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{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

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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

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Edward Hopkins (1600 – March 1657) was an English colonist and politician and Governor of the Connecticut Colony. Active on both sides of the Atlantic, he was a founder of the New Haven and Connecticut colonies, serving seven one-year terms as governor of Connecticut. He returned to England in the 1650s, where he was politically active in the administration of Oliver Cromwell. He remained in England despite being elected governor of Connecticut in 1655, and died in London in 1657. (https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/download/AnAccountoftheTrust_10313263.pdf)