- In her will, dated 8 April 1647 and proved 18 December 1660,
"Margarett How of Water=Towne Widow" bequeathed to "my sister Mary Rogers widow & her children (in old England at Boxstead in the County of Essex or elsewhere) one-sixth part of my whole estate, of housing, land, chattels, debts, & all moveable goods real & personal, to be divided among them as followeth, vizt to my sister aforesaid if living at my decease two-fifth parts of the aforesaid sixth & her heirs & I will & bequeath the other three-fifths of the aforesaid sixth to her son Jno Rogers, & Eliz: Rogers to be equally divided ... if my sister be not living at my decease, then ... the aforesaid sixth should be divided between John & Elizabeth aforesaid, vizt three-fifths to Jno & two-fifths
to Eliz[a]b[e]t[h].... Also I will & bequeath to Jno Stone of Sudbury in New Engl[and]; two sixth parts of my whole estate, as aforesaid, to him & his heirs. Also I will & bequeath to Nathaniel Tredaway & his heirs the other three-sixths of my whole estate as aforesaid. Also my Will is that
if my kindred in old England, or their heirs intended by this my will, be not living at my death, then my will is that the sixth part bequeathed to them shall return to Nath. Tredaway & Jno Stone, to be divided three-fifths of it to Nath[aniel] & two-fifth parts to Jno ... mr Brian
Pendlton & Nathaniel Tredaway Executors ... & Jno Sherrman, overseer" [MPR 1:256-57].
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