Robert ANDREWS
Will

On the CD "Early Vital Records of Essex County, Massachusetts"

ESTATE OF ROBERT ANDREWS OF IPSWICH
The first of March 1643. In the name of god amen I robert Andrewes of
Ipswch in New England being of pfect understanding & memory doe make this my last will & Testament Imprimis I comend my soule into the hands of my mercifull Creator & redeemer & I doe comitt my body after my departure out of this world to be buried in seemly manner by my frends &c concerning my estate Imprimis I doe make my eldest sonne JOHN ANDREWES my executor Item I give unto my wife ELIZABETH ANDREWS forty pounds and to JOHN GRIFFIN the sonne of HUMFRY GRIFFIN sixteene pounds to be paid unto him when he shalbe Twenty one yeares of age, & if he shall dye before he comes to that age it shall returne to my two sonnes JOHN & THOMAS ANDREWES. Item concerning my sonne THOMAS ANDREWS my will is that he shall live with his brother JOHN ANDREWS three yeares two of which he shalbe helpfull to his brother JOHN ANDREWES in his husbandry and the last of the three yeares he shall goe to schoole to recover his learning and if he shall goe to the university or shall set himselfe upon some other way of living his brother JOHN shall allow him ten pounds by the yeare for foure yeares & then fifteene pounds by the yeare for two yeares succeeding after. Item concerning the fourescore pounds which is to be paid unto my sonne in lawe FRANCKLINS daughter ELIZABETH FFRANCKLIN my grandchild my will is that if she die before the debt is due it shalbe thus disposed ten pounds of it shall goe to my sonne DANIELL HOVIES Child DANIELL HOVEY my grand child and the other seav[en]ty pounds shalbe divided between my Two sonnes JOHN & THOMAS ANDREWS and if those my Two sonnes should dye then thirty pounds should be divided between my kinsmen JOHN THOMAS & ROBERT BURNUM by equall porcons & Twenty more should goe to HUMPHRY GRYFFINS Two other sonnes & the other Twenty shall goe to DANIELL HOVEY. And because my sonne JOHN ANDREWES is yet under age I doe comend him unto THOMAS HOWLET as his Guardian untill he shall come of age.
ROBERT ANDREWS
Witness: WILLIAM KNIGHT, JOHN WHIPPLE, THOMAS SCOT and JOSEPH METCALFE
Proved 26 : 1 : 1644.Ipswich Deeds, Vol. 1, leaf 6.



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