This week's document for transcription is the 1676 Will of John Gorton (1610-1676) of Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
* Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records Case 833, John Gorton, 1676, in Box 6, image 153 of 1112:
The transcription of this document is (aided by FamilySearch Full-Text Search using Artificial Intelligence):
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The Last will and Testement of John Gorton Senior of
Roxbury being in it pfect mamary and sence acording to the mazur
Given mee of God and of a disposing minde. I doe first commit my sole
into the everlasting arms of the marcy of god in christ Jesus in whome
alone I trust for salvation and my body to the earth by a Desent buriall in
hope of a glorious Resurrection, and for that Littell outward esteat that god
hath Lent mee, my will as foloweth viz. that my Loveing wife shall inJoy
my whole esteat During her naturall life further my will is that after the
Deceas of my Loveing wife that then my housing and all my Lands Remaining my
son Abraham shall inJoy them he paying or causing to be paid the sum of nine
pounds to my three Dafters or three shaires that is to say. three pound to my
Dafter Sarah three pound to my Dafter Mary and three pound to my Dafter
Ealas, all which nine pound my will is it shall bee paid out of movble
estate and if that there bee not moveble esteatt suffishient to pay this nine
pound then my will is that they shall stay for it untill my son Abraham bee
able to pay them for my will is that neither my wife for my son shall sell
any of my lands without necessety Requireth it and that noe weast bee made
of my wood and timber, but that it be preserved saveing what my wife shall
need for ????? and Repaireing of houses and ????? ?????? my Will is
that if it please God to take away my son Abraham, before the time
come of his in harreting and hee leave noe childe or children, then my
will is that my housing and Lands and what moveble Remaine Shall bee
equally devided among my three Dafters or there children in case any of
my Dafters bee dead before ? ??????Will is that my Loveing wife
shall bee my whole executor and if god take her away before my son Abrah-
am come of age then my will and Request is that my loving frend ????
Parks bee my executor, and my Loveing frend Samuell Williams to bee or
exsea? whome I intreat to advise, and help my wife in any matter of
wait and difficulty and to take care of and for my son Abraham that hee bee
brought up to som honest calling and in the peace of god. and this above
written I do owne and make as my last will and Testament makeing
all former wills and not as wittness my marke and seale this
Seventeen day of June in the yeare of our Lord 1676.
Read sealed and delivered as his last will John Gorton his mark
before us Samuell Ruggles Senior and seal {seal}
John Ruggles Senior
Samuel Ruggles & John Ruggles personally appeared
before John Pynchon & Joseph Dudley Esq'rs Attests
October 19'th 1676 & made Oath that they being present
on the day of the date thereof & did see & heard
John Gorton Sign & Seal & publish the same to bee
his last will & Testament & that when hee so did hee was
of sound disposeing minde to their best understanding
as attests Js'a Addington Clerk
The source citation for this Deed is:
Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, John Gorton will, dated 17 June 1676, proved 19 October 1676; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS6Z-HBJX?view=fullText : Oct 12 2025), Image Group Number 102863928, "Probate and Family Court Department FILE PAPERS_Box 6, Case 805 to Case 1002_1 Jan 1636-31 Dec 1894," Case 833, image 153 of 1112; original records in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Department of Archives; imaged, catalogued and transcribed by FamilySearch.
In this will, John Gorton named his son Abraham and three daughters, Sarah, Mary and Alice, with the estate going to his wife and after her death the estate to be equally divided among his children.
John Gorton (1610-1676) was born in England, and died before 19 October 1676 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He married Mary --?-- (1612-????) before 1636 probably in Roxsbury. They had nine children, but only Sarah, MJary, Alice and Abraham lived to adulthood and married.
John Gorton (1610-1676) and Mary --?-- (1612-????) are my 9th great-grandparents, and are the parents of my 8th great-grandfather Alice Gorton (1652-1712) who married Joseph Foster (1650-1721) in 1672 in Billerica, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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