Amanuensis Monday -- 1646 Will of Henry Adams (1583-1646) of Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony

 This week's document for transcription is the 1646 Will of Henry Adams (1583-1646) of Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

*  Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records; Case 52, Henry Adams, 1646 (image 6 of 7):

The transcription of this document is:

                             This is the true Minde and Will of the Late Deceased

                               Henry Adams of Brantree                      A'o 1646

First my will is that sonne Peter and John and my daughter Ursula

shall have the ground in the Neck, both uploand and meddow, during

the terme I was to enjoy it, untill it returns into the towne lands

againe, from whom I had it. Also the Aker in the Mill feild.

Item my will is that my bookes shall be devided amongst  ^all^ my Children.

Item my will is that my wife shall have and enjoy all my other Goods

so longe as she liveth unmarried. And if she marry then my will is y't

Joseph and Edward, and my daughter Ursula should enjoy all my

ground in the feild that lyeth in the way to Waymouth ferry

and my house lott with all the houses and fruite trees, and all my

moveables at the Death or marriage of my wife Provided they and their

mother shall pay to my Sonne Samuel that w'ch is due him for the ground

I bought of him to be payd in convenient tyme. But in case God should

soe deale w'th my wife that shee be constray ned to make use of some

thing by way of Sale shee may.

Finally for moveables my will is that my Sonne Peter & John shall

have an equall share with my sonnes Joseph and Edward and my

daughter Ursula.

ss in Co'e to the 8th of the 4th in 1647  

Increase Nowell  rec     Beniamin Allbe

                                       Richard Brackett

The source citation for this Will is:

Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Henry Adams will, dated A'o 1646, proved 8 June 1647; imaged, American Ancestors(https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2735/i/48697/52-co6/69443733 : November 2 2025), "Suffolk Cases 1-1999," Case 52, image 6 of 7; original records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org)

In this will, Henry Adams does not directly name his wife and names his sons Perter, John, Joseph and Edward, and daughter Ursula, with the estate going to his wife and after her death the estate to be equally divided among his children.

Henry Adams (1583-1646) was born in Barton St. David, Somerset, England, and died before 6 October 1646 when he was buried in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony.  He married Edith Squire (1587-1673) on 19 October 1609 in Charlton Mackrell, Somerset, England.  They had nine children, but only five were named in the will.

Henry Adams (1583-1646) and Edith Squire (1587-1673) are my 10th great-grandparents, and are the parents of my 9th great-grandfather Peter Adams (1622-1690) who married Rachel Newcomb (1631-1690) in 1648 in Medfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony; also of my 9th great-grandfather Jonathan Adams (1614-1690) who married Elizabeth Holman (1644-1719) in about 1664.

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Read other transcriptions of records of my relatives and ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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