Will of Nahor Wheelock, of Shrewsbury, MA, 1721

In the Name of God Amen, the fifth day of December 1781 I Nahor Wheelock of Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester and the State of Massachusetts Husbandman being very sick & weak in Body, but of perfect Mind and memory, thanks be given unto God: Therfore calling unto Mind the Mortality of My Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to Dye do Make and Ordain this My Last Will and Testament, that is to say, Principally, and first of all, I give and Recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it; and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be Buried in decent Christian Buriel at the discretion of My Executor; nothing doubting but at the general Resurection I shall receive the Same again by the mighty power of God. And as touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life, I give demis and dispose of the Same in the following Manner and Form

Imprimis: I give and bequeth to Abigal My dearly beloved Wife the one half of the Income of my Real and personal Estate during her widowhood. And if She maries the whole of my household furniture.

Item: I give to my Eldist and well beloved Son Stephen My wearing apparil with One Pound Twelve Shillings to be paid out of my Estate Within Two years after his Mother's Deceas.

Item: I give to Eliab My Second beloved Son five Shillings to be paid in Two years after his Mother's Deceas He haveing had his time at Seven years of age.

Item: I give to Silas My third beloved Son My Gun to him and his heirs With the Whole of My Real and Personal Estate after My wives Decease. He paying the Several Sums Specified in this my Last Will Whome I likewise Constitute make and ordain my soul Executor of this my Last Will and Testament and Likewise all my Husbandry Tools.

Item: I give to Huldah my Eldist beloved daughter five shillings She having had her time at Twelve years of age to be paid in two years after he mothers decease.

Item: I give to Lydia My Second beloved daughter one Pound one shilling and four pence to be paid in two years after her Mothers Decease.

Item: I give to Abigal My third beloved daughter one Pound five shillings and eight pence to be paid when She arrives at Eighteen years of age.

And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments, Will, Legalies and Bequethes and Executors, by one in any ways before Named, Willed and Bequethed, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be My Last Will and Testament in Witness Whereof, I have herunto Set my Hand and Seal the day and year above written.

Signed Sealed Published Pronounced and Declared by the Said Nahor Wheelock as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us the subscribers	in the first article the whole of was [inter....] before signing	Nahor Wheelock (signature)
Stephen Parker Vashni Hemenway Danl Hemenway

(Transcribed by Roderick B. Sullivan, Aug 2002, from a copy of the original, Worcester County Probate Case 63764)