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HAROLD B. LEE LIBRARY BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PROVO, UTAH
SEP 1 2 1991
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR THE COUNTY OF ESSEX BY THEIR SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORT AND THE REGISTER OF PROBATE BY HIS CORDIAL CO-OPERATION HAVE MADE POSSIBLE THE PUBLICATION OF THESE IMPORTANT RECORDS.
929,3744 M3820 V.1
THE
PROBATE RECORDS OF
ESSEX COUNTY
MASSACHUSETTS
VOLUME I 1635 - 1664
SALEM, MASS. PUBLISHED BY THE ESSEX INSTITUTE 1916
THREE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED
NEWCOMB & GAUSS, PRINTERS SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
THE LIBRARY BRICHA OF UNIVERSITY
PROVO, UTAH
LIST OF ESTATES.
Abbott, George, Rowley (1647) 84
Thomas, Rowley (1659)
301
Adams, William, Ipswich (1662)
366
William, Jr., Ipswich (1659) 278
Ager, William, Salem (1654)
184
Alderman, John, Salem (1657)
256
Anard, John (1662)
362 353
Anderson, Arzbell, Lynn (1661)
378
Andrews, John, Corp., Ipswich (1662) Robert, Ipswich (1644)
27
Annable, John, Ipswich (1664)
454
Antrum, Thomas, Salem (1663)
413
Averill, Abigail, Mrs., Ipswich (1655) William, Ipswich (1653) ·
151
Avery, Joseph, Rev., Newbury (1635)
3
Babson, Isabel, Mrs., Gloucester (1661) 343 Bacon, Rebecca, Mrs., Salem (1655) 227 William, Salem (1653) 161
Badger, Giles, Newbury (1647)
78 145 92
Bailey, John, Newbury (1652) . Richard, Rowley (1648)
13
Sarah, Ipswich (1651)
138
Balch, Agnes, Salem (1657)
263 96
John, Salem (1662)
365
Ballard, William, Lynn (1643)
24
Barker, Thomas, Rowley (1651)
128
Barnes, Thomas, Salem (1664)
432
Barrett, Richard, Lynn(?), (1651)
136
Bartholomew, Richard, Salem (1646)
51
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201
Baker, Robert, Salem (1640-41)
John, Salem (1648)
vi
LIST OF ESTATES.
Bartlett, Richard, Newbury (1647) .
86
Bartoll, John, Marblehead (1664)
456
Batchelder, Joseph, Wenham (1657) 252
Beadle, Samuel, Salem (1664)
452
Beard, William (1664)
435
Beckes, Tobiah (1662)
363
Belflower, Benjamin, Salem (1661)
351
Belknap, Abraham, Lynn (1643)
26
Bellingham, William, Rowley (1650)
120
Bennet, John, Marblehead (1663)
415
Blaisdell, Ralph, Salisbury (1651)
130
Blumfield, John, Newbury (1639-40)
12
Boovey, Joseph, Lynn (1655)
225
Bowtwell, James, Lynn (1651)
143
Brabrooke, John, Newbury (1662)
391
Bradley, John, Salem (1642)
18
Bradstreet, Humphrey, Ipswich (1655) John, Marblehead (1660)
317
Rebecca, Ipswich (guardianship, 1657)
258
Bridgman, John, Salem (1655)
226
Browne, Edward, Ipswich (1660)
306
George, Newbury (1648)
22
Richard, Newbury (1661)
339
William, Gloucester (1662)
386
Bullock, Henry, Salem (1664) .
450
Henry, Jr., Salem(?), (1657)
255
Bunker, George, Topsfield (1658)
267
Burrill, George, Sr., Lynn (1654)
177
Burt, Hugh, Lynn (1661) . Hugh, Jr., Lynn (1650)
355
122
Butcher, Walter (1660)
323
Buxton, Thomas, Salem (1654)
182
Byley, Henry, Salisbury (1649)
102
Calie, John, Newbury (1663)
422
Call, Philip, Ipswich (1662)
392
143
Birdsall, Henry, Salem (1651) .
217
vii
LIST OF ESTATES.
Candall, Edward, Salem (1646)
58
Cantlebury, William, Salem (1663) .
120 62
Cartwright, Bethiah, Salem (1640) .
12 62 103
Chandler, Abiel, Newbury (guardianship, 1652)
150
Chaplin, Hugh, Rowley (1657) .
· 250
Chin, George, Marblehead (1653-4)
162
Churchman, Hugh, Lynn (1644)
32
Chute, Lionel, Ipswich (1645) .
46 65
Clements, John, Haverhill (1659)
290
Robert, Haverhill (1658)
272 362
Cockerell, Elizabeth, Mrs., Salem (1664) William, Salem (1661)
444
Codner, Christopher, Marblehead(?), (1660)
325
Cogswell, John, Jr., Ipswich (1653)
156, 458
Colby, Anthony, Salisbury (1661)
407
Cole, George, Lynn (1653)
154
Conant, Joshua, Salem (1659)
303
Cooke, Henry, Salem (1662)
383
Thomas, Ipswich(?), (1650)
119
Cooley, John, Ipswich (1654)
173
Cooper, Timothy, Lynn (1659)
276
Corwithy, Samuel, Marblehead (?), (1659) 276
Creeke, Andrew, Topsfield (1658) .
271
Crimp, William, Isle of Shoals(?), (1653)
152
Cromwell, Thomas, Newbury (1646)
53
Cross, John, Ipswich (1651)
125
Cummings, Joanna, Salem (1644) John, Salem (1663)
34
Cutting, John, Newbury (1660)
308
Davis, Jenkin, Lynn (1662)
357
Deale, William, Haverhill (1664)
442
Carthrick, Michael, Ipswich (1647) .
Chamberlin, -, Mrs., Ipswich(?), (1647)
Samuel, Ipswich(?), (1649) .
Clarke, William, Salem (1647) .
Cock, Sifforye (1662)
357
419
viii
LIST OF ESTATES.
Dent, Francis, Lynn (1638-9) . 11 .
Dickinson, Thomas, Rowley (1662) .
372
Dillingham, Sarah, Mrs., Ipswich (1636)
3
Dorman, John, Topsfield (1662)
367
Dow, Thomas, Haverhill (1656)
239
Eaborne, Thomas, Salem (1643) 24
Elie, John, Marblehead(?), (1653-4)
162
Elithorp, Thomas, Rowley (1654)
174
Elliott, Richard (1662) 364
William, Salem (?), (1660) 326
Ellitt, Richard (1664) 449
Eyers, John, Sr., Haverhill (1657)
260
Fairfield, Benjamin, et al. (guardianship, 1660) 325
John, Wenham (1647) 73
Farr, George, Lynn (1662)
402
Fay, Henry, Newbury (1655)
214
Firman, Thomas, Ipswich (1648)
95
Fiske, William, Wenham (1654)
188
Flint, Thomas, Salem (1663)
416
Fowler, Philip, Ipswich (adoption, 1651)
132/
Fraile, George, Lynn (1664)
434
French, Susan, Ipswich (1658) .
272
Friend, John, Salem (1656)
238
Frithy, Richard, Salem(?), (1659)
289
Fuller, Anne, Mrs., Salem(?), (1662
389
Gaines, Jane, Mrs., Lynn (1645)
44
Gardner, William (1663)
423
Garven, John (1662)
364
Gilbert, Humphrey, Ipswich (1658)
264
Goffe, John, Newbury (1641)
13
Golt, William, Salem (1660)
316
Goodale, Elizabeth, Mrs., Newbury (1647)
65
Goodridge, William, Watertown (1656)
230
Goog, William, Lynn (1646)
50
Goose, William, Salem (1664)
435
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LIST OF ESTATES.
Goyte, John, Marblehead (1662)
358
Gray, Robert, Salem (1662)
384
Griffin, Humphrey, Ipswich (1661)
353
Haffield, Richard, Ipswich (1652)
144
Hardy, Elizabeth, Mrs., Salem (1654) John, Salem (1652) 146
200
Harker, William, Lynn (1662) .
368
Hart, John, Marblehead (1656) John (1662) .
243
Harwood, Henry, Salem (1664)
446
Hauxworth, Thomas, Salisbury (1651)
140
Hawes, Frances, Mrs., Salem (1645)
46
Heard, Luke, Ipswich (1647)
81
Hersome, Mary, Mrs., Wenham (1646)
57
Hobson, William, Rowley (1659)
294
Hollingsworth, Richard, Salem (1654)
171
Holman, Richard (1662)
362
Holyoke, Edward, Lynn (1660)
312
Homan, William (1662)
361
Hooke, William, Salisbury (1653)
158
Hopkinson, Jonathan, Rowley (guardianship, 1662) 390
Michael, Rowley (1657)
253
How, Joseph, Lynn (1651)
130
Howe, Edward, Lynn (1639)
12
Huckstable, Macklin, Marblehead (1656)
245
Humphries, John (1661) .
345
Hunter, Robert, Rowley (1647)
80
Ingalls, Edmund, Lynn (1648) .
99
Ingersoll, Richard, Salem (1644-5)
43, 458
Ivory, William, Lynn (1653)
152
Jackson, John, Ipswich (1648)
97
Jobn, Sr., Salem (1656)
240
James, Erasmus, Marblehead (1660)
314
Jarrat, John, Rowley (1648)
98
Jewett, Ann, Mrs., Rowley (1661)
338
362
X
LIST OF ESTATES.
Jewett, Joseph, Rowley (1661) . 327 .
Nehemiah, Rowley (guardianship, 1661) . 329
Patience, Rowley (guardianship, 1661) 330
Jiggles, William, Salem (1659)
287
244
Johnson, Caleb, Andover (1656) Robert, Rowley (1650)
116
Keniston, Allen, Salem (1648) . 101
Kenning, Jane, Ipswich (1654)
165
Kent, Richard, Sr., Newbury (1654)
186
King, Richard, Salem(?), (1635)
3
William, Salem (1650)
117
Kirtland, Philip, Lynn (1661)
343
Knight, Alexander, Ipswich (1664)
439
William, Lynn (1655)
213
Knowlton, John, Ipswich (1654)
163
Margery, Mrs., Ipswich (1654)
163
William, Ipswich(?), (1655)
219
Lambert, Francis, Rowley (1648) 94
Gershom, Rowley (1664) .
436
Jane, Mrs., Rowley (1659)
300
Jonathan, Rowley(?), (1664) 443
Lamson, William, Ipswich (1659)
282
Lane, Aniball (1662) .
361
Laskin, Hugh, Salem (1659)
280
Leach, John, Sr., Salem (1659)
288
Lawrence, Salem (1662)
388
Lee, Thomas, Ipswich (1662)
373
Lewis, David, Salem (1662)
381
Edmund, Lynn (1650)
123
Robert, Newbury (1644)
34
Lightfoot, Francis, Lynn (1646)
55
Littlehale, Richard, Haverhill (1663-4)
431
Lookman, John (1662)
361
Nicholas (1662)
362
Lowell, Elizabeth, Mrs., Newbury (1651)
138
John, Newbury (1647)
67
xi
LIST OF ESTATES.
Lume, Ann, Mrs., Rowley (1662)
371
Lumpkyn, Richard, Ipswich (1645) .
43
Lunt, Henry, Newbury (1662)
393
Mason, Emme, Mrs., Salem (1646)
57
Mattox, John, Salem (1644)
36
Merrill, Nathaniel, Newbury (1655)
204
Mighill, Thomas, Rowley (1655)
206
Millard, Thomas, Newbury (1653)
160
Miller, Mary, Mrs., Newbury (1664)
437
Mitchell, William, Newbury (1654)
189 305
Morrill, Abraham, Salisbury (1662)
53
Moulton, Robert, Sr., Salem (1655)
210
Mountjoy, Benjamin, Salem (1659) .
287
Muddle, Henry, Gloucester(?), (1662)
359
Mudge, James (1662)
361
Muzzey, Robert, Ipswich (1644)
28
Nelson, Thomas, Rowley (1649)
109
Thomas, Rowley (guardianship, 1657)
250
Nevill, William, Ipswich (1643)
25
Newhall, Anthony, Lynn (1657)
247
Nicholson, Edmund, Marblehead (1660)
324
Norington, Robert, Salem(?), (1650)
117 320
Norton, George, Salem (1659) .
304
Noyes, James, Rev., Newbury (1656)
245
Odry, William (1661) .
330
Oliver, John, Newbury (1642) .
15
121
Osgood, Christopher, Ipswich (1650) John, Andover (1651) . 141
Park, George, Marblehead(?) ,(1653-4)
162
Parrot, Francis, Rowley (1656)
244
Partridge, John, Olney, Eng. (1652)
150
Sarah (guardianship, 1663)
407
Moores, James, Lynn (1659)
399
Morse, Joseph, Ipswich (1646)
Norris, Edward, Rev., Salem (1660)
xii
LIST OF ESTATES.
Partridge, William, Salisbury (1654)
192
Patch, James, Salem (1658)
269
Payne, Thomas, Salem (1644) .
37
Pease, Margaret, Mrs., Salem (1644)
40
Robert, Salem (1644) .
42
Peasley, Joseph, Salisbury (1661)
336
Perkins, John, Jr., Ipswich (1659) .
284 190
John, Sr., Ipswich (1654) .
William, et al., Topsfield (guardianship, 1660) 324
Philbrick, Robert, Ipswich(?), (1654)
192
Pickering, John, Salem (1657) .
254
Pickworth, John, Manchester (1663)
428 193 289
Pittice, John, Ipswich(?), (1653)
155
Plasse, William, Salem (1646) .
49
Pollard, George, Marblehead (1646)
59
Pomeroy, John, Gloucester(?), (1662)
361
Porter, Samuel, Wenham (1659)
306
Pride, John, Salem (1647)
91
Priest, James, Salem (1664)
452
Quilter, Mark, Ipswich (1654) . 167
Rea, Daniel, Salem (1662) .
375
Read, Thomas, Col., Salem(?), (1663)
415
Redverne, Isabel, Mrs., Ipswich (1650)
117
Reyner, Humphrey, Rowley (1660) .
320
Richardson, William, Newbury (1657)
247
Ring, Daniel, Ipswich (1662) .
368
Roberts, Robert, Ipswich (1663) .
422
Robinson, Abraham, Gloucester (1648)
102
John, Salem (1653)
159
John, Ipswich (1658) .
267
Rogers, Ezekiel, Rev., Rowley (1661)
331
Nathaniel, Rev., Ipswich (1655)
222
Robert, Newbury (1664)
433
Rolfe, Daniel, Ipswich (1654)
176
.
Pike, John, Sr., Salisbury (1654)
Pitford, Peter, Marblehead (1659)
LIST OF ESTATES.
xiii
Rolfe, Ezra, Ipswich (1652)
149
Henry, Newbury (1643)
21
Honor, Newbury (1651)
137
John, Newbury (1664)
438
Thomas, Ipswich (1657)
258
Rooten, Richard, Lynn (1663) .
429
Row, John, Gloucester (1662) .
380
Rowell, Thomas, Andover (1662) Valentine, Salisbury (1662)
401
Sadler, Anthony, Salisbury (1650) . Sallows, Grace, Mrs., Salem(?), (1664)
121
Michael, Salem (1646)
58
Robert, Salem (1663)
418
Thomas, Salem (1663)
418
Sanders, John, Salem (1643)
26
Sandie, John, Marblehead (1654)
176
Scarlet, Anne, Mrs., Salem (1643) Scott, Thomas, Ipswich (1654)
24 168
Thomas, Ipswich (1657)
258 185
Scruggs, Thomas, Salem (1654)
268
Scullard, Samuel, Newbury (1647)
82 342
Seers, Thomas, Newbury (1661) Sewall, Henry, Sr., Rowley (1656) Shatswell, John, Ipswich (1647)
60 424
Theophilus, Haverhill (1663) Sherman, Samuel, Ipswich (1662) Sibly, John, Manchester (1661)
375 347
Skelton, Samuel, Rev., Salem (1638)
10
Smith, Edith (1647) .
78
George, Salem (1662) :
364
Hannah, Rowley (guardianship, 1664)
453
Henry, Rowley (1655)
202
Hugh, Rowley (1656)
235
James, Marblehead (1661)
348
John, Rowley (1661)
351
395
444
Scudder, Thomas, Salem (1658)
232
xiv
LIST OF ESTATES.
Smith, Martha, Rowley(?), (guardianship, 1664)
443
Mary, Mrs., Marblehead (1663) . 410
Nathaniel (1651) .
133
Samuel, Wenham (1642)
18
Sarah, Rowley(?), (guardianship, 1664)
435
Thomas (1660) .
323
Thomas, Salem (1662)
363
Somerby, Henry, Newbury (1652)
150
Southmead, William, Gloucester (1648)
101
Southwick, Lawrence, Salem (1660)
318
Spencer, John, Newbury (1649)
107
Michael, Lynn (1653) .
159
Spooner, Thomas, Salem (1664)
455
Stevens, John, Andover (1662)
377
William, Newbury (1653)
153
Stileman, Elias, Salem (1662) .
390
Stuart, William, Lynn (1664) . 449
285
Samuel, Jr., Ipswich (1654)
170
Talbey, John, Salem (1644) 39
Thorne, John, Salem (1646)
50
Tibbott, Walter, Gloucester (1651) . 132
370
Tilton, Daniel, Lynn (guardianship, 1662) William, Lynn (1653)
155
Travers, Henry, Newbury (1659)
292
Tresler, Elinor, Mrs., Salem (1655) . 211
True, Henry, Salisbury (1660) . 311
259
Joseph, Rowley (1664)
432
Judah, et al., Rowley (guardianship, 1660) 312
Trusler, Thomas, Salem (1654) 183
Tucker, Nicholas, Marblehead (1664) 454
Roger, Salem (1660) . 323
Turner, Charles, Salem (1643) . 26
Tuttle, John, Ipswich (1659)
277
Symonds, Mark, Ipswich (1659)
Trumble, John, Rowley (1657) .
LIST OF ESTATES.
XV
Varnam, George, Ipswich (1649)
108
Varney, William, Ipswich (1654)
173
Verin, Philip, Salem (1650)
123
Wake, William, Salem (1654) . 181
Waklye, Isaac, Gloucester (1662)
359
Walcott, William, Salem (1643)
25
Waldridge, William, Salem(?), (1658)
275
War, Abraham, Ipswich (1654)
175
Ward, Alice, Mrs., Ipswich (1655)
203
John, Ipswich (1656) .
234
Miles, Salem (1650) .
118
Waters, Stephen, Marblehead(?), (1657)
254
Wathen, Margery, Mrs., Salem (1644)
38
Thomas, Gloucester (1652)
148
Thomas, Gloucester (1657)
263
Watkins, John, Salem (1641)
13
Webster, Israel, et al., Ipswich (guardianship, 1662) John, Ipswich (1646)
402
West, Isabel, Salem (1644)
41
Whipple, Matthew, Ipswich (1647) Matthew, Ipswich (1658)
274
Matthew, Ipswich (1663)
417
Whittingham, John, Ipswich 1649)
103
Wickam, Richard, Rowley (1664)
441
Wickes, Thomas, Salem (1656)
241
Wild, William, Ipswich (1662)
397
Wilkes, Thomas, Salem (1662)
381
Williams, George, Salem (1654)
195
Mary, Mrs., Salem (1654)
199
Willix, Belshazzar, Salisbury (1651)
130
Mary, Mrs., Salisbury (guardianship, 1664) 442
Winsley, Samuel, Salisbury (1663) .
424
Wise, Humphrey, Ipswich (1638-9)
11
Witter, William, Lynn (1661)
350
Wood, Daniel, Ipswich (1649)
106
52
87
White, William, Salem (1658) . 268
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LIST OF ESTATES.
Woodbury, John, Salem (1642)
· 21
Woodis, John, Salem (1659) 289
Woodman, Richard, Lynn (1647) 91
Worcester, Moses, Salisbury (guardianship, 1663)
410
William, Rev., Salisbury (1662)
403
Wright, John, Newbury (1658)
275
Yoe, Samuel, Salem(?), (1657) .
263
Yongs, Christopher, Wenham (1647)
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INTRODUCTION.
THE charter of " The Governor and Company of Massa- chusetts Bay in New England," granted March 4, 1628-9, provided that a " Greate and Generall Court " should be held four times each year. This court, sitting in Boston, exer- cised the entire judicial powers of the Colony until March 3, 1635-6, when quarterly courts were ordered to be kept in several of the larger towns, and Salem and Ipswich were the towns selected within what is now the county of Essex. These courts also exercised probate jurisdiction and proved wills and granted administrations, although probate business for a long time after was brought before the Great and Gen- eral Court, from time to time, seemingly as a matter of per- sonal convenience. The colony was divided into shires or counties in 1643, and each county had its own courts. Ha- verhill, Amesbury and Salisbury, lying north of the Merrimac river and which now are included within the limits of Essex County, were then placed in old Norfolk County and so remained until Feb. 4, 1679-80, when new boundary lines were established. The probate records of the southern juris- diction of old Norfolk County which relate to these three towns are therefore here included. Essex County probate business sometimes was taken to Suffolk County. This was especially the case during the administration of Governor Andros, when, for the centralization of business for the ob- taining of fees, all save a few unimportant estates were pro- bated in Boston. Under the new charter probate courts were established in each county by an order in council adopted June 18, 1692, and Bartholomew Gedney was appointed the first judge in this county. This court has had a continuous existence to the present day.
After the Quarterly courts were instituted the probate records were entered by the clerk in the same books of record which contained the civil and criminal business. This con- tinued until 1671, when the probate matter was first recorded in separate volumes. The original papers accompanying the records of the Quarterly courts of Essex County contain many of the early probate papers, but many early wills are preserved in the custody of the Probate court, where they
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THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
are docketed in an alphabetical order first arranged about 1885, each estate having its separate docket number. Copies of all the wills in the Quarterly courts files are also preserved in three volumes in the probate registry.
In assembling the material for the following pages an effort has been made to include probate records from every available original source, viz :-
Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Shurtleff), Boston, 1854, 6 vols.
Massachusetts Archives.
Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County and old Norfolk County.
Old Norfolk County Deeds.
Ipswich Deeds.
Ipswich Town Records.
Suffolk County Probate Records.
Records and Docket of the Probate Court of Essex County.
It must not be assumed that all estates were administered by the courts in the early days. From the records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony for the session of October 18, 1649, it appears that " whereas itt is found by often experi- ence that some men dying and making wills, the said wills are concealed, and not prooved and recorded, and others dying intestate, no administration is sought for nor granted . . . it is ordered ... if any nominated executors, knowing thereof ... shall not within thirty days after the decease of the partye, ... make probate of any will ... they shall be liable to be sued, and shall be bound to pay all such debts as the deceased partye owed ... and shall forfeite to the common weale so many somes of five pounds as shall happen to be moneths betweene the next Courte . . . after the death of the deceased partye and the prooving of such will."
The wills are printed in full, with the exception only of that part of the preamble which states no material fact. Such omissions are indicated by an ellipsis. Each will is followed in chronological order by abstracts of all documents relating to the settlement of the estate, in which every essential par- ticular is retained, so that the lawyer, genealogist and sociol- ogist may be assured that nothing of value has been omitted. Names are spelled exactly as they appear in the original papers.
GEORGE FRANCIS DOW,
Editor.
THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
ESTATE OF RICHARD KING OF (SALEM?).
" There is administration granted [June 2, 1635] to Rich- ard Bishopp (in the behalf of his wife) of the goods & chattells of Richard King, desceased." Mass. Bay Colony Records, vol. 1, page 151.
ESTATE OF REV. JOSEPH AVERY OF NEWBURY.
" There is administration granted [Sept. 1, 1635] to Mr Anthony Thacher of the goods & chattells of Mr Joseph Avery, disceased, wch hee is to inventory, & returne the same into the nexte Court; & the said goods are to remaine in his hands till further order be taken therein.
" An Inventory of the Goods and chattells of Joseph Avery, desceased.
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Due to him from John Emery, carpenter, 07 00 00
It: from Robte Andrewes, of Ipswich, web he confesseth to be due, & to be pd forthwth, 02 00 00
It : from Mr Willm Hilton, 02 16 00
or a sowe & piggs to that valewe. Testis, Rich : Kent. From Rich : Kent, of Ipswch, ten bushels of Indian corne, which hee acknowledgeth.
" John Emery denyes his debt ; but Richard Knight, Nicho- las Holte, & John Knight, all three of Newberry, can & will testify & prove it to be due, onely hee was, by condition, to pay the 711 in his worke, wch he was to doe so soon as Mr Auery did call vpon him for it; out of weh said 7li there is something paide in labr already, as hee can make to appeare.
" p me, Anthony Thacher." Mass. Bay Colony Records, vol. 1, page 154.
ESTATE OF SARAH DILLINGHAM OF IPSWICH.
" This is the last will and testament of mee Sarah Dilling- ham of Ipswich widowe ffor my soule I commend it into ye
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hands of God in ye mediacon of Jesus Crist : ffor my tempo- rall estate : I give to my onely child Sarah Dillingham my whole estate in lands and goods (except such pticular lega- cyes as heerafter are named) : and if my child Dye before it shall be marryed or attain to ye age of one and twenty years, then my will is that the same shalbe devyded equally between my mother Thomasine Caly, my brothers Abraham Caly and Jacob Caly, my sister Bull and my sister Bast, the wyves of John Bull and John Bast, and my sisters Rebecca Caly and emme Caly, or such of them as shalbe lyving at ye tyme of ye death of such child, all wch my mother brethren & sisters are now lyving in England : also I give to m' ward Pastor of ye Church at Ipswich ffyve pounds and to Richard Salton- stall esqr ten pounds and to mrs Saltonstall his wife a silver bowle, To m' Samuell Appleton ffyve pounds and to his wife a silver porringer : and of this my will I make executors ye said mr Saltonstall and m" Appleton, committing ye educa- cion and government of my said child and ye estate I leave her unto their faithfull ordering intreating them in the bonds of Christian love to see this my will fulfilled my due debts paid, my body decently buyried and my child religiously educated if God give it life, and that they will order the es- tate as they would doe their owne. In wytnes that this is my true will made in my pfect memory though my body be weake & sick I publish it after it had been read unto me in the presence of those whose names are under wrytten this xiiijth Day of July 1636."
Sarah Dillingham
Witness : Tho: Dudley, Robert Lord, Phillip P his mark ffowler. Mass. Archives, vol. 15B, leaf 59.
Inventory taken by John Tuttell, John Perkines, John Crosse, Thomas Howlett and Robert Mottley : Towe steers & tow heffers, 47li. ; One mare, 25li .; One Cowe calfe of a moneth olde, 6li .; Towe piggs, 16s .; Towe piggs, 8s. ; ffower Acres of Corne, 15li .; The house wth thapurtenances viz. fenceinge aple trees wth other fruits in the gardens wth 30 acres of Uplands, 60 acres of meadowe & 6 acres of planting ground neare the house, 130li .; Towe bull Calves & one Cowe Calfe weaned all verye power, 10li .; Three Cowes, 67li. ; Towe bedsteds in the parlour, 1li. 6s. 8d. ; a large neste of boxes, 2li .; a Smale neste of boxes, 3s. ; a Cubert, 10s .; a Sea chest, 10s. ; towe Joynd Chaires, 5s. ; a rounde table, 7s. ; a deske, 4s .; a band boxe, 2s. [The child hath it : in margin. ] ; a Coverlet, 1li. ; a fether bed a boulster & 2 pillows, 1li. 5s .; a fether bed boulster & one pillow, 1li. 5s .; a rug, a coverlet & a blanket, 1li .; a bed sted, 3s .; Sundrye pcells of wear-
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inge lynine, 4li. 5s. 6d. ; pcells of wearing clothes, 5li. 8s. 4d. ; 6 paire of flaxen Sheets, 6li. ; 6 paire of Course sheets, 2li. 12s. ; Table clothes, 14s. ; napkins, 7s .; a yd. of Canvis, 1s .; yarne, 4s .; 2 paire of bodyes, 6s. 8d .; 2 Cushions, 6s .; a Remnnte of woollen Cloth, 1s.6d. ; a towell & table cloth, 1s. 6d. ; a bag & wallet, 1s. 6d .; 1 Rend of cloth, 4s .; kniues, 5s. ; 10 : paire of stockings, 1li .; 10 : Ells 1-4 of Canvis att 15d. p ell, 12s .; 6 yds. of blew linine, 6s .; 8 yds. of Lynsi- wollsi, 10s .; poynts & showstrings, 3s. ; 2 steels & Cinamon, 2s. ; a carde of lace, 1s. ; 2 ells of Holland, 8s .; a peece of tufted Holland, 6s .; 6 yds. of Loomworke, 5s .; in a box : in money, 2li. 5s. 4d .; in another box, 1li. 12s. 6d .; in her purse, 1li. 2s. 2d .; in wampompege, 4d .; in a boxe, 10s. 4d .; a case of bottles, 2s. 6d .; 3 hatts, 1li .; 2 boxes, 1s. 6d .; a broken warmeige pan, 2s. 6d. ; 2 firkins & halfe of butter, 3li. 15s .; 6 chesemots 2 Jugs 3 pans one tray, 15s. ; 21 cheeses new, 2li. 16s. ; halfe a bushell of malte, 3s. 6d .; 2 basketts, 1s. 2d .; Taps and smale things, 1s .; 1 paire of stireipe hose leather, 1s .; 25 Sawcers, 5s .; 6 porringers, 6s .; 2 chamber potts, 1s. 6d. ; 40li. & a halfe of pewter, 2li. 14s .; 7 spoones, 1s. 9d, ; a treavett a fier shovell & tongs gredIron potthookes, 13s. 4d. ; a paire [Goodma Perkings : in margin.] of bellowes & one old darke lanthorne, 2s. ; a brase pott, 18s .; a morter, 5s. ; an Iron pott & a frying pan both haue holes in them, 3s. 4d. ; [2 ketls : in margin.] 2 kettles 2 skelletts & an Iron ladle, 1li. 6s. 8d .; bulletts hinges & other smale things, 6s. 8d. ; a box, 3s. 4d .; a chiste, 8s. ; a paire of stockings, 2s .; 1 paire of stockings, 2s. 6d .; 1 paire of stockings, 2s. 6d; a coate, 6s. ; a old suite & cloake, 1li. 2s .; a paire of drawers, 1s. 8d. ; a Coate wth silver buttons, 1li .; [Jo. Andr. in mar- gin.] a suite of searge, 12s. ; a blacke suite of searge Unmaide, 10s .; a Jackett of cloth, 3s. 4d,; a graite, 1s. 6d .; a pcell.of nailes, 1s. 4d .; 6li. of Raisins, 2s .; 7 bushells of Rye, 2li. 16s .; towe beare Vessells, 5s .; 3 cushions, 9s .; some spice, 2s. ; a read waistecoote, 3s. 4d. ; a bedd pan, 5s. ; 2 old hooes : 1 old hatchett : 1 old sythe, 5s .; 2 wayne bodys, 16s. ; 1 olde paire of wheeles, 12s .; 2 borded Canow, 1li .; John Andrews tyme, 16li. ; a lader, 3s. 4d. ; total, 385li. 14s. 5d.
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