Edmund Lewis, of Lynn, Massachusetts, and some of his descendants

AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS. 5
hundred acres of upland. (7) One acre of remote meddow
by estimation. He was admitted a freeman May 24, 1636,
and was elected a selectman for the year 1638. Oct. 14,
1638, he was one of a committee chosen " To lay out the
farmes as they were ordered, near the Dedham line."
(Barker's Watertown, p. 4.) Alonzo Lewis' History of
Lynn says he removed to Lynn in 1639. Bond's Genealogies
of Watertown says he removed after 1642. He
buried a child there Nov. 6, 1642; Savage says 1643. He
had lived near the sea, and when he removed to Lynn he
settled in the eastern part of the town, on what is now
Lewis street. He died in January, 1650. His wife died
Sept. 7, 1658.
In his will, made the 13, llth month, 1650, he mentions
five young children. The date of birth of two of them is
not recorded, and the name of one of them is not known.
His will, on file hi Essex County Probate Records, Vol. 1,
f. 119, is as follows :
" Line the 13 th of the 11 th mo. 1650. Memorandum that
I Edmund Lewis beinge Sick & Weake, but of perfect remembrance,
doe make & conferm this my last Will and
testyment as followeth,
First. My Will is that my land att Watertown shall
be soaled, & that my eldest son John Lewis shall have
a double portyon & the rest of my children namely, the
five youngest to have every one of them a licke portyon of
my Estate.
Secondly. My deare & lovinge wife to have the third of
all my whole Estate.
Thirdly. I desire that my wife may have a cow over &
above towards bringinge upe of my youngest children.
Fourthly :—my desire is my wife to be my whole executor
to dispose of my body & goods accordinge to my Will.
Fifthly :—my request to my son John is, to give his
mother a Cow to helpe her towards the bringinge up of
my youngest children.
Sixthly —my request to my son Thomas Lewis is to
give to his mother half of his Sheepe to help her as afore-
said.
Seventhly :—My desire and meaninge is that the Cow I