Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins. Records of the Trustees of the Charity of Edward Hopkins, 1700-1983. [Report of the Master General, 1710/11 February 10 ]. HUY 26 Box 2, Folder 3, Harvard University Archives.

Int. {Attorney General} [Querent?] Everard: Exton Gen. Georgium Knighton & Rebecca ejus Uxorem Patien: Fitch vid: Phillippam -~ Coleman & al.- [Defendant?]

In pursuance of an Order made upon the hearing of this Cause {9 July 1709}, I have been attended by the [Plty?] {Solicitor} and by the [Defendants?] Mr. Exton, George Knighton Patience Fitch & Phillippa Coleman & their {sollicitor} and do find that Henry Hopkins made his last will dated {30 December 1654}, and thereby gave a considerable real & personal estate to Edward Hopkins his brother, and made him his sole Eexecutor, and his will was ~ that his said executor {should} defray the charge of the {comencement] of his nephew Henry Dally at Cambridge and to allow him some competent means for his subsistance, till he should attain some {preferment} there or abroad, which said will was proved by the said Edward Hopkins in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury {30 January 1654}, and that the said Edward Hopkins made his last will & testament in writing dated {7 March 1657}, and his will was that all his just debts which should appear to be due in New England, should be paid out of his estate there, and if any debts {should} appear to be due here in Old {England} that the same {should} be paid out of his estate here. And after the bequest of several legacies out of his {New} England's estate, he gives the rest & residue thereof to Theophilus Eaton {Esquire} Mr. {John} Davenport, Mr.

[left hand page] {John} Culloch, Mr. {William} Goodwin, in trust for giving some encouragement in those foreign plantations for the breeding up of youth in learning both at the grammar school and college there, and that within six months after the death of Anne his wife 500. ₶ should be by his said Executor remitted over into N. England of his estate here in Old England, and conveyed into the hands of the said trustees in further prosecution of the charity and publick ends aforesaid, which he declared to be for the upholding & promoting the kingdome of the Lord Jesus Christ in those remote parts of the Earth, and made Henry Dally his sole executor & died {5 December 1657}. And the said Henry Dally proved the said will {30 April} then next and posses't him self of all his real & personal estate. And I find that the said Henry Dally {31 July 1665} made his last will, and the {defendant} Mr. Exton his executor and gave him the sum of 100₶ provided he did accept of the said executorship, and died {5 December 1667}. And therein after the bequest of several legacies, his will was that after payment of his debts and legacies the residue of his estate should be laid out in a purchase of lands, houses or leases of that value, and that the rents and profits thereof should go towards the maintenance of his two sisters the {defendant} Mrs. Fitch & Mrs. Elisabeth Nowell {deceased} (the {defendant} Rebecca Knightons mother) during their lives, and untill a convenient purchase {could} be made, his executor should allow his said sisters the interest of the said money, and the premises soe to be purchased {should} (inter alia) be liable to the payment of the said 500.₶ charity legacy given by the last will of his uncle the said Edward

[right hand page] Hopkins, when the same {should} become demandable by the said Anne Hopkins death. And I find the {said} Anne Hopkins died on the 17th of {December} 1698. And that the said 500.₶ became payable on the 17 of June 1699, which was 6 months after the death of the said Anne Hopkins. And I find that there came to the hands of the {defendant} Mr. Exton of the said Dally's personal estate the sum of 2245.₶ 15 s[hillings] 4 q[farthings] and that the {defendant} Exton with part thereof purchased a farme in Essex in his own name of the yearly rent of 36.₶ and submitts that the same is liable to the payment of the said 500.₶ legacy. I also find that there is a college at Cambridge in New England that has existed ever since the year 1642 under the name of Harvard College, and that the same has been of late years augmented with a considerable edifice called Stoughton College, and that the students there are instructed in the liberal arts & sciences, and in the rudiments of divinity, and after a tryal of their proficiency academick degrees are confered upon them according to the custom of the universities in England at a {Commencement} day held yearly in the month of July. And I also find that the said Henry Dally in his said will makes mention of a schedule to be written with his own hand sealed with his seale, and affix't to his said will, thereby giving a particular of his personal estate with remarks of what might prove good, and what doubtful or desperate, and upon looking into the said schedule amongst the particulars therein contained he saith that his uncle Edward Hopkins his estate in New England was debited to him for 56 tun of salt

carried from Anguilla, for which he pay'd here in London besides the freight and seamens wages discharged by him since his uncle's death, and that the estate was likewise Debr [debited] to him for 7 horses at 14₶ per horse. That the Debr [debit] as it had been so he feared would be very troublesome, and as to the costs by the said order directed to be taxed by me, I have postponed the taxing of the same, till after the hearing upon this my report.

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