Will Probate, CT, Hartford, Phebe Soper 1753 Estate of PHEBE SOPER Town of Windsor Date 1753 No. 5042 HARTFORD Probate District Page 1 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, CT, Hartford, Phebe Soper 1753 In the name of God, Amen. This seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1753, I PHEBE SOPER, alias MOORE of Windsor in the county of Hartford & c. being of perfect mind and memory but calling to mind my own frailty and mortality, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, and principally and first of all I do give and recommend my precious and immortal soul into the hands of God, through Jesus Christ, that gave it, and my body I do recommend unto the earth & c. And as touching those temporal things with which it hath pleased God to bless I do give and dispose of in manner and form following, that is to say after my funeral charges and just debts are paid by my executor and executrix herein after named. FIRST I give to my son JOHN [SOPER] my mare horse, chains, beetle rings, and my white faced cows calf when it shall be a month old. SECONDLY, I give to my son JOEL [SOPER], six acres of land, more or less, as it lies in partnership with PHINEHAS DRAKE in Ellington Society in Windsor and it is my will that said land shall not be prizd and further I give him, my said son JOEL, the profits or incomes of all my land, in Wintonbury for the space of five years and six months from the date of this instrument and allow that I have let out to Mr. JOHN EGGLESTON, together with the profits of said cow at the end of her lease and also a horse colt. THIRDLY, I give to my son DAVID [SOPER] a piece of land in the township of Windsor on the est side of Connecticut River which lies in partnership with PHINEHAS DRAKE and my sisters, and it is my will that said land, be not prizd, and the use of all my land in Wintonbury, for the space of five years, to being immediately after the expiration of the five years and six months mentioned under the preceding particular, and it is further my will that no wood nor timber be cut down nor removed from my land, in Wintonbury during the ten years and six months mentioned in this and the preceding particulars. FOURTHLY, I give to my son TIMOTHY [SOPER] all my lands in Wintonbury, twenty acres, more or less, and if he should die childless then it is my will that my two sons JOEL and DAVID have said twenty acres of land divided equally between them, they paying to my three daughters, PHEBE [SOPER], ELISABETH [SOPER] & ABIGAIL [SOPER] forty pounds, to each of the old tenor or money equivalent thereto according to its present value, said hundred and twenty pounds, not to be paid before a full year after TIMOTHY’s decease, and further it is my will that ye last mentioned land be not prizd. FIFTHLY, I give to my three daughters PHEBE, ELISABETH and ABIGALE all my movable estate to be equally divided between them, and if any or either of them die childless, the survivor or the survivors have what belonged to the deceased given in this instrument. AND further to my son TIMOTHY I give linen cloth enough to make two shirts and a pair of trowsers. AND I do hereby ordain, constitute and appoint NATHANIEL FILLEY of Windsor, and my daughter PHEBE SOPER to be the executor and executrix of this my last will and testament. Page 2 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, CT, Hartford, Phebe Soper 1753 In confirmation whereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal the year and day before mentioned. PHEBE SOPER MOORE {her x mark} Signed, sealed and declared by the before mentioned PHEBE SOPER MOORE to be her last will and testament in presence of SAMUEL BUTLER DANIEL BURLISSON HEZEKIAH BISSELL At court of probate held at Hartford on the 3rd day of 1753 then SAMUEL BUTLER & DANIEL BURLISSON, two of the witnesses to this will made oath that they saw the testator PHEBE MOORE alias SOPER sign, seal the above instrument & heard her declare the same to be her last will and testament and then judged her, the said PHEBE to be of sound mind & memory & set to their hands as witnesses to said will together with HEZEKIAH BISSELL in the said testator’s presence. Test JOSEPH TALCOTT, Probate Clerk Page 3 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Will Probate, CT, Hartford, Phebe Soper 1753 An inventory of the estate of the widow PHEBE SOPER late of Windsor debt taken in old tenor. [INVENTORY LIST] The above written with that on the other side of this piece of paper is a true inventory of the estate of the widow PHEBE SOPER of Windsor, deceased, as presented by her executors & taken by us the subscribers being under oath this 4th day of September 1753. ABEL GILLIS ENOCH DRAKE At a court of probate held at Hartford on the 4th day of September A.D. 1753 then NATHANIEL FILLEY executor on oath presented this inventory which is ordered by this court to be recorded. Test JOSEPH TALBOTT, clerk Page 4 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK **