Brown-Crocker

In his will, dated May
9, 1706, when he was "stricken in years." (he
writes ) "and expecting daily his change," he styles
himself a miller; and gives one half of his mill,
with a proportionate interest in the streams, dams
and utensils thereto belonging, to his son John, one
quarter to Thomas, and one quarter to Samuel. This
mill has ever since been in the possession of his
posterity. He remembered, likewise, in his will the
eight daughters of his brother Thomas, one of the
first settlers of Reading.