Estate of Andrew Hidden of Rowley
Essex Probate Docket # 13223

Will of Andrew Hidden of Rowley, Essex Co., MA, dated Feb. 18, 1701/02, filed April 1702

In the Name of God Amen: I Andrew Hidden of the Town of Rowley In the County of Essex In New England being weak of Body, but of a Sound understanding and In a perfect Memory Blessed be God Almighty do make and Ordaine this my Last Will & Testament in Manner as followeth That Is to Say first and Principally I commend my Soule to God as he gave it me hopeing Through the power and Merits of Jesus Christ my dear Savior for a happy Resurrection and my body to be Entered into the Earth by a decent buriall At the discression of my Executrix hereafter Named and as for that Outward Estate That God hath been pleased to Give Unto me, after my funeral Charges & honest Debts are payd I Dispose of as followeth.
First My Will is that my Beloved Wife Sarah Hidden shall have my whole Estate During her Naturale Life both houseing and lands Movables and if the land is need for her Maintenance I doo Empower her to sell all or any part of My houseing or lands & my will is That after My wife Sarah’s death what houseing or land is Not sold for her Maintenance
I doo Give to My son Ebenezer Hidden and two Cows and my movable Estate
I do Give to My Beloved Wife Sarah, Liberty to dispose of Either in her life or at her death to any of his children are most helpful to her in her Old Age And I do make Constitute my beloved Wife Sarah to be whole and Sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament And In Testimony Where of I The above sd Andrew Hidden have Set to my hand & Seale this Eighteenth Day of Febuary In the year Seventeen Hundred & one or two.

Andrew Hidden seal
X his mark

Signd Sealed & Declared to be his last Will in presents of us
Moses Platts
Wm Cresey
Samuell Platts

Essex ss

Before the Honble Jonat Corwin Esqr Judge of Probate of Wills In Ipswich th 1 April 1702

Wm Cresey & Samle Platts personally Appeared & Made Oath That They wars psent & did see Andrew Hidden Signe & Seali and heard him publish & Declare the above written Instrument to be his Last Will & Testam’t & Moses Plats Testifies that he Saw Andrew hidden

Signe & Seald the above written Instrumt. And they all Testifie that he was then of a disposeing mind to their best understand’g and that they then subscribed as Wittnesses in his psents
Sworne Attest John Higginson Regr

Examd

Source: LDS microfilm #0875125, Essex Co., MA Probate Records 1699-1705 (Also in Essex Co. Probate Case File # 13223, Essex Probate Vol. 307, Pg. 209)

Transcribed and submitted by: Richard M. Hunt

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