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Mr. John Gedny, administrator of the estate of Samuell Curwithy, was discharged Mar. 26, 1661, having settled the estate according to the inventory. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 93.
ESTATE OF TIMOTHY COOPER OF LYNN.
Administration on the estate of Timothy Cooper of Lynn, granted Mar. 29, 1659, to his widow, Elizabeth Cooper. In-
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ventory of his estate amounted to 167li. 11s. Widow to have all the estate, including the house and land, except that she should pay certain portions to the six children, as they came of age, namely, John, the eldest son and Mary, Han- nah, Timothy, Dorcas and Rebecah. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 74.
Inventory taken Mar. 8, 1659, by Francis Burrill and John (his [] mark) Wit: his weareing cloths, 4li .; the beding I meane all manner of beding and bed steads, 15li. 10s .; yarne, flax and hemp, 2li .; woling yarn and wolle and coten, 10s .; puter and bras and eiorn vessels and pothangers, 4li. 8s .; tabels and chistes and cobbord and chares and whels and cardes, 2li .; saws and axses and hows and other touls and eiorn trad, 3li. 10s .; A musket, sorde and bandeleres and belt, 1li. 10s .; A cart and cart rop and plows and eiorn traid belonging to them, 3li. 3s .; tubes and buckets and such eusfull vessels, 1li .; corn enlish and indein corne, 2li. 10s .; A bibel and other small thinges, 10s .; the dweling hous and housing and upland, 50li .; the meddow, 30li .; oxen and coues and Yonge cattell, 34li .; A mare and swine, 18li .; the shep, 4li .; total, 177li. 1s .; credit 5li. 10s .; Indeted 15li .; leaving total, 167li. 11s.
Mary Cooper aged eighteen, Hanah, sixteen, Timothy, eight, Dorcas, five and Rebeca, three years, to have 15li. each ; Jno. Cooper aged twelve years 25li .; the widow the remainder of the estate. Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 6,327.
ESTATE OF JOHN TUTTLE OF IPSWICH .*
Administration on the estate of John Tuttle granted Mar. 29, 1659, to George Giddinge and Mr. Joseph Jewett, for- merly attorneys of the estate. Ipswich Quarterly Court Rec- ords, vol. 1, page 74.
Whereas Mr. John Tuttle died in Ireland about two or three years ago, and there being no will or administration and the heir appearing and desiring to have the house and land which was his father's, the court ordered Sept. 27, 1659, that if the heir, Symon Tuttle, gave security to repay the rent he shall receive and keep the house in repair, he might take the estate into his possession until the court takes fur- ther order, the widow's thirds being reserved during her life.
* See also Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex Co., Mass., vol. II (1912), pp. 363-366.
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Thomas Bishop was the surety. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 81.
Mr. Symond Tuttle, bringing in a letter of attorney from Mrs. Joanna, executrix of Mr. John Tuttle, the will of the latter having been approved and allowed in Ireland to the satisfaction of this court, it was ordered 10: 10: 1661, that said Symond Tuttle be allowed as attorney, according to the letter bearing date, Jan. 29, 1660. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 81.
Petition to the court 15: 3: 1661 of Simon Tuttell as at- torney to Johanna Tuttell executrix of the will of her hus- band, John Tuttell shewing that the petitioner's father and her husband was indebted to Mr. Jacob Willet, in London, merchant, about 50li., which not being paid amounted to 111li. here in New England and for satisfaction of the same Mr. Antipas Boyse was made her attorney for the payment of the same out of the stock but instead he had sold of the land in Ipswich; and now we ask for your consideration in the case that we may have release from the same.
The petition having been considered and having seen the discharge given to Mr. Boyse by Mr. Willet it is judged in- expedient to grant any further hearing. Consented to by the magistrates 15: 3: 1662. Mass. Archives, vol. 15B, page 246.
ESTATE OF WILLIAM ADAMS, JR. OF IPSWICH.
Administration on the estate of William Addams, jr. of Ipswich, granted Mar. 29, 1659, to William Addams, his father, and John Addams, his brother. The inventory amounted to 218li. The estate was distributed to eldest son William, one half, and one fourth to each of the other two children, when they were of the age of twenty-one years. Elder John Whipple and Thomas Stace, overseers. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 74.
Inventory taken 24: 11: 1658, by John Appleton and Robert Lord : the dwelling house, Barne & orchyard together with six or 7 acres of marsh neare to Mr. William Paynes, 70li .; sixty acres or thereabouts of Land on the south syde the River by John Addams, 80li .; one mare, 12li. & a foale, 4li., 16li .; Two oxen, 10li .; three Cowes, 9li .; two ewes & one weather sheepe, 2li. 10s .; Two hoggs & five shotes, 5li. 10s .; one handsaw, 4s .; one broad & narow chessell & goudge,
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4s .; two Addes, 4s. 6d .; one croscut saw, 5s .; fowre Augeers, 7s .; five cheesells & goudges for turneing, 5s. 6d .; a percer stock & bitts, 4s .; a hollow shave, 1s .; 4 planes, 5s. 6d .; a sqare, 2s. 6d .; a payre of pinsers, 5d .; one beetle & 2 small wedges, 4s .; 4 axes, broad & narrow, 16s .; a span shakle Ring & staple, 5s .; a chayne & draught yoke, 9s .; an old sled, 1s. 6d .; an old broad How, 2s. 6d .; an old sithe & other old Iron, 3s .; In nayles, dovetailes & other small things, 12s. ; a small hande vice, 5s .; a plane, alls & gimlett, 1s. 3d .; two musketts, swords & furniture, 2li. 10s .; one bedsted & cord, 10s .; one fether bed & boulster, one paire of blanketts, a coverlett strawbed & curtaynes, 5li. 10s .; one trundle bed boulster, 2 pillows one blankett and coverlett, 2li. 10s .; one bedsted, bed & boulster, two blanketts, a Rug & a cradle cloth, 3li .; 9 yards of sackcloth, 15s .; 6 yards & a halfe of white cotton, 19s. 6d .; flax, hempe and woole, 16li .; a chest and box without a lid, 5s .; 2 spring locks, 2 cubbard locks, one box lock, one stock lock & 2 paire of dovetailes, 9s .; one box Iron, 4s .; a joyne chest, 6s. 8d. ; one pine chest & 3 boxes & leaden diall, 16s .; nyne chaires, 12s .; saddle, pillion & bridle, 1li. 18s .; stufe for 2 joyne tables & 15 foote of board, 1li. 6s .; 6 cushens & 2 old cushens, 13s .; his weareing Appar- rell, 10li. 18s .; 8 yards of french searge at 6s. p yard, 2li. 8s .; a yard & halfe of cotten & woole cloth at 3s. 8d., 5s. 6d .; 5 yards 3-4 of canuis, 3 ya: 1-4 lockrom 1 ya: 1-2 of lock : 19s. 6d .; 2 yards cheescloth, '2s. 4d .; gloues, neckcloth & other small things, 5s .; ould stockings, 2s .; his wifes weare- ing Apparell, 4li. 10s .; in bookes, 1li. 2s .; 11 yards of tike- ing at 4s. p ya., 2s. 4d .; in Rebeen & manchestor, 3s .; cotten & lennen yarne, 16s .; 1 paire of fine sheets, 1li. 10s .; 3 pil- low beeres, 15s .; one old diaper table cloth & 5 napkings, 1li .; 5 aprins & other lenen of his wifes, 2li. 10s .; childbed lennen, 1li .; bands, caps & pockett handcherchers, 13s .; 7 sheetes & a halfe, 2li .; 3 shifts, 10s .; a long canvas table- cloth, 6s. 8d .; 2 short table cloths, 7 napkings & 2 towells, 12s .; one beareing cloth, 6s., 3 old course pillowbeeres, 4s., 10s .; a paire of gloves, 2s. & money in his purse, 5s. 6d., 7s. 6d .; a grinstone, 8s., 4 silver spoones, 26s. 8d., ili. 14s. 8d .; in pewter, 30s., 1 pestle & morter, 4s., 1li. 14s .; a skimmer & trenchers, 3s .; a warmeing pan, 7s. & 2 skilletts & a brase pan, 10s., 17s .; two kettells & a brase pot, 2li .; 3 sives, a paile & old tub, 5s .; a fryeing pan, chees pres & two little motes, 8s .; 200 of bricks, 4s .; 2 Iron potts, pothookes & a greediron, 16s .; a kneading trough & other lumber, 5s .; 5
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trayes, dishes & earthen ware, 6s. 6d .; Andirons, spitt, fire pan & tonges, 12s .; In beere vessells, poudering tubs, keelers &c., 1li. 5s .; In debts, 25li. 10s .; total 292li. 13s. 7d .; debts to be deducted, 74li .; The cleare estate, 218li. 13s. 7d.
Received in Ipswich court 29: 1: 1659.
At the Ipswich court Mar. 27, 1660 added in debts due to the estate, 48li .; debts due from the estate, 15li .; total clear estate, 251li. 13s. 7d. Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 338.
William Addams one of the administrators of the estate of his son, William Addams, being now deceased, Nathaniell Addams, one of his executors, by his own consent in the place of his father, deceased, acknowledged Mar. 25, 1662, himself bound for the payment of the portions to the children of his brother, William Addams, jr. Ipswich Quarterly Court Rec- ords, vol. 1, page 104.
Division of the estate of Wm. Addams made by John Addams, administrator, and Elder John Whipple and Thomas Stace, overseers: to the eldest son, 80li. with 45li. in moveable estate; to the other two sons, the other half of the house, barn and six acres of marsh valued at 70li., and 55li. in moveable estate. Allowed in court Nov. 14, 1667. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 56.
ESTATE OF HUGH LASKIN OF SALEM .*
Administration on the estate of Hugh Laskine of Salem, granted Mar. 29, 1659 to Henry Herrick. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 75.
Inventory taken Mar. 21, 1658-9, by John Marston and Samuel Pickman: A black dimicaster, 8s .; 3 1-4 yerds of mixt Lincie woolsey, 6s. 8d .; 4 yerds of mixt kersie at 6s. yerd, 1li. 4s .; a wainscott chest, 5s .; a red shagg cotton pet- ticoate, 5s .; a mixt Woollen Whittle, 6s. 6d .; 6 ordinarie shifts & 6 ould shifts, 15s .; 2 sives, 1s. 6d .; 9 pecks of Wheat eaten with Weevells, 2s. 3d .; 3 Bushells of Mault, 12s .; 3 Bushells of Indian Corne eaten with Weevells, 5s .; a paire of Boddies & a paire of drawers, 3s .; 3 small wedges & a beetle ring, 2s. 6d .; a brass pann, 10s. 6d .; a pott of suger of about 9 lb., 6s .; 3 brass kettles, 9s .; 3 Iron potts, 15s .; a brass Cullender, a brass Candlestick, & a pewter porringer, 2s .; 3 pewter dishes & 1 small dish & a small bason & a boale, 8s .;
* See also Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex Co., Mass., vol. II (1912), pp. 157, 160.
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a Warming pann & a bell mettle morter, 8s .; a fryeing pann, 11 bands, 2 capps, & 6 handkerchers, 2s. 6d .; a pewter brimm bason, 2s .; 2 pillow beares, 3 crosscloathes & a neck-cloth, 3s .; a small box, 1s .; 2 spades & a dung fork, 2s. 6d .; 3 Bushells & 3 pecks of Mault, 15s .; 4 pc. of porke, 2s. 6d .; 3 pc. of bonie beoffe, 1s. 6d., 4 pc. nought, 4s .; 3 ould wastcoates, 2 ould blanckets & an ould Coate, 4s .; 1 ould petticoate & 2 paire of breeches, 1s .; a small pott of butter & a gallon of oyle, 3s .; a table & forme, a bedstead & 3 ould chaires, 17s. 6d .; 2 mens Coates, 10s. 6d .; & a Cotton cloth apron, 1s. 6d., 12s .; 2 white woollen blanckets, 14s. & a white cotton sheete, 6s., 1li .; fether bed & a flock bed, 3li. 10s .; a fether boalster & a fether pillowe, 15s .; a Canooe, 14s., 2 ould Cushions, 2s., 2 axes & a hatchet, 2s., 18s .; 1 ould crosscutt sawe, 1s. 6d., a black brush & a towell, 1s., 2s. 6d .; 2 Cowles & a peck, 3s., & a loade of wood, 3s., 6s .; a blewe Trucking cloth blanckett, 6s .; 2 pitch forks, 1s., 2 small cobb Irons, 1s. 6d., 2s. 6d .; 2 paire of pott hookes, 1s. 3d. & 2 hake, 2s., 3s. -; 2 furrs, a tosting fork & a paire of tongs, -; a smoothing Iron, 4d .; 2 paire of ould shooes & a paire of boots, 3s., 3s .; cloth suite & a wastcoate, 18s .; a mault mill, 2li .; 2 Cowes, 6li. 15s. ; a paile & a Mawle, 1s .; a stone Jugg, blewe & white, 2s .; a Tenn Acre Lott, 6li .; 3 quarters of an Acre of Marsh in 2 pl., 1li. 16s .; money in his Pocketts, 9li. 11s .; A debt due from Mr. Edmond Batter, 6li .; a debt due from Mr. Henry Bartholmewe, 9s .; A debt due from Tho. Hayle of Salem, 2s .; total, 52li. 4s. 10d. Debts due from Willm. Hascal, 5li. 8s .; a house plott in Salem, 10s .; debt due from Roger Hascall, 5 Bushels of Indian corne, 15s .; total, 58li. 2s. 10d. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 5, leaf 15.
Petition of Damaris (her DS mark) Mansfeild. Her former husband, Tymothie Laskin, died, leaving two small children ; and the charges for the burial of her father-in-law amounted to 6li. 10s. The court was asked to settle the mat- ter of the estate. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 5, leaf 16.
The court June 28, 1659, ordered two-thirds of the estate to be paid to Damoris Mansfield, who was the wife of Timo- thy Laskin, son of Hugh Laskin, deceased, and the rest to the wife of Henry Herricke, daughter of Hugh Laskin, de- ceased ; Paule Mansfeild, husband of Damoris, to pay 5li. each to Timothy Laskin's two sons, John and Timothy, who
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were under the age of twenty-one years. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, leaf 31.
ESTATE OF WILLIAM LAMPSON OF IPSWICH.
Administration on the estate of William Lampson of Ipswich, granted Mar. 29, 1659, to widow Sarah. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 75.
Inventory taken Feb. 11, 1658, by William Goodhue and Robert Lord : the house & ground aboute it, 40li .; two acres of marsh, 4li .; two steeres, 8li. 10s. 2d .; a cow & heifer of 2y., 6li .; 6 Goates, 3li .; a sow & 5 shotes, 3li .; two kettles, 3li .; 3 Iron pott & 1 Iron skillett, 2li. 5s .; 2 brase skilletts, 9s .; a brase morter, 5s. 6d .; a warmeing pan, 9s .; 7 pewter dishes, 1li. "s .; a chamber pot, 3 poringers & a pint pot, 5s .; a candlestick, 3s .; 1 dozen ocumy spoones & 1 dozen of pew- ter, 8s .; a lamp, smootheing Iron & other small things, 12s .; 1 keeler, poudering tub, bucking tub, paile & some other lumber, 14s .; sithes, beatle & wedges & sickles, 1li. 7s .; axes & other tooles, 1li. 12s .; a spad, shovell & howes, 7s .; wheeles & cards, 15s .; 2 old chests & a box, 10s .; wheat threst & un- thresht, 32 bushells, "li. 4s .; Indian Corne, 5li .; tumbrill, wheels, plow & what belongs to them, 3li. 5s .; nayles, 1li .; in bookes, 1li .; one old bedsted & trundlebed, 10s .; 2 old chairs & formes, 4s .; his weareing aparell, 6li .; a sword & belt, 6s. 8d .; sives & earthen ware & other Lumber, 8s .; a fetherbed & 2 bolsters, 3li. 10s .; one bed & other beding, 3li. 10s .; 3 paire of sheets, 3 little pillows & pillowbeares, 2li. 12s .; cotten woole & 1li. of sheeps woole, 8s. 6d .; new cloth, 2li. 10s .; a sack & bag, 5s. 6d .; tobaco, 5s .; bacone, 10s .; hempt and flaxe towe 10s .; total, 117li. 17s. 2d .; debts owe- ing to him, li .; debts that he owed too others, 13li. 7s .; total, 124li. 17s. 2d .; debts to be deducted 13li. 7s .; clear estate, 111li. 10s. 2d.
He left eight children, four sons and four daughters. The eldest son sixteen years last November, the eldest daughter fourteen years, the second son nine and three quarter years, the second daughter seven, third daughter five and one half, fourth daughter four, third son two years last November and youngest son twenty four weeks old.
Administration granted to the widow and ordered that she pay or cause to be paid to the children as they came to age or marriage with her consent, the eldest son 12li. the
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rest 6li. each and that the house and land stand engaged to make good the legacies. If any of the children die before they come to age then to be divided equally to the survivors. Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 16,264.
Whereas there was security taken of a house and land at Ipswich, for the payment of several portions to the children of Wm. Lampson, deceased, according to Ipswich court record of Mar. 29, 1659, until other security be given, and Thomas Hartshorne of Redding, coming into court and tendering the house in Redding where he now dwells, with fifteen acres of land adjoining, and seven acres of meadow in two several parcels, bounded as is expressed in a writing given in to court, and now on file, in the Salem court records, the court 10: 10: 1661 accepts the latter security and releases the former. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 81.
Petition of John Ayres and William Fellows, Nov., 1661 : "Wheras or Brother william Lampson late of Ipswich dyed intestate and Administration granted by the Honered Court at Ipswich to his widdow our sister Sarah Lampson and de- vided the estate about halfe to her & halfe to the children being eight in number and whereas shee being about to change her estate to one Thomas Harteshorne of Redding It was agreed that before mariage he should signe and seale a wrighting to give our sayd sister power & liberty to dispose of the one halfe of the estate she brought to him by way of will (of wch there is sufisient wittness besydes our selues) but by pvidence that wrighting being neglected to be finished before mariage (though then pmised it should be done after) but it is now refused and thereby the children of or Brother william Lampson like to suffer And wheras the estate in the Inventory delivered into court was underprised espeshally the Land wch now appeareth to be worth eightye pound wch was then prised but forty foure pound
"Our Humble request to this Honered Court is that the children of our brother may Inioy a pt of the advance of there fathers estate and doe humbly intreat (if this Honered Court shall thinke fitt) that the Land may be to pay the childrens portions, it being prised in the Inventory as before exprest & there portions fiftye foure pounds & soe there por- tions will be advanced twentye six pound & the widdow still haue about halfe the estate and that it would please the court that those children that are put out may haue there portions improved for there use & benifitt || that|| when they come to
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age to reciue the same, that being all (as the case now stands) that they are like to haue of there Fathers estate."
Thomas Hartshorne of Redding tendered as security, in- stead of the land at Ipswich, his house in which he dwells, and fifteen acres of land in Redding, bounded on the north by land of James Pike, on the south by land of Walter Faire- field, on the east and west by the common; also three acres of meadow at Reeva in the same town, bounded on the north by the meadow of Henry Felch and by the common on the other three sides; also four acres of meadow in the great meadow in the bounds of Lynn, bounded on the north by the meadow of Edward Hutcheson, on the south by the meadow of Isaack Harte, on the west by the common, and on the east by Isaack Hart's farm. Accepted 11: 10: 1661.
Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 7, leaves 32, 33.
ESTATE OF JOHN PERKINS, JR. OF IPSWICH.
Administration on the estate of John Perkins, jr., of Ips- wich, granted Mar. 29, 1659, to widow Lidia. Amount of the inventory of the estate, 73li. 10s. 1d. He left one young child, new born. The widow to hold the estate until the child was eighteen years old, and then pay the child 14li., or at the day of her marriage, with her mother's consent. Ips- wich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 75.
Inventory taken 25: 1: 1659, by William Goodhue and John Dane: Cloth that came from the wevers 56 yard, 8li. 10s .; 14 pound of cotten wooll, 18s. 6d .; on hog, 2li. 4s .; in butter and chese, 1li. 10s .; 3 poringers and 6 pound of suger, 8s. 6d .; in small linin, 2li .; wheatt 22 bushells & a halfe, 3li. 1s. - d .; seventy bushells of barly, 14li .; Inden corne, 1li .; A chest, a tob, a barrell, a halfe barrell, 14s .; the weringe apparell, 4li .; some lumber in severall things, 12s .; A fether bed, a rug, a boulster, 2 blankts, 7li .; A muskett, a sword rest & poutch, 1li. 10s. 5d .; 4 weges, 2 bettell rings, 2 forks, 2 old axes, 2 sithes, 1li .; a plow and Iornes, a yoke & ringe & span shakell, 10s .; in shepe, 2 ewes, 2 yere old wethers, 3li .; a mare colt a yere old, 6li. 10s .; in swine, 10li .; 3 Cowes, 2 steres 5 yere olds, 26li .; a Iorn pott, a skillitt, a fringe pan, 3 dishes peuter, a paell, 2 spoons, 1li. 4s .; a end of ye house at the farme as it cost, 5li. 16s .; total, 103li. 8s. 3d .; debts, 29li. 18s. 2d .; leaving 73li. 10s. 1d.
Received in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1659. Essex Co. Pro- ' bate Files, Docket 21,338.
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ESTATE OF MARK SYMMONS OF IPSWICH.
"The last will & testamt of Marke Symons who beinge Weake in bodie yet of good & pfect memory doe comit my soule into ye hand of ye lord my god as my faithfull creator & my bodie decently to be interred in ye earth By this my last will I doe appoynt my beloved wieffe Ioanah Symons to be sole executrix of this my last will & testamt & my estate to be disposed of as followeth viz tt I bequeth to my daugh- ter Susannah Ayres a fetherbed & boulster wch was her mothers wth ye worst rugg tt I bequeathe to Abigaill Pierce a fetherbed & ye best rugg tt I bequeathe to John walner iunior one ewe lambe of this yeare
"Allsoe my will is my debyts beinge payde & funerall ex- pences discharged my said wieffe shall inioye all my goods & chattells viz my howse & barne & ground about & belong- inge to ye same wth all ye pviledges & appurtenances belong- inge to ye same: together wth all my vpland & meadowe wth all my cattell of one kinde & another: I saye to inioy all my reall & psonall estate for ye full terme of her lieffe: And my will is yt after ye decease of my said wieffe my estate to be equally devided amongst our three daughters & ye children of my daughter ||mary|| Chapman deceased pvided yt yt estate wch anie of them haue receaved alredie shall be val- lewed & ye yt haue had ye most ye yt haue had least maye all of them after ye decease of my wieffe haue an equall pportion of all my estate Provided yt if my said wieffe shall by anie hand of pvidence shall neede more then ye estate will pduce for her comfortable mayntenance then to haue convaynient supplie out of ye estate & ye rest to be devided as aforesaid Also I apoynt my log bretheren Moses Pengrie & Edward Browne to be oversseers of this my last will & testament dated 25 (2) 1659."
mark symmons
Witness : George Smith, Aaron Pengry.
Proved in Ipswich court Apr. 28, 1659 by the witnesses.
Inventory of estate of Marke Symonds of Ipswich taken May 16, 1659, by Robert Lord and Robert Day : his dwelling house & barne with the ground about it, 80li .; two oxen, 11li .; two steeres & one heifer, 9li .; a mare & foale, 20li .; three cowes, 10li .; 7 ewes & 4 Lambes, 8li .; two shotes, 1li. 16s .; in bookes, 2li. 4s .; his weareing apparell, 5li .; a bedsted & cord, curtaynes & valiants, 1li. 7s .; ye best feather bed & boulster & green Rugg, 6li .; a fetherbed & boulster & red
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THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
rugg, 4li. 15s. ; a bedsted, flockbed & flock boulster & 4 old blanketts, 2li .; a flockbed & 2 blanketts, 1li. 15s .; 3 fether pillows & one old little one, 1li .; 4 paire & an od sheet, 2li. 15s .; 4 pillow beeres, 14s. 6d .; 2 table cloths & one litle one & seaven napkings and old shirt, 1li. 5s .; 2 chests & 3 boxes, 1li. 4s .; a little table, 6s. 8d. ; one great chaire & 4 small & too cushons, 8s .; a looking glase, 3s .; 2 glase bottles & 3 earthen poringers, 2s .; 2 brishes, 1s. 8d .; 30li. of pewter at 14d. ยง li., 1li. 15s .; one chamber pot, 2s .; one great kettell, one midle kettell, 3 small ould ones, 2 old skilletts & a scimer, 4li .; 2 morters & one pestle, 12s .; a warmeing pan, 4s .; a fryeing pan, 4s. 6d .; 2 little Iron potts & paire pot- hooks, 12s .; a spitt, greed Iron & chafen dish, 5s .; 2 paire Lamo Andirons fire pan and a paire of toungs, 10s .; a pew- ter candlestick, 2s. 6d .; a Tramell, 2s. 6d .; 2 plankes, 2 tressells, forme, cubbord, kneading trough & other lumbar, 16s .; a muskett, coliver & 2 old swords, 1li. 12s .; 2 beere vessells, poudering tub, chirne, cheese press & other lumbar, 1li .; sives, earthen ware, shires, pressing Iron, chees motts & other small things, 8s .; scales & waytes, a halfe bushell, 7s .; 7 bushell Indian corne, 18s. 8d .; wheat about 2 bushell & 1-2, 11s. 3d. ; in woole, 5s .; a fann & ould tubs, ould chest & nayles, 18s .; halfe a bush. of rye, 2s .; tooles & old Iron in the bumby, 1li .; a beetell & 4 wedges, a saw & fro, 14s .; 2 old sithes, an old croscutt saw, shovell & some other small things, 11s .; an arrow, axe, hatchet, 3 pitchfork, 6s. 6d .; 2 broad hows, 4s .; a saddell & bridle, 16s .; 18 acres of Land, 36li .; 2 acres of meddow at Mr. Wintrips farme & 1 acre of salt marsh, 5li. 10s .; cart, tumbrill, plow chaynes & yokes, wheeles & Irons & sled, 3li. 5s .; a grindstone, 6s .; In debts oweing to the estate, 36li .; debts oweing from the estate, 13li. 10s .; total clear estate, 257li. 6s. 9d.
Delivered in Ipswich court June 2, 1659 by Joanah Sy- monds widow of Marke Symonds.
Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 27,116.
Edward Chapman, having received the part of the estate given by Marke Symonds to his children, bound to the county treasurer 24: 9: 1659, his house, which was late Mark Sy- monds, and twelve acres of land in common on north side of the river for payment of the children as they come of age, in all sixty pounds. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 83.
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