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Oct 1, 1668, there is due to Francis Wainewright as ap- pears vpon his Booke, 4s. 5 1-2d. ; leaving Clear estate, 127li. 12s. 1-2d.
Attested in Ipswich court Sept. 29, 1668 by Allen Perley, the administrator. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 21,503.
ESTATE OF JOHN PERKINS OF IPSWICH.
Administration on the estate of John Perkins, intestate, granted June 30, 1668, to his wife Deborah, who brought in an inventory amounting to 48li. 15s., which was ordered to be for the use of the widow. She was to pay to her child Thomas, son of said Perkins, 10li. at the age of twenty-one years, and if Deborah married again she was to give bond for the payment thereof. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 10.
Inventory taken June 12, 1668, by Frances Pabody and Edman (his O mark) Town: Three Cowes and one year old beast, 13li. 10s .; one horse, 8li .; three Ewes and fore lames and one Calfe, 3li .; five swine, 4li .; wareing paril, 8li. 10s .; fore sheetes, pilobers and napkines, 3li. 16s. ; bibel, 5s. ; sadel, 1li. 5s .; one sheet and a bridel, 10s .; Corne, 3li .; Cuper ware and other lumber, 10s .; hoe, 4s. ; one axe, 5s. ; pare of fetters, 4s .; table and a box, 10s. ; musket, 25s .; total, 48li. 15s. Es- sex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 13, leaf 67.
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ESTATE OF THOMAS BRACKET, JR. OF SALEM.
Thomas Broket, jr., dying intestate, his father Tho. Bracket presented an inventory amounting to 30li., to whom admin- istration was granted June 30, 1668. The estate was ordered to the use of said Thomas Bracket and Alce, his now wife. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 11.
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Bracket, taken 1: 5: 1668, by Edmond Batter and Jno. (his o mark) Pease: A small parcel of land and timber, 13li .; aparrell, 40s .; tooles, 20s .; debts due, 16li. 6d .; total, 32li. 6d .; estate is debtor, 3li. 12s. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 13, leaf 68.
ESTATE OF SAMUEL MOULTON OF SALEM.
Administration upon the estate of Samuell Moulton, de- ceased, that was left him by will of his father, Robt. Moulton, granted June 30, 1668, to Mr. Hen. Bartholmew, Joseph Grafton, George Gardner and Samuel Gardner, who were ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Salem court. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 12.
Mr. Joseph Grafton, Hen. Bartholmew, George Gardner and Samuell Gardner, administrators of the estate of Samll. Moulton, brought in an inventory amounting to about 20li. with debts of about 4li. 8s. Court 24: 9: 1668, ordered them to sell the land, 120 acres, to the best advantage, and after the debts were paid to make an equal division to the brothers and sisters, payable at the age of 21 years or marriage. Sa- lem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 17.
ESTATE OF THOMAS DILL OF MARBLEHEAD.
There being an inventory of the estate of Thomas Dill, late deceased, brought into court, amounting to 74li. 6s., and said Dill dying intestate, and court being informed that he had a wife and child living in England, administration was granted June 30, 1668, to Richard Dill and Mr. Bartholmew Gedney, who gave bond. The estate was ordered to be equally divided between the wife and the child of deceased. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 12.
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Dill, late of Marblehead, taken July 2, 1668, by Christopher Lattemer: One quarter part of the catch Prosperous of Marblehead, 57li .; wearing apparrell as they were sold by the master at the mast, per
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custom of the sea, 1li. 16s .; 24 hhds. of salt, 13s. p hhd., 15li. 12s. ; his pt. of a peell of refuse fish, 1li. 7s .; by a debt owing to ye estate from Mr. Peeter Oliver, Sli. 10s .; debts owing to the estate at Nevis, 1707li. of suger at 10s., Sli. 10s .; ye estate is Credt. by severall men, 20li. 5s .; total, 113li. 10s. Estate debtor : To men for wages due, 10li. 10s .; Mr. Moses Maverick, 2li .; William Nick, 2li. 2s .; Mr. Ward, 4s .; the catch, 13li. 4s .; ferry man, Sli. 8s .; Mr. Babbadg, 16s .; Jon. Fabins, 3li .; Capt. Corwin, 7li .; total, 39li. 4s. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 13, leaf 71.
Ambross Gale producing a letter of attorney from Susana, reliet of Thomas Dill, it was allowed by the court Nov. 30, 1669, and Mr. Bartholmew Gidney and Richd. Dill, adminis- trators, were to deliver up the estate of Tho. Dill to said Gale, he to give security for the payment of one-half to the child of the deceased. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 29.
Whereas Ambros Gale presented a letter of attorney at the last court from Susana, widow of Thomas Dill, which was allowed in order to take the estate into his hands, court 28: 4: 1670, ordered that Mr. Bartholmew Gidney and Richard Dill, administrators, deliver the estate to said Gale, he giving bond for the payment of one-half the estate to the child of de- ceased. Bond of Ambross Gale. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 50.
ESTATE OF ROBERT ANDREWS OF ROWLEY VILLAGE, (BOXFORD).
"In the name of god amen Know all Christian people this may or shall concearne yt I Robart Andrews of Rowley vill- iage in the County of Esex being verey sick & weack of body but blesed be god in prfect cence & memorey doe mack this my last will & testiment reuocking all other former wills wtsoeuer Impr I bequeath my soule to Allmighty god yt gaue it me in whome I trust through the merits of Jesus Christ to be re- ceaiued into Eternall happiness foreuer and my body to ye earth from whence it came to be deciently burried in ye bur- ring place of Topsfeeld according as my wife and Children shall see meet It I giue & bequeath vnto my eldest sonn Thomas Andrews the house yt I now Liue in and ninecore Ackers of Land being upland & Medow & yt Land yt I bought of Zacheus Gould only my well beloned wife is to haue duer- ing her life time the Kiching and hall & Kiching Chamber &
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halfe the seller & the new feeld & the eight Acker peeice & halfe the orchard & if ther be not Land enufe for her to manuer then my sd sonn with ye help of my son Robart is to breack her vp three Ackers more or let her haue three Ackers yt is allready broacken vp and the same to inioy duering her life without the Lett hinderanc or molestation of my sd sonn or aney other prson vnder him and my sonn Thomas is to shingle the house and at my wiues deceas the said land or- chard and rooms is to returne to my son Thomas & his haires foreuer my said sonn Paying vnto my three youngest daugh- ters Rebeckah Sarah & Ruth twenty pound pr each when she shall be twenty yeares of Age and if eaither of them shall die before yt time then yt prt shall be equaly devided between the other two and allso he is to pay vnto my Daughter Mary the wife of Isack Comins fine pounds three years after my deceas & for the new whip saw and all other Carpenters tools shall be for the vse of my wife sonn Thomas & Robart
"It I giue and bequeath vnto vnto my sonn Robart An- drews eightcore Ackers of Land from Piebroock to ye clay pits and ye fatti medow and the fishing broock medow & becaus my sonn Thomas & Robart should not wrong one an- other in wood I desier ther Land may be ped by them selues & two other honest men and Robart is to pay vnto my Daugh- ter Elizebeth the wife of Samuell Symons fiue pounds three years aftter my deceas and to my Daughte Hanah Pebody fiue pounds fouer years aftter my deceas It I giue vnto my sonn John the Lot comonly called the seller Lott and the Medow belonging vnto it but the medow shall be for the vse of my wife & Thomas vntell my sonn John shall be one and twenty years of Age and then to returne to him without aney further truble he paying to my seauen Grandchildren twenty shillings pr each when the shall come to the age of fourteen years It I giue vnto my sonn Joseph yt Land in Topsfeeld yt I bought of John Wilds Sent with all the preuiledgs ther- unto belonging It I giue vnto my well beloued wife all my Cattell & other moueable goods and the Doung that is now in ye yard & halfe the barne & Lintos and my sonn Thomas the other halfe and he and his brother Robart is to set vp the other Lintoos & to Lay in for the vse of ther mother eauery year duering her Life twelue Loads of hay and if eaither of my sonns should die before they are married then yt Land yt is giuen to them to be equally deuided amongst the Suruiuers Leaueing my said wife hole Exsectetrix and in testimony hearof I haue hearvnto Set my hand and Seale this Six-
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teenth day of May in the yeare of our Lord one thousand Six hundred Sixty & eight."
Robart (his / mark) Andrews, Sen" (SEAL) Witness : Robert (his G mark) Smith, James Hanscombe.
Proved in Salem court 2 : 5 m : 1668 by the witnesses. Es- sex County Probate Files, Docket 709.
Inventory of the estate of Robart Andrews, sr., of Rowley, taken by Frances Pabody, Isack Comings and Edman (his O mark) Towne: Three beds & beding, 17li .; two dusen & three napkins, 2li .; sheets, table Cloths & pillow beres, 8li .; mares and colts, 16li .; fouer Cowes, 16li .; fouer young Cat- tell, 7li .; fouer steares, 18li .; Cart and wheeles, 2li .; Grind- ing stone, 6s .; yoacks, Chaines & plows, 3li. 15s .; Harrow, beetell, wedges, sives & sickells, 2li .; sheepe, Lambs & one Caulfe, 2li. 10s .; twenti ackers of Corne upon the ground, 25li .; his wearing Cloaths, Sli .; worcking tooles, 3li. 5s .; Chests, boxes & one trunck, 1li. 10s .; two musckets, & rest, 2li. 10s .; Chairs, tubs & trays, 2li. 10s .; one peice of new Cloath, 1li. 4s .; one parsell of Land bought of John Wilds, 45li .; the housen & two hundered ackers of Land upland & medow, 350li .; Eighteene ackers of upland & medow, 100li .; one parcell of Land more Lieing in topsfeeld, 60li .; eighteene bushells of wheat, seaven bushells of rye, 5li. 18s .; twelve bushells of malt, 1li. 16s .; thirty bushells of Indian corne, Ali .; pewter, bras and Iron pots, 5li .; two tables, 3li. 1s. debts due to the estate, 5li .; Rugg, 10li .; the estate debtor, 23li.
Attested 1: 5m: 1668 by Grace Andrewes wife of the de- ceased. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 13, leaf 67.
ESTATE OF ANN SOUTHWICK OF SALEM.
"I Ann Southwick, lately the wife of Thomas fflint De- ceased being in pfect Memory Do make this as my last Will & testament Impr I giue my Soule vnto ye Lord Jesus my Redeemer And my Body vnto my friends decently to bee interd by them For what | |Estate|| I was posessed with by my fore Sd Husband fflint & by him impowred to bestow it vpon his Children & vpon none other as appeares by his last Will I therefore dispose of what Esstate remaines in my hands left by my Sd Husband to bee by mee given vnto his Chil- dren at my decease, as followeth It I giue my Sonn Thomas fflint fifteen pounds It I Giue my Daughter Elizabeth ye Wife of John Leach fifteen pounds It I giue my Sonn George
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fflint fifteen pounds It I giue my Sonn John fflint fifteen pounds It I giue my Sonn Joseph fflint Thirtie pounds Allsoe I further confirme Thirty pounds vnto my three Sons fore named George | | John|| & Joseph Equally to be deuided among them ten pounds to each Son, which thirty pounds I verbaly gaue my Sd three Sonns before I was Married to my Husband Southwick and Secured by bill to the ouerseers And that this my Will may be faithfully pformed according to the tenor hearof I make my Son Thomas fflint and my Son in law John Leach my Executors and for Ouerseers I chuse | |my Brother in law || William fflint & Job Swinerton Jun In Witnes hearof I haue hearunto Set my Hand and Seale this twenty Eight of May Ano Dom one thousand Six Hundred Sixty & Eight."
Anne (her A mark) Suthirick.
Witness: Job Swinerton, Thomas Preston, Thomas Flint and Athony (his A mark) Needum.
Proved in Ipswich court Aug. 13, 1668 by Job Swinerton, Thomas Flint and Anthony Needum before Mr. Symon Brad- street and Maj. Gen. Denison. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 25,894.
ESTATE OF GILES BIRDLEY OF IPSWICH.
"This 18th of July 1668 This is to Certifye that I Ghiles Berdlye of Ipswich being in perfit memorye though Weak in bodye do mak this my last Will and Testament as followeth I Will that all former ingagments by my Unkle desseased be fulfilled I giue to my wife Elisabeth my house and ground about it with the Vse of the barne so much as maye serue her end and al vnles they which shall hire the ground stand in need of vsing som of it with the preueledges belonging to it with my other ground both vpland and medow during her life for the Comfort of my Wife and Children and at my Wiues death I giue to My Eldest son Andrew my hous and ground at hom and abrode with the preueledges belonging therto to him and to his male Aires and in Case my son An- drew dye without Aire I giue it my son James and in Case he dye || without aires|| to my son John and I will my son Andrew within a yeare and half after his possesion of it to pay to my son James fifteen pound as a legacey I giue to him and within a year and half after that I wil my son Andrew to pay to my son John the same some of fifteen pound as a legacye I giue him to be paid in corne and Cattle Equally alicke and in Case Andrew dye without Aire that James shall
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paye to John the whole thirty pound I giue my houshold goods I giue to to my Wife to be at her disposing and all the rest of my Estat I giue to my son Andrew as above mentioned and for the performance of this my Will I make my friend The- ophilus Wilson my exexetor and my friends Decon Knowlton and Jacob ffoster to be my ouerseers to se this my Will per- formed and herevnto I set to my hand."
Ghiles (his V mark) Berdly. Witness : Thomas Knoulton, Sr., Jacob Foster.
Proved in Ipswich court Sept. 29, 1668 by the witnesses.
Inventory taken Aug. 7, 1668 by Robert Lord and Robert Pearse : the dwelling House, barne & homestead, 50li .; twenty eight acres of upland and meddow, 112li .; two oxen, 12li .; 3 cowes and 2 year old heifer, 14li .; two calves, 1li. 10s .; 8 sheepe & 6 lambes, 7li .; 2 swine & 2 piggs, 2li. 10s .; cart, yoakes, chaines and apptenances & sledd, 4li .; his weareing apparrell & lennen, 7li .; a bedstead, flockbed & bolster, blan- ketts & 2 feather pillows, 4li. 10s. ; a trundle bed & old bed & beding, 1li. 10s .; 5 paire of sheetes some very old & pillow- beeres, one feather pillow & one flock pillow, 4li .; a large lookeing glase, 10s .; a table, chest & 2 old boxes and cubbard, 1li. 10s .; 6 ould chaires, 14s .; a paire of Andirons, firepan, tongs & slice, 12s. ; a warming pan, 5s .; 2 old smothing Irons, 2s .; muskett, bandelears and sword, powder, bullets, etc., 1li. 10s. ; 3 Iron potts & Iron skillet & old brasse pott, 2li. 10s .; 2 pewter platters, bassen, poringer & sasser & candlestick, 1li .; a brase skillett, grediron & chafen dish, 8s .; earthen ware and tinn ware, 8s .; beetle & 5 wedges & old Iron, 13s .; sithes, howes & axes and cow bell, 16s .; old shovell, sithe, snathe, 3s .; hammer & paire of bellows, 3s .; 2 frying pans, pothooks & tramell, 10s .; 3 formes & two wheeles, 10s. ; 2 sives & 3 pailes, 7s. ; poudering tub & trayes & other lumber, 18s .; bible & old bookes, 8s. ; Indian corne, 1li. 16s .; 1-2 bushell wheat & halfe b. ry, 4s. 6d. ; ould chest, kneding trough & 3 wheeles, 6 bags, 1li. 4s. ; woole, tubs & basket, 1li. 2s .; 6 acres of Indian corne on the ground, 9li .; wheat & barley in the barne, Gli .; an Iron foote & paire of bootes, 8s. ; a paire gloves & 4 occumie spoones, 3s .; debts due the estate, Sli .; total 261li. 4s. 6d .; debts due from the estate, about 20li.
Attested in Ipswich court, Sept. 29, 1668 by the executor. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 2,459.
Rebecha Fitt gives to her son Andrew Birdley all her right in the estate which her husband Gyles Birdley gave to her in his will. Signed and sealed Jan. 6, 1679.
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Witness : John Dane, Sr., John Lee.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 30, 1680 by the witnesses. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 4, page 316.
GUARDIANSHIP OF GEORGE FLINT OF SALEM.
George Flint made choice of Nath. Putnam as his guardian Sept. 29, 1668, who gave bond of 60li. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 79.
GUARDIANSHIP OF CALEB HOPKINSON OF ROWLEY.
Caleb Hopkinson made choice of his brother Jonathan Hopkinson as his guardian Sept. 29, 1668, who gave bond. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 79.
ESTATE OF WILLIAM MARCHENT OF IPSWICH.
Administration on the estate of Wm. Marchent, intestate, granted Sept. 29, 1668, to Mary Merchant, widow, and an in- ventory of 132li. being presented, court ordered that the estate be divided, half to the widow and the other half to his son-in- law and daughter, Henry Ossborne and Mary his wife. Ips- wich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 79.
Inventory of the estate of William Merchant of Ipswich, deceased Sept. 4, 1668, taken by Moses Pengry and Edward (his E mark) Lumas: his wering apparrell, 1li. 5s .; house, barne, orchard & home lott, 40li .; 5 acres of land cald the pasture, 25li .; 3 acres of land in the field, 10li .; 3 acres of marsh at Plum Island, 6li .; 1 bed & bolster & 2 pillowes, 3li .; 1 bed & bolster, pilow & other mean beding, 3li. 10s .; 3 payr of sheets, a tabl cloath & small linen, 3li .; 1 rug, 1 Coverlet & blankets, 3li .; new Cloath, 14s .; 1 Iron pott & 3 kettells, 3li. 2s .; 1 Iron pot & a kettell & a skillet, 1li .; 2 skilletts & a warming pan, 9s .; peuter & a chamber pott, 16s .; tramell, grediron & frying pan, 7s .; bedsteds & chayres, 10s .; table, chests & box, 1li .; glass botle & erthen ware, 5s .; 2 barells, payles & churn & woden vessels, 1li. 1s .; wheeles & cards, 8s .; 4 Cowes, 1 heifer, 1 calf, --; 9 sheepe & lambs, -; 6 swine, 3li. 10s .; sheep woolle & cotten wooll, 2li .; Corne in the hous & barne, 1li. 10s .; Cheese, 1li .; aples, 1li .; total, 135li. 19s. Debts due from the estate about 3li.
Received and allowed Sept. 29, 1668 in Ipswich court. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 18,198.
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ESTATE OF THOMAS FLINT OF SALEM .*
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Flint taken by Nathan- iell Putnam and Anthony Needum: the farme, 120li .; land bought of G. Goodell, 20li .; land beyond Ipswich River, 41li .; two poles of land at Salem Towne, 1li. 11s. 8d .; Neat cattell, 4 oxen, seaven cowes, 69li. 10s .; 2 young steeres, 6 two yeare oulds, 26li .; 1 bull 3 yeare old and 6 yearlings, 12li. 10s .; 3 calves, 2li .; Horses, 1 mare, colt and 3 horses, 40li .; Hoggs twenty swine, 25li .; corne, five hogsheads of wheate and Rye, 7li. 14s .; ten bushells of Indian corne, 1li. 10s .; 3 flitch of bacon, 3li .; Tooles, cart wheeles & cart rope, 2li. 5s .; three yoakes and 2 plow chaines, 1li. 10s. ; one Iron harrow, 1li. 5s .; 1 breakeing plow & Irons compleate, 1li. 10s .; 1 smale plow and Irons, 10s .; 4 broad Howes & 1 beetle ring, 12s .; 3 wedges, 5li. a wedge, 7s .; 2 broad axes, a narrow axe, 16s .; 1 morticeing axe, 1 crosecut saw, 9s. 6d .; 1 handsaw, 1 beers, 8s .; 1 Auger Inch three quarters, 1s. 6d .; 1 auger, 1 inch & quarter, 2s .; 1 halfe inch auger & 1 quarter inch, 1s .; 1 broad chissell, 1 narrow chissell, 1s .; 1 goudge, 1 Addice, 2 hammers, 7s .; 1 shorte plane & 1 Iron spade, 5s. ; 2 drawing knives & 1 file, 5s .; 1 gimlett & a paire of compasses, 1s .; 3 sithes, 2 pitchforkes, 3 reap hookes, 12s .; Beding, 1 featherbed, beding & curtaines, 6li .; 2 downe beds & bedding, 3li. 10s .; 1 flockbed & beding, 6 paire of sheetes, Sli .; 6 pillowbeeres, 1li. 10s .; Houshold stufe, two Iron kettles, 1li. 10s .; 1 Iron pott, 10s .; 1 kettle, one posnett, Ss .; 2 poringers & 12 spoones, 8s .; 1 brase skillett & 12 trenchers, 5s .; 1 pewter bason & 6 wooden dishes, 2s .; 6 trayes, one churne, 2 pailes, 12s .; 3 creame potts, & a sciming dish, 2s. 6d .; warmeing pan, 12s .; 1 frying pan, 4s .; 4 pewter platters, 1li .; 2 smotheing Irons, 5s .; 1 quart pott, 1 pint pott, both pewter, 5s .; 2 chests & one old box, 13s .; 2 wheeles one wollen & 1 lening wheele, 6s .; 3 pr. of cardes & one Hanke, 10s .; 2 paire of pott hookes, 3s .; 1 paire of Iron tongs & 3 chaires, Ss .; one sute of carsie, 4li .; 1 sute of broadcloth, 2li .; 1 great cloth coate, 1li. 10s .; 1 sute of old clothes, 2li .; 1 Hatt & 1 pr. of shoes, 1li .; 1 pr. of bootes & spurs, 1li .; saddle, bridle & pillion, 2li .; 3 paire of stockings, 10s .; 3 new shirts & one old shirt, 1li .; 4 bands & 2 handcarchers, 10s .; Armes, muskett rest & bandeleers, 1li .; 2 sword & belts, 1li .; 1 pound of powder & 20 bulletts, 3s .; 2 small fowleing peeces, the armes all in good order, 1li. 10s .;
* See also Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts, Essex County, Mass., vol. 4 (1914), p. 71.
t See ante, vol. 1, page 416.
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1 great bible, one psalme booke, 12s .; 1 sermon booke, 4s .; 1 round glase bottle, 6d .; 2 stoneing juggs & 1 lanthorne, 4s .; 5 hogsheads, barrells & other tubbs, 1li .; William Curttice debtor, 6li .; total, 435li. 10s. Sd.
The estate was debtor on the inventory presented to Salem court in June, 1663, 65li. 13s. 4d. Since searching Mr. Browne's book instead of 15li. there appears but 3s. that the said Flint was debtor; also 4li. paid by Flint in part of 16li. 5s. that the inventory credits Lt. Smith and G. Clearke; the rest of the creditors have not been reckoned with there is 19li. to be subtracted from the 65li. 13s. 4d.
Taken upon oath 29: 7m: 1668 by Elizabeth Leach before Wm. Hathorne.
Attested in Ipswich court Sept. 29, 1668 by Thomas Flint that this inventory was the estate of which his father died possessed. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 75.
Whereas there was some land to be divided by the will of Tho. Flint, deceased, to his sons Tho. and Joseph, and it being not yet divided, court 30: 4: 1674, appointed Lt. Tho. Putnam and John Pickering, together with one whom said Thomas was to choose, to see it done. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 74.
Thomas Putnam, John Pickering and Thomas Flint being chosen by the court to make a division between Thomas and Joseph Flint of land given them by will of their father, Thomas Flint, deceased, and finding Thomas Flint in posses- sion of the whole, have allotted and set out to Joseph as his part according to his father's will as followeth : of that farm, which was formerly Mr. Higginson's of the upland the east end of the farm, the whole breadth of the farm being the length of this land laid out to Joseph and his breadth lies from the outermost corner bounds of the farm inwards at each end fifty six poles; of the meadow of said farm we allot three aeres and half bounded on the east, north and south with his own land above mentioned, and on the west with Tho. Flint's meadow ; and of the fifty acres that was purchased of Robert Goodale, his part we have laid out in the middle of said fifty acres in breadth thirty three poles at the west end bounded with two red oaks both at Norise's brook and at the east end thirty five and one half poles. Also it is agreed by both parties that they and their heirs forever shall each allow convenient highways for carting. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 33, leaf 79.
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GUARDIANSHIP OF JOHN FLINT OF SALEM.
Jno. Flint, son of Thomas Flint, made choice of William Flint, his uncle, as his guardian, and it was allowed by the court 24: 9: 1668. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 16.
ยท ESTATE OF PHILIP KNIGHT OF TOPSFIELD.
Administration upon the estate of Philip Knight, granted 24: 9 : 1668, to his wife Margery, who brought in an inventory amounting to 106li. 18s. Court ordered to the eldest son, 20li., and 10li. each to Philip, Rebeca, Elizabeth and Mary, at age or at marriage, and the widow was bound for the chil- dren's portions. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 16.
Inventory of the estate of Phillipe Knight, taken by John Putnam and Thomas Fuller : Two cows, 8li .; two oxen, 14li .; two steres, 9li .; two young cattle, 4li .; one mare, 5li .; five swine, 5li .; feather bed with furniture, 9li .; puter, 15s .; wereing clothes, 4li .; wooding lumber, 6li .; Beefe & porcke, 2li .; Irron were, 8li. 16s .; Brasse were, 2li. 12s .; Indian Corne, 6li .; Rie & Barley, 2li .; hoopes, 3li .; hempe & flax, 3li .; Cot- ton woole, 2li .; two beeds & furniture, 5li .; five pare of shetes, 3li. 10s .; three pare of pillowbyes, 15s .; table cloth & nap- kines, 1li .; five sackes & winno shette, 1li .; new Cloth & one Wallett, 1li. 10s .; total, 106li. 18s.
There were five children, Jonathan, aged 26 years ; Phillep, aged 23 years; Rebeca, aged 17 years; Eliza, aged 13 years ; Mary, aged 11 years. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 13, leaf 121.
ESTATE OF WILLIAM WALTON OF MARBLEHEAD.
Administration on the estate of Mr. William Walton, in- testate, granted 24: 9: 1668, to Elizabeth Walton, the widow, who brought in an inventory. The house and land in Mar- blehead were to be held for security. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 18.
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