William BAULSTON
Will

In his will, dated 11 March 1677[/ 8], William Baulston of Portsmouth bequeathed to "my wife Elizabeth Baulston all movables with the use of a room or rooms in the dwelling house and the fruits of the orchard, with the conditions that grandson John Coggeshall pay her 12 a year in consideration of his use of the farm, and when Elizabeth Baulston dies he is to pay the 12 to my loving daughter Elizabeth Gould; if she wants it, and my grandson William Coggeshall or whomsoever shall by due right possess those lands about this township by me given to him shall yearly find and allow to my said wife his grandmother during her natural life and after her decease to his said mother my daughter Elizabeth Gould during her life if she want the same for her maintenance sufficient summer pasture and winter stuffer[?] for five cows to my grandson John Coggeshall and unto his male heirs forever all that my farm of land in Portsmouth to my grandson William Coggeshall and his male heirs forever four parcels of land in Portsmouth: all those lands and meadows to me belonging in the place called the Claypitt Feild, all that parcel of land where my now dwelling house now standeth ..., all that parcel of meadow and land adjoining to the land of John Sanford and all that meadow called Spicer's Meadow (with contingency plans depending on whether John Coggeshall leaves male or female heirs) to my grandchild Elizabeth Peck the wife of Thomas Peck 50 to be paid unto her or her child and forasmuch as it was serious upon my mind to have given unto the sons of my brothers in England a considerable tract of land in the common fence yet upon further mature consideration all that tract of land to me belonging in the common fence, I not hearing whether any of my kindred are alive, I do therefore give and bequeath all the said land in the common fence unto my two aforenamed grandsons to be equally divided between them to my daughter Gould the movables (after the death of his wife) to be administered by his executors for the benefit of my said daughter (their mother) to son-in-law Gould 5 [ PoLE 1:153-54].

Source:
The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (Online db: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995).



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