- In the name of God Amen, I Huldah Hall of Raynham in the County of Bristol, Single Woman, considering the uncertainty of this mortal life & being of sound & disposing mind & memory, do make and publish this my last will & testament in manner & form following. That is to say:
First, I give and devise to Asa Hall all my homestead form where I now live with all the buildings standing thereon, to have & to hold to him & his heirs and assigns forever.
I do also give and devise to John [?] L. Hall a piece of wood land lying in Raynham in Tearull [?] Woods containing about thirteen acres, more or less to him & his heirs & assigns forever.
I do also give and bequeath to Lucy Williams, John L. Hall, Elizabeth E. Pakendale [?] my indoor moveables and wearing apparel and all my other personal estate of what manner or nature soever [?], to be equally divided between them, if they live to after my decease, but if into [?] those that are living to share the whole among of them, that I have given personal estates to unless the one of those that die should have a child or children living at the time of my decease, and if so I give and bequeath to the children or child what the parent or parents would have had if they had lived..
And I hereby order Asa Hall to pay my just debts & funeral charges, and I hereby appoint Asa Hall, the Executor of this my last will and testament, and do hereby revoke all former wills by me made.
In Witness where of I have hereunto set my hand & seal this first day of July in the Year of our Lord One Thousand and Eight hundred & thirty four.
Huldah Hall
The name Parkins the 16th line from top , [?] ... the erasure before exception.
Sign, Sealed published & declared to be the last will and testament of Huldah Hall by the sd. Huldah Hall in Mets [?] is presented of out who Subscribed over names in a lines and in the precursor of each step [?].
The ... was in line 7th from the bottom was stated before Execution.
* Mary Williams
* Ghilo [?] Williams
* Mary Hump [?]
Sept. 5.1834 Approved.
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