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DICKINSON, SAMUEL
W6:327
15 October 1823
proved 15 March 1732/1733

In the name of God, Amen, I Samuel Dickinson of Southampton Parish in the Islands of Bermuda, shipwright, do make this my last and testament in manner and form following.

My just debts and funeral charges be first paid according to the discretion of my executors hereafter named, I give and bequeath unto my dear and loving wife Parnel Dickinson my now dwelling house and one acre of land belonging to it during her widowhood after my decease.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Francis, Benjamin, John, William, Edward, Richard, Martha and Mary Dickinson the just sum of four hundred pounds to be equally divided between them out of my personal estate as they will come of age or the day of marriage after my decease.

Item. I give and bequeath all the rest of my personal estate remaining unto my loving wife Parnel Dickinson for her widowhood and for the bringing up of all my children to age after my decease.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Samuel Dickinson and his heirs my now dwelling house and one acre of land now belonging to it, after my decease and my wife Parnel Dickinson widowhood.

Item. My will is that if after my decease Samuel Dickinson should dye and leaves no heir male then my will is that my said land shall returne unto my son Edward Dickinson and to his heirs male. And in case my son Edward Dickinson should dye and leave no heir male, my will is that my house and said land shall returne unto my son Richard Dickinson and to his heirs male for ever. My will is that all my timber that is now fit for building a vesel shall be cut if is now upon my acer of land and my will is that at my decease my loving wife Parnel Dickinson shall goe forward in building a vessel in the direction of my executors and overseers and sell as they see fitt. It is my will that my sons Francis, Benjamin, John and William Dickinson shall be the executors of this my last will and testament and also my loving brother James Dickinson and my loving brother in law Capt William Richardson and my loving cosin John Dickinson shipwright as overseers to aid and assist them what lyes in their power.

In witness whereof I have set my hand and seale this seventeenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and thirty and one/two.

signed and sealed in the presence of...
Robert Dickinson Jun'r
Robert Dickinson
Turner Gibbs

Bermuda
by his excellency the Governor
These are to certifye that this 15th day of March 1732/3 personally appeared before me the Governor aforesaid Robert Dickinson of Southampton Tribe, Esq'r and solemnly made oath on the Holy Evangelists that he saw the within named Samuel Dickinson sign, seal, publish and declare the within written instrument to be his last will and testament and that he the said testator was at the same time of sound and perfect mind and memory.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this day and year above written.
John Pitt