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Elizabeth, b. March 20, bapt. March 21, 1736/7; Abigail, b. Nov. 12, 1738; Stephen, b. 1740-the 27th day-4th month, bapt. May 4, 1740; Jacob, b. 1741-12-1; d. 1741-17-6 [sic], was bapt. Jan. 17, 1741/2, at Chelsea, and according to the gravestone at Revere d. June 17, 1742, aged 5 months 5 days; Rebecca, b. and d. 1743-26-3; Benjamin, b. 1744-22-4, bapt. April 29, 1744, d. March 3, 1747/8, aged 4 years (gravestone) ; Chariessa, b. 1746-10-7; bapt. July 13, 1746; d. Feb. 28, 1747/8, aged 19 monthis and 20 days; Carissa, b. 1748-12-3; Sibel, b. 1750-24-1.
Stephen Kent left the farm before 1757, as Samuel Sprague was then mentioned as the tenant. April 2, 1754, the marriage inten- tion of Elizabeth Kent with Ebenezer Bootman of Marblehead was recorded at Chelsea. As the youngest daughter of Samuel Sprague, Rachel, born September 19, 1756, is the first recorded on the Chelsea Town Records, it is perhaps reasonable to assume that Stephen Kent left the farm between April 2, 1754, and Sep- tember 19, 1756. In 1760 the family was living in Roxbury, whenee Stephen Kent was summoned to give evidenee in a suit brought by the widow Abigail Hasey against Elisha Tuttle of Rumney Marsh. Elizabeth Kent also gave evidenee in the ease.3
Samuel Sprague was the son of Phineas and Elizabeth Sprague of Malden, and married first January 11, 1736/7, Martha Hills. She died September 13, 1750. Oetober 9, 1752, the intention of marriage of Samuel Sprague of Malden and Rachel Floyd was recorded at Chelsea. She was a daughter of John Floyd.4
1 Wyman. Sce also L. Vernon Briggs, Kent Genealogy.
2 Boston Records; Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 48, f. 172.
8 Court Files, Inf. Court of Common Pleas, January term, 1760.
4 Supra, p. 190.
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Captain Samuel Sprague was influential in the town, and was especially prominent during the War of the Revolution, as will be related elsewhere. At the time of his death he was tenant of the Cary farm, and also owned two farms in what is now Reverc, one purchased of Azor Orne, the other of Daniel Tuttle; each was described as having a house, a barn, and 32 acres of land.5 He also possessed 46 acres of woodland in Malden and Lynn. He owned the following stock, two pair of oxen, one pair of steers, 95 sheep and lambs, 15 cattle, a horse and colt, 11 hogs and pigs.6 Two items in the accounts settling this estate are confirma- tory of Captain Sprague's tenancy of the Cary farm. Two horses were claimed by the agent of Mr. Cary. The widow's goods were removed three miles to the house of which she was given by will a life lease, that bought of Daniel Tuttle. Samuel A. Otis was Mr. Cary's agent.7 By will Samuel Sprague provided that two negroes, Cæsar and Peg, the latter supposed to be eighty years old in 1784, and blind, should be supported out of the estate for life. Presumably Cæsar, who died December 17, 1803, "supposed to be near" 100, was the former.8 It is interesting to compare the minute provision for the widow made in Captain Sprague's will,9 with that for the wives of Thomas Cheever, Hugh Floyd, and Thomas Pratt some fifty years earlier. She was to have the use of the house which he bought of Daniel Tuttle, accord- ing to the inventory the more valuable of the two houses, as long as she remained a widow. It was to be kept in repair for her. She was given one-third of the household goods and an annuity of £4 in silver money. Two cows were to be kept for her. She was to have the use of a horse. Also there was to be delivered at her house each year 12 bushels of Indian corn, four of rice, two of malt ; 70 pounds of well fatted pork, 90 pounds of good beef, 6 bushels of potatoes, 8 pounds of good wool, 20 of good flax; 2 barrels of cider, apples from the orchard, and 6 cords of hard wood. She was to have the use of a small garden two rods square near the house. She died in June, 1786, aged seventy-three. After making this provision for his wife Captain Sprague left his estate to his seven daughters, or in case of their death to their children. He appointed as executors his sons-in- law Joseph Green and James Stower of Chelsea. His only son,
5 Supra, pp. 213, 215.
6 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 83, f. 246.
7 Ibid., L. 85, ff. 118-120. See Cary Letters, 69.
8 Church records of deaths.
Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 82, f. 307.
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Samuel, had died September 4, 1768, in the 23d year of his age. ITis daughters were: Martha, whose intention of marriage with Joseph Green of Stoneham, later of Chelsea,1º was filed at Chelsea July 25, 1757; Elizabeth, whose intention of marriage with Joseph Pratt of Malden was filed July 9, 1757; Mary married Caleb Pratt May 26, 1762; Sarah m. James Stowers Jan. 3, 1765, died Sept., 1796, aged 53; Lydia m. Jonathan Williams Sept. 12, 1771; Lois m. Isaac Green of Reading, Feb. 13, 1772, died before her father; Rachel m. Jonathan Hawks May 20, 1776, died in June, 1782, aged 26. The births of Martha, Elizabeth, Lydia, and Lois were recorded at Malden.
Captain Sprague had a sister Lydia, who died unmarried in 1777, aged 69, and was buried in the old burial-ground in what is now Revere. By will dated in 1777 she made a very minute and interesting division of her wardrobe among her brother's daughters and her two sisters, Lois Green and Mary Lynde.11
When Samuel Cary and his wife returned from Grenada in 1791 a Mr. Low and his family were tenants of the farm, and occupied a part of the mansion house.12 Doubtless this was Samuel Low, as he was taxed in January, 1791, for the building of the new schoolhouse in that neighborhood.13 In 1794 Samuel Cary was directing in person the workmen on the farm.14 In November, 1796, on account of the insurrection in the West Indies, by which he lost heavily, he left Chelsea to attend to his estates in the islands. Although he left memoranda and full power with his wife for the management of the farm, a Mr. Low is again mentioned in connection therewith.15 John Low occupied a cottage on the farm in 1798. In January, 1801, Mr. Low had recently " taken the farm at halves " and was occupying a part of the mansion house.16 This was John Low, Jr. (son of John and Abigail Low), who married Charlotte Sandbach May 20, 1798. Charlotte Sandbach joined the church at Chelsea July 27, 1794; apparently she came from the West Indies with Mrs. Cary.17 John Low, Jr., joined the Chelsea Church June 30, 1799, and on the same day their first-born, John, was baptized. They were probably " the little cottager with his father and mother "
10 Supra, p. 246.
11 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 76, f. 297.
Cary Letters, 90.
13 Chamberlain MSS., vii. 137; supra, p. 240.
14 Cary Letters, 110.
15 Ibid., 121, 123, 134-136. 16 Ibid., 164.
17 . Ibid., 125, 133, 155, 164, etc.
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to whom Lucius Cary sent his regards in a letter dated July 14, 1799.18 Nov. 9, 1800, a child, Margaret, was baptized; Sept. 7, 1802, Charlotte, who died Nov. 13, aged 11 weeks; Oct. 28, 1803, Abigail ; May 26, 1805, William Ratchford; Oct. 30, 1814, Sarah, Charlotte, Nathaniel, and Nancy. Nov. 8, 1825, Mrs. Charlotte Low, wife of John Low, died, aged 53 years.19 They left the farm in 1802.]
18 Cary Letters, 152.
19 Church records; gravestones at Revere.
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JANUARY 9, 1666/7, Richard Bellingham and Penelope his wife leased to John Senter, Sr., and Sarah his wife, and John Senter, Jr., the westerly end of Powder Horn Hill with the barns and out- houses then in the occupation of John Senter, Sr., bounded with Samuel Townsend's farm southerly; with the farm of Aaron Way and William Ireland easterly; with Daniel Whittamore's land [i. e., Malden] northerly ; and with Winnisimmet Farm [the Ferry farm] and the marsh of Richard Bellingham by the line " already Sett and bounded between them " westerly. Bellingham excepted all the wood and timber with the liberty to cut and carry away the same, allowing Senter sufficient for fences and other necessaries. The consideration was £100; the lease was for their lives, from March 25, 1667, paying £10 " in merchantable pork, pease and barly in equall proportions at currant Merchants price " before the 25th March in every year; if the farm did not produce the pay, what fell short "in other good pay." There was to be an allow- ance of 12 pence the rod for stone wall 4 feet high built on the premises. (Acknowledged June 13, 1695.1)
These are two of five similar receipts : 2
" Recd: of Jeremiah Belcher and Sarah his wife ten pounds in fifty bushells of Barley & it is for the rent of the Farm wch nowe they liue in 19. 1. 1667/68. Ri. Bellingham.
" Recd. of Jeremiah Belcher and Sarah his wife ten pounds by 30 bush. of mault. by fenceinge 60 rodd wth a stone wall. by a fatt Hogge 17. 1. 68/69 Ri Bellingham."
Of date [March 25, 1672,] is seen this : 3 " Whereas John Senter did owe to mee Richard Bellingham the sum of one hundred pounds for a fine to lessen the rent of his farme being now but ten pounds by the yeare, which before was twenty two pounds ten shillings rent by the yeare and since Sarah his wife maried to Jeremiah Belcher, who hath paid since his mariage vnto mee Richard Bellingham an hundred pound, the time agreed vpon,
1 Suff. Deeds, L. 17, f. 77; see also L. 21, f. 22.
Chamberlain MSS., i. 7.
3 Mass. Archives, C. 175.
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which hundred pound J acknowledge my selfe to haue received : and thereof and of euery part & parcell thereof do acquit & dis- charge the said Jeremiah Belcher his heires executors and assignes, Dated the 25th of March 1672.
" This is a true Coppy of the receit which Richard Belling- ham gaue vnto Jeremiah Belcher Witnes Jonath : Negus "
The transaction was this: John Senter, Sr. (Center was a later spelling), was tenant of Governor Bellingham at £22 10s. yearly. In consideration of £100 the Governor reduced the rent to £10 and extended the tenancy for the lives of John Senter, his wife, and his son. Belcher married his widow, paid the fine of £100, as it was called, and was recognized as tenant.
When or where John Senter was born, or at what time he became tenant of the Carter farm, I have not found. The Boston records say : 4 " Mary wife of John Center of Winnysim- met died July 25th," 1658. [" John Senter & Mary Muzzy " were married by Richard Bellingham, March 27, 1656.5] John Center was chosen constable for Rumney Marsh, March 11, 1666/7, and July 15 of the same year John Smith was chosen constable "in the rome of John Center deceased." These entries fix approxi- mately the time of his death. By the recital above, it appears that, January 9, 1666/7, the Carter farm was in the occupation of " John Senter, Senr., and Sarah his wife, and John Senter, Jr."; from which it may be inferred that at some time after July 25, 1658, John Senter had a wife whose name was Sarah, and who as his widow became the wife of Jeremiah Belcher. Whether there were children of this second wife may be doubtful, though the records [of the First Church] say: April 22, 1666, “ Sarah wife of John Centure " was baptized; and May 6, "John of John Centure's wife," and Elizabeth, of the same, were baptized.6 By these dates it is possible to affiliate these children to John Center, Sr .; but as the name of the wife of John Center, Jr., was also Sarah, it is more probable that they were her children. [They were the children of John Center, Sr., infra, p. 380.] In the same records are the following entries : 1682, " John of John & Sarah Carter, born Aug. 8"; and " John of John & Sarah Center born Aug. 8" 7; 1684/5, " Jonathan of John & Mary Center born Feb. 8." 8 1687, " Ellener of John & Ruth Center born July 6." 9 1696
4 Boston Rec. Com. Rep., ix. 66.
Ibid., 57.
Ibid., 102.
Ibid., 157.
8 Ibid., 162.
9 Ibid., 173.
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(also 1697) Jeremiah of the same born Feb. 15.1º [In 1682 and in 1706, the wife of John Center, second of the name, was Ruth.11 Presumably the town clerk entered the wife's name incorrectly.]
John Senter, Jr., held many offices at Rumney Marsh between 1686 and 1715, after which the name disappears. In 1702 he is called John Senter, Sr. In the Revere churchyard is a stone with this inscription: "Here lyes ye body of Ensign John Center, aged 46 yrs. and 8 Mo. who departed this life December yc 31st. 1706." This is a curiously colored stone and elaborately carved. It bears traces of an inscription on its reverse, but it is entirely illegible. If the above figures are correctly read Ensign Center must have been born about 1660; but the entries of births show no John of that year.
In the list for 1692 at Rumney Marsh John Canter is rated by the Constable for 14s .; and in 1702 John Center is on the list for " three heads houses and lands at thirteen pound Rent a year two oxen six cows forty sheep one hors one Swin." 12
[In the indenture between Richard Bellingham and John Center of January 9, 1666/7, cited above, the latter signed " in behalfe of his said Sonne John Senter Jun' being in his non age." In 1667 Sarah Senter was appointed administrator of the estate of her husband John Senter.13 She was the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Weeden of Rumney Marsh,14 and granddaughter of Samuel Cole. By will the latter gave "to my grandchild Sarah Scenter a Coult wch is now in the possession of her Husband John Scenter." 15 April 10, 1682, Jeremiah Belcher of Winnisimmet and his wife Sarah, John Senter and his wife Ruth, and Elizabeth Senter conveyed to William Penney for £60 title to a house in Boston that Samuel Cole had conveyed to John Senter, Sr., in 1666.16 February 22, 1685/6, Jeremiah Belcher asked the seleet- men of Boston for an " abatemt of his last towne rate beinge 12s. vpon consideration that he hath maintained Eliza Warren, Daughter of his wife & her Child some considerable time, & he promiseinge that ye Mother or Child should not be any future charge to ye towne, wch was granted & agreed on." 17 Rev. Thomas
10 Boston Rec. Com. Rep., ix. 226, 232.
11 Suff. Deeds, L. 12, f. 178; Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 16, ff. 377, 378; infra, p. 382.
12 Boston Rec. Com. Rep., x. 130, 143.
13 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 5, ff. 49, 54.
14 Suff. Deeds, L. 8, f. 51.
15 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 1, f. 482.
16 Suff. Deeds, L. 12, f. 178; L. 5, ff. 53-55.
17 Boston Rec. Com. Rep., vii. 182.
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Cheever married a Mrs. Elizabeth Warren, July 30, 1707. He married his son, Joshua Cheever, to a Sarah Warren, November 2, 1708. Presumably they were the daughter and granddaughter of John Senter, Sr. According to the Boston records, Sarah, daughter of Ephraim and Elizabeth Warren, was born August 10, 1685, and Sarah, wife of Joshua Checver, died January 26, 1723/4, aged 37. According to the gravestone at Revere, Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Thomas Cheever, died May 10, 1727, aged 64.
Jeremiah Belcher was the son of Jeremiah Belcher 18 (presum- ably the Jeremy Belcher who, aged 22, came to Boston in 1635 on the same ship with Edward Weeden, aged 22, and settled in Ips- wich, and whose son Samuel graduated from Harvard in 1659.) Jeremiah Belcher served as constable in 1672 and 1679, and as surveyor of roads in 1678, 1686, and 1687. In 1674 he was one of the smaller taxpayers at Rumney Marsh, also in 1676. In 1687 the property listed was equally divided between Jeremiah Belcher and his step-son, John Senter. Each had two pair of oxen, seven head of cattle, one hog, and ten sheep. Jeremiah Belcher had a horse and colt, and John Senter two horses. Each paid the same tax for land and housing. The following year Jeremiah Belcher was a tenant of Samuel Sewall on Hog Island.19 October 1, 1697, Judge Sewall described in his diary an interesting visit made by himself and family to the farm there, including the bill of fare. In 1702 Jeremiah Belcher purchased a farm of 200 acres in the Chelsea Pan-handle, apparently for the benefit of his three sons, Joseph, Edward, and Ebenezer, who were in possession thereof in 1708.2º His wife Sarah died January 20, 1716/17. He died February 6, 1722/3, aged 81 years 6 months.21 Their children as recorded at Boston were:
Jeremiah, b. Oet. 31, 1668; bapt. in the First Church on the 28th day of the 12th month (Feb. 28, 1668/9).
Edward, b. Feb. 14, 1669/70.
Sarah, b. Feb. 23, 1671/2. April 14, 1672, " a child of sister Belshur
18 In June, 1722, Jeremiah Beleher of Boston petitioned the General Court that a grant of 300 aeres made to his father, Jeremiah Beleher, May 11, 1659, be laid out by metes and bounds. November 17 the petition was granted. December 21 Jeremiah Beleher executed a deed of gift to his son, Joseph, who sold the same to Elisha Cooke, January 4, 1723/4. Provinee Laws, x. (Resolves, 1720-1725), 220; Suff. Deeds, L. 37, ff. 152, 153.
19 Boston Ree. Com. Rep., i. 145.
20 Suff. Deeds, L. 21, ff. 1-3, 50; L. 24, ff. 166, 167; also supra, p. 281.
21 Boston record of deaths (MSS.) ; gravestone at Revere. According to the Boston records he died January 6, 1722/3, aged 81.
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of Rumney Marsh or Wenysement " was baptized. Presumably she was married to Abner Dole of Newbury Jan. 5, 1698/9, by Rev. Thomas Cheever. Nathaniel, b. Oct. 27, 1673.
Joseph, bapt. June 6, 1675; m. Jan. 7, 1697/8, Hannalı, daughter of Jonathan Bill of Pullen Point;" d. Nov. 15, 1739, aged 64.23
Rebecca, b. April 11, 1677; d. April 21, 1699.
Ebenezer, b. Feb. 21, 1678/9.
John (2) Center remained on the farm at Winnisimmet after his stepfather, Jeremialı Belcher, moved to Hogg Island. He served as eonstable in 1686 and 1703, and as surveyor of high- ways in 1691, 1692, and 1704. He died in 1706.24 His widow Ruth was married to Joseph Wright by Rev. Cotton Mather, Feb. 9, 1707/8, and died Feb. 18, 1717, aged 60.25 Feb. 7, 1691/2, Ruth, wife of John (2) Center, joined the North Church in Boston. Its pastor baptized the following children: Ruth,, May 15, 1692; Sarah, July 20, 1695; Jeremiah, June 20, 1697. Eight ehildren shared in the distribution of the estate of Ensign John Center, John, the eldest, Jonathan, the second son, Eliza- beth (married presumably to Jacob Wright by Rev. Cotton Mather, December 24, 1708), Eliner, Mehetabel (married pre- sumably to John Bailey by Rev. Thomas Cheever, August 31, 1714), Ruth (married possibly Joseph Burn in 1726),26 Sarah, and Jeremiah.27 The widow Ruth and the son John were appointed administrators.28
John (3) Center, son of John and Ruth Center, married Ruth Wright of Woburn about 1708.29 The following children of John and Ruth Center were recorded at Boston : Ruth, Jan. 19, 1710/11; John, Feb. 25, 1712/13; Joseph, Aug. 5, 1715; Samuel and Solomon, twins, Dee. 29, 1717. He held minor town offiees in 1713 and 1715, and is mentioned as tenant of the farm in May, 1716.30 The lease from Governor Bellingham lapsed on the death of his grandmother, Sarah Beleher, January 20, 1716/17. Pre- sumably he was the John Center who, according to Wyman, eame to Charlestown from Biddeford in 1726, bringing with him four sons, John, Samuel, Solomon, and Joseph. John Whittemore was mentioned as tenant in June, 1728.31 As John Whittemore, Jr.,
22 Sewall, Diary, i. 475, March 23, 1697/8.
23 Gravestone at Revere. For liis son Joseph, see supra, p. 265.
24 Supra, p. 380.
25 Savage, Gen. Dict., 350.
26 Boston Rec. Com. Rep., xxviii. 162.
27 See supra, p. 379, for the record of births.
28 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 16, ff. 230, 231.
29 Intention filed at Boston December 2, 1708. Rec. Com. Rep., xxviii. 31.
80 Suff. Deeds, L. 30, f. 161.
81 Ibid., L. 42, ff. 215, 216.
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he was an officer in the district in 1722 and 1723, and was con- stable in 1724. The following inventories and accounts illustrate life on a Winnisimmet farm in the seventeenth century.
July the : 18th 1667.
AN JNUENTORY 32 OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN SCENTER DECEASED TAKEN BY VS WHOSE NAMES ARE SUBSCRIBED :
Jmprs 12 swine & 2 small piggs
012 : 03: 00
Jt : 32 : sheepe & Lambs 12li 16s, 11 : Cowes 40li, 1 Bull
055 : 06: 00 2 10 . Jt : 2 yeareling bullocks & 2 heifers 6li 10s, 2 : oxen .12li 018 : 10 : 00
Jt : 2 : oxen & a Cow 15li, a horse 6li, a mare 4li 025 : 00 : - Jt : a featherbed boalster 2 pillowes, & pillowbers, 2 ruggs a bedsted Curtaines & uallance 011 : 00 : -
Jt : wearing cloathies hatt bootes shoes gloues & chest 005 : 00 : -
Jt : 2 old ruggs an old feather boalster 3 quishions 000 : 12 : - Jt : a fann 6s, Cotton & linnen yarne 18s, sole leather 12s . 001 : 16 : -
Jt : a chest 4s, a parcell of books 2li 002: 04 : -
Jt : 4 shirts 2 bands 2 Caps & a parc of drawers 001 : 10 : -
Jt : 3 : pare of sheets & a pare of pillowbcers 002 : 00 : -
Jt : 4 : Table napkins & 11 : Course towells 000 : 12 : - Jt : 16 : peeces of pewter & 2 Earthen dishes 001 : 10 : -
Jt : a smoothing jron grater & stone jugg 000 : 04 : - Jt : an howre glass 000 : 00 : 06
Jt : a Cubbert a table 2 joynt stooles & 4 chayres 000 : 15 : - 000 : 03 :
Jt : a lanthorne
001 : 05 : -
Jt : a trunck bedsted bed, 3 pillowes an old blancket & rugg Jt : a musquet & sword lli 10s, a match-lock musquett & sword 10s
002 : 00 : -
Jt : 2 jron potts an jron skillet a frying pann, a pr of pot- hooks 2 trammells, a spitt a pr of tonges a flesh fork . 001 : 12 : - Jt : a brass kettle 3li, a- small kettle & warming pann lli 8s 004 : 08 : - Jt : a scummer & little skillet 000 : 03 : -
Jt : a brass pann a tunnell & plate pann 001 : 05 : -
Jt : 2 wheeles 8s, 2 beere uessells 3s 000 : 11 : - 002 : 00 : -
Jt : a churne milke uessells pailes & other wooden ware Jt : a silver spoone & an old whissell 000 : 10 : -
Jt : 7 spookes [spoons ?] 2 glass bottles & a peper box Jt : a saddle & bridle
000 : 04 : -
000 : 10 : -
Jt : 5 : jron wedges 2 pickaxes & an jron Crow 001 : 00 : -
Jt : 3. pare of fetters 10s, 3 plow chaines lli 4s 001 : 14 : -
Jt : an old plow shaire Coulter & other old jron 000 : 08 : -
Jt : 3 : Augers a hammer chissell drawing knife a wimble perser, a handsaw : 5 old Axes & 5 howes 000 : 10 : -
Jt : one pitchforke & 2 rakes 5s, a plow & jrons 10s 000 : 15 : -
Jt : a Cart wheels 4 wheele boards, 13 yoakes cleuis & Cart- rope 003 : 00 : -
Jt : a looking glass Is, a fowling peece 2li, a stone, Cart & sled
003 : 06 : -
32 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 5, f. 49.
li : s : d
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Jt : 2 : yards 34 : of kersey & a Card of buttons 001 :00 : - Jt : 2 Calues 111, 2 scithes & sneads IOs, a pare of Cards 28 001 : 12 : 00 Jt : 8 : head of yong Cattle at Willis his Hill 024 : 00: 00
Jt : Corne standing in the feild with hemp & flax 030:00:00
Jt : a sernant 3 yeares yet to serue . 006 : 00:00 Jt : a house & Land at Boston 050 : 00: 00
Jt : in woole 3li, a parcell of bees lli 004: 00:00
279 :18:06
The interest in that Tennement wch lyeth at powder horne hill for the tearme of two liues vizt Sarah Seenter &
her sonn John Scenter as by the lease Appeareth .
. .
150 :00:00
Elias Mauerick Augst the First : 1667
Samuell Daues Sarah Senter deposed that this is a true Jnuen-
Aaron oo Way tory of hir late husband John Senters Estate
William Ireland to her best knowledge that when shee knowes more shee will discouer it
Edw : Rawson Record!
'AN INVENTORY 33 OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN CENTER SENR LATE OF WIN- NISIMITT DECED APPRIZED BY JONATHAN BILL, JER BELCHER AND PHINEAS UPHAM. - VIZT -
Imprs To Wearing Apparrel £ 14"8"-
To Beds, Bedsteds, Beding &c 33" 7" -
To Buekles & Chains, Plate 1" 3"
To a Gun, sword, Cartouch box and belt 2 " 12 " -
To Drum Drum sticks &c .
1 " 16 ".
To 2 hatts & a pr of Bootes
To 3 old Chests 8/. 14! Cotten & a pr of Cards 22/
1"10"
Husbandry and Carpentry Tools, Cart &e.
12 " 10"
Pewter 41/. Brass 46/. Iron and Tin Ware 40/.
8" 8 " -
Bed & Table Linnen & 3 Single Blanketts 6 " 19 "
Wooden Ware & Doz . Glass Bottles 2 " .4 " .
Tables & a Chest 16/. Punch Bowle, seales & Weights 14/ 1 " 18 " -
Chairs 30/. A Negro boy 21! Books 14/. Cash 26! 49" .4 "
Cattle, horses, Oxen, Cows, steers, hoggs & Sheep &e
86" .6 "
Horse Taekle and Furniture
.. 3" .2 " -
Boat with 2 Roads & Anchors
.9 " 6 "
Sheeps Wool, Cotten, Cards, Sole Leather & Bagg
.4 " 19 "
Signd £"239"13" 7
Barley, flax & a Grindston Ruth @ Center. John Center
not Apprized.
Suffolk ss./.
THE ACCOMPT 34 OF RUTH CENTER WIDOW & JOHN CENTER SON, & ADMINES OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN CENTER LATE OF WINNISIMETT HOUSE- WRIGHT DECED./.
The sd Accomptants Chargeth themselves wth all & Singu- lar the Goods, Chattels, Rights & Credits of the sd
33 Presented to the court by Ruth Center, widow, and her son John Center, January 21, 1706/7. Suff. Prob. Ree., L. 16, f. 230.
34 Suff. Prob. Rec., L. 16, f. 377.
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deced, Amo as by the Invry thereof Exhibited, Ap- pears to ye Sum of . . . . Jt . With money Rec'd of sevrl prsons for Debts oweing to ye decd . 40 Bush's of Barley £6 " 13 " 4. 40s Bill of Credit 40s .
20 Bushls of Oates 30s . 3011 Flax 30/. A Grindstone 5/. .
£239"13" 7
25 "10" 8 8 " 13 " 4
3" 5"-
£277 " .2" 7
And Pray's Allowance of ye Several Debts & Charges, by them paid, Vizt - Abatemt out of the Inventory of 23s for 2 sheep & a Sheet given in that did not belong to ye Estate Pd for Lettr of Admincon Jnventory &c -"12"- Pd Funeral Charges £9 " 2" 1. Pd to Doctr Clark 22/. 10 " .4" 1 Pd to Doct! Bumsted 48/. Pd to Thos Pratt for a Sheep 6/. Pd Mr Rashly 5d Pd John Whittemore 2/.
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