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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8., The loyalists of Medford. (search)
and grounds is only a very small part. The intention of Isaac Royall, senior, seems to have been to found an estate that should descend in regular succession after the English fashion, and perpetuate the name of Royall for several generations; for after dividing his Antiguan property equally between his two remaining children, Isaac and Penelope, and bequeathing his estate in Maine and in Worcester County to Isaac, he wills his estate in Medford, Charlestown and Woburn, and also that in Bristol County to his brother, Jacob Royall, in trust for my son Isaac for life, and afterwards to the sons of his son Isaac, in regular succession, and to their heirs, preference being given to the eldest. In default of male heirs of son Isaac at the time of the death of the testator the estate was to descend in tail to the daughters of Isaac. Failing heirs in the male line, the entailed estate was to be held in trust for Penelope on the same terms as for Isaac, with this proviso, that her husband s