He closes this eulogy with an epitaph in Latin.

Mr. Cheever's will, found in the Suffolk probate office, was offered by
his son Thomas and his daughter Susanna, August 26, 1708, a few days
after his death. He wrote it two years previous, when he was ninety-one
years old, a short time before his "dear wife," whom he mentions, died.
In it his estate is appraised at £837:19:6. One handles reverently this
old piece of yellow paper, perhaps ten by twelve inches in size, with
red lines, on which is written in a clear handwriting the last will of
this dear old man. He characteristically begins it thus:--

"In nomine Domini Amen, I Ezekiel Cheever of the Towne of Boston in the
County of Suffolk in New England, Schoolmaster, living through great
mercy in good health and understanding wonderfull in my age, do make and
ordain this as my last Will & Testament as Followeth: I give up my soule
to God my Father in Jesus Christ, my body to the earth to be buried in a
decent manner according to my desires in hope of a Blessed part in y'e
first resurrection & glorious kingdom of Christ on earth a thousand
years."

He then gives all his household goods "& of my plate y'e two-ear'd Cup,
my least tankard porringer a spoon," to his wife; "all my books saving
what Ezekiel may need & what godly books my wife may desire," to his son
Thomas; £10 to Mary Phillips; £20 to his grandchild, Ezekiel Russel; and
£5 to the poor. The remainder of the estate he leaves to his wife and
six children, Samuel, Mary, Elizabeth, Ezekiel, Thomas, and Susanna.

One handles still more reverently a little brown, stiff-covered book,
kept in the safe in the Athenæum, of about one hundred and twenty