General Notes

In Vol. 44. p. 297 of N. Eng. Hist. and Genealogic. Register for 1890,
in Genealogical gleanings in England, by Henry F. Waters, A.M., is
found the following abstract of the will of "John Dodge of
Middlechinnock, (Eng.) 2 April 1635, proved 15 October, 1635. To be
buried in church-yard there. to the church ten shillings. The same
poor of the parish. To the minister for preaching funeral sermon ten
shillings. Wife Margery shall hold and enjoy one tenement in the
parish of Halstocke, Co. Dorset, containing by estimation ten acres
more or less, during her life natural if my sons Michael and William
shall happen so long to live. To Wife Margery forty pounds and the
bed that I now lie in and the bedstead and all things belonging
thereunto. I give and bequeath unto her so much of my other household
stuff as shall amount to four pounds, of such kinds as she shall think
most needful and useful for her.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son William forty pounds more, over
and above that portion which I have already given him. to my son
Richard one sheep and to take his choice in my whole flock; and to
John the son of the said richard forty shillings. To Mary my daughter
twenty shillings and to her son John forty shillings. And my will is
that all these goods shall be delivered half year after my decease.
Item. All the rest of my goods unmentioned I give and bequeath unto
my son Michael whom I make and ordain the executor of this my last
will and testament.
Witnesses: Geo. Parsons, Clerk; William Dodge, William Templeman.
(Sadler, 101)
[Chinnock and Coker are neighboring parishes in the extreme south part
of Somerset Co. Halstock, Dorset Co. is just over the line south of
Chinnock and Coker parishes.]
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