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I, Anthony Annible, this 24th day of February one thousand six hundred seaventy and two, being weake of body but in some good measure disposed in mind and memory, doe judge it my duty to sett my affaires in order, not knowing how soone my change shalbe, and my body, when I shall depart this life, to decent buriall according to the descretion of my Executor whom I shall heerafter name in this my Last Will and Testament.

First of all, my will is that all my just debts be payed out of my estate according to right and good consiente, as it ought, and for the remainder of my estate I doe will and dispose as followeth: Imprimis, I doe give unto my loveing wife, Ann Annible, my now dwelling house and housing, and all the lands which lyeth between that land which I have formerly given to my sonne, Samuell Annible, and Goodman [Abraham] Blushe's land, as alsoe all the comodities and proffetts of the same as alsoe the one halfe of all my meadow, and alsoe the one halfe of all my Great Lott, All those foremensioned particulars, given to my foremensioned wife, my will is that shee shall have to her owne disposing dureing her life, and further I doe give to my abovemensioned wife all my neat cattle and all my horseflesh, as alsoe all my moveable estate whatsoever, both within my house and upon my land without, and this shalbe att my wife's disposeing.

What houshold stuffe shalbe left att my wife's decease, shalbe my daughter, Desire Annibles. Alsoe. I doe give unto my daughters, each of them, twelve pence a peece.

Alsoe I doe constitute and appoint my loveing wife, Ann Annible, to be my whole and sole Executrix, to performe whatsoever ought to be done by an Executor, according to this my Last Will and Testament, and to doe all other actions concerning this my Last Will according as the law hath provided. All these abovemensioned promises, doe I, the abovesaid Anthony Annible, declare to be my Last Will and Testament as witnes my hand and seale this day and yeare above written.

                                                                                                             Anthony Annible (Mark & Seal)

Signed and sealed in the presence of

          John  Smith

          William Throrpe

                                                               Plymouth PR III(1), f, 101.