1650 February 10, Joseph How of Lynn, in 1916, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: 1635-1664, page 131:if god should so order it that my wife should remaine my widdou & mary no othr man then I leue the land to my wife & hir desposing: the tow cows which we cal mouse & spek to be att my mother hows desposing I mene shee shall haue them to hir self & all so so much of the march as shall find them hay if it be Required vntell my mother be be desesed || for hir vse || allso that those which uses the land shall yerly let ...
