we go to Taunton;" "to Comfort, 15 acres at the Indian Field;" "to John, land his house stands on;" "to Nathaniel, the homestead;" and mentions the pond "that divides between me and Benjamin;" also "the Wolf Trap Gutter."   He had four brothers, Nathaniel, Lawrence, Jonathan, and Francis, which we thus ascertain; Elkanah was appointed to settle his father Nathaniel's estate 1686, his uncle John to assist him.   Elkanah also settled his uncle Lawrence Willis' estate in Boston 1703, and in 1704 he sold land in Boston, which he described as the estate of his uncle Francis Willis deceased.   On the 8th day of January, 1656, the year Bridgewater was incorporated, the following record, and almost the first in the book of records, appears, viz: "Be it known unto all men by these presents, that we, Nathaniel Willis and Lawrence Willis, inhabitants of the town of Bridgewater, do bind ourselves to free the said town of Bridgewater from any charge or damage that may come upon the said town by the keeping of our brother Jonathan Willis."   The following also appears an the Court Records: "Jonathan Willis, who is at Duxbury for cure, shall not be maintained by Duxbury, but by Sandwich, whence he came."   Thus we are assured these five were brothers.   There was a Richard Willis, servant of John Barnes, transferred by consent to Thomas Prince 1634, m. Amy Glasse 1639, was at Duxbury 1638, and at Plymouth 1640.   Richard, his s. probably, m. Patience Bonum at Plymouth 1670, was dead 1678, leaving a D. Ruhamah, and no further notice of them appears.—Henry Willis offered himself as a soldier to go with Mr. Prince and Lieut. Holmes to assist Mass. and Conn. against the Pequot Indians 1637, and we have no further account of him.—Jeremiah Willis was at Duxbury 1638, a youth, and was required by the court to procure himself a master; there was a Jeremiah Willis, a land holder, at Narraganset 1661; there was also a Thomas Willis at Lynn, a Representative there 1634, and afterwards a Proprietor of Sandwich 1637.   Whether any of these were of the same family we are not able to ascertain; they were cotemporaneous and might be brothers, or otherwise related to them.—Lawrence Willis was among the first settlers in Bridgewater, but not an original Proprietor.   He was in Sandwich 1643, and was a soldier against the Indians, m. Mary, D. of Thomas Makepeace of Boston, 1656; and finally removed to Boston, and his estate was settled there 1703; he probably had no children, as Elkanah, his nephew, settled his estate.   We have no notice of any descendants of these five brothers excepting of John and Nathaniel, and of these most are descended from John.

   2.   John (s. of John 1) m. Experience, D. of Nicholas Byram, and had John, Samuel, Experience, and Mary; he d. a. 1712, the date of his will.   Experience m. William Hudson.—Mary m. Israel Randall 1701.