Mary NASH
Will
The last Will and Testament of Mary Alling of New Haven - widow
Not know1ng how soon my last change may bee, and being at this present in competent understanding and memory doe order and dispose of that worldly estate I have to dispose of, in manner and form as followeth:
Imprimis - I give to my eldest son Samuel Alling a feather bed upon which I lodge, and bolsters and two pillows and the best coverlette and the biggest brasse pan and one of the biggest pewter platters.
Item - I give unto my son John Alling my biggest brasse kettle and one of the biggest pewter platters and the greene rugge and my great chest that stands in the lean too.
Item - I give unto my son James Alling the best flocke bed and one feather bolster and two pillows and curtains about the bed and the bed stead and one payre of the best sheets and a greene coverlette and two blankets and ye furnace and ye cast brasse skillett and six napkins and one table cloth and one of ye biggest pewter platters and one cow.
Item - I give unto my daughter Mary Mosse a flocke bed and bolster and two pillows and the single greene coverlette and one blanket and one payre sheets and the great iron kettle and one of the biggest pewter platters and my trunk.
Item - I give unto my daugter Sarah Peck the lesser brasse pan, and one of the biggest pewter platters, and the wain-scott chest that stands in ye chamber and the dark colored covercloth and one blanket and the great iron skillett.
And all the rest of my estate (after my just debts are paid) whether within the house or abroad, in cattle or otherwise I doe heartily appoint to be equally divided among all my children, only my son Samuel Alling to have a double part my wearing apparel excepted all these I give to my four daughters Mary Mosse Sarah Peck Elizabeth Alling and Susanna Alling to be equally divided among them.
Also I doe define and appoint my eldest son Samuel Alling to be my sole executor of this my last will and testament, and in confirmation that I ordain this my last will and testament I hereunto sett my hand and seal this seventeenth day of July 1682.
Source: A history and genealogical record of the Alling-Allens of New Haven, Conn the descendants of Roger Alling, first, and John Alling, sen., from 1639 to the present time ... By George P. Allen
New Haven, Connecticut - First Church of Christ Title Historical catalogue of the members of the
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