together with the whole of my movable estate of whatsoever kind (excepting the on half of my husbandry tools and utensils) for her comfort and support for & during the term of her natural life, and my will is that my said wife shall have the full power to dispose of & give my movable estate as she finds shee can spare it to and among my children as shee shall think fit (excepting what is before excepted). That is t say after my just debts and funeral charges and expences are defrayed And as touching such worldly estate wherewith is hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give bequeath and dispose of the same in manner and form as followeth. Wherein principally and first of all I give & recommend my soul into the hands of God who gave it in and thro Jesus Christ my ever blessed redeemer and my body I recommend to the earth to be decently buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors hereafter named. I Nathaniel Mose of Sherborn in the county of Midd s within HIs Majest s Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (yeoman) being ill and weak in body but of sound mind and memory thanks be given to God for the same therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body knowing that it is appointed by an unchangeable decree for men once to die do now while I am in the injoyment of my memory and understanding (that peace may be to those that succeed me) make and ordain this my last will and testament. In the name of God Amen, the twenty fifty day of May anno domini 1727 annoque Regni Regis George Magnce Brittanice de Decing Textio. Mercy Walker of Sudbury, in Sudbury, Nov. 2, 1687, m Joseph Hartshorn of Dedham, May 17, 1709

Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 Įvent Place Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States He married Mary Unknown probably in Sherborn, MA, around 1679. Nathaniel was born to Daniel & Lydia (Fisher) Morse in Medfield on January 20, 1658.

Not Yours but Forever by Ruth Morse