This is the will of Anthony Hoskins, Jr.
A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT
PROBATE RECORDS.
1745 to 1750.
Page 191 Name: Anthony
Hoskins Location: Windsor
Will dated 24 September, 1744: I, Anthony
Hoskins of Windsor, do make this my last will and
testament: I having made provision for my loving wife Hannah during her life
already, I further give her 1-3 of all my estate. And as I have already given to
each of my children, Anthony, Alexander, Joseph,
Hannah, Mabel, Amey, Sarah, Jane and Dorcas, by way of portion and settlement,
what I have been able to, I have nothing further to give or bequeath to either
of them. And therefore my son Zebulon Hoskins, in
consideration of my love to him and in respect that he is under some obligation
further to do for his mother, and also for that he payed more than œ40 in old
tenor money to the heirs of Samuel Allyn decd. for a debt which I owed to the sd.
Allyn in his lifetime (and to secure the same to sd. Allyn I had given him a
bond to secure to him the 5th part of the estate of my brother Joseph
Hoskins at his decease, which œ40 was paid by my son
Zebulon to redeem the same), I therefore hereby give and bequeath to him, his
heirs and assigns, all my right, title and interest that I have to and in the
lands now belonging to my brother Joseph Hoskins, or
that I ever may have at his decease, the whole thereof, that my heirs may or
might by any way or means claim or challenge to the same, the whole is to be to
my son Zebulon and his heirs forever. I appoint my son Zebulon to be my
executor, and order him out of my estate to pay all my just debts.
Witness: Timothy Phelps, Isaac Skinner, Peletiah Mills.
Anthony X Hoskins, ls.
Court Record, Page 64--3 May, 1748: Will proven.
Page 81--6 December, 1748: Zebulon Hoskins, executor to
the last will of Anthony Hoskins,
now informs this Court that he cannot find any estate, either real or personal,
belonging to the estate of the sd. deceased.