Will of Jonathan Sanborn, dated January 24, 1741

In the Name of God Amen

I Jonathan Sanborn of Kingston in the Province of Newhampshire in New England being aged & weak of Body * * *

1. I give & bequeath to my Sons Samuel & Jonathan all my Lands Estates, debts & rights of mine of what Name or Nature soever which have not been already disposed of except such are hereafter named.

2. I give & bequeath to my Six Daughters viz Elizebeth, Acha, Margaret, Love, Sarah, Mary or their Heirs three Pounds, that is ten Shillings each.

3. I give & bequeath unto Elizebeth Sanborn by beloved Wife all my moveables except my wearing cloaths during her natural Life : & to dispose of at her death I also give & bequeath unto her, to be paid by my Executors, during her natural Life yearly & every Year six Bushels of Indian Corn, two Bushels of Malt, two Bushels wheat & two Bushels of Rye, fifty weight of Pork & sixty weight of Beef all good & Merchantable, also they are to find one convenient fire-room & Wood sufficient to maintain one Fire, & the Milk of one Cow.

And I do by these Presents constitute & appoint my Trustees my well beloved Sons Samuel & Jonathan Sanborn to be my Executors to this my last Will & Testiment : And for confirmation of all above written : I the abovesaid Jonathan Sanborn, have hereunto set my Hand & affixed my Seal this twenty fourth of January, in the Year of our Lord 1740/41 . & in the fourteenth Year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second of Great Brittain, France & Ireland, King

    Signed, sealed & delivered in                                         Jonathan Sanborn
Presence of      
    Ebenr Stevens
    Cornelius Clough
    Nathaniel Drummer
    [Proved May 26, 1742, and administration granted to Henry Sherburne and Moses Sleeper, principal creditors, the executors refusing to act.]

[Warrant, Oct. 28, 1741, authorizing Ebenezer Stevens and Jedediah Philbrick, both of Kingston, to appraise the estate.]

[Inventory, April 9, 1742; amount £109.3.8; signed by Ebenezer Stevens and Jedediah Philbrick.]

[Warrant, June 1, 1743, authorizing Jeremy Webster and Jeremiah Hubbard, both of Kingston, to receive claims against the estate.]

[List of claims, signed by Jeremy Webster and Jeremiah Hubbard, amount £228.7.3.]

[Administrator's account of the settlement of the estate; amount of estate, £124.9.2; expenditures, £37.16.0; allowed Aug. 29, 1744.]

[License to the administrators, April 25, 1744, to sell real estate.]
[Probate Records, vol. 15, p. 328.]

[Division of the estate among the creditors; allowed July 30, 1746.]

SOURCE: Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire, Vol. 3, 1741-1749, State Papers Series, Vol. 33

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