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Stowe, Joseph Sr
private papers PP114/8 (Bermuda Archives)
will dated 21 December 1776
codicil 24 December 1776
proved 28 January 1777

I Joseph Stowe do hereby make the following codicil to my last will hereto annexed. Whereas I have, by deed, conveyed to Solomon Joel in trust for my wife, Susanna Stowe, sundry goods and chattels therein mentioned or mentioned in a schedule thereto annexed; among which are the parts of two vessels called the Savannah and the Unity which have been sold and the monies spent in my family....

names sons Solomon Joel Stowe, Richard Robinson Stowe and daughter Martha Stowe

revokes bequests to children Joseph Stowe, John Stowe, Keturah wife of Benjamin Wainwright, Nathaniel Stowe

names also children Hester Albuoy, Alice Stowe, Margaret Stowe, Thomas Stowe

daughter Frances wife of Joseph Dill

witnesses: Henry Hinson
Solomon Vesey
Geo. Bascome

original will dated 21 Dec 1776
witnessed by George Bascome, Peter Godfrey, Paul Tucker