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Christopher Yongs [seal]
Witness : John ffiske, Edward spouldyng.
Proved 7 : 5: 1647, by Edward Spouldyng, and 8 : 5: 1647 by John ffiske. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 82.
Inventory taken July 5, 1647, by Phinehas Fiske, William Fiske and Edward Spolding. Sworn to 7 : 5: 1647, by Esdras Read, executor : A dwelling House wth five acres of ground Joyning to it & ten acres more Remote, 8li. 10s. ; one acre & Quarter of Corne on the ground, 1li. 10s .; Two Cowes, 9li. 10s .; One Swine, 10s .; One Lome wth ye Gares belonging to it & seven Reeds, fowre beinge Hernest & two brassen Reeds hernest, 3li. 10s .; One Bedstead & Cords, 12s .; Curtains & Valliants, 5s .; One fetherbed & Boulster & three fether Pil- lows, 3li. 10s .; One old Rugg, 9s .; Two old Chests, 4s .; Three Iron Potts & two payre of pothooks & a brass Skillett, 1li .; One Postiron, a hale & a how, 5s .; Two old axes wth some old Iron, 2s .; One Muskett & Rest, 16s .; One Pewter basen, a drinkinge pott, three platters, three old saucers, a salt & an old Porringer, 10s .; One Bakinge Pan, 6d .; Two Lamps, 2s .; Spoons, Trenchers & Dishes & pipking, 1s. 6d .; a Box with some Salt, 6d .; Two Chayres, 1s. 6d .; a Settle, 3s. 4d .; a Spade, 3s. 4d .; Three trayes, two payles & a boule, 3s. 2d .; a Table & Minginge trough, 3s. 4d .; a Look- ing Glass, 6d .; a Smoothing Iron & three knives, 3s .; two
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bibles & some other old bookes, 13s. 4d .; one Hogshead wth Certaine hempe & flax, 5s .; two Boxes with some other old things, 5s. 9d .; Corne, 4s. ; a hammer, 6s .; a pichforke, 1s. ; two payer of sheets wth other Lininge, 19s .; five yards & halfe of serge & lace, 1li .; a payer of gloves & some hoss yarne, 5s. 4d .; line sowinge thrid & a Ruff, 2s .; Fower bredthes of old stuff, 5s. ; one payer of upper bodyes, 1s .; Cartine Tape, 1s. 6d. ; a bearinge Cloth, 10s. ; Three Peticots, fowre wescots, a whood & an Apren, 2li. 13s .; Three black wrought Coifes, three Cut worke Coifes, a silke Cap, seven Cross Clothes, two handkerchiefe, three Aperns, a stuff Cap, 1li. 5s. ; a Diaper Boordcloth & halfe a dozen diaper napkins, 1li. ; two yards of Holland & five other psels of new lininge, 12s .; Certaine Lininge for a Child, 16s .; Three Sheets & a peece of new cloth, 1li. 5s .; Certaine other Lininge, 2s. ; Black thrid & Gray, 1s. 6d .; a weskott, 1s. 6d .; Two hatts, 10s .; Fowre yards of Carsy, 1li .; a yard & halfe of Carsy, 7s. 6d .; a payre of stuff Briches and a peece of Stuff of the same, 1li .; Silke & Buttons, 1s .; a Gowne, 15s. ; a Doublett, Briches & Cott and two payre of Lynings and some other old Clothes, 14s. ; a payre of Stockings, 1s .; an old Straw bed and Creadle Rugg with an old Bed Rugg, 6s .; a Shurtt, 2s. 6d. ; a Butter Pott, 1s .; a persell of Goods sent over this yeere from Ingland, 2s. 5d. ; a Ringe of a beetle, 1s .; an old Coat, 1s. ; Poultry, 3s. ; total, 51li. 11s. Essex County Quar- terly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 83.
The petition of the executors of Christopher Yonge, late deceased, to have liberty to place the children in this country and not to send them to old England as expressed in the will, was granted 26 : 10: 1648. Salem Quarterly Court Rec- ords, vol. 3, leaf 3.
ESTATE OF EDITH SMITH.
Will of Edith Smith, made 3: 12mo : 1642, proved 9 : 5mo : 1647, by oath of John Robinson. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, page 218.
ESTATE OF GILES BADGER OF NEWBURY.
" The 29th day of June in the yeare of our Lord 1647 I Giles Badger of Newbury being sick in body but of pfect memory thankes be given to god And I doe ordaine & make my last will & Testamt in mann & forme as followeth first I give & bequeath my soule to god & my body to the earth to
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be buried in hope to be raised againe in the resurrection by Jesus Christ my saviour secondly I give & bequeath to my wife two parts of my estate if she remaine vnmarried & my will is that my child should have one part the which part my will is should be paid to my sonne when he is 18 yeares of age the benefitt of it to be improved for bringing vp vntill he be 18 years of age Likewise my will is that if my wife doe marry againe that then my wife shall have the one halfe & my sonne the other halfe to be paid to him when he is 18 yeares of age and soe likewise the benefit of it to be im- proved for his maintenance. Likwise I doe desire my chris- tian frends my father Greenleff Daniel Perce & Henry Short & Richard Knight to diuide my estate betweene my wife & child."
Giles Badger
Witness : Richard Knight, william Ilesley, Henry Somerbe. Proved 28 : 7 : 1647, by Richard Knight. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 33.
On 27 : 1 : 1649, Mr. Symonds ordered to take the oath of the other witness. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 15.
Inventory taken Sept. 12, 1647, by Lt. Edmund Greenleff, Henry Short, Daniel Pearce and Richard Knight: Two Coates, 1li .; one short coat, 10s .; one cloth sute, 1li. 4s .; one stuff sute, 1li .; one paire of cloth hose, 13s. ; one leather sute, 1li. 10s .; one leather jackett, 1li .; one blew wastcote, 10s .; a paire of drawers, 3s .; 2 paire of bootes, one paire of shoes, 18s .; 4 paire of stockins, 10s .; 2 sutes, 2 hatts, one cap, 1li .; a muskett, sword, bandaleeres, 1li. 8s. In the Chamb : one bed, one bowlster, 2 pillowes, a paire of blank- etts, a paire of sheets, one coverlet & curtins, 7li. 5s .; one paire of sheets, 1li .; one sheet, 5s .; 2 chests, 1li. 4s .; a warming pan, 7d .; a Cubberd, 2 boxes, 1li .; a little wheele, 4s. ; 2 pillow beeres, 10s .; the board cloth, 3 napkins, 10s .; a diap. board cloth, 8s .; in linen yarne 12li., 1li. 4s. In the loff : 12li. of cotten wooll, 12s .; a Pcell of hempe & flax undrest, 6s. ; a peece of sole leather, 9s .; a churne, halfe bushell & a peck, 6s .; 3 barrells, 2 firkins, 7s .; 3 little ves- sells, 5s .; 2 sives, a chest & other lumb., 5s .; 8li. shott, 2s. 8d. ; 5 sacks, 12s .; a great bagg, 6s .; a bushell of mault, 4s. In the fire roome : a table, 4 chaires, 9s .; a cushen stoole, 3s .; two stooles, 2s .; two kettles, 1li. 16s .; two skilletts, 5s .; an iron pott & pott irons, 10s. ; a glasse bowle, beaker, Jugg, 3s .; Three silu. spoones, 1li .; a morter & pes- tle, a scum., 5s. ; 6 porringers, 3 saucers, 7s .; 3 platters, a
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bason, 9s .; a chamb. pott, 2 candlesticks, 6s .; 2 beakers & a bowle, 5s. ; a quart pott & a pint pott, 7s. ; 3 little dishes, 6 spoones, 3s. ; a salt seller, a tunell, a great dowrubb, 1s .; 6 wooden dishes, 2 ladles, 4s .; 2 wooden' platters, a peele, 4 earthen panns, a frying pan, 2 bellowes, other lumb., a fire pan & tongs, 7s .; 3li. of powder, 6s .; 4 axes & other tooles & 4 sawes, 3li. ; a spade & a shovell, 4s. ; 3 pitchforks, 3 rakes, 4s .; 3 yoaks, a chayne, 2 plowes, 19s .; a cart & wheeles, 16s .; 2 Sithes, 5s .; 2 oxen, 15li. ; a Cowe, 2 year- lings, a calfe, 19li. ; 3 piggs, 1li. 15s .; In powltry, 5s. ; Corne in the barne, 16li. 10s .; In land & howsing, 60li .; 5 caske, 17s. ; one mattock, one holdfast, 4s. ; a tow combe & pessell, 5s .; 3 sives, 3s. ; hay, 5li .; In the seller in barrells & other lumb., 1li .; dung, 10s .; 2 wedges & a betle ringed, 6s .; bookes & gloves, 11s. ; total, 153li. 9s. 8d. Soe that all reck- nings on his books being cleare remaines owing 24li. 9s. 8d., which being taken out of the 153li. 9s. 8d., there remaines in estate to be divided 129li. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 33.
Richard Browne's bond, dated Mar. 27, 1655, to pay his wife's son, John Bager, 34li. at eighteen years of age, besides the half of the land left by the latter's father. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 49.
ESTATE OF ROBERT HUNTER OF ROWLEY.
" this 5th of the 6th month 1647. I Robert Hunter weake of body but of pfect memory praysed be god doe make & ordayne this to be my last will & Testament. first all my debts being paid I leave my howse & lott to my wife Mary Hunter for Terme of her life. Item all my goods within the howse I give to my wife Item I give vnto Thomas Birkby one little browne heffer that coms two yeares and my shop geare. Item I give vnto some poore in the Church of Rowley ten pounds to be paid out of two mares of which ten pounds ten shillings I give to Richard Clarke Ite ten shillings to John Dresser Item to John Burbant 108. Item to willm Jackson 108. Item to Jane Grant I give 108. Item to Sisly wood 10s. Item to Margaret Crosse 108. Item I give to william Stickne 208. & all my workiday clothes Item to Thomas Elethorp 108. Item I give to mris Shove 408. which I desire may be for helping her sonne when he is to | goell [to] Cambridg Item I give to John Trumbell 208. Item to Edward Sawier 108. Ite to Thomas Tenny I give 108. and the remainyng 20s of the 10' I give to mris Shove Item as
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for all the rest of my goods & Chattells I leave vnto my wife Mary Hunter whom I make sole executrix of this my last will & Testament." Robert Hunter.
Witness : Humfry Rayner, Maximilian (his mark) Jawet.
" Memorand for the Inheritance of my howse & lott In case Abell Langley settle here & carry well towards his Dame my minde is that he shall have the Inheritance of them, but if not then I leave it to be disposed of by the Church for the vse of the poore of Rowley Item it is the will of the said testator that if the abovesaid Abell Langley have a call to goe for England to settle any estate he hath there that then he shall have libty to goe and returne but in case he goe & doe not returne to live here in such convenient tyme as may be thought fitt by the Church then the said Abell Langley shall not have power to sell or dispose of the Lott or howse but they shall fall into the hands of the Church at Rowley to be disposed of as abovesaid."
Proved 28 : 7 : 1647. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 25.
ESTATE OF LUKE HEARD OF IPSWICH.
" The last will of Luke Herd Latly deceased about the Imprimis I give vnto my eldest sonne John Herd ten pounds to be paid him at the age of 21 yeares Item I doe give vnto my sonne Edmund five pounds to be paid him at the Age of 21 yeares Item I give my bookes vnto my two sonnes to be equally parted betweene them Alsoe this is my will yt my two sonnes be brought vp to writing & to reading & then when they shalbe fitt to be putt forth to such trades as they shall Choose. Alsoe I make my loving wife Sarah Herd my sole executrix. Thus much as abovesaid was ex- prest by the above named Luke Herd in the prsence of vs."
[no signature.]
Witness : John (his mark) Wyatt, Simon Tompson.
Proved 28: 7: 1647, by the witnesses. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 94.
Inventory taken by James How, Thomas Howlett and John Wyatt : shopp Tooles, 6li .; all kinde of iron tooles, 4li. 14s. 6d .; iron potts, a posnett & a kettle, 1li. 2s .; a brasse kettle, 15s .; 12 pewter dishes & other pewter, 2li. 11s. 6d. ; wooden ware, 6s .; fether bedds & bolsters, 6li. 10s .; a rugg, coverlett & curtins, 1li. 14s .; apparrell, 6li. 16s .; bookes, 4li. 10s .; linen, 2li. 9s .; cotten wooll, 6s .; a great chest, 2 boxes & chaires, 1li. 1s. ; a muskett & pistolett,
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sword, bandaleers & powder, 1li. 16s. 8d. ; scales & waites, 1li. ; sackes a half bushell & a peck, 10s .; three Cowes & three steeres of 3 yeare old & two steeres of 2 yeare old & a heffer, 36li. 15s .; swine, 1li .; corne, wheate & indian, 5li. 1s. ; total, 84li. 17s. 8d. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 33.
Bond of Joseph Bexby (also Bigsby) of Ipswich, husband- man, and Sarah (her mark) Heard (also Herde), widow, to Ipswich court, for 30li., dated 15 : 10 : 1647. Wit : Margaret Rogers and John Rogers. Condition : Parties intend to marry each other ; the two children (sons) of said Sarah and her late husband Luke Heard of Ipswich, linen weaver, to be well brought up, be taught to read and write, at the age of thirteen at the furthest to be apprenticed to such trades as Mr. Nathaneel Rogers, their grandfather Wyat and En- signe Howlet ordain, and that they be paid at the age of twenty-one the 15li. given to them by the will of their father, viz : 10li. to the elder and 5li. to the younger, and the books bequeathed them by their father; that 5li. be paid to the children of said Sarah if living, she to divide it according to her discretion, equally, or to give the whole to the younger, if the elder be better provided for; and that the land in Asington, in Suffolk, England, which was to be Sarah's after the decease of her mother, the tenure of which was not cer- tainly known by them, if the land was not entailed, to be Sarah's solely, the said Joseph Bigsby to have no right in it on account of marriage. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 95.
Petition of Nathaniel Rogers and John Wiatt, under the will of Luke Heard and above bond, requesting General Court to fulfil will of deceased, Joseph Bigsby being gone out of the country without giving notice of his return. Ordered, attachment of estate of Joseph Bigsby to the amount of the children's legacies, his estate being so weak- ened that the petitioners fear for the security of the chil- dren's property. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 96.
ESTATE OF SAMUEL SCULLARD OF NEWBURY.
" In the name of god amen In the Twenty seaventh day of March in the yeare of our lord 1647 I Samuell Scullard being sick in body but of pfect memory thanks be given to god ; And I doe ordaine & make my last will & Testament as followeth first I bequeath my soule to god & my body to
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the earth in hope to be raised againe in the resurreccon by Jesus Christ my saviour Secondly I give & bequeath all my estate to my wife & children that is to say one halfe to my wife & the other half to my two Children Mary & Sarah by equall porcons and my will is yt if my wife be now with child & bring forth a sonne then my will is that my estate be divided into three parts and my sonne to have one part my wife one part & my two daughters one part to be equally divided betweene them But if my wife bring forth a daugh- ter then my will is that my estate yet should be divided into three pts my wife to have one part & my two daughters to have two parts to be equally diuided betweene them Now my will is that my childrens porcons should be improved for the bringing vp of my children vntill they be twelve yeares of age and after the Twelve yeares to be improved to their advantage vntill they be eighteene yeares of age the two daughters or three before, if they be married and the sonne at one & Twenty and then to be paid to they themselves. And for that forty pounds which I am to have of my wives father Richard Kent at his decease of my wives porcon my will is that my wife should have Thirty pounds of it her selfe besides. And I doe not account yt wth my other estate and for the other ten pounds of it to be equally diuided betweene the Children. Likwise my will is that if any one of my children die that then that porcon is to be divided equally betweene my wife & children. Likewise I doe desire my three frends Henry Short Richard Kent Jun & Richard Knight to see that this my will & Testament be pformed."
Witness : John Sweett, wm Moneday. [No signature. ]
Proved 28 : 7 : 1647, by Henry Short and Richard Knight.
Inventory taken Apr. 7, 1647, by Stephen Kent, John Merrell and John Emery : 5 oxen at 6li. 10s., 32li. 10s .; 2 cowes at 4li. 10s., 9li. ; 1 steere, 3li. 15s. ; a bull & heffer, 4li. 10s .; 4 yearlings, 5li. 10s .; 2 calves, 1li. 16s. ; 14 bushells of corne at 3s. 6d., 2li. 9s. 10d. ; a cart & irons, 1li. 10s. ; a plow & cart Irons, 1li .; 2 sithes, 2s .; 15 acres of land at the New Towne, 10li .; 6 acres of salt marsh, 3li .; debts due to him, 2li. 8s .; 2 Cowes at 4li. 10s., 9li .; 3 hoggs, 5li .; 5 shotes with five piggs, 5li .; a hogg of bacon, 2li. 10s .; a fetherbed & two boulsters, 2li. 10s .; a rugg & hangings, 1li .; 3 sheets & 2 pillowties, 1li .; a Iron kettle, 1li. 5s .; a brasse pott & potsnet & hookes, 14s .; 4 pewter dishes & 3 small ones, 12s .; a frying pan, 2s .; a muskett, sword & bande- leers, 18s .; wooden vessells, 12s .; leather, 1li. 6s .; a howse
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& barne & orchard, 9li .; 12 acres of ground with the fenc- ing, 15li .; 9 acres of ground, 4li. 10s .; 13 acres of ground, 9li. 10s .; 6 acres of meadow at the little river, 8li. ; 20 acres of salt marsh, 5li .; total, 99li. 19s .; due unto her from her father at his decease whereof 10li. is due unto the children, 40li. ; total, 139li. 19s .; debts that are owing from him, 10li. 18s. 4d.
Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 27.
Administration granted 28 : 7 : 1647, to John (his mark) Bishop and Rebecca (her mark ) Bishop, his wife. The houses and lands to be divided between said John and his wife and the two children. The cattle and the rest of the stock for John and his wife to take as they were appraised. Henrye Short, Rich. Knight and Rich. Kent were ordered to dispose of half of the houses and lands of Samuel Scullard for the good of the children. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 11.
Samuell Denise of Woodbridge in the province of New Jersey acknowledged the receipt from John Bishop, sr., sometime of the Island of Nantucket, of " fortie od pounds," in behalf of his wife Sarah Dennis, formerly Sarah Scullard, it being her share given unto her by her father Samuel Scul- lar. The 5li. given her by her grandfather Richard Kent included in the value. Dated Sept. 19, 1670. Witness : Richard Dole, Wm. Chandler.
Jno. Roffe of the Island of Nantucket acknowledged the receipt from Jno. Bishop, sr., sometime of the Island of Nan- tucket, of " forty od pounds," in behalf of his wife Mary Rolfe, formerly Mary Sculler, it being her share given unto her by her father, Samuell Sculler. The 5li. given her by her grandfather Richard Kent included in the value. Dated Sept. 19, 1670. Witness : Wm. Chandler, Nathaniell Clark, Richard Dole.
Ipswich Deeds, vol. 3, page 162.
ESTATE OF GEORGE ABBOT OF ROWLEY.
Marke Symonds appointed 28 : 7: 1647, administrator of the estate of George Abott, late of Rowley. The will re- ferred to General Court. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 10.
Nuncupative will of George Abbott of Rowley sent here from General Court, 28: 10: 1647, ordered that it shall
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stand ; and after paying legacies to the children, the remain- der shall remain in hands of Marke Simons of Ipswich, ac- cording to the will, to be disposed of to the children, who are to choose their guardians, etc. Marke Simons to have 4d. and the wintering of two cows. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, page 224.
Inventory taken Aug. 30, 1647, by Sebastan Brigham, Thomas Barker, Mathew Boyes and James (his mark C) Barker : all his aparell, 1li. 10s .; in silver, 1li. 3s .; one Gold Ringe, 10s. ; two greene Coverings, 16s .; one featherbed & two pillows & one Bolster, 1li. 9s .; three flock bolsters, one Coverlett & one Blankett, 11s .; two flocke beds, 6s .; seaven Sheets, two tablecloths, Seven pillowbers, nine napkins, two Aprons, 4 handkerchifes with other small linen, 4li. 6s .; fower Course Sheetes, 7s .; one Trunke, 5s .; two hogsheads & one Barrell, 5s .; one keiler, 1s .; one kilne haire, 4s .; one whip saw & one Croscutt saw, 8s .; two black Gownes, 12s .; one Satten Capp & white thred, 4s .; one pillowbeere & other lininge, 5s .; one Steele mill, 1li. 10s .; one Steele Trape, 10s .; three brand Irons, fower wedges, one fire shovell & other Iron, 1li .; two tramels, one bar of Iron & one Gridiron, 8s .; thirty eight pound of pewter, 1li. 12s .; one silver ringe & spoone, 5s .; two friing pans, 4s .; one brasse pott & one Iron pott, 15s .; three kettles, 1li. 2s .; one Skillet & two Chafing dishes, 3s .; one warming pan, 3s. ; three paire of Scales & weights, 9s .; one brasse morter & pestle, 5s .; one Skimer, 1s .; one paire of horse bits with buckles & furrells, 3s. 6d .; one nest of boxes with things in them, 5s .; one Little Gun with bandelers, 5s .; one Spitt & one brush bill, 3s. ; one head peice & one axe with some other things, 5s .; one bushell & half of oatemeale and one Tub, 7s .; one Chest & one Churne, 3s. 6d .; one bowle, fowre trayes & one tunnell, 4s .; one flockbed, two Curtains & one pillow, 10s. ; one drinking pott & one Jugg, 3s. ; three Leath- er bottles, 5s. ; thirty bookes, 1li. 10s .; the dwelling house & land with the Apurtenances, 30li .; two black Steeres, 9li. ; two younger Steeres, 6li .; one yearling Steere, 2li .; one Calfe, 1li .; two Cowes, 9li .; all the Corne & hay, Sli .; one Sow & three piggs, 1li. 10s .; Some Land at Newbery, 2li. ; one yoake & chaine, 4s. ; one brasse Ladle, 8d .; all the ffowle aboute the house, 1s .; all the hops & flaxe, 7s. 6d .; one Chaire & two Cushions, 3s .; one Short Sithe & old Iron, 2s. 6d .; total, 95li. 2s. 8d. Debt owing to the deceased, of Steven Kent of Newbery, 7s. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 61.
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Humphry Rayner (also Reiner) and Thomas Mighill were chosen guardians by the children of Georg Abott, late of Rowly, 28: 1: 1648. The overplus of Georg Abbot's chil- dren's estate is left in the hands of Marke Symonds, execu- tor of Georg Abott. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 13.
Guardians, Humfrey Reyner and Thomas Mighell, con- firmed by Salem and this court. They acknowledged the receipt of 53li., the children's portions, divided as follows : George, 16li., Nehemyah, 21li., Thomas, jr., 16li. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 2, leaf 12.
On Mar. 28, 1654, Mr. Reyner presented Nehemiah Abbott and Thomas Abbott, jr., who acknowledged that they had received satisfaction from Mr. Humphry Reyner and Thomas Mighill, guardians to the children of Georg Abbott, for their portions. Thomas Abbott, sr., and Nehemiah Abbott testified that their brother, George Abbott, had satisfaction also. The guardians were discharged. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 45.
ESTATE OF RICHARD BARTLETT OF NEWBURY.
" The testimony of william Titcombe & Anthony Somers- by concerning the last will & testament of Richard Bartlett sen of Newbury deceased the 20th of May 1647 About a month before he deceased we being with him & two of his sonnes being prsent he being very ill & had bene weake all the spring finding in himselfe that he was not like to con- tinew he desired vs to take notice what his mind was con- cerning that small estate he had how he would dispose of it. As for his sonne John Bartlett he had done for him more then for the rest of his children & at that tyme did not dis- pose any to him. To his sonne Christofer Bartlett he did bequeath the debt which latly he had borrowed of him which was five bushells of wheat if soe be it should please the lord to take him away at this sicknesse or ells if he should lye longe vizitted his necessity would require that he should pay it againe. To his daughter Johan wife of william Titcombe he bequeathed one paire of new shoes for herselfe & her foure daughters each one a paire of shoes And all the rest of his goods & chattells that were not disposed of he bequeathed wholly to his sonne Richard Bartlett whom he made his sole heire & executor. I Anthony Somersby the next day Pswaded him to give somthing to his sonne John Bartlett his answere
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was that he had bene with his sonne Richard Batlet this twelve month & all that he had was to little for to give him seing he had bene weake & ill & could doe little but lay vpon his sonnes charges ; besides said he if I should lye longe sick I shalbe chargable to Richard & not to any of the rest and for John I have done more form'ly yet I will give him the warming pan and vpon his sonnes request he gaue him a great bible : this he spake being in pfect memory & soe continewed to the last breath.
"I Edward Rawson wittnes to the last pt of the will that I often heard the said Richard Bartlett sen (the tyme of his sicknesse) say he would & did give all to his sonne Richard Bartlett 29th Septemb 1647. This was before the witness
Edward Rawson."
The first part of this will proved 28: 7: 1647, by Mr. Rawson, the whole by Anthony Somersby. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 25.
Inventory of estate of Richard Bartlett of Newbury, shoe- maker, deceased May 21, 1647, taken by William (his mark) Titcombe, John Batlett & Anthony Somersby : in leather, 2li. 15s .; his wearing apparrell, 1li. 4s .; 2 paire of canvas sheets, 1li. 1s .; one old shirt & a napkin, 2s. 1d .; one old coverlet & a blanket, 1li. ; one old flock bed & a bolster, 1li .; one old great kettle, 12s .; one paire of pott hangers, 1s. 4d .; one brasse pott, 10s. ; two little kettles, 5s. ; one small brasse morter, 7s. 6d .; one warming pan, 6s .; one great bible, 12s .; some other small books, 7s .; one Cow, 4li. 5s .; one heiffer, 1li. 15s .; his working geare and lasts, 4s .; old pewter plat- ters and an old pint pott, 2s .; one spit & frying pan, 3s. 6d. ; one small muskett, 9s .; one paire of bellowes, 1s .; bushell bagg, 2 old chests, a stone bottle & a halfe bushell bagg, 5s .; his debts, 4li. 19s .; in silv., 2li. 5s. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 26.
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