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Will of Benoni Selley: In the Name of God Amen I Benony Selley of South Hampton in the Provence of New Hampshire in New England Joyner being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory Not knowing how soon my Change may Come do make and ordain this my last will and testment vidt first of all I Com'end my soul to God in Christ my saviour and my body to ye dust to be decently buried in hiopes of a blessed Ressurection to Life Eternal And as to my Temporal Estate I do give demise and despose of ye same in Manner following viz: ffirst my will is that all my Just debts and funeral Expenses be dul paid by my Executr hereafter Names--2dly my will is that my beloved wife Rachel shall have the sole use profit and Improvement of all my Real Estate in housing lands meadow or salt marsh wheresoever the same lyes so long as she remain my widow for the comfortable support of her self and her two young children which she had by me viz. Mary and Abigail. And I also give to my said wife Rachel the use of all my stock and household stuff during her widowhood after my debts and funeral expenses are paid firstr out of the same and then to be divided between my two youngest daughters viz: Mary and abigail Except my two Steers Coming two which I give to my son in law Chrostoper Tappan. Itm 3dly, I give to my son Samuel Selley the rest of the seven acres of land which I bought of Joseph Dow after my wives Decease or next marriage --It is my 4th will is that all the rest of my estate be Given to my Three Sons Thomas Samuel and Benjamin and divided equally between them after my sd wife's decease or Next Marriage they paying the following Legacies to my daughters In old tenor bills of Credt or Good pay Equilent thereunto vidt after they Come to possess ye sd Estate to Mehitable five shillings to Elizabeth Martha Eliner & Sarah Twenty shillings apice and to Dorcas five pounds and also to my two youngest daughters Mary and abigail five pounds apiece and finally I do Constitute and appoint my beloved wife Rachel and my son Benjamin to be Executors of this my last will and Testament witttness my hand and seal November 8th Anno Domini 1745. Siged sealed and declared by Benony Selly in the presence of john Jemson, Joseph Norton, and Caleb Cushing. Proved April 30, 1746

-Occupation: Farmer/Joiner
- His second wife was the widow of a man whose last name was Tappan
- Benoni's father is not known for certain. Some published worked give his father's name as Thomas and others as Richard. Thomas Sealey is the more likely candidate, the Sealey's coming from a sea-fearing family of Stoke-in-Teignhead, Devon, England. This Thomas would have been baptized the 4th son July 28, 1638, son of Andrew Sealey, and possible grandson of Richard Sealey. His mother was Martha Blaisdell, and Benoni was residing with his widowed mother as a child and received property from her later.

Sources:
-Birth Source: "The Cilley Family Roots of New England"
-Marriage Source: "The Cilley Family Roots of New England", NEHGR 63:266 "Family of Samuel Getchall"
-Death Source:
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