John MINOT
Will

Suffolk County Wills

Abstracts of the Earliest Wills Upon Record in the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts

From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Page 385:

"No. 515. - John Minot, of Dorchester, will, 15 July, 1669

Provides for the necessity of his father.

Wife to dwell in his house and have fifty pounds. Son John one hundred pounds over an equal dividend with rest of the children. Daughter, Martha, as a particular remembrance of her mother, all her mother's clothes and linen. Son James to be kept at learning. Son Stephen to be placed at some convenient trade. Son Samuel to be brought up as husbandman, and have his portion in land. The estate not to be divided until James is twenty-one. Other provisions for division. Martha, to be under mother's care, and James, Samuel and Stephen, under the executor's care. Father Minot, brother Stephen and son John to be executors. Witnesses, Thomas Wilson and Timothy Foster.

Inventory, 28 Jan. 1669-70, by John Gurnell, Thomas Tileston, Roger Billing. Vol. vi. P. 40. (See Reg. i., Minot Family). "



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