I  give  my  daughter  Sarah  besides  what  she  hath  already  of  me  two  sheep.  To
my  daughter  Hannah  I  have  given  her  portion  already.  To  my  daughter  Mary  I
give  twenty  acres  of  land  lyeing  in  Shawshen  field  lyeing  neare  the  land  called
Copers  (?)  land.
To  his  "deare  and  Loving  wife  Ann  Foster"  he  gave  the  end  of  the  house  they
occupied  three  cows,  twelve  sheep  and  his  household  goods  for  her  disposal  at  death
among  his  children.  He  gave  his  son,  Abraham,  "my  farme  of  about  one  hundred
acres  of  upland,  with  all  the  meadow  adjoining  or  near  adjoyneing,"  also  the  house
and  home-lot  and  orchard,  and  all  the  land  adjoining  and  the  remainder  of  the  home
meadow  bought  of  Andrew  Allen,  and  remainder  of  his  stock.  Abraham  was,
during  the  natural  life  of  his  mother,  to  winter  her  cows  and  sheep,  to  deliver  her  half
the  "corn  English  and  Indian  grown  upon  the  home-lott  threshed  and  winnowtd,"
half  the  fruit  of  the  orchard  made  into  "sydar,"  and  sufficient  firewood.  He  named
his  living  wife,  Ann  Foster,  "executive,"  and  his  son,  Abraham,  executor.  His  will
was  signed  wiih  "the  mark  of  Andrew  Foster."  and  is  witnessed  by  Thomas  and
William  Chandler.  It  is  recorded  in  Probate  records  302;  136.  It  was  proved
June  30,  1685.
