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Capt. George Corwin acknowledged 28: 9: 1665, that he had received the full amount of the inventory brought into court at Salem, fourth month past, 50li. 15s. 6d., of the estate of John Slather, which he accepted as full satisfac- tion of the 100li. owing him from said Slather or Elizabeth his wife, the latter being joint administratrix with himself. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 155.
GUARDIANSHIP OF JAMES TRAVERS OF NEWBURY.
James Travers chose Lift. John Pike as his guardian, Sept. 26, 1665. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 146.
ESTATE OF NEHEMIAH HAYWARD OF (SALEM ?).
"I Nehemyah Haward being Distempered and Lam in body but throw gods goodnes in perfect senc and memory Do giue and bequeath my Eastat In manor and forme as followeth Item : my soull to god that gaue it and my body to ye Earth from whenc it Came Item I Do giue to my wife Annah Haward my Hous and Houshould goods and fiue Acors of Land whar one my Hous and orchard is-part tharof and one Acor of madow and one Cow Duering ye term of my aboue said wifes life : and what shal then Remain of my saide wifes Eastate I Do will that it be Equally Deuided amongst my Children then Liuing Item I Do giue to my Children fiuteen Acors of Land and thre Acors of medow and two stears one Cow and one Haifor of thre years ould and a yearling Calfe and a ston Coult of thre years ould : onely out of the Estate to a taken teen poundes for ye bringing up of my Chil- dren and my Debtes to be payed: and ye Remaner of this Estat to be Equaly Deuided to my said Children as tha Com to Agge and the Improvement of this Estat in the mene time to be for the bringing of them vp; it is Intended that the
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Debts shal be paid out of ye Estat besides ye teen poundes for ye bringing up of ye Children-ffather Nickcolas Haward and I Do Also Desier that my Louing Brothers Nathanniel Haw- ard and John Dickcy should haue ye onersight of my Children and my Estate abouesaid to se that my will be acompleshed I Do in Consideration of a Debt Dew from me to my Brother Nathanniel grant that He shal haue all my tooles belonging to my trade I Do give to my wife all othar things whot Euer that are not mentioned in my will Datted the 22th of march 1664-5."
nehemyah hayward
Witness : Nicolus (his nicklas mark) Hayward, Nathanil hayward, John Dickse, John woodbery.
Proved in Ipswich court Sept. 26, 1665 by Nicolas Hayward and Nathaniell Hayward.
No executor being named in the will the court appointed Annah Hayward, the widow, administratrix, and the estate to be ordered according to the will.
'Inventory taken July 13, 1665, by Tho. Lowthrope, Richard (his SI mark) Leach and John Rayment : his wearing Clothes, 5li. 10s .; musket, sword & bandelears, 1li. 5s .; puter, 2li .; bras & Iron, 2li. 10s .; smothing iron, reaphoke, glas bottels & other small things, 1li. 5s. ; one bedd & furniture, 11li. ; one bed, 3 blankets, one trunelbed, one Cradel, towe wheeeles & some other things, 6li. 10s .; for working towels, 4li .; lining, 2li. 10s .; towe Chests, one box, one table, 2 Chares, 1li. 10s .; towe steers, one heffer 3 years ould, one hefer year ould, 14li .; towe Cowes, Sli .; one younge horse, 6li .; sheepe & swine, 4li. 5s. ; house & land, 80li .; Corne, 6li .; 4 ackrs of medow, 10Ii .; total, 163li. 5s. Debts due from the estate, 26li. 16s. 6 3-4d.
Received and allowed in Ipswich court Sept. 26, 1665.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 12,986.
ESTATE OF JOSEPH METCALF OF IPSWICH .*
"June the third a thousand sixe hundered sixetye fowre the last will and testyment of Joseph mettcalfe agge aboutt sixtty Ine the first plase I committ my self too the Good pleasure of the lord and I mack my wife elysabeth mettcalf ecacetrise and desire and will that my detts bee payd and what remain- eth I giue untoo my wife elysabeth dureing her life and aftter her decease, my will is that my grand child Josepth mett-
* See also Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Mass., vol. 3 (1913), pp. 325, 326.
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calf shall inioye my hous and lands paying tenn pownds too his sistter mary mettcalf and what life stoock my wife leauf att her decease I give to my Grand child elysabeth mettealf the houshold Goods I leauf too my wif's disposing I apoyntt my sonne Thomas mettcalf and william Goodhue too bee over- seeres of my will"
Joseph met[ c]alf.
Witness : John Perkins, Jacob Pearkins.
Proved in Ipswich court Sept. 26, 1665 by the witnesses.
Inventory of the estate of Joseph Mettcalfe of Ipswich taken Sept. 22, 1665, by William Goodhue and Robert Lord : the house, Barne and farme and aptenances, 300li .; a paire of bulocks, 12li .; 3 Cowes, 13li. 10s .; two 2 yearlings, 7li .; two yearlings, 5li .; two calves, 2li. 5s .; five sheepe, 2li. 10s .; swine, 4li. 10s. ; a mare, 6li .; english corne, 4li .; Indian corne upon the ground, 10li .; haye, 5li. 10s .; flax and apples, 1li .; within dores: a fether bed, boulster, 2 pillows, blankett & Rugg & bedsted, curtaines & valiants, Sli. 10s .; his weareing apparrell, 5li .; a little bed, boulster, Rugg & bedsted, 2li. 10s .; a table & old carpett, 1li .; 2 paire of sheets & other linen, 3li. 10s .; two old chests, 12s .; foure chaires, 6s .; a warming pan, 10s. ; a bassen, jugg & 3 glase bottells, 5s .; pewter, 1li. 10s. ; brase ware, 2li .; in other lumber, 1li .; two axes, bettle & 5 wedges, 3 hows & crosecut saw, 2 sickles, 1li. 2s .; woole, 4s .; a sithe, 5s .; his pt in cart & plow, yokes, chaines and other furniture, 2li. 15s .; bookes, 14s. ; one iron pott, skillet, tramell & pothookes & tongs & frying pan, spitt & other things, 1li. 10s .; two old swords, 10s .; a saddle, 15s .; 2 boxes, churne, halfe a fane, baskett and other small things, 1li .; total, 408li. 13s. ; debts oweing from the estate, 38li.
Received and allowed in Ipswich court Sept. 26, 1665.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 18,402.
GUARDIANSHIP OF SAMUEL SMITH OF ROWLEY.
Samuel Smith made choice of Daniell Weicomb as his guardian, and he was confirmed by the court 28: 9: 1665. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 153.
Daniell Wickam of Rowley, carpenter, guardian of Samuell Smith, acknowledged the receipt from Jeremiah Elsworth of 33li. 3s., part of it in land and meadow, six and three quar- ters acres of land and two parcels of meadow, amounting to 26li. 15s. and the rest in pay, which is the portion of his fa- ther, Hugh Smith's estate, and fully acquits the said Jere-
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miah Elsworth and Mary his wife forever. Dated Jan. 23, 1665. Witness: Jonathan Platts, Abraham Juett.
Acknowledged Feb. 28, 1666 by the witnesses. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 3, page 25.
ESTATE OF ROBERT MOULTON, SR. OF SALEM.
"The last will and testament of Robert moulton senir of Salem: I Robett Moulton of Salem senir beinge by gods hande on my sick bedd but of pfect memorie doe dispose of my estate as followeth: vidz: I doe ordaine my wife my whole execut'x of this my last will and testament and I giue and bequeath to my son Robert fiue pounds at my decease and to my daugh" Abigaile fiue pounds sterlinge also my son Samuell to inioy all my lands within Readinge bounds butt- inge on Ipswich riuer by estimation sixscore akers more or less; also I giue to my daught" Hannah twentie pownds in neate Cattle to be pd at her day of marriage also I giue vnto my two yonger sons John and Joseph my now dwellinge house with all the lande and meadow with all othr apurte- nances there vnto belonginge after the decease of my wife they payinge as a legasie to my two young" daughtrs meriam and mary to each of them twentie pounds to be pd within one yeare after they com to posess it and in case either of my sons John or Joseph should die before theire mother then my will is that my son Samuell shall inioy the pt of my house and lande ginen to the ptie deceased and this I leaue as my last will and testament witnis my hande the 5th of Septembr 1665."
Robert Moulton senior
Witness : Henry Bartholmew, George Gardner, Samuell Gardner.
Proved in Salem court 28: 9: 1665 by Lt. George Gardner and Samuell Gardner.
Inventory taken 3: 8: 1665, by Samuell Gardner and Job Swinerton, jr., being desired by the widow: Six Cowes, 28li. 10s .; six two year old cattle, 18li .; two yearlings, 4li .; six calves, Gli .; fower oxen, 25li .; horse, mare and colt, 15li .; hay, 10li .; ye farme and housing, 120li .; 13 swine, 10li .; corne, 15li .; 120 acres of land in Reden, 10li .; beding in ye house, 30li .; plow Geare & other tooles, 3li .; total, 294li. 10s. The debts are as followeth : to Capt. Corwin, 8li. 17s. 9 1-4d. ; Mr. Browne, 4li. 17s. 4d .; George Gardner, 3li. 7s .; Mr. Bat- ter, 1li. 10s .; other small debts, 2li .; total 20li. 12s. 1 1-4d.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 11, leaf 47.
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ESTATE OF CAPT. BENJAMIN FEAREMAYES.
The Court having been informed of the death of Benjamin Fearemayes, at Ginne, who left some land in Salem, court 28: 9: 1665, ordered that his estate be given into the hands of Capt. Huchesson and the widow Hester Eastwick. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 152.
Administration on the estate in this country of Capt. Ben- jamin Fermayes granted 26: 4: 1666, to Hester Estwick, and she was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Ipswich or Salem court. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 164.
Hester Eastwick, widow, presenting an inventory of the estate that is in this country, the court 27: 9: 1666, granted administration to said Hester and ordered that she pay her- self what was her due as appeared by the testimony of Frances Nurse. The remainder of the estate was to remain in her hands until court took further order. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 176.
George Gardner and Francis (his [I] mark) Norss, at the request of widow Esteck, on 26 : 9: 1666, appraised one acre of land in the field near the north ferry and half an acre of land lying between Mr. John Gidny and Goodman Peter at 14li. sterling. There were ten acres of land on Marblehead side, but the location was not known.
Franc. Nurce, aged about forty-five years, deposed that Ester Eswicke did entrust to Benjamin Fermane one cow valued at five pounds for which he promised to pay her 20s. per annum so long as he kept the principle in his hands, which is nineteen years. Sworn in court. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 12, leaf 31.
ESTATE OF JOHN WYATT OF IPSWICH.
"In the name of god Amen : The three and twentieth day of November in the yeare of our lord god one thousand sixe hundred sixtie and fiue, I John Wyatt of Ipswich the vn- profitable Seruant of god weake in body but of good and per- fect memorie (god be praised) Doe make and ordeine this my last will and Testament in manner & forme following; that is to say, first I Commend my soule into the hands of god my maker, hopeing assuredly through the onely merites of Jesus Christ my sauiour; to be made pertaker of life euerlasting. And I commend my body to the earth whereof it is made.
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Item as touching my wife with whome I coupled myselfe in the feare of god my will is that during the whole terme of her naturall life | |she|| shall haue sixe pounds p Ann to wit yearely and duely paid her out of my Estate by my Executor in good marchantable wheate malt and Indian corn my enen and equall porcons. Item I giue vnto my wife the vse of the Roome we now lye in with the Sellar vnder it and the vpper Roomes ouer it, and the vse of the Bedsted in the said roome during her naturall life. Also I giue her all her household goods that are remayneing which are conteyned in an Inuen- tory annexed to the will to be at her owne disposeing. As also fifeteene pounds to bee payd her at three payments pres- ently after her Death that is to say fiue pounds p ann for three yeares to be paid in Country pay at the current price. But in case shee should neede it sooner; then to be paid her accord- ing to her necessity. Moreouer shec shall hane the vse of all my householde goods together with my Grandchild John Kemball by name as he shall háue occasion to vse them while he abides in the house; And my will is that if my wife cannot liue Comfortably in the house with him then shee shall haue libertie to Chuse her another place of being in the towne, and hee shall supply her with wood and pay for her Roome. Item I giue vnto my three Daughters Mary Sarah and Dorcas five shillings a peece. finally after my Decease I giue and Be- queath vnto John Kemball my Grandchild my Dwelling house and all the ground belonging to it and all my meadowe ground together with all my Cattell and husbandry imple- ments. Prouided he carry himselfe respectively towards my wife And in case he shall not; Then I giue vnto my said Grandchild ten pounds and soe not to haue to doe with any part of my Estate besides. Item I make my loueing friend mr Theophilus Wilson my sole Executor to see my Debts and funerall expences satisfied and paid and my will performed and I Doe gine him forty shillings. And I make my loueing friends mr Robert Paine and Willm White the Ouerseers of this my last will and testament In witnes whereof I haue heerto set my hand and seale the day and yeare abouesaid." John (his I mark) wyatt (SEAL) Witness : Robert Payne, Willm White.
"Memorandum that after the sealing and subscribing of this my will notwithstanding any thing therein conteyned it is also my will that if my Grandchild John Kemball doe not in eury - according to my - I shall giue my executor and ouerseer - to dispose of - think -. " "An Inuentarie of all
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or the most part of the household goods and Chattles that mary Wyatt now wife vnto John Wyatt of Ipswich brought a Deliured into her husbands possession at the tyme of her mar- iage." Imprimis her Apparell, a featherbed, a feather bolster & a pillow, a flockbed and a bolster, a green rug & three blancketts, a paire of valance and three Curtaines, a paire of sheets and one paire of Pillowbies, two trunckes and a great chest and a great broad Boxe, three platters one long and two broad ones, a great Pewter candlesticke and a little one, a great pewter salt, two pewter basins, a great one and a lesser one, two pewter great pint potts and two lesses potts, a pew- ter bedpan, one porrenger & spoones and other smale pewter Saucers & plates, two iron potts a great & a little one, an iron kettle, a warming pan and a brasse frying panne, a Pes- tell and a morter, a paire of Andirons, two brasse skilletts, a 3 pint and a two pint one, a brasse ladle and a brasse Scum- mer, a paire of pot hooks and a paire of pott hangers, a Chafing Dish.
Proved in Ipswich court, Jan. 15, 1665 by the witnesses.
Inventory taken Dec. 26, 1665, by Robert Lord and John (his ( mark) Pindar: the dwelling house, barne & ground about it both homstead & pasture, 60li .; a six acre lott in the comon field, 25li .; a psell of marsh in the hundreds, 12li .; a paire of oxen, 13li .; three cowes, 13li .; one steere & 2 calves, 4li. ; a mare, 6li .; 3 shotes, 2li .; Indian corne, 5li. 5s .; Inglish corne, 2li. 5s .; in pewter & spoones, 1li .; a latten cullender, driping pan, lamp & grate, 6s .; 3 old kettells & a brass pott & little skillett, 1li. 16s .; in porke & beefe, 1li. 15s .; poudering tub, keelars, beere vessells, chirne & other small things, 1li. 10s .; two bowls, 3 trayes & chees mottes & dishes, 8s .; tur- naps, 3s. ; in butter & suite, 5s. 6d .; nyne pound cotten woole, 9s .; a trundle bed, wheele, a paire of cardes & old tub, 10s .; 3 peacks of malt, 3s. 4d .; ould bags, 3s. 6d .; a bedsted & 3 curtaines & fether bolster, a pillow, old coverlett & 3 blank- etts & old tike, 3li. 4s .; his weareing Apparell, 6li .; five paire of sheetes, 3li. 6s. 8d .; three shirts, 1li. 1s .; 4 small table cloths & towells & napkins, 1li. 1s .; 2 paire of old pillow beeres, 4s .; 6 caps & 5 bands, 10s. ; an old chest & cubbard & old box, 16s .; a muskett, 12s .; a little table, 3 chaires, salt box & salt, 8s .; in earthen ware, 4s. 4d. ; fire pan, tongs, tram- ell & pothookes, 8s. 6d .; scales, waites, 2 pailes & small things, 7s .; a grediron & clever, 3s. 6d .; axes, beetle rings, wedges & other tooles, 16s .; an old saddle, fettors, cartrope, 10s .; 4 hookes for to make ropes, 5s .; an old lennen wheele, 2s. 6d .;
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an old meale tub & 2 sives, 2s. 6d .; a trundle bed, flockbed, bolster & pillow, 1li. 10s .; 2 old sithes & one snath, 6s .; a plow & chaine & sled, 1li. 5s .; a cart, wheeles, 2 yokes & tumbrull, 3li. 10s. ; a fann & a cushen, 7s .; total, 177li. 19s. 4d. Debts dew from the estate about 21li .; clear estate, 156li. 19s. 4d.
Attested Jan. 15, 1665 by Mary, wife of John Wiate. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 30,736.
ESTATE OF ANDREW HODGES OF IPSWICH.
"The 11th of october 1661 I Andrew Hodges being in perfit memory do will this very last will and Testament wher- in I give to my beloved wife fiue pound a year during her nat- urall life to be paid her as followeth sixe bushel of wheat and the rest half in molt and the other half in Indian also I giue her two Cows and a red heyfer and two shep and thes are to be maintayned by my ground so long as she lives as hir own and half of the wool of the rest of my sheep & I giue to my wif the wool and yarn in the house also I giue her my swine and I gine to my wife Twenty pound to be at her dis- posing and my houshold goods be for my wiues youse so long as she liues unles she se cause to take part of them in pay- ment of the twenty pound I haue giuen her also I giue to my Wife and her Grandchild three pound to buy them som par- rell also my kinsman Ghiles is to find her Wood as long as she liues my Wyf paying him for the Cutting of it out in Aples or otherwise and my wif is to haue her liuing in the house and youse of the ground about it her life only the barne is to be at liberty for my kinsman and I give to the poor of this Town fiue shillings a year after my Wines death for ener also I giue to the Colledg of Cambridg hear, fiue pound to be paid after my Wines death in fine year by twenty shillings a year for the good of poor skollers also I giue to Henry Bennit fiue pound and to Edward Walden fourty shillings and to Mr. Cobbit fourty shillings and to Mary quilter fourty shillings and to Theophilus Wilson twenty shillings and thes legacys to be paid in thre year after my death and to my cossen Ghils Berdly I giue my house and ground about it after my Wines death and all my other ground both meddow and vp- land and cattle and sheep with my wearing parrell at my death and for the performanc of this my will I bind ouer my house and ground to my two ouerseers and I mak my Cossen Ghiles Berdly my Execcetour and Decon Knowlton and The- ophilus Wilson my two ouerseers and giue them powr in case
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of not performenc of my will to dispose of my hous and ground for the discharging of my will in witness hereof I haue set to my hand the day and year aboue written." Andru hodges Witness : Theophilus Wilson, Thomas Knoulton.
Proved in Ipswich court 27: 1: 1666 by Dea. Thomas Knowlton and Theophilus Willson. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 11, leaf 96.
Inventory of the estate of Andrew Hodges of Ipswich, lately deceased, taken Jan. 16, 1665, by Robert Lord and Jacob Foster : Wearing apparrell, 10li .; a fether bed, 2 feather boulsters & 2 pillows, an old blankett & ould rug, li .; little flock bed, 1li .; one bedstead & cord, 1li. 10s .; a paire of curtaines & valence, 1li. 18s .; trundle bed & cord, 10s. ; flock- bed, 1li. 15s .; one fether pillow with a new tike, 9s .; one old fether pillow, 3s .; one woole pillow, 3s .; a blankett of truck- ing cloth, 12s .; 2 old blankets, 3s .; an old darnacle coverlett & curtaine, 4s .; one paire of flaxen sheetes, 1li. 3s. 4d .; one old worne fine sheete, 7s .; 2 paire old corse sheets, 10s .; 3 corse sheetes, 14s .; one corse table cloth, 5s .; a flaxen table cloth, 6s. 8d .; one napkin, 3s. & 4 napkins at 5s., 8s .; one paire of fine old pillow beeres, 5s .; two paire corse pillow beeres, 8s .; 4 corse towells, 3s .; a trunke, 6s. 8d .; a broad box, 3s. 4d. ; a desk, 2s. & 3 old boxes, 3s., 5s .; a table & forme, 12s .; 3 darnacle curtaines, old ones, 4s. 6d .; one great chaire, 3s .; two chaires, 3s .; two old cushens, 2s .; a paire of And- iorns, 6s. ; fire pan & tongs, 5s. 6d .; a paire of bellows, 2s .; 2 smotheing Irons, 2s .; a lookeing glase, 10s .; a leather case, 6d .; a bible & 2 little bookes, 10s .; one grt. Iron pott, 18s .; a little Iron pot, 6s .; one Iron kettle, 4s. 6d .; a small Iron pott, 2s. 6d .; brase pott, 12s .; two brase kittells, 16s .; a skil- let & little kettell, 3s .; chafen dish, 5s .; 2 skimers, 3s. 6d .; brase morter & pestle, 6s .; old warming pan, 5s .; a spitt & bread bowle, 3s .; a frying pan, 2s. 6d .; 3 grter pewter dishes & a plate, 1li. 4s .; 4 smaller dishes of pewter, 10s .; a vearged bassen, 8s .; a peece bassen, 3s .; pewter candlestick, 3s .; pew- ter salt, 2s. 6d .; wine qurt. pott, 4s. 6d .; an ale qurt. & pint pott, 6s .; 4 poringers, 3s. 4d .; 3 pewter sasers, 2s .; 4 ocumy spoones, 1s. 4d .; a driping pan & puding pan, 3s .; pan, fish plate & tunnell, 1s .; earthenware, 4s. 6d. ; pewter chamberpot, 2s. ; a paire of taylours sheeres, 1s. 6d. ; a paire of pincers, 1s .; a broad grat, 8d .; hamer, ager, chissell & old goudg, 3s .; a mortiseing axe & a handsaw, 3s .; 2 sives, 2s. 6d .; cheesepres, 4s .; cubbard, 10s .; 2 little old tables, 3s. 6d .; beetle rings, 2
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old axes & 2 wedges, 7s .; old spade, broken pikax, old how, 1s. 6d .; wooden dishes, 2s .; paile & pigin, 2s. 6d .; tramell, 4s. ; 3 trayes, bowle, 2 keelars, 8s .; a red rugg, 15s. ; a trunek, 6s. ; poudereing tub & chirne, 7s .; 2 firkings & salt, 3s. 6d .; 3 beere firkings, 4s .; about 3 peackes of wheate, 3s. 9d .; to- baco in the leafe, 2s .; pott of butter, 7s .; in pourke, 2li. 10s .; hatchell, 4s .; scales & waites, 1s. 6d .; coslet & pike, 1li. 5s .; sea chest, 8s .; English corne, 4li. 15s. 9d .; Indian corne, 3li. 19s. 6d .; 2 lenen wheeles & a wollen one, 10s. ; halfe bushell, 2s. ; tub & little ground malt, 3s .; an old cart rope, 2s .; 8li. of fleese woole & 3 of lambes, 14s .; 12li. cotton woole, 12s .; sheepes woole, 7s. 6d .; cotton yarne, 7s. 6d .; woollen yarne, 15s. ; paire of pothookes & a houre glase, 2s .; 2 bullocks, 11li .; 4 cowes, 18li .; a steere, 4li. 10s .; heifer, 3li .; 2 calves, 2li. 10s .; 9 sheepe, 4li. 10s .; harrow, 3s .; one yoke & one chaine & span shakell, 11s .; halfe the cart & plow, 1li .; tub to scald hoggs, 2s .; 3 piggs, 18s .; laders & forkes, 6s .; sword, 8s .; apples, 6s. ; two baggs, 4s. ; house, barne and homestead, 50li .; 28 acres of upland & meddow, 112li .; 2 pr. cards, 3s .; cotton woole, 18d .; cheese, 5s .; debts due to the estate, 1li. 10s .; total, 228li. 19s. Debts due from the estate, 19li. 6s. 8d. Allowed Mar. 27, 1666. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 11, leaf 97.
ESTATE OF ROGER PRESTON OF SALEM.
Roger Preston, dying intestate, and no one appearing to take administration, court Mar. 27, 1666, ordered that it be left in the hands of Thomas Preston until the next Salem court, he to dispose of the hay. He was also to bring in an inventory.
Court being informed that the widow Preston had put out two of her sons, one to Thomas Johnson and another to Stephen Johnson, until twenty-one years of age, upon terms agreed, it was allowed Mar. 27, 1666, and Mr. Bradstreet was to see it done.
Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, pp. 150, 151.
Roger Preston, dying intestate, and the estate being not suf- ficient to pay his debts, it was ordered 26: 4: 1666, that all the creditors bring in their accounts to the next Ipswich court, and that they should be paid proportionally as far as the estate would go. Those who failed to appear would be li- able to lose their amounts due, the next court being the time limit for making division of said estate among the creditors.
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THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
This order was published in court. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 164.
Roger Preston, late of Salem, having died intestate almost a year since and his debts amounting to more than his estate, no one appeared to administer upon it. Several parcels of the estate were subject to loss unless care be taken about them, and the court 27: 9: 1666, ordered that Henry Skerry, mar- shal, take the estate into his possession to sell what cannot con- veniently be kept, he to receive recompense out of said estate. Mr. Batter and Mr. Bartholomew of Salem were requested to examine and audit accounts between said Preston and any of the creditors and return their report at the next Ipswich court, where every creditor who expected satisfaction was to appear in person or by attorney, to receive his proportion. This order was to be published at some public town meeting at Ipswich by Robert Lord, clerk of the court there, and also posted upon the meeting house at Salem by the marshal there. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 174.
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