Deacon Thomas Wales's Will by Mary E. Wilkins

In the Name of God Amen! the Thirteenth Day of September One / Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty & eight, I, Thomas Wales of / Braintree, in the County of Suffolk & Province of the / Massachusetts Bay in New England, Gent -- being in good health of / Body and of Sound Disproving mind and Memory, Thanks be given to / God -- Calling to mind my mortality, Do therefore in my health make / and ordain this my Last Will and Testament. And First I Recommend / my Soul into the hand of God who gave it -- Hoping through grace to / obtain Salvation thro' the merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ my / only Lord and Dear Redeemer, and my body to be Decently inter^d, / at the Discretion of my Executor, believing at the General / Resurection to receive the Same again by the mighty Power / of God -- And such worldly estate as God in his goodness hath / graciously given me after Debts, funeral Expenses &c, are Paid I / give & Dispose of the Same as Followeth --

_Imprimis_ -- I Give to my beloved Wife Sarah a good Sute of / mourning apparrel Such as she may Choose -- also if she acquit my / estate of Dower and third-therin (as we have agreed) Then that / my Executor return all of Household movables she bought at our / marriage & since that are remaining, also to Pay to her or Her / Heirs That Note of Forty Pound I gave to her, when she acquited my / estate and I hers. Before Division to be made as herein exprest, / also the Southwest fire-Room in my House, a right in my Cellar, / Halfe the Garden, also the Privilege of water at the well & yard / room and to bake in the oven what she hath need of to improve her / Life-time by her.