Given under my hand this march the 7th 1655
Witnesseth these prsents that I Myles Standish senir
of Duxburrow being in prfect memory yett Deseased
in my body and knowing the fraile estate of man in his
best estate I Doe make this to be my last will and
Testament in manor and forme following;
1 my will is that out of my whole estate my funerall
charges be taken out & my bod(y) to be buried in
Decent manor and if I Die att Duxburrow my body to
bee layed as neare as Conveniently may bee to my
two Daughters Lora Standish my Daughter and Mary
Standish my Daughterinlaw
2 my will is that that out of the remaining prte of my
whole estate that all my jus(t) and lawful Debts which
I now owe or att the Day of my Death may owe bee
paied
3 out of what remaines according to the order of this
Govrment: my will is that my Dear and loveing wife
Barbara Standish shall have the third prte
4 I have given to my son Josias Standish upon his
marriage one young horse five sheep and two heiffers
which I must upon that contract of marriage make
forty pounds yett not knowing whether the estate will
bear it att prsent; my will is that the resedue remaine
in the whole stocke and that every one of my four
sons viz Allexander Standish Myles Standish Josias
Standish and Charles Standish may have forty pounds
appeec; if not that they may have proportionable to ye
remaining prte bee it more or lesse
5 my will is that my eldest son Allexander shall have
a Double share in land
6 my will is that soe long as they live single that the
whole bee in prtenership betwix(t) them
7 I do ordaine and make my Dearly beloved wife
Barbara Standish Allexander Standish Myles Standish
and Josias Standish Joynt Exequitors of this my last
will and Testament
8 I Doe by this my will make and appoint my loveing
frinds mr Timothy hatherley and Capt: James
Cudworth Supervissors of this my last will and that
they wilbee pleased to Doe the office of Christian
love to bee healpfull to my poor wife and Children by
theire Christian Counsell and advisse; and if any
Difference should arise which I hope will not; my will
i(s) that my said Supervissors shall Determine the
same and that they see that m(y) poor wife shall have
as comfortable maintainance as my poor state will
beare the whole time of her life which if you my
loveing frinds pleasse to Doe though neither they nor
I shalbee able to recompenc I Doe not Doubt but the
Lord will;
further my will is that marcye Robenson whome I
tenderly love for her Grandfathers sacke shall have
three pounds in somthing to goe forward for her two
yeares after my Decease which my will is my
overseers shall see prformed
further (m)y will is that my servant John Irish Junir
have forty shillings more then his Covenant which
will appear upon the towne booke alwaies provided
that hee continew till the time hee covenanted bee
expired in the service of my exequitors or any of
them with theire Joynt Concent
9 I give unto my son & heire aparent Allexander
Standish all my lands as heire apparent by lawfull
Decent in Ormistick Borsconge Wrightington
Maudsley Newburrow Crawston and the Ile of man
and given to me as right heire by lawful Decent but
Surruptuously Detained from mee my great
G(ran)dfather being a 2cond or younger brother from
the house of Standish of Standish
Witnessed by mee