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"This will of Gershom Lamberts was Read unto him and he owned it in euery of the prtickulers of it and set these leters of his name and his seal to it," in presence of the witnesses. Witness: Samuell Brocklebanke, Ezekiel Northend, John Brocklebanke.
Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 29, 1664 by Samuell Brock- lebanke and Ezekiell Northend. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 9, leaf 109.
ESTATE OF MRS. MARY MILLER OF NEWBURY.
"Know all men by theise psents that I Mary Miller wid- dow of of body but of perfect memory Do here make my last will and testament disposeing of my worldly goods as followeth ' I giue and bequeath eleuen pounds due to me in Rent from Benjamin Roafe vnto my Daughter Sara the wife of James Browne as also foure Cowes that is in the possession of the said Benjamin Roafe vnto my said daughter Sara Browne and the -- that is in Henry Tewks- buryes hands I giue vnto Mary Moody the wife of Samuell Moody, the said Samuell paying to my aforesaid Daughter Sara Browne twenty shillings two oxen that is in my son Nicholas Noyes his hands I giue to my said son Nicholas, provided that he pay also to my said Daughter Sara Browne eight pounds out of the said oxen as also I giue my said Daughter Sara Browne thirty fiue shillings what Henry Tewksbury oweth vnto me and thirty shillings that Samuell moody oweth vnto me, and ten shillings that is behind of rent in the hands of John Dauis and fifty shillings in the hands of Nicholas Noyes of my Rent since last year I also giue vnto my said Daughter Sara Browne and a feather bed I giue also vnto her my said daughter also a siluer spoone and the little my daughter Mary the wife of Nicholas Noyes, and the Dram cup I giue vnto my Grandchild Mary Moody; and my linnen and cloathes & other goods left I dispose of to be deuided equally among them my two daughters grandchild abouesaid as also I appoint my son James Browne to be the executor of this my last will and testament - my debts & funeral being discharged nouemb: 26th 1663 In witness wherof I haue set my hand."
her mark Mary MA Miller
Witness : Anthony Somerby, Henry Short.
Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 29, 1664 by the witnesses. 1
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Inventory of the estate of Mrs. Mary Miller, widow, de- ceased Mar. 6, 1663, taken by Henry Short and Anthony Somerby : foure cowes, 18li .; three oxen, 21li .; her weareing apparrell, 20li .; four pr. of sheets, 5 pillowbeares, two table clothes, 6 napkins, 3li. 10s .; one feather bed, one boulster, 3 pillowes, one Rug, 2 blanckets with curtaines and [va ]llons, 12li .; six platters, 1li. 10s .; five cushions, 1li. ; a chest, a box with drawers, a looking glasse, 1li .; one silver spoone, one silver wine Cupp and a silver dram cup, 1li .; total, 79li.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 29, 1664 by James Browne.
Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 18,445.
ESTATE OF JOHN ROLFE OF NEWBURY.
"This 4th (3ª*) of februrie 1663 I John Roffe of Newbry being often sickly am willing while my memorie is good to dispose of my outward Estat not knowing how soon I may be desolued and leue this world Therefore I do ordain and make my last will and Testament as followeth first I Com- itt my soule to god and my body to the Erth to be buried 2dly I give and bequeth my house and all my land I have in salsbery with all the priviliges and apurtenances be long- ing ther vnto in said salsbery vnto my daughterr Hestur sanders the wife of John Sanders during hir life and thirtie pounds more : and after hir decease to Remain vnto hir Children of hir body by Equall portions Itm I give and be- queth vnto sarah Cottell the wife of willm Cottl besid twenti pounds I formerly gave hir I give hir twenti pounds more and vnto hir two Children sarah Cottl and Ann Cotle tenn pounds a peece to be Improved by willm Cottl for ther benifit Itm I giue vnto my Grand Children Isac Ring and Josep Ring tenn pounds a peece and vnto Elizabeth shrop- shere and hester Ring twentie pounds a peece Itm I giue vnto Thomas whittyre ||for his| Children ten pounds Item I giue vnto the Church of newbre twenti shilings Itm I giue vnto Richard whittyr my sisters sonn tenn pounds and vnto his sonn John whityr five pounds Itm I giue vnto John Rofe my brothrs sonn tenn pounds and vnto his two daughtrs marie and Rebeca Rofe flue pounds to be Improved equaly for ther benifit
"Itm I give vnto beniamn Rofs son John Roffe tenn pounds and his sonn benimin Roffe five pounds to be Im-
* The day of the month was changed in the original instru- ment.
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proved for ther benifit Itm I give vnto Ann Gardner the wife of Richard gardner five pounds Item I give vnto honore dole the wife of Richard dole my - Item I giue vnto Richard dols six Children fortie shillings and Item I giue vnto heneri lesenby Richord dols servant ten shillings Itm I giue vnto mari Kinrick tenn shillings and a plater of pewter Likwis I do ordain and apoint my lou- ing Kindsman Richard dole to be my Executur to discharg and pay all the former ligacies and debts and Charg that may a Rise for my funerall or otherwise and I desir my three frends Henri short willm moody and Richard Knight to be my ouer seers to see this my will to be performed and my will is that all the legacies should be paid within a yere and half after my decease"
his mark John R Roffe (SEAL)
Witness : Richard Knight, Cornelius Connor, Hen : Short, his mark
william W-M moodye.
Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 29, 1664 by Richard Knight and William Moody. Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 24,116.
ESTATE OF ALEXANDER KNIGHT OF IPSWICH.
"In The Name of God Amen. The tenth day of ffebruary in the yeere of or Lord one thousand six hundred sixty & three. I Allexander Knight the vnproffitable seruant of God weake in body, but strong in mind doe willingly & with a free hart render & give againe into the hands of my Lord God & Creator my spirit, which hee of his fatherly goodnesse gaue vnto mee, when hee first fashioned mee in my mothers wombe makeing mee a liueing & a resonable creature noth- ing doubting but that for his infinite mercies sake set forth in the prtious blood of his dearely beloued sonne Jesus Christ or onely sauiour & redeemer, hee will receive my soule into his Glory, & place it in the Company of the heauenly An- gells & blessed Saints: And for my body I Comitt it to the earth wherof it Came; nothing doubting but according to the Article of my faith at the great day of the Generall Resurrection when wee shall appeare before the Judgment seate of Christ I shall receive againe the same by the mighty power of God who is able to subdue all things to himselfe, not a Corruptible weake & vile body as it is now, but an incorruptible imortall strong & pfect body in all poynts like
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vnto the Glorious body of my lord & Sauiour Jesus Christ. And for the portion of these earthly things which God hath lent mee I dispose as followeth, first I giue vnto my Loueing wife my howse & howse lott & all my other goods & debts during her naturall life, (my debts being discharged) Item I giue vnto my eldest Daughter Hannah Knight at the age of one & twenty yeares six Acres of marsh & Six Acres of planting land, Item I giue vnto my loueing wife all the rest of my planting land & marsh during her naturall life, my will is also after my wiues deceace, that my planting land & marsh before named be equally diuided betwene my other daugters, Sarah & Mary & my sonne Nathaniell, And also that my sone Nathaniell haue my howse & howse lott, besides his part in my planting land & marsh aforesaid. And further my will is that all my howsehold goods be equally diuided betwene my three daughters & my sonne Nathaniel after my wiues deceace. And I doe ordaine & appoynt my wife Hanna Knight And William Inglish |of Boston|| to be my executors of this my last will & Testament, And if it shall happen any of my Children before named to depart this life before their portions be due, my will is that those that be liueing shall share their portion or portions equally betweene them. Also my will is that if any Ambiguity doubt or question doe arise by reson of the impfection or defect of, or in any Clauses words or sentences in this my last will & Testament, or my true intent & meaning therin, I will that the further & better explanation interprtation & Construction of the said doubt & ambiguity be by my said executors expounded explained & interprted according to their wisdome & discretion. In witnes wherof I haue here- unto sett my hand & Seale in the prsents of"
his mark Alexander O Knight [SEAL] Witness : John Whipple, James Chute, Robert Lord, Jn'r.
Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 29, 1664 by James Chute and Robert Lord, Jr.
Inventory taken by Jno. Denison, Walter Roper and Francis Wainewright: 32 Acers of land & a house, 120li .; Brass & pewter, 3li. 7s .; Bedding & furniture, 4li. 13s .; a Trunk & Chest & box & chairs and table & paile and keeler and trayes & other ould things, 1li. 14s .; Cloaths of his, 8s .; one small Cow, 4li .; swine, 1li. 10s .; 2 wheels, 5s .; Books, 5s .; ould Iorn things & 2 sives, 8s .; 1 pr tongues & tramell
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& pothookes, 8s .; 1 doz. spoons, 6s .; in Goodman Bishops hand, 14s .; a silver spoone, 5s .; in Mr. Jewits hands, 26li .; total, 164li. 3s. 11d. The debts of Allexander Knight: to Jno Denison, 10s. 3d .; Mr. Baker, 8s .; Jno. Whipple, 3s. 6d .; Jno. Wiet, 3s .; ffr. Wainewright, 2li. 12s. 1d .; total, 3li. 16s. 10d. To Aaron Pengre, 7s.
Received in Ipswich court Mar. 29, 1664.
Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 15,941.
ESTATE OF RICHARD WICKAM OF ROWLEY.
Inventory of the estate of Richard Wickam taken Feb. 26, 1663, by Maxemillian Jewett and Samuell Brocklebanke: in aparrell, 4li .; the beding for one bed, 4li .; beding and bedstead for another bed, 2li .; two paire of sheets, 1li. 8d .; pots Iron and brase and Cettles and skellits and other things belonging them for the house, 2li .; the houses and land at home lot, 22li .; land in bredforth street lots, 9li .; land in pollipod lots, 5li .; land in the new plaine, 4li .; [on]e acre of medow called the Spring acre, 5li .; 3 acres of upland and meadow at farme, 15li .; 3 acres of salt marsh, 12li .; more upland in the farme 107 Rod, 15s .; 4 acres of upland in the common, 3li .; in land called the village land, 15li .; one pare of oxen, 11li .; 3 Cowes, 2 steares and 3 other smaller catell and 2 calves, 23li .; in young swine, 21li .; cart, plow cheines and yoakes and other such things, 2li. 10s .; axe, beetell, wedges, howes and such other small things, 10s .; chaires and wooden vessels, 1li .; total, 144li. 1s. 8d.
Attested to be a true inventory by An Wickam in the Ipswich court, -, 1664. Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 29,792.
Daniell Wickam of Rowley, carpenter, upon receipt of one paire of oxen and some other small things, and also to have one acre of meadow in Batchelor's meadow after his father, Richard Wickam's decease, acknowledged himself satisfied of any further expectation of portion from his father or his estate. Signed and sealed Aug. 9, 1662. Witness : Maxemilian Jewett and Samuell Brocklebanke.
Maxemilian Jewett and Samuell Brocklebanke testified to this being the act and deed of Daniell Wickam in Ips- wich Court Mar. 29, 1664. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 2, page 201.
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ESTATE OF WILLIAM DEALE OF HAVERHILL.
"I William Deale of Haverhill in ye County of Norfolke in New England; being weake in body; but of perfect Mem- mory; and Nott knowing how ye Lord May be pleased to deale with me; I doe Make this my Last will; Impr I doe bequeath my soule into ye hands of him yt gave it me; tt After all my debts be payd I doe give unto my deare and Loueing wife Mary Deale all my Lands and goods to be att hir dissposall; tt I doe will yt my two Children shall have twenty pounds A pece when they Come at age or day of Marridge; I doe Meane att twenty one yeares : and Sixteene yeares yt ye twenty pounds shalbe payd tt I doe make my deare and Loveing wife Mary deale Administratrix of my whole Estate ffebruary ye : 14th 1664."
his mark William O Deal (SEAL)
Witness : John Carleton, Phill : Challis.
The will presented to court Apr. 12, 1664 but not proved, the administratrix, as she was called, refusing to have any- thing to do with the will. Norfolk Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 38.
Administration on the estate granted Oct. 10, 1665 to Edward Clarke of Haverhill and ordered to bring in an in- ventory. Hampton Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, leaf 32.
Inventory of the estate of William Delle taken 3: 3: 1665, by William Sargent, Sr. and Lt. Phillep Challis both of Salisbury : house, 1li. 10s .; Land brocke up and unbrocke up ajoyning to ye house, 80li .; in staveses by the water side, 4li .; 2 coues and a calfe, 9li. 10s .; wering aparill, 7li .; linin, 2li .; wodin ware, 12s .; a cheste, 4s .; yarne, 6s .; iern were for husbindre, 1li. 15s .; a friing pan, 3s .; a bellte, 10s .; chilldrenes blanckites, 10s .; an ell of brode cloath, 1li .; a paire of pistels, 10s .; his thurd divishan Land, 5li. 15s .; whete and inian corn, 3li .; a sack, 3s .; total, 118li. 8s.
Presented to Hampton court 10: 8: 1665 and attested to by Mary Deale. Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 7,463.
GUARDIANSHIP OF WIDOW MARY WILLIX OF SALISBURY.
The widow Willix of the town of Salisbury being in no capacity to order and improve her estate by reason of a strange kind of distracted and distempered condition that she had been in for a long time, it was ordered Apr. 12, 1664,
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that Capt. Tho. Bradbury, Richard Wells and Edward French take care of her estate for her comfortable subsistence, to see her house finished, according to agreement with Wm. Osgood, and in case of need to sell part of her estate for the finishing of the house and procuring stock. Salisbury Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, leaf 21.
Ordered 9: 2: 1667 that the estate of Thomas Hauxworth, deceased, some-time of this town, be committed to the im- provement of Onezeverous Page, who married said Haux- worth's daughter, who was to provide for the maintenance of the relict of Hauxworth, his wife's mother. Page had power also to exchange or sell part of the estate, with the approbation of Tho. Bradbury and Ric. Wells. If his mother-in-law proved more than ordinarily burdensome to him by reason of her age and other infirmities, the town of Salisbury should afford timely help. Salisbury Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, leaf 46.
GUARDIANSHIP OF MARTHA SMITH OF (ROWLEY ?).
Martha Smith chose Nathaniell Elitrop to be her guar- dian May 5, 1664, and he was bound in 40li. to pay her her portion when due. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 130.
Nathaniell Elithorp, guardian of Martha Smith acknowl- edges the receipt from Jerimiah Elsworth of 22li. 13s. 6d. her portion, and acquits the said Jerimiah Elsworth and Mary his wife (late wife and executrix to Hugh Smith her former husband) of all the said portion or legacy. Dated Nov. 8, 1664. Witness: Maximilian (his mark) Jewett, John Boynton.
Acknowledged by Nathaniell Elithorp Apr. 6, 1665 before Samuell Symonds. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 2, page 233.
ESTATE OF JONATHAN LAMBERT OF (ROWLEY ?).
Administration on the estate of Jonathan Lambert, intes- tate, granted May 5, 1664 to his brother John Lambert and he was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Ipswich court. John Lambert was bound in forty pounds. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 130.
Inventory of the estate of Jonathan Lambert taken 24: 7: 1664, by William Acie and Richard Swan: a maire and a
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colt and a young horse, 20li .; more receved of Mr. Richard Parker merchant of Boston, 10li. 9s. Estate debtor: for wintering a mare and colt, 1li. 5s .; for administration grant- ing, 2s. 6d .; one journey to Boston, two men 3 dayes horse and man, one journey more to Boston, one man 3 dayes, 12li .; money due, 10s .; paid to the man that attended on Jonathan, 2li .; to the ship doctor, 15s.
Attested in Ipswich court 27: 7: 1664 by John Lambert. Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 16,188.
ESTATE OF ELIZABETH COCKERILL OF SALEM.
Edward Clapp and Frances Collens presented an inven- tory of the estate of Elizabeth Cockerill, deceased, amount- ing to 102li. 2s. Administration was granted 28: 4: 1664 to Edward Clapp, Frances Collens and Andrew Woodbery, who married the three daughters of said widow, who, after all just debts were paid, were to divide the estate among them. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 129.
Inventory taken June 27, 1664, by Jefferie Massey and Hennery Skerry: One dwelling house & out house with a quarter of an acre of ground adjoining, 32li .; two Cowes & one swine, 7li .; two feather beads with theire furniture, 14li .; pewter, 2li. 15s .; iron potts & hangers, fire shovell & tongues, 20s., 3li. 15s .; brass kettles, skellets, a candlestick & brass morter, 1li. 15s .; 12 yrds. osenbrige & about 20 yrds. cource holland, 3li. 15s .; 6 pr. of sheets, 1 doz. napkins & other linen, 12li. 17s .; 4 yrds. broad cloath, 40s .; 2 yrds. 1-4 Carsy, 14s., 2li. 14s .; a black cloak, 25s., her wearing aparell, 6li. 13s., 7li. 18s .; tables, stooles, chaires & chests & other lumber, with 2 seives, a sword & old muscutt, 3li .; two bibles, 11s., cash, 12li., a silver spoone, 5s., a ring, 12s., 13li. 8s .; total, 102li. 2s. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 9, leaf 136.
ESTATE OF MRS. GRACE SALLOWS OF (SALEM ?).
Robert Lemon, presenting an inventory of the estate of Grace Sollas, widow, late deceased, amounting to 113li. 13s. 3d., which was allowed, was appointed 28: 4: 1664 adminis- trator of the estate. He was ordered to pay to her son Thomas Sollas, 30li. at the age of twenty-one years, to son Robert, 15li., to daughter Mary, 15li. at age or marriage, and the survivors to have the deceased childrens' portions,
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if any die before they come of age. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 132.
Inventory of the estate of Grace Sallowes, deceased, taken June 29, 1664, by Thos. Pickton and Thom. Rootes: One house & an akre & halfe of land, 60li .; one cowe, 4li. In the parlor, one feather bed, 2 bolsters, 2 pillowes, one pare of white blankets, a blew Rugg, a straw bed, Curtaines & val- ence & bedsted, 8li .; a Court Cubberd, 12s .; a wainscot Chest, 10s .; a table & Joynt stooles, 9s .; a Carpet, 9s .; 3 boxes & 3 Chaires, 8s .; a warming pan, a paire of tonges & fire shovell, 8s .; a cushion for a Cubberd's head, 1s. In the hall, 1 old feather bed, a paire of blankets, a feather bolster, a canvas bed & bolster case, a greene Rugg, a bedsted, curtaines & valance, 5li .; a paire of blankets, a feather pillow & a canvis bedcase, 1li .; a settle & 9 Chaires, 13s .; 6 Cushions & 2 feather pillowes, 10s .; 2 hakes, a paire of tongs, a spit & grediron, 6s .; a frying pan & smoothing Iron, 2s. 6d .; 2 Iron pots, an Iron kettle & skillett, 14s .; 2 brasse kettles & 2 skillets, 1li. 6s .; a looking glasse & a Jugg bottle, 1s. 6d .; 2 bookes of mr. burroughes & 2 psal. bookes, 10s .; a brush & 2 paire of pott hookes, 2s. 9d .; wareing Clothes, 3li .; 9 pewter dishes, 1 bason, 2 small Basons, 2 quart pots, 8 por- ringers & 4 spoones, one beaker & a boule, 1-2 pint pot, 7 sawsers, 2 salts, 1li. 15s .; a brasse candle stick & 2 brass ladles, 5s .; Latten ware, 3s .; lisbone ware & glasses, 10s .; 2 dozen trenchers & 6 spoones, 1s .; 15 wooden dishes & 3 trayes, 5s .; 3 sieves, 2 Chests, a small table, 13s .; a musket, 10s .; 2 baggs & old seabeds & bedding, 1li .; 13 sheets, 3li. 10s .; 3 kalico table cloathes & one ozingbrig, 15s .; 2 old Cub- berd cloathes, 6 lockrom napkins, 8s .; 12 pillowbeires, 1li. 3s .; 15 towells & a table cloath, 14s .; 5 shurts & a dimity waiscoate, 1li. 10s .; 2 old axes & wedges & earthen pots, 8s .; in lumber as old barrells & tubs & pailes, 10s .; a basket & 2 old ones for linnen, 3s .; in a pt of stage & house at the misery, 1li. 10s .; 4 Codlines, 2 pare of snuds & a portagall cap, 10s .; a dozen of handkercheifes & 6 bands, 10s .; 6 pare of stockins & a spinning wheele, 12s. & a pestill & morter of Brasse, 2s. The womans childs cloathes, Childrens small linnen, 1li. 10s .; a silke skarfe & hood, 12s .; 3 white aprons & weareing linnen, 2li. 5s .; 3 sutes of womens apparell, 3li .; a bareing blanket & Childes weareing Cloathes, 15s .; total 113li. 13s. 3d. Estate was debtor to Mr. Browne, 18li. 15s. 10d .; to Will. Allen, 16li .; total, 34li. 15s. 10d. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 10, leaf 5.
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ESTATE OF HENRY HARWOOD OF SALEM.
"29th 4th mº 1664 Wee whose names are here vnder- written, do witnesse yt being desired by bro: Harwood (ye afternoon before his death) to be with him to help to make his will, he did then expresse himselfe for ye substance thus that it was his will, yt his wife should haue the vse of his wholl estate while she liued, & after her deceas it should be divided between his wiues daughter Elizabeth Nixon, & his Kinswoman onely one legacy he expressed his will to giue to ye church viz foure pound to ye Church to help ye poor in bearing the charge of the Lords Supper. this had then been written but for some interruption; he saying he would take another time for it, neither he nor we thinking he had been so near to his end." John Higginson, Henry Bartholomew.
"I Henry | Bartholmew || haue subscribed to what is aboue written onely that pticuler of devidinge the estate betweene his kinswoman and his wiues daughter but in discource it did apeare to me it was his minde to giue her a pt of his estate after his wiues decease" Henry Bartholmew
Proved in Salem court 28: 4: 1664. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 10, leaf 9.
Administration on the estate was granted 28: 4: 1664, to the widow, and it was ordered that the estate remain in the widow's hands for her use for life. At her death, the housing and land was to go to Jane Flinder, wife of Richard Flinder, the kinswoman of said Henry Harwood, and the rest of the estate to Elizabeth, wife of Mathew Nixon, her daughter. If the widow should be in want, she had liberty to sell any part of the estate. "The will & Inventory filed up in the court records 9mo 71 with other papers concerned." Copy made by Steph. Sewall, cler. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 133.
Inventory of the estate of Henry Harwood, late of Salem, taken 10: 1: 1663-4, by Joseph Grafton, George Gardner, John Gardner and Henry Bartholmew: A dwellinge house with outhousinge and three akers of lande belonging, 50li .; ten akers of lande in the south field, 20li .; five akers of lande on Darbie forte side, 5li .; two Cowes, 9li .; nine ewe sheepe, one wether, and 10 lambes, 7li. 10s .; one swine, 15s. In the inner Rome, 5 pewter plattrs, 17s. 6d .; one pewter bowle, one beaker, 2 bras candlesticks and 3 poringrs, 15s .;
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17 peecis of blew and wt. earthware, 8s. 6d .; 3 p. of sheetes, 1 duzzen of napkins, 3li .; 2 smale table clothes and 2 half sheetes, 10s .; 4 pillowbeares, a towell and a napkin, 16s .; bands and shifts and other small linen, 2li. 10s .; one feather bed, 2 bolsters, 2 pillowes, a Rugge and blankett, li .; wear- ing apparrell, 4li .; 2 blanketts, 14s .; a table and frame, 6 stooles, 1 chest and trunke, 3 boxes and a cup boord, 3li .; 4 chaires, 3 cussions, and a basket, 12s. In the midle rome, one feather bed, 2 bolsters, 2 pillowes, a Rugge and cur- taines, 7li .; 6 p. of sheetes, 1 p. cotton sheetes, 5li. 10s .; 2 table clothes, 18 towells, 1li. 4s .; a table and frame, 3 chaires and three chests, 1li. 5s .; 3 brass ketles, 3 brass skil- letts and a warminge pan, 3li .; 4 pewter plattrs., 2 basons, 2 qua. potts and chambr. pott, 1li. 5s .; a brass chafinge dish and morter, 10s .; for bookes, 1li .; two musketts and a Jave- lin, 1li. 5s .; fire shovell and tongs, a pr. Andiron, a gridiron, a spitt, 2 p. pot hangrs., 1li. 10s. In the Kitchin, three Iron potts, a ketle and scillet, 1li. 10s .; earthen panes and tubbs and trayes and other lumbr, 1li. 10s .; debts, 8li. 178. 6d. In the Chamber, 2 flock beds with the Coveringe and aptenancis, 2li. 10s .; Indian and English graine, 2li .; ould Iron and other lumber, 1li. 10s .; leather shooes and bootes, šli .; shoemakers tooles and a graplin, 1li .; total, 163li. 148. 6d. Debts, a legise to Mathe Nixons wife, 5li .; other small debts, 5li. Allowed 27: 4: 1664. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 10, leaf 10.
The court 29 : 9 : 1664, gave Widow Harwood liberty to sell ten acres or five acres of land, as per inventory on file, also some part of her other goods which she could best spare, for her present support, provided it be by advice of the select- men of Salem or Worshipfull Major Wm. Hathorne. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 139.
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