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- "The inventory of his real estate, dated November 21, 1746, was twenty-one hundred and twenty-eight pounds ; of his personal estate, dated May 12, 1746, one hundred and eighty-five pounds in the house and one hundred and twenty-one pounds outside ; besides cash due upon bond to estate, of three hundred and forty-four pounds ; also one hundred pounds given to Ebenezer Frost, the husband of Abraham's daughter Deborah. The widow continued to live in the home under the terms of the will the remainder of her life. The house is the present home of Miss Harriet Hill. Abraham Hill appointed his son-in-law, Ebenezer Frost, his lawful attorney to recover all lands in Charlestown, Lancaster and elsewhere, as one of the heirs of his honored grandfather, Captain Francis Norton. He afterwards conveyed to Mrs. Soley his right to a certain tenement, garden, housings, etc., at Charlestown, belonging to his father, bounded by a house plot owned formerly by his father, Zachariah Hill."
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