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ESTATE OF WILLIAM KNIGHT OF LYNN.
"I william knight in this my last will and testyment do giue my wife Elizebeth the thirds of all my Estate and fur- ther that she shall Injoy my dwelling hows So long as she liueth likwys I giu to my Son John knight forety shillings to be payd tow years after my deceas Itte I giu to my dafter Ane won shilling and to her children fiu shillings a pease to be payd tow years After my deceas. Itt I giue to || my sone | francis knight fiue shillings when he shall lawfully demand it. Itt I giue to my dafter hanna forty shillings won year after my deceas Itt I giue to John ballard forty shillings tow years After deceas or when my wif pleases Itt I giu to na- thanyell ballard forty shillings tow years After my deceas : All and Euery of theas leggacys to be truly payd The rest of my Estat I will to be Equily diuided amonkst my fowr chil- dren wich I had by my last wife Elizabeth
"only I giue to my Eldest Son Jacob a dubbell parcion to be payd in my hows and homelott Adjoyning to my dwelling hows and medow in Rumly march If this amounts to more then his dubbell portion then it to be payd back to my last childre Equilly diuided likwys If the Sayd hows and land due not amount to a dubbell porttion the [n] it is to be made oup: I further will if any of theas my last children dye be- fore thay come to age: then ther porttions to return to thos that shall suruiue Equaly to be deuided amonkst them This I will that If my wife maryes then my childrens porttions to be taken from hurs and to be at the ouerseers disposing: I make my wife Elizabeth my lawfull Excekter to Administer on this my last will [and] Testyment I likwys make our brother nicklis potter and Georg keasur and John witt: to be the ouersears of this my last will. To wich I Sett my hand dat the 2 of december 1653."
his mark William C Knight
Witness : John Fuller and Nicholas Potter, both of Lynn.
Potter made oath before Rob. Bridges 27: 4: 1655, and Fuller on 28: 4: 1655, before Elias Stillman, clerk. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 3, leaf 12.
Inventory taken 22: 1: 1654-5, by John Fuller and Phil- lip Kyrtland: Dwelling house, barn and fivten Ackrs of plow land, 46li .; six akers of medow in Rumly march, 10li .; five akers of medow in the town marche, 15li .; two working oxen, 14li .; thre Cows, 13li .; one heaffor in calf, 4li. 1s .; 2
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year ould Stear, 3li., one yerling, 1li. 15s., 8li. 15s .; one weaning Calfe, 15s .; 2 Ewes with 2 Ewe Lambs, 4li. 10s .; 2 Ewes with 2 Rame lambs, 4li .; 2 Ewes, 3li. 10s .; 1 wether Shep, 2 years ould, 1li .; three 3 year ould wetthers, 2li. 5s .; one Rame, 15s .; two swyn, 2li .; one fether bede and pillows and bolster and coverlids, 4li .; two flock beds with other furnyture belonging to them, 2li. 10s .; five pare of sheets, 4li .; 8 napkins and a tabell cloth, 13s .; one pillow beare, 2s .; 4 kuchins, 8s .; 2 bede steeds, 18s .; ould chests and a truncke, 10s .; thre brase potts, 1li. 9s .; thre bras kettells, 17s .; one warming pane, 5s .; 4 pewttor dishes, 1li .; 3 wine measurs, 5s. 6d .; 2 wine cups, 2 dram cups, two beare cups, 5s .; sev- erall peases of small pewttor, 5s. 6d .; one Iron pott, one Iron mortter and pestill, 9s .; 2 pare of andyrons, fier shovell and tongs, 8s. 6d .; 2 pare of pott hangers, 3s .; 1 fryinge pane and Iron candellstick, 2s. 6d .; stolls, chears and a tabell, 11s .; beare barrils, tubes, churn, coberd dewtraft, 18s .; thre spin- inge whealls, a pare of woll cards, 8s .; 2 muskitts and kur- byn, 1li. 10s .; two swords, 5s .; two crosscut saws, one narrow axe, a frow and a lathing hamer, a littell hammer, 8s. 6d .; 2 spitts, 2s .; thre sifes, 3s .; the man's wearing apparrell, 3li. 8s. 6d .; carts, plows, yoks and Iron works belonging to them, 2li. 12s .; in mony, 2s. 6d .; a ladder and ould Iron, 5s .; total, 154li. 15s. Due from brother Deken, 6s .; look, 11s .; heed, 9s .; Mikell cambell, 1s .; Joseph Armitag, 5s .; Hugh Aley, 6s .; town, 1s. 6d .; diman, 4s .; Pharrer, 1s .; William Curtis, 6s .; a scote man, 6s .; brother kesar, 2s. 4d .; - & his Sonn, 12s .; another scotman, 12s. 4d .; total, 9li. 3s. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 3, leaf 13.
ESTATE OF HENRY FAY OF NEWBURY.
"Witnese by theise prsents that Henry Fay of Newbury in the County of Essex weauer did in his life time, giue and bequeath vnto his brothers children his whole estate his debts being discharged, and that he did desire his friends Robert Long and James Jackman that they would looke to it for said he I will leave it in your hands vntill they come, this he said often times." Witness: Richard fitts, Robert Long, James Jackman, Joane Jackman. "The Court In- clynes to aprhend by the testimonyes this to be the will of Henry fay yet suspend the full determination of it till Ips- wich court next but leave the estate in there hands & give
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them power in the mean tyme to pay iust debts & to receive what is due to the estate p me Robert Lord cleric :
"The deposition of Richard fits of Newbery the said De- ponent Testifieth that Henry fay said to him that if hee Died a Singll man then his brothers Children shal haue his estatt this he said often :
his mark
Richard U fits
"Taken vpon oth befor me william Titcom commissioner for newbery September 24 1655." Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 3, leaf 36.
Robert Long testified that Henry Fay said, two days be- fore he died, when he thought he was going to die, that he would leave the estate in his hands and desired him to come & look to it. Sworn in Ipswich court 25: 7: 1655.
Thomas Noyes of Sudbury, yeoman, appointed, under seal, his friends, Mr. Nicolas Noyes of Newbery, gent., and Robert Long of Newberry, weaver, his attorneys to let his house and lands in Newbery, sometime the house and land of Henry Fay, etc. Dated Sept. 20, 1656. Witness: Rich. Lowle, Joseph Mors.
Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 3, leaf 35.
"The testimonye of James Jackman of Nubery witneseth that Henrye Faye have att several times & plases tould me that he would leave his whole estate when he dyed with Robert Longe and my selfe for his brother's children, if they doe come for itt & that Robert Lounge & myselfe should paye his dettes out of the estate." James Jackman. Sworn in Ipswich court court, 25: 7: 1655.
The deposition of Joane Jackman of Newbury. "This deponent testified that Henry Faye tould her that his broth- er's children should have what estate he had, but he said he would leave his estate with my husband & Robert Longe un- till the said children doe com."
her mark Joan X Jackman.
Taken upon oath before me John Pike, Commissioner for Newbery Sept. 22, 1655.
Probate papers in the Quarterly Court Records copied by Joshua Coffin and now in the Probate Registry, vol. 1, page 226.
Robert Long and James Jackman appointed administra- tors of the estate of Henry Faye Mar. 25, 1656. The estate
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was to be given to his brothers in England. Ipswich Quar- terly Court Records, vol. 1, page 55.
Inventory of the estate of Henry Fay of Newbury, weaver, who deceased June 30, 1655, taken by Thomas Hale, Thomas Browne and Abraham Toppan: His house and about seaven akers and an halfe of land lyeing adjoyning, a barne, or- chard and garden, and in the little feild foure akers and an halfe, 35li .; about 3 1-2 akers of wheat upon the land, 3li. 15s .; 3-4 aker of Indian corne, 16s .; a loame and warping beame, a spooleing wheele, sleyes and harnesses and other appurtenances, 2li. 10s .; a rugge of cotten, 1li. 8s .; an old pillow, 2s .; his wearing apparell, a cotten paire of breeches and an old coat and Jacket, 16s .; a paire of shooes and stock- ings & another pair of stockings, 6s .; a musket, 14s .; a brass pott and an Iron kettle and an old frying pan, 1li .; a paire of tongs & an Iron crooke, 2s. 2d .; an old spade and grubaxe & 2 old axes, 4s .; 2 peckaxes and an old hooe, 7s .; 3 wedges of Iron and 2 beetle rings, 3s. 6d .; an handsaw, an ads, 3 gougs, 2 boriers and a gimblet, a draught shave & brest wimble, 8s .; a handhooke, 3 rings & an old trowell, 2 nib's, 3s .; a tennent saw, 2s .; 2 old sithes, 3s .; an old hooe, 1s. 6d .; a hamer & an old skillet, 2s. 6d .; a shirt, 6s. 6d .; a joyned chaire, 3s. 6d .; a peck & halfe peck & a basket, 1s. 10d .; a beare vessell, 1s. 6d. ; a poudering tub, 4s. 6d. ; a joyned chest, 7s .; a halfe-headed bedsted with a small rod, 9s .; a bible, 4s .; an Inkhorne, 6d .; a wooden bottle, 2s .; 3 bookes, 1 at 1s. 6d., 1 at 1s. and 1 at 6d., 3s .; a wheele and Iron spindle, 3s .; 3 glass vialls, 1s .; a chest and a boxe, 5s .; 3 dozen of buttons of pewter, and a pr. of glasses for the eyes, 1s. 8d .; 2 sieves, 2s .; one small truncke, 2s. 6d .; about six bushells of Indian corne, 15s .; a forme & ladder & wheelbarrow & other lum- ber, 6s .; 2 hens & 8 chickins, 2s. 6d .; a cow and a calfe, 5li .; a pound weight of lead & halfe pd. & qter, a brass skimer, an Iron foot, a salt box & a small grid Iron, 6s .; twyne & cot- ten yarne, 1s. 6d .; a new sarge sute, 2li. 12s .; a sith & snede, a tramell, pothooks & wooden platter, 9s. 8d. His debts: To Mr. Woodman, 2li. 9s. 3d .; Steven Greenleafe, 9s .; Robert Coker for plowing, s .; Thomas Smith, 1li. 6s. 6d .; Will. Bolton, 3s. 2d .; Will. Richardson for 5 dayes work, 6s .; Goodman Hutchins for the Coffin & a peck of corne, 9s. 8d .; Robert Long, 4s. 6d .; John Bishop, 7s. 6d .; John Bartlet, 1s. 2d .; Anth. Somerby, 2s. 8d .; Steven Swett for the charges at his funeral, 10s .; for rates, 1li. 2s. 11d .; Daniell Peirce,
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3li. 8s .; John Bishop, 12s. 6d .; Mr. Dumer, 1li. 10s .; Peter Godfry, 1s. 10d .; Nicholas Noyes, 10s .; Mr. Jewet, 2li. 19s .; Steven Swett, 19s. 5d .; Steven Kent, 1s. 2d .; John Davis, 2s. 2d .; Richard Fits and James Ordway, 6s .; total, 18li. 7s. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 3, leaf 35.
ESTATE OF HUMPHREY BRADSTREET OF IPSWICH.
"The last will and testament of Vmphrah Brodstreate of Ipswich, July 21 1655 being weake in boddy doe therfore ordaine this my last will, in manner as followeth: I giue my soule to God that gaue it me, and my boddy to be buried in the buriing place of Rowley, and doe beleue the cum- fortable resurrection of the same; as for my outward estate, my will is my farme on which I now dwell, with halfe the commons belonging to me from Ipswich, and all the com- mons to me from Rowley, shall be my beloved wifes, for the terme of her life, in case she doe not marry, but if she marry, then the one halfe of the farme shall be for the bringing up of my sonn Moses, and in case she dy, before my sonn Moses attain the age of 21, then the one halfe shall be my sonn Mosesis, and the other halfe ||that is the benefit of it|| shall be equally divided among my fiue daughters, or so many of them as shall be then Liuing, and my will is that when my sonn Moses attains the age of 21: he shall haue and inioy the whole said farm except my wife be then liuing, who shall then enioy halfe the said farme, with all the dwelling house for the terme of her life, and after her death it shall all be my sonn Mosesis. Item I doe giue unto my wife Bridget one brown cow, one ew sheepe, one horse colt. Item I doe giue unto my sonn John all my farme at Mudde riuer, now in the occupation of Richard Camball of Ipswich, with one halfe of my commons from Ipswich soe long as he keeps the farme unsold, but in case he sell it, the commons are to returne !|and belong| to the farm giuen to my wife. Item I doe giue to my daughter Hannah Rofe 20 || twenty|| pound. Item I doe giue to my daughter Martha Beale one pound and more. I doe leeue fiftene pounds in the hand of her mother, to be giuen to her or to her child at her discretion. Item I doe Ilgiue|| to my daughter Mary Brodstreete forty pound. Item I doe giue to my daughter Sarah Brodstreete thirty pound. Item I doe giue to my daughter Rebeccah Brodstreet forty pound : Item I doe giue to my two grand children Dan- niell, and Hannah Rofe each of them fiue pound to be paid
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out of the farme by my sonne Moses when they attain the age of 21 years. Item I doe giue to Sammuell Beale | fiue pound || to be paid as aboue as the said Daniell and Hannah Rofes is. Item I doe giue to the pore of Ipswich one pound. Item I doe giue to the pore of Rowley one pound : and my will is that if my estate doe fall short of the full discharge of all my debts and Legacies then there shall be an equall abatement out of the seuerall Legacies giuen acording to proportion. and I doe intreat my beloued friends Mr Samm- uell Phillips, Matthew Boyes, and John Harris, to ioine with my wife, for the disposing of my children in mariage, or otherwise as need may require. and I doe make my wife Bridget Brodstreete Sole exequiteris of this my last will, and I haue hereunto set my hand July 21 : 1655:"
Humphri Bradstreet.
Witness : Mathew Boyes, John harris. Proved 25: 7: 1655 by the witnesses.
Inventory taken Sept. 6, 1655, by Danall thirston and William Lawe: one hat, one cloak and the rest of his cloths, 2li. 10s .; a pair of sheets, two pilowbears, one tabl cloth, 1li .; seven sheets and foure napkins, 1li. 10s .; four cotton blankits, 1li. 4s .; one flock bed, one rugg and one boulster, 1li .; one flock bed, one rug, one boulster, 2li .; one flock bed, one rug, 2 boulsters, one pilow, 2li .; a parsil of sheeps wool, 15s .; a parsil of wheat and a parsil of rie, 2li. 10s .; thre ould chists, one box, 14s .; one bed stead and cortan, 10s .; indian corne, 1li. 10s .; two sieves, 2s .; ould Iyron and two sickls, 5s .; a parsill of barley malt, 10s .; a cros cut saw, 8s .; sertane carpin for tools, 17s .; one kettel, thre iyron pots, one posnit, pot hooks, 2li .; one waring pane, one frying, 4s .; some peuter and a bras candlstick, 1li .; thre bushill of rie malt, 11s .; two bibles and another book, 15s .; two glas bottels, one chear, one smal box, 7s. 6d .; twenty pound of butter, 10s .; tubs and beare vesils, 1li. 1s .; one cubard, two earthin pots, 3s .; four wegs, two beetl rings, 8s .; one spade, one how, 2s .; one grinding stone, 3s .; one cart, one plow with chains and yoaks, 3li .; four oxen, 30li .; nine cowes, 38li. 5s .; one bull, 4li .; two stears, 9li .; two yearlings and one calf, "li .; two hefers, 6li .; one maire, 16li .; one hors coult, 8li .; thre yewes, thre lambs, 9li .; swine, 10li .; wheat and rie, 6li .; indian corn, 5li .; barley, 1li .; hay, 5li .; a home lot att Ipsig, 8li .; a cannow, 15s .; a muskit, 10s .; hemp, 5s .; in debts that was oweing him, 50li .; in debts he
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did owe, 20li .; total, 146li. 10s. The farme where he lived, 160li .; The farme at muddy River, 70li.
Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 3,081.
Bridgett Brodstreet bound 25: 7: 1655, to discharge lega- cies given in her husband's will. She signed with a mark. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 52.
Thomas Rawlison acknowledged the receipt from John Palmer of Rowley in the behalf of Bridget Broadstreete, widow, of 5li. in full satisfaction of all agreements between the husband of the said Bridget, and Thomas Rawlison, sr., concerning themselves and their children according to agree- ment between Robert Lord and Thomas Rawlison, jr. at Salis- bury court. Witness : Joseph Jewett, Edward Browne.
Will. Beale's order to "Mother Bradstrete" "to pay my wife that twenty shillings left mee by my father in his last will." Dated 26: 7: 1655. Receipt of the 20s. by Mr. Jew- itt, signed by Martha Beale.
Receipt of Hanah (her mark) Rofe, of Ipswich, of 20li. given by legacy in her father's will, and acquittance of my "Mother Bridget Broadstret." Witness : Mathew Boyes, Sara (her mark) Bradstret.
Receipt of Mary Bradstret of 40li. given her by her father's will and acquittance of her mother Bridget Brad- stret. Signed Nov. 7, 1655. Witness : John Grant, Thomas Wood. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 208.
Receipt of Joseph Jewett of 10li. from Bridget Bradstret on the account of William Beale "for rent with a great some more for the use of Marble head mill." Witness: Nehemiah Jewett, Abraham Jewett.
Acquittance of "my mother Bradstreet from all debts & demands given or left for us vpon my fathers will," by Wil- liam Beale and Martha his wife. Signed Aug. 23, 1657. Witness : Rebecka (her mark) Bradstre and Elizabeth Boys.
Acquittance of "my mother Bradstrett," having received "in Cattle the som of Thirty pound which is the full of my wiues portion." Signed 20: 2: 1657 by Nicholas Wallis. Witness : Joseph Jewett, John Harris, Leonard Harriman.
Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 209.
ESTATE OF WILLIAM KNOWLTON OF (IPSWICH ?).
Administration on the estate of William Knowlton, in- testate, granted 25: 7: 1655 to his brother, Thomas Knowl-
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ton, to whom was committed the care of the widow and chil- dren.
Inventory taken July 17, 1655, by Theophilus Willson and Thomas Knowlton : house and ground, medow and Up- land, 20li .; 3 pewter disshes and tin candlestick, 10s .; brass kettle, 12s .; little bras pot with holes, 1s. 6d .; little brass kettle old, 2s .; 2 paire of pott hooks, 1s. 8d .; pr. of tongs, 1s. 6d .; broken brass scillet, 1s. 6d .; broken brass ladle, 6d .; 4 Woodden trayes, 2s. 6d .; straning dish, a tunnle, 2 wooden platers and a old traye, 1s. 8d .; lumber, 5s., friing pan, 18d., 6s. 6d .; 2 boxes and a old chest, 5s .; 2 old narrow axes, 1s .; A sive, 12d., tin tunnle, 9 trenchers, 1s. 9d .; A kow, 4li. 5s .; 2 yerlings, vantage, 3li. 11s., 8li .; 3 Calves, 2li. 10s .; 4 shoats, 2li. 10s .; 2 siekles, 1s .; A broad how, 4s .; gun and sword, 14s .; fflock bed and boulster, fflock bed tick and blanket, 1li .; total, 37li. 8s. 1d. Debts that are owing to others for hilling of the ground, 34s., 1li. 14s .; debts besids, 7li .; mor owing, 12s .; mor owing to others, 12s.
Received in Ipswich court, 25: 7: 1655.
A copy of this taken out of the records of the Ipswich court Mar. 11, 1655, received into court Mar. 31, 1691.
Debts oweing from the estate of William Knowlton: To my selfe Tho. Knowlton wch I lent him, 7li .; payd to men for hilling his corne, 1li. 16s .; payd to Jer. Belcher, 3s .; John Browne, 16s. 9d .; Mr. Willm Norton, 5s .; Henry Muddle, 15s .; payd to by cloths for the children, 1li. 16s. 6d .; payd for makeing them & a wastcot for her, 14s. 2d .; to the widdow Varney, 11s .; for a peece of marsh, 12s .; for bringing the goods to the Towne, 10s .; to Willm Coggswell 7s., Goodman ffowler, 6s., 13s .; for 4 hatts, 1li. 1s. 8d .; for shirts for the boyes, 10s .; for Scooling for the boyes, 14s. 6d .; to Goodman Kinsman, 11s. 10d., to Isaack Coussins, 20d., 13s. 6d .; for the Coffin & Grave, 6s. 6d .; to goodman Lomas, 6s. 8d .; to John Emerson, 2s .; 6 paire of shoes for the boyes & a paire for the girle, 14s. 6d .; for a paire of Indenters administration and Inventory & coppes, 3s .; oweing in my booke before his death for corne & shoes, 2li .; The widdow hath of the houshold stufe, 3li. 9s. 1d .; A petecoat, wast- coat, hatt & a paire of shoes, 2li. 8s. 10d .; a pound of Cot- ton woole, 1s. 8d .; total, 27li. 14s. 4d.
Thomas Knowlton received of the estate of his brother William Knowlton, deceased, 37li. 8s. 1d. An account of
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what he has paid out of the said estate : to Robert Kinsman, 11s. 10d .; John Browne, 16s. 9d .; Isaac Cuzens, 2s. 5d .; his Coffin, 5s .; making Cloathes, 14s. 2d .; shoes, 18s. 6d .; Skins for the Boyes, 8s .; to Edward Lumax, 6s. 8d .; Mr. John Emerson, 2s. 8d .; Good. Lord, 2s. 3d .; more paid in June, li .; for ye burial of him to mr. Willson, 1s. 6d .; cotten wool and ye Rate then due, 2s. 1d .; for Bringing my Brother to Town when Buried, 12s .; for hilling of his Corne, 1li. 16s .; bringing their Goods to Towne, 10s .; paid to mr. Cogswell, 1s .; Goodwife Fuller, 6s .; Skins for the boyes, 9s. 6d .; four hatts, 1li. 1s. 8d .; one Hatt, 13s. 6d .; A Coat, 1li .; in Shifts, 10s .; to Henry Muddle, 15s .; A coat, 16s .; more in Shoes, 5s. 4d .; to Goodwife Varny, 11s .; Robert Cross, 1s. 8d .; A Coat for William Knowlton, 13s. 6d .; two yards of Cloath, 14s. 11d .; to Richard Jacob, 6s .; my Sister had of me in Houshold Goods and a Cow, 8li. 7s. 11d .; total, 31li. 12s. 10d. And two boyes I kept from their age of five years till they were Eight years old and Cloathed and keept them to Scool, 36li. And I keept a Girle from her age of one year and halfe old till shee Maried.
Received by the court Sept. 24, 1678.
Deacon Thomas Knowlton testified to the truth of a copy of the above account and also that he hath disbursed much more than what is written.
June 19, 1690, before Mr. Sam11. Appleton Assist.
Received in Ipswich Court Mar. 31, 1691.
The request of Thomas Knowlton, sr. of Ipswich, dated Mar. 31, 1691, to the Ipswich court shewing that many years since, he was appointed administrator of the estate of his brother William Knowlton, who died in 1655, leaving a widow and seven children, the youngest about one and one half years old, and he was forced to take care especially of the youngest of them. The estate amounted to about 37li. 8s. 1d. and was insufficient to pay the debts with and bring up the children ; he gave in to the court in 1678, two accounts of disbursements, one for 31li. and one for 36li., and as by the accounts it appeared he had paid 50li. more than was in- ventoried he thought he had been cleared and that his dis- posal of the estate was for the benefit of the family, espe- cially when they received it and by his sister's importunity consented to the sale of the land, which was valued at about 20li., but now having done that for the widow and children, will this court take such cognizance of the cause as to ex-
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amine whether the entry of the clearing of said estate be sufficient, if not will they see just cause to do it yet.
Ipswich court, Jan. 2, 1715, granted administration (D. B. N.) on the estate of William Knowlton, Ipswich, to his grandson Capt. Jnº. Knowlton of Ipswich, he giving bond for 200li., Rice Knowlten and Isaac Giddings, sureties. Wit- ness : Samuel Daland, Danl. Rogers.
Mary Mitchell formerly Mary Knowlton, daughter to Wil- liam Knowlton of Ipswich, deceased, desires that "my Cusen John Knowlton" of Ipswich, late of Manchester, may have administration of any estate that may be thought to be her father's. Dated Winddum, Nov. 10, 1715.
Thomas Knowlton of Norwich, New London Co., desires that "my Cusen John Knowlton" of Ipswich, late of Man- chester, may have administration of any estate that may have been his father's, William Knowlton. Dated, Norwich, Nov. 12, 1715.
William Knowlton desires that "my Cusen John Knowl- ton" of Ipswich may have administration of any estate that may have been his father's William Knowlton. Dated Wen- ham, Dec. 5, 1715.
Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 16,099.
ESTATE OF REV. NATHANIEL ROGERS OF IPSWICH.
"The last will and testament of Mr Nathaniel Rogers Pas- tour of the Church of Christ at Ipswich, as was taken from his owne mouth July 3. Anno Dom: 1655. Concerning my outward estate. To one of the brethren I have left a peculiar charge, which he shall have power in himselfe to doe, and not to suspend. The summe of my estate both in Old England, and New, seemes to amount to about ye value of twelve hun- dred pound; of which sume, foure hundred pound is ex- pected from my father Mr Robert Crane in England. To my sonne John, to prevent expectation of a double portion, I have not so bequeathed; he hath never beene by any labour serviceable to to his brethren, but hath beene upheld by their labour, & paine, while he hath beene determining his way. Therefore I giue and bequeath to him an equall portion with his other brethren, viz, ye sume of one hundred pound of my estate in Old England, and one hundred pound of my estate in New England. To my sonne Nathaniel I give & bequeath ye sume of one hundred pound out of my estate in Old Eng-
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land; & one hundred pound out of my estate in New Eng- land. To my sonne Samuel I giue & bequeath ye sume of one hundred pound out of my estate in Old England; & one hundred pound out of my estate in New England. To my sonne Timothy I give & bequeath ye sume of one hundred pound out of my estate in Old England; & one hundred pound out of my estate in New England. To my sonne Eze- kiel I give & bequeath the sume of twenty pound, which he shall have liberty to take in my bookes, if he please.
"To my daughter I have already given her at least two hundred pound. The time of ye childrens receiving their portions either in part, or whole, shall be according to ye mutuall advice of my Executours, with these godly friends named, viz, my Cousin Mr Ezekiel Rogers, Mathew Boyes, Ezekiel Cheever, who are entreated to advise & counsell in this, & any other case as need shall require. To my three grandchildren, John, Nathaniel, Margaret Hubbard, I give & bequeath to each of them ye sume of fourtie shillings. To my Cousin John Rogers I give & bequeath the sume of five pound, which is in ye hands of Ensigne Howlett. To the children of my Cousin John Harris of Rowley, viz, Eliza- beth, Nathaniel, John, Mary, I give & bequeath to each ye sume of twenty shillings.
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