Nathaniel Day- Attleborough, County of Bristol, MA

In the Name of God Amen: the fourteenth Day of April 1733.

I Nathaniel Day of Attleborough in the County of Bristol in his
majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England xx being
well in bodily health and of mind and memory thanks be given 
unto God but calling to mind the mortality of my body and 
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and
ordaine that my last will and testament that is to say 
principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul 
into the hands of God that gave it and my body to the Earth 
to be buried in death and Christian Burial at the discretion 
of my executors nothing doubting but at the general 
resurrection shall raise the same againe by the mighty 
power of god, and as xx such worldly estate wherewith it 
haith pleased God to bless me in this life I give xx and 
dispose of the same in the following manner and form. 

Item:
I give and bequeath to Ruth my dearly beloved wife all my 
indoor movable goods by her to be possessed and enjoyed 
during her widowhood but if in case she marry again or that 
she dyes my widow, that then the xx or household goods shall 
be returned to my beloved daughters as here after in this 
will is expressed, and it is my will that my Executor 
hereafter named see the same performed. 

Item:
I give unto my well beloved Son Benjamin Day as a further 
addition to what I have formerly given to him, the sum of 
Twenty pounds money or publick bills of credit of the said province. 

Item:
I give and bequeath to my well beloved Son Nathaniel to him 
his heires and assigned forever at an addition to what I 
have formerly given him, the residue of all my Lands which 
is not already disposed of lying and going in Attleborough aforsaid 
that is to say the Southerly part of my farm in 
South Attleborough of which there is so much remains not 
disposed of as being joyned to thirty five acres of land I
formerly gave to him as will make up a half part of all my 
lands and which will be equal to the half part I gave to my 
Son David Day by deed of gift. 

Item:
I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved daughter's family 
Ruth Ingraham Mary Hoping Meriam Day Deborah Day Dorcas Day 
the sum of fifteen pounds money or publick bills of credit 
of said Province to each of them which in all amounts to 
seventy five pounds and my will is that this five legacies 
to my daughters and the legacy of twenty pounds which in 
this will I give to my son Benjamin Day. I will require 
that my Executor David Day hereafter mentioned shall pay 
them all out of his own proper estate for which end and 
in consideration thereof I have given him a deed of the 
one half of my whole estate and therefore I require that 
these legacys by him be paid as soon as conveniently they 
may The first legacy shall be paid at the furthest a year 
after my decease to the xx and after that he shall pay a 
legacy every year successively they are all paid and further 
my will is that at the decease or marriage of my widow the
household goods which I have in this will given to her shall 
then return to my same daughters and be equally divided 
amongst them all. 

Item:
I give and bequeath unto my well beloved son David Day whom 
I likewise constitute make and ordaine my sole executor of 
this my last will and testament all and all my outdoor 
moveables namely all my husbandry tools and all my stock 
of cattel sheep swine horses by him his heirs or assignes 
freely to be posessed and enjoyed and I do hereby utterly 
disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former 
testaments and wills, legacies and bequeaths and executors 
by me in any ways before named will and bequeathed ratifying 
and confirming this and no other to be my last will and 
testament. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal 
the Day of year abovewritten.

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