Winch Family - Thomas Winch - Will and Probate Record - page 3

 [This is a continuation of the will and Probate Record For Thomas Winch, page 2.]

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        To all People to whom these presents shall come Samuel  Danforth Esq; Judge of the Probate of Wills, ~  in the County of Middlesex within the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, fendeth Greeting.

KNOW YE, That on the the twelth Day of October Anno Domini 1761-  the Instruments hereunto annexed (Purporting the last Will and Testament &[codify] of Thomas Winch late of Framingham in said County Gentleman deceased)  was presented for Probate by Nathan Winch the Executor therein named; & there in present the three Witnesses thereto subscribed, who mad Oath, that they saw the said Testator Sign, Seal, and heard him declare the said several Instruments to be his last Will and Testament & codicil, and that they subscribed their names together as Witnesses to the Execution thereof in the said Testator's Presence; and that he was at that & several times, (to the best of their Judgment) of sound and disposing Mind:

I DO prove, approve and allow of the said Instruments as the last Will and Testament & codicil of the before named deceased, and do commit the Administration thereof in all Matters the same concerning, and of his Estate whereof [has] died seiz'd and possets'd in said County, unto him the before named Executor, well and faithfully to execute the said Will, and to administer the Estate of the said deceas'd according thereunto; who accepted of his said Trust, and gave Bond for the [?] [?] & of the same----- and he shall render an Account (upon oath) of his Proceedings when thereunto lawfully required.

    IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of Office, the Day and Year above written.

            S. Danforth

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