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| 165William Stickney, his wife and three children emigrated from Hull, Yorkshire, England, arriving in Boston, MA., in 1637/8, then settled in Rowley. Two sons Samuel and Thomas settled in the Rowley's Merrimack lands that became East Bradford and later in 1850 Groveland, another son Amos settled in Newbury, and two sons John and Andrew remained in Rowley. The book follows the progress of William and Elizabeth's descendants through nine generations in America, and briefly, the ancestry of the Stickney family in England prior to 1637. WILLIAM STICKNEY, the first settler, was the ancestor of nearly all who have since borne that name in America. It is inferred from records procured in England for the author, by Horatio G. Somerby, Esq., that he was the William, who is mentioned as baptized in St. Mary’s Church, Frampton, Lincolnshire, England, September 6, 1592, and the son of WILLIAM STICKNEY of Frampton, who was baptised December 30, 1558, and married, June 16, 1585, Margaret Peirson, and the grandson of ROBERT STICKNEY of Frampton, who made his will October 3, and was buried October 18, 1582. Frampton is a parish in the wapentake of Kirton, parts of Holland, county of Lincoln, England, three and one-fourth miles south from Boston. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. It is a fine old stone edifice, an engraving of which is in the possession of the author. The parish register of this church contains many records of baptisms, marriages and burials of Stickney’s from 1558 to 1609. The name does not appear on these records after this date. Traditions and information obtained in England, render it probable that the family removed to Hull, or its vicinity. I learn from Mrs. Sarah Ellis, of Rose Hill, near London, England (formerly Miss Sarah Stickney, an authoress of some repute in England and America), that "The old family residence was at Ridgmont, a beautiful place about nine miles east of Hull, where my father and his forefathers, for many generations had lived, hospitably and honourably, keeping almost open house in a large mansion, and receiving guests from all countries, who generally found something to learn, or at least to interest, in my father’s great practical knowledge and scientific pursuits, and where he died in 1848, aged 85 years." The surnames of the first emigrants to New England, were derived from various sources. Those considered most ancient and respectable, were derived from places, cities and towns, as in almost every case they existed in England, long before the use of surnames. In the county of Lincoln is situated the parish of Stickney, from which the family derived its surname. "Stickney is a large village on the Boston road, distant eight and a half miles north of Boston station, three from New Bolingbroke and eight miles south-west of Spilsby; it is pleasantly situated on the borders of the East and West Fens, in the soke of Bolingbroke, Union of Spilsby, Lindsey division, and diocese of Lincoln. The living is a rectory, value £356, in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. George Coltman. The church is dedicated to St. Luke, is a handsome building in the early English style; it consists of a lofty tower containing four bells, nave, aisles, and chancel and antique porch. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel. A school for the education of the poor was endowed, in 1678, by one William Lovell, who demised land at Winthrope, which produces a rental of £95 per year, together with two acres at Stickney, let for £5 per year. The master, Jonathan Adams, has a house, and an usher to assist in teaching the children. The population in 1841 was 895; the area in acres, including the Fen allotment, is 2,050; rateable value £3,629. Robert Cracroft, Esq., is lord of the manor. The charities amount to about £43 a year, for the benefit of the poor. It has navigation to Boston." [From the Post Office Directory of Lincolnshire, England, 1849.] Mr. Robert Stickney of New York City, while in Boston, England, in the spring of 1868, was called upon by an aged gentleman of the name of Stickney, who, struck by the similarity of name, and learning that he was from the United States, invited him to his house (built one hundred and fifty years before), in the place of Stickney, near by. He there saw the Coat of Arms of the family, and the gentleman gave him a view of the old Moat House, and the following information in his own handwriting, which he forwarded to me, May 26, 1868. "This chantry was attached to the Guild of Saint Lawrence, the above represents the last portion of the building, it was called the Moat House and was taken down in 1836. The chantry was founded in 1362 in the parish of Leak near Boston. The walls of the Moat House were of stone and of great strength. On the chimney piece of one of the chambers were four shields, one of them quartering the arms of Hunston, Sutton, Stickney, Whiting, Gedney and Enderby. The other bore the arms of Hunston, Sutton, Stickney, Whiting, impaling those of Smith of Elsham. Various remains of gilding and ornamental work, showed that the room had been very handsomely got up." "In the reign of Edward III., 1331, one hundred and thirty-one persons are taxed in Boston, of whom John de Tumby paid £4, the highest charge; among the names of the others, is John de Stickney, who paid about £1, a large sum in those days. This John de Stickney, or one of his family, was probably a member of the Guild of Saint Lawrence, from the Arms of Stickney being carved on the chimney piece. [Extracted from the History of Boston and the neighborhood.]" This gentleman expressed his belief that both the American family and his own, were connections, and derived their name and origin from the same source, and it is hoped that hereafter a fuller account of WILLIAM STICKNEY and his ancestors, than can be given from the scanty materials now obtained, may be procured. At what time WILLIAM STICKNEY married, the surname of his wife, where he resided in England, and the date of the births or baptisms of his children, the name of the ship in which he embarked, as tradition says, at Hull, or the time of his arrival in Boston, New England, have not been ascertained. His son Samuel, in a deposition in 1698, names some of the passengers with them, who settled in Rowley, but nothing further. Mr. Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, gives his "having come probably the year preceding, from Hull, in Yorkshire," that is in 1637, which is probably correct, as the first information obtained of him here, is from the records of the First Church in Boston, the Rev. John Wilson’s, to which were admitted: "The 6t of ye 11th moneth 1638 WILLYAM STICKNEY, a husbandman & Elizabeth his wife, Margaret Crosse a Widdowe Michaell Hopkinson servant to our brother Jacob Elyott & Richard Swanne a husbandman" "The 24th day of ye 9th Moneth 1639 Our brethren Mr. Henry Sandys, WILLYAM STICKNEY, Richard Swanne & Michaell Hopkinson by ye Churches Silence were dismissed to ye gathering of a Church at Rowley if the Lord so please." He and his wife Elizabeth and three children, Samuel, Amos and Mary (who were probably baptized in England), were among the original settlers of Rowley, Mass. This place was settled in the year 1639, a division of the land was not made till the year 1643, when a survey of the town was taken by Thomas Nelson, Mr. Edward Carleton, Humphrey Reyner and Francis Parrot; streets were then laid out and named, and house lots assigned to its sixty original settlers, varying in size from one and a half, to six acres. The land otherwise not appropriated, was termed Commons, and every one and a half acre house lot was entitled to one and a half gates, or cow-rights, and other lands were laid out in the same proportion as these rights bore to the house lots. There was laid out "On Wethersfield Streete, To WILLIAM STICKNEY one lott containinge one acre and a halfe, bounded on the west side by James Barker’s house lott, and the highway, part of it lyinge on the north side of the streete, and part of it on the south side". Here he erected a house, on the corner of Bradford and Wethersfield Streets, a little westerly of where the late Deacon Nathaniel Mighill’s house now stands, 1868. In his will, dated Jan. 21, 1664, it was conveyed by him to his wife Elizabeth, during her natural life; after her decease to go to his son John, he paying the legacies, &c. Lieut. John Stickney, his son, in his will, dated Feb. 26, 1708-9, gave the homestead to his wife Hannah, with power to sell a wood-lot, towards the finishing of a new house, after her decease to go to his children. Samuel Stickney, his son, in his will dated Feb. 15, 1753, conveyed the homestead to his wife Susannah, after her decease to be divided to his sons. The portion which his son Moses Stickney, by inheritance and purchase of the other heirs, possessed of the ancient homestead, was conveyed in his will, dated April 5, 1792, to his wife Sarah; on her decease or marriage, to daughter Hannah, who died the widow of Joseph Kilborn, Sept. 19, 1853, at the age of ninety years. A part of the estate now (1868) remains in the possession of her niece, Mrs. Sarah (Stickney) Vinton. The original settlers of Rowley, as Governor Winthrop writes in his Journal, "were godly men, and most of them of good estate," as will be shown by the fact that WILLIAM STICKNEY, our ancestor, and one of these settlers, brought with him, from his native land, a quarto copy of King James’ translation of the Bible, first edition, printed 1611. This Bible has descended from father to son, in the same line as the old homestead, to Josiah Stickney, a brother of Mrs. Kilborn. He left it to his son, Deacon Nathaniel Stickney of Dracut, Mass., who now owns it in good preservation. This Bible was used at the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Rowley. The most ancient half-way covenant (as it used to be called), of any that could be found in the town, and various names and dates are written in it. [See Gage’s History of Rowley, p. 458.] "On the seventh of October 1640, Mr. Samu. Dudley, Josias Cobbitt, Edmond Gardner, James Barcker, Henry Sands, Rob’t Hunter and WILLI : STICKNEY, were admitted Freemen." [Colonial Records.] WILLIAM STICKNEY was a member of an important committee in 1652, to draw up "a covenant and agreement" between the town of Rowley and the first settlers of the Merrimack lands, now Bradford. [See Rowley Records.] He was Clerk of the Market, and on Jury of Trials in 1653, Selectman 1656 and 1661, also in 1661styled Lieutenant. The ancient possession books of Rowley, contain frequent grants of land to him, but the amount to which he and his sons became entitled in the right of their freeholds, and the offices they held, in consequence of the loss of a part of the early business records of the town, is unknown. There was granted to him, land in "Bradford Streete field," "Batcheler’s Meadow," "Rough Meadow," "Hawk Meadow," and "Pollipod field." February 16, 1661, "Voted that WILLIAM STICKNEY have the Gate on the Common laid out to him in the Rate of thirty shillings a Gate." "At a legal town meeting in Rowley, November 26, 1662, voted that Richard Swan, Sam’l Brockelbank, Ezekiel Northend, John Pickard and WILLIAM STICKNEY should lay out sundry lots of land," one of which was "to WILLIAM STICKNEY on east side of Long Hill." "Richard Swan, WILLIAM STICKNEY, and William Jackson, were appointed by the town in 1662, to sell Trees in the Town street to such as design them to stand for use against their houses or lands." "Feb’y 25th 1661-2, The Selectmen for the present year Richard Swan, John Dresser, Thomas Tenney, Abel Longley, John Brocklebank, being empowered by the Towne for to Let or to dispose of the land that Mr. Rogers gave for the use of the Ministry. They have accordingly disposed of the same for the term of seven years as followeth. Imp’s. To WILLIAM STICKNEY and Samuel Stickney the one half of the land, upland and meadow, they to pay £4 rent by the year to be paid in Corne for the use of the minyestry and to be paid when the rates are paid, they are to put on land twenty loads of Manure during the terme of 7 years and to make and maintain the fences." In a Tax List dated between 1660 and 1664, of an amount of £46, 8s. 2d., his quota was 19s. 4d., and the whole number of persons taxed was thirty-five. March 1, 1660, WILLIAM STICKNEY and wife Elizabeth, of Rowley, sold to Jeremiah Elsworth, of the same town, land in Rowley, which they acknowledged, March 17, 1663, before Samuel Symonds. [Essex Deeds, 2:186.] May 27, 1662, he with wife Elizabeth and of Rowley, "for four pounds convey to James Barker of the same Town all that our proportion of land layd out to us in the land commonly called Merrimacke land being by estimation forty acres, be it more or less, with the preveledges belonging thereto, as it lyeth bounded by land of the sayed James Barker on the west, the east syde bounded by land of William Seales the northend butting on Merrimack river, the southend butting on Common land or the vilage line." Wit. Sam’l Brocklebanke and Jachin Reyner. Ack. July 22, 1662, before Samuel Symonds. [Ibid, 2:165.] May 27, 1662. He buys of William Scales and Ann his wife of Rowley, their proportion of land laid out to them "in land commonly called Merrimack land being 40 acres, bounded by land laid out to WILLIAM STICKNEY on ye west, on east by land laid out to Lieut. John Remington now Peter Nash’s, south end on village line, north on Merrimack River" &c. Wit. Sam’l Brocklebanke and James Barker. Ack. July 22, 1662, before Sam’l Symonds. [Ibid, 67:185.] In 1660, he, with James Baley, testifies in regard to the sale of half a corn-mill by Richard Dummer, of Newbury, to John Pearson, of Rowley. [Ibid, 6:9.] March 29, 1664. He gave in his deposition before Robert Lord, clerk, in regard to the settlement of the estate of "Ann Lum the mother of John Pickard." [Ibid, 2:197.] In the Town Books of Rowley, it is recorded, that WILLIAM STICKNEY was buried January 25, 1664-5. He left a will, the original of which is still preserved (folded and filed) in the Essex Probate Office at Salem, of which the following is an attested copy: "I WILLIAM STICKNEY, of Rowley in the county of Essex in New England, being weake of body, but of perfect understanding and memory, do make and ordaine this my last will and testament. First. I will and commit my soulle unto God that gave it; and my body unto the common burying place, in the hope of a blessed resurrection. And as for my outward estate, after funeral expenses discharged, I will and dispose as followeth. Imprimis. I will and give unto my well beloved wife Elizabeth Stickney the benefit of my dwelling house, out houses, barne, orchard, land and meadowes that are or lie within the five mille bounds of the towne of Rowley with all the privileges belonging unto those lands, as also the meadow in Ipswitch west meadowes, as also one third part of the househould stufe which she shall chuse for convenient and necessary use, as also two cowes; and all this I give her during her naturall life. As for my son Samuell Stickney, I having bene at certain cost toward his settling, therefor I will and give unto him but ten pounds more out of my estate, and that to be his full portion, and I will him to be satisfied therewith. As for my son Amos Stickney, he having at noe time bene beneficiall to my estate, and I having procured him a trade and given him some part ye estate towards his settling, I therefore will and give unto him but five pounds more out of my estate, and that to be his full portion; and I will him to be satisfied therewith. As for my other sixe childeren, John, Andrew, Thomas, Mary, Faith and Mercy, I will that they have the rest of my estate equally among them, as followeth: - I will and give my sone John Stickney the inheritance of the lands and meadowes and houses that I have given unto my wife during her natural life, to be his possession; provided that he pay out of it, it being a greater part than there wilbe for any of the rest, soe much of it as will make the portions of the rest equall with his portion; and I will that he selle and improve this land as his owne, paying unto his mother yearly during her life three pounds ten shillings and carefully winter her two cowes yearly, and she to enjoy one of the roomes for her owne particular use during her life. Unto my son Andrew Stickney I will and give him for his inheritance of my lands my land at Merrimack; and if, in its vallueation it amounteth to more than his equall share with the rest of his brothers and sisters when my estate is divided, then I will that he pay some thing backe to equallize them; and if it be vallued at lese than his equall part, then it to be made up unto him. Unto my son Thomas Stickney I will and give my village land for his inheritance of my lands; and, if in its valluation it amounteth to more than his equall share with the rest of his brothers and sisters, then he to pay backe soe much as will equallize his portion with the rest; and if it be vallued at lese then it to be made up unto him, soe as they be equall. As for my three daughters, I will, that they have their portions out of my estate in moveables, or if they fall short to be made up out of the overpluse of their three brothers’ lands, so as that they may be made all equall allike, and that they have their portions payed unto them as they come of age or at marriage. I will and appoint my well beloved wife my solle excequtorix of this my will. And I desire my trusty friends Maxemillion Jewett and Samuell Brocklebanke to be my overseers; - and this my last will I signe with my owne hand this 21 of January, 1664. Signed in presence of MAXEMILION JEWETT by his SAMUEL BROCKLEBANKE WILLIAM M. STICKNEY marke Proved in court held at Ipswich, the 28 of March, 1665, by the oath of Maximilion Jewett and Samuel Brocklebanke. ROBERT LORD, cleric As attest, A true copy as on file, Attest, NATH’L LORD JR. register." _________________________ "An Inventory of the estate of WILLIAM STICKNEY. Imprimis. In his purse . . . . . . . £ 0 10 09 Item. One sarge cloake . . . . . . . 1 02 06 One sarge suit . . . . . . . . 1 00 00 One cloath coate jacket and breeches . . . . . 1 05 00 One red waistcoat, a light colored jacket and breeches . . . 18 00 One paire of boots . . . . . . . 12 00 One paire of shoes 3s - two hats 11s . . . . . 14 00 The best bed with all the furniture to it . . . . . 12 00 00 One carpet 14s one coverlet £1 . . . . . . 1 14 00 Three paire of the best sheets, £3 - five sheets of the second sort £1 10s . . 4 10 00 Seven sheets of the next sort £1 15s - three paire of other sheets £1 4s . . 2 19 00 One table cloth napkins and pillow bears . . . . . 1 15 00 One trunke 5s. two boxes 2s. . . . . . . 07 00 One bed and all the furniture to it in the parlor chamber . . . 9 00 00 One small feather bedd £2 - one yellow rugge and two pillowes £1 15s . . 3 15 00 One trunnell bed with all belonginge to it . . . . . 3 10 00 One other bedsteade with the beddinge . . . . . 3 05 00 A piece of white cloath £1 - twelve yards of cotton and towe £1 . . 2 00 00 Towe yarne 13s 4d - sheepe wooll 9s - cotton yarne £1 15s . . . 2 17 04 In yarne and flax £2 05s. In curtains 10s . . . . . 2 15 00 One paire of oxen £12 10s. one pair of oxen more £14 . . . 26 10 00 The younger paire of oxen £13 10s - two three year old steers £7 10s . . 21 00 00 Two two yearinge steers £5 - one two yeare old bull £2 . . . 7 00 00 Three farrow cowes £12. one red cowe and her calfe £4 5s . . . 16 05 00 One younge red cowe and her calfe . . . . . . 5 05 00 Two steers of one yeare olde £3 10s - one heifer of a yeare olde £2 5s . . 5 15 00 One horse £5 10s. one mare £6 - one younge horse £5 . . . 16 10 00 One younge mare of two yeares olde . . . . . 4 00 00 One yearinge coult £2 5s. In swine £5 15s . . . . . 8 00 00 One dwellinge house and barne and orchard with the land below the barne . 50 00 00 Three acres of land above the house . . . . . 15 00 00 An acre and halfe of land at Polipod lots . . . . . 2 00 00 Two acres and halfe of land in the common field . . . . 7 10 00 An acre and halfe of land at New Plaine . . . . . 6 00 00 Six acres of land neere the longe hill . . . . . 9 00 00 One hundred and seaven rods of land at Mr. Domer’s farme . . . 15 00 Six gates upon the common . . . . . . 6 00 00 One acre of meadow in Batchellers meadow . . . . . 5 00 00 Two acres of meadow at Cowe bridge . . . . . 6 00 00 One acre of sault marsh at Mr. Dommer’s farme . . . . 3 00 00 Three acres of meadow at the great meadow . . . . . 6 00 00 Eight acres of meadow at the West meadows . . . . 12 00 00 Seven score acres of land at the village . . . . . 35 00 00 Forty acres of land at Merrimacke . . . . . . 20 00 00 In wheate seven bushells £1 15s. Rye fourteen bushells £2 16s . . 4 11 00 Indian twelve bushells and a halfe . . . . . . 1 17 06 Wheate two bushells and a halfe . . . . . . 12 06 One bushell of pease and three bushells of mault . . . . 17 06 In Bacon £2 5s. In provision 10s . . . . . . 2 15 00 In spinning wheels and cards 10s. In pewter £3 10s . . . . 4 00 00 In Tinn vessels 3s. In Brasse £4 . . . . . . 4 03 00 One mortar and pestell with the iron pots . . . . . 1 10 00 Smothinge irons 3s. 1 friing pan and two spits 10s . . . . 13 00 The iron tonges and the implements about the fire . . . . 1 05 00 In Milke vessells and beare vessells £1 10s. In Books 12s . . . 2 02 00 One greate table 10s. In chairs 8s . . . . . . 18 00 Six cushions 8s. In weighs and weights 8s . . . . . 16 00 In Measures . . . . . . . . 01 06 In Earthern ware 5s. In guns £3 16s . . . . . 4 01 00 Three swords and bandalers and other amunition . . . . 1 12 00 In Bags five shillings - and sithes and sickells ten shill. . . . 15 00 In axes and howes and other implements . . . . . 1 10 00 One pannell, pillyon and bridell . . . . . . 10 00 One cart with the plows, two sawes and other tackling . . . 5 15 00 One sled and the forks . . . . . . . 05 00 In riddells and sives . . . . . . . 03 00 One shovell and spade 2s 6d - one grindstone 5s . . . . 07 06 In hay £2 10s. A debt due upon a bill £10 . . . . . 12 10 00 More £3. In leather 14s . . . . . . . 2 14 00 A beetell with the wedges . . . . . . . 07 00 __________ Totall £416 14 01 This inventory was apprised by us whose names are hereunder written Mr. PHILIP NELSON MAXIMILION JEWET SAMUEL BROCKLEBANKE JOHN BROCKLEBANKE Proved and recd. in court held at Ipswich the 28 of March, 1665. ROBERT LORD, cleric. A true copy as on file. Attest, NATH’L LORD jr. register. Debts owing from the estate. At Ipswich . . . . . . . . £ 2 08 00 In Rowley . . . . . . . . 3 07 00 A true copy as on file. Attest, NATH’L LORD, jr., register." _________________________ ELIZABETH STICKNEY survived her husband several years, as appears by a deposition on file at the Essex Probate Office, and recorded in the Essex Registry of Deeds, Book 4, p. 228. "The deposition of Elizabeth Stickney aged about 70 and Samuell Stickney aged about 45 yeares who testifieth that James Barker senior promised upon condition of marriage between his sonn James Barker and Mary the daughter of William Stickney deceased, that he the s’d James Barker senr. would give his sonn James a portion equall with any of his other children, his eldest son only excepted and neither before nor in his last will hath p’formed (performed) same & further saith not. Sworne in Court held at Ipswich the 24 of September 1678. as attest Robert Lord, Cler." The date of her death is not known. On the two hundredth anniversary of the death of WILLIAM STICKNEY, a granite obelisk was erected on his grave bearing the following inscription: WILLIAM STICKNEY, BORN IN FRAMPTON, ENGLAND A. D. 1592, WAS, WITH HIS WIFE ELIZABETH OF BOSTON, IN N. E. IN 1638 OF ROWLEY IN 1639 WHERE HE DIED A. D. 1665. ERRECTED BY HIS DESCENDANTS JOSIAH STICKNEY OF BOSTON MATTHEW ADAMS STICKNEY OF SALEM JOSEPH HENRY STICKNEY OF BALTIMORE MD. 1865. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1524Will of William Stickney The will of William Stickney of Rowley was proved in the court held at Ipswich March 28, 1665. The following is a copy of the original instrument on file in the probate office at Salem. I william Stickney of Rowley in the County of esex in New England being weeake of body but of prfect vnderstanding and memory doe make and ordaine This my last will and Testament firƒt I will and Commit my Soulle vnto god That gaue it and my body vnto the common burying place in the hope of a bleƒd Reƒurection. And as for my outward eƒtat after funerall expences diƒcharged I will and diƒpose as followeth. Inprims, I will and giue vnto my welbeloued wife elizebeth ƒtickney the benefit of my dwelling houƒe out houƒes barne orchard land and meadowes that are or lie within the five mille bounds of the towne of Rowley with all the priueliges belonging vnto those lands as alƒo the meadow in Ipswich weƒt medowes as alƒo one third part of the houƒe hould ƒtufe which she ƒhall chuƒe for Conuenient and neceƒƒary uƒe as alƒo two cowes and all this I giue hir during hir naturall life. as for my Son Samuell stickney I haueing bene at certaine Coƒt toward his settleing therefor I will and giue vnto him but then pounds more out of my eƒtate and that to be his full portion and I will him to be ƒatiƒfied therwith. As for my son Amos ƒtickney he hauing at noe time bene any way beneficiall to my eƒtat and I haueing procured him a trade and giuen him ƒome part of eƒtat toward his settleing I therfor will and giue vnto him but five pounds more out of my eƒtat and that to be his full portion and I will him to be ƒatiƒfied therwith. As for my other sixe children John, Andrew, Thomas, mary, ffaith and mercy, I will that they haue the Reƒt of my eƒtat equally among them as followeth. I will and giue vnto my sone John ƒtickney the inheritance of the lands and meadowes and houƒes that I haue giuen vnto my wife dureing hir naturall life to be his poƒeƒion prouided that he pay out of it it being a greater part then there wilbe for any of the reƒt ƒoe much out of it as will make the portions of the reƒt equall with his portion and I will that he setle and Improue this land as his owne, paying vnto his mother yearly dureing hir life three pounds ten shillings and carfully winter hir two cowes yearly and she to injoy one of the roomes for her owne pertickuler uƒe dureing hir life. Vnto my son Andrew Stickney I will and giue him for his Inheritance of my lands my land at merrimacke and if in its vallueation it amounteth to more than his equall ƒhare with the reƒt of his brothers and sisters when my eƒtat is devided then I will that he pay ƒome thing backe to equallize them and if it be vallued at loƒe than his equall part then it to be made up vnto him. vnto my son Thomas Stickney I will and giue my village land for his inheritance of my lands and if in its valluation it amounteth to more than his equall ƒhare with the reƒt of his brothers and ƒisters then he pay backe ƒoe much as will equallize his portion with the reƒt and if it be vallued at loƒe then it to be made up vnto him ƒoe as they be equall. As for my three daughters I will that they haue ther portions out of my eƒtat in moueables or if they fall ƒhort to made up out of the ouerpluƒe of the three brothers lands ƒoe as that they may be made all equall allike and that they haue ther portions payed vnto the as they come of age or at marriage. I will and appoint my well beloued wife my solle excequtorix of this my will. And I deƒire my Trusty freinds maxemillion Jewett and Samuel Brocklebanke to be my ouerseers and this my last will I signe with my owne hand this 21 of January 1664. Signed in prƒence of by his maxemillion Jewettwilliman M stickney Samuell Brocklebanke | ||||||||||||||||||||
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