APPENDIX. 



(See page 13.) 



THE following document has reference to the pro- 

 vision made for Benjamin Thompson after the death 

 of his father : 



" Articles of Agreement made and fully concluded on this 

 Sixteenth day of October, A. D. 1755, in the Twenty-Ninth 

 year of His Majesty's Reign, between Isaac Snow, Gentleman, 

 as Guardian to Hiram Thompson, Son of Capt. Ebenezer 

 Thompson, late of Woburn, deceased ; Benjamin Flagg and 

 Hannah Flagg his Wife ; Ruth Thompson, widow of Benjamin 

 Thompson, late of said Woburn, deceased, all of Woburn in 

 the County of Middlesex ; and Joshua Simonds of Medford, 

 in the County aforesaid, Yeoman, as Guardian to Benjamin 

 Thompson, Grandson to said Ebenezer, deceased, Heirs and 

 Guardians to the Heirs of said Ebenezer Thompson, deceased : 

 Having a mind amicably to settle some things that seem to 

 be left disputable in the last Will and Testament of the said 

 Ebenezer Thompson aforesaid, deceased, Have mutually 

 agreed as followeth, viz. :. First, That the said Ruth Thompson 

 shall have free liberty to improve one half of the Garden at the 

 west end of said Deceased's Mansion, and a privilege of land to 

 raise beans for sauce for her own use, near said house, during 

 her being said Benjamin's widow ; and the keeping of the Cow 

 mentioned in said Ebenezer's last Will for said widow is to be 

 kept on the produce of the land and on the place belonging to 

 Hiram. Further, the said widow is to have her wood men- 

 tioned in said Will out of the land devised to said Benjamin, 

 and the said Snow doth hereby oblige himself to give to said 

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