Abstract: William Weare, of Boston, shoomaker. -- Will, 26 March 1656. Unto my dau. Sarah Weare after her mothers death, my house in Boston, with all yt doth appertaine unto it; my house, Barne, Orchard & Garden in Dorchester, and all my goods, only her mother to have all for her use as Long as she doth Live. If my dau. Sarah dye unmarryed, or if marryed & have no Children, then my dwelling-house in Boston I give unto my Grand Child Obediah Gill, & unto my Grandchild Elizabeth Gill my house and Barne and Orchard and Garden & all that doth belong unto it: But if any of these shall wrong her, either ye Parents or the Children, then I give her full power to dispose of it as shee seeth good.
Only if I dye in debt my debts to be payd of my land.
There is on file an administrative bond in the sum of ¹300, given by Elizabeth Ware to Edw. Rawson, 14 April 1658, witnessed by George Shove, Margarett Rawson.
Inventory of the estate taken 24: 1: 1647-8*, by Richard Webb & Richard Collicott. Elizabeth Weare deposed, 1 April 1658.
WILLIAM, Dorchester 1643, ar. co. freem. 10 May of the same yr. but when he came, or how, is not told. Yet that he brot. fam. is sure; rem. within ten yrs. to Boston, was a shoemaker, and d. 11 Feb. 1658, leav. wid. Elizabeth and ds. Elizabeth w. of John Gill, mariner. and Sarah, w. of Edward Grant, shipcarpent. Abstr. of his will of 26 Mar. 1656, pro. 1 Apr. 1658, may be seen in Geneal. Reg. VIII. 353.
[S13] NEHGR, NEHGR, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society), 8:353.