Abstract of the Will of Rev. John ffiske of Chelmsford, June 18, 1674.

Rev. John Ffiske, of Chelmsford, made his will June 18, 1674, which was proved by Samuel Foster, Senr. and Junr., Feb 22, 1676. The other witness was Edward Spalding. The inventory of the estate was taken 2.11.1676, by Samuel Adams, Samuel Foster, Senr., and Abraham Parker, £703 3s. 10d., made oath to by his son Moses, the executor, April 4, 1677. Items, homestead, including a sheep pasture on each side of the brook, meadow on Beaver Brooke; thirty-four acres on great brooke; six acres on Merrimack river; upland on Great Tadnicte meadow at son's place; twenty acres at great pine playne, a part of Mr. John Ffiske, Junr's., homestead, on which his father, the testator, had built a house for him; meadow purchased of Capt. James Parker; library, which was valued at £60; a still; gally patts; scales and wts., writing his will with his own hand. Legatees, wife Elizabeth brought when married to him household goods, also "bees". He gave to son John; who was the eldest son, and at that time had wife Lydia had a certain legacy which if they deceased leaving no children, one-half of it was to go to son Moses, and one-half to daughters Sarah Martha Burton and Anne Thompson, who were then of Salem, and each a legacy from Mr. John Evered, alias Web, dec. She was the youngest daughter, also unmarried, and Moses, her brother, was to be her guardian.

Daughter Sarah was then the wife of John Farwell, of Concord, but at that time, it seems, had no children.                       

Brother William, late of Wenham, dec., left William for his eldest son and other children, who had legacies.

Sister Rix, of Salem, who was called mother to said children, of brother William.

Sister Martha Thompson, formerly of Salem, dec., had left daughters Martha Burton and Anne Thompson, who were then of Salam, and each a legacy.

Son Moses, the testator's youngest son, to be executor and have the residue, including the homestead, and he was to put up a stone monument where the widow should be buried.

Rev. John Ffiske's bounds, etc., according to the evidence of Samuel Moulton, then Dec 1, 1698, "of ye town of Rehoboth, formerly of Wenham, being fifty-seven years of age or thereabouts, & ye bounds between ye lands of Mr. John Ffiske and James Moulton, Senr., both of them formerly of Wenham, now deceased which bounds are as followeth & lands in the possession of  Samuel Kembell & John Porter is a rock now placed near ye house which was formerly ye said Deponents from thence northward to a red oake which was formerly ye said lands of Mr. John Ffiske & James Moulton. ***** as ye line runs between ye land of said Shipleys & Mr. John Ffiske farme to Pleasant Ponde which was in the possession of Samuel Kembell & John Porter when I came from Wenham **** in 1652 - this was dated as above."