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Witness : Thomas Pickton and his wife Ann.
Proved in Salem court 3: 5m: 1674 by Tho. and Ann Pickton.
Inventory of the estate of Ralf Ellinwood of Beverly, taken Jan. 30, 1673, by Henery Skerry, sr., Tho. Rootes and John Massey : The lot commonly called Molton's lot, with the building, orcharding, etc., 135li .; plowabell Land, pasture, with part of the orchard, 130li .; 2 Cowes, 7li. 10s .; 2 Heffers with Calf, 5li. 10s .; 2 Oxen, Sli. 10s .; 1 Calfe, 1li .; 1 mare & 2 mare Colts, 3li .; 15 sheepe, with theare lambs, 7li. 10s .; 4 swine & 3 pigs, 3li. 5s .; 6 Loads of haye, Gli .; A Beed part Fethers & partt Flockes with 3 Fether pillowes with a bolster & Covering 3li. 10s .; a flock bed with 3 blancitts, 1li. 10s .; 20 Bushels of Ingen Corne, 3li .; 15 Bushels of barly, 2li .; 2 bushels of peese, 8s .; 8 Flitches of Bacon, 3li. 10s .; 2 bushels of Ry, 7s .; 30li. of sheeps wooll, 1li. 10s .; 16li. of hempe, Ss .; 10li. of flax, 10s. ; Chaines & Fetters & horse 'Trases, 16s .; Cart & wheles with a Cops & bolt with plow Fornes, 2li .; 3 Boxes For wheeles, 5s .; Gli. wedges, 2s .; axes & hoes, Ss .; 2 haeks & 1 pare of Fiar Tongs, 10s .; 2 Akers of Salt marsh Ground Laying to the Common, 1li .; 3 Iorne pots and a Scel- lett, 15s .; warming pan, 10s .; a brace Cettell & scellitt, 1li. 10s. ; a barrell of a Gun, 3s .; 5 puter platters & an old pott & porrenger, 1li. 2s. ; half a barrel of mackrell, 9s .; 10 bushels of Turnups, 10s .; 1 barrell & half of sider, 15s .; 3 spining wheels, 10s .; 2 Chests, 15s .; 20li. of Cheese, 6s. Sd .; Sli. of Cotten yearne, 16s .; woodden dishes & boles & earthen plat- ters, 5s. ; 2 old siths & 2 Repe hooks, 4s. ; a sider prees & pound- ing Troff, 1li .; a connew, 10s .; 4 old bibels & sume other books, 18s .; 4 pare of sheets with pillo bears and Tabell clothes, 4li. ; 5 yeards of home maide wollen Cloth, 2li .; mony, 3s .; a towell, 1s. 6d .; his best sute of home spun Cloth, 3li .; 2 wascots, a Cote an drawers, 1li. 5s .; his stockens, shewes, & hats, 1li .; 3 shirts & neck clothes, 1li. 10s .; 3 chaires, 5s .; total, 352li. 12s. 2d.
Attested 3: 5m : 1674 by Ellenor, the widow of the deceased.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 22, leaves, 6, 7.
ESTATE OF ROBERT HASELTINE OF BRADFORD.
"I Robburt Haseltine of Bradford, In ye County of Esex In New England being by ye Grace of God In som Competent
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Mesure of vnderstanding and Daily waighting ffor my Chaing Do make this as my Last will and Testament and do hearby apoint my welbeloued wife Anna Haseltine and my Son Dauid Haseltine: Executrix ad Executor Joyntly of this my will - ffirst I Commit what I am and haue Into ye hands of my most Louing and gracious god and father In and thorough Christ Jesus my soul Imediatly upon my Death to bee Re- cined Into those heavenly mancions which my blessed sau- io" hath prepred for me and my body I Desire may be In- terred In a Comly manner In hope that my savior will In his time Raise it up Into Glory-for my temporall Estat wch god hath giuen mee I Dispose of it as ffoloweth-first all my Debts to be paied and then I Giue and Bequeath to my beloued wife Anna Haseltine During hir naturall Life my house and all houshould utensils and barne ad Orchard and pasturs yt now be fenced in and ye broken up land which Lieth within my feild one ye East side of ye heighway yt goeth Downe from my house to ye River ||and long hill meadow | |and all my stock and all utencils for husbandry and all Corne ad provision and all Debts yt be Due from any to me: only shee yt is my be- loued wife Anna haseltine to pay all my debts: and to Give to my grand Child Anna Kimbell Daughter to Caleb Kimboll ten pounds at ye Day of hir marige : and further I do giue to my beloued wife Anna Haseltine thirty pounds of ye above mentioned Estat to Dispose as shee shal see Good to my C[hi]l- deren ye Rest at her Deseace to be Eaqually Divided Amongst my Children : Further I do giue unto m' Zachriah simmes now minister In this Towne of bradford ten accors of upland yt he now Liveth upon if he Continew In ye worke of ye minis- try here in this place ten years whereof five or more is al- redy gon : but if he shd not Continew so Longe then I do will ad bequeath it yt is ye aboue mentioned ten accars of Land to ye Towne to be kept for ye use of ye ministry ; and farther I do give vnto ye Town one accar of Land Leying nere vnto ye meting house : further I do giue to my sonn David haseltine twenty-five accors of Land wth a house upone it and seauenty fine accars more Joyning to ye south End of mr simmes Land or Land now Impoued by mr simmes and six accars more being one ye west side and towards ye upper End of his seventy five accors and ten accors of meadow being In a meadow Caled ye far meadow and being at ye Est End of my | |meadow!| theare and so Runing upwords on booth sids of the brooke till it Comes at a point of upland yt Comes nere ye
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brooke on ye south side: and what is wanting there of ten accares to be made up in a parcill of meadow being on ye south side of ye brooke a Littel Distant from it : farther I do giue to my sonn Abraham haseltine Eyghty accars of Land : with an allowance for a heighway : for my sonn David to his seuenty fine accars: this Land Joyning on ye west side my sonn David and alredy Laid out and bounded: and Eyght accors of meadow at my meadow Caled ye far meadow one ye north sid of ye brooke and what is wanting there to be made up in a parcill of meadow Liing on ye south side of ye brooke a Litel Distant from yt brooke: and further I do giue to my Sonns Robbart haseltine and Gershom haseltine a parcill of Lande not yeat Laied out to them one peice Joyning upon ye head of my sonne Abrahams Land the other peice Joyning to my homesteid one the south side of ye heighway both peices Containing about on hundread accars with ye Remaindor of my meadow at ye far meadow this to be Eaqualy Divided betwene them both when thay come at Age and what thay want to make each of them Eaquall with my sonn abraham it is to be made up with Land one ye west side of ye heighway yt goeth through my feild from my house to ye River and if there be not Enough then to be made up at my wius Desease : before ye Rest be Divided amongst my Chdren: my beloued wife to haue ye Improument of al ad any part of thire Land and meadow During thaire minority :
"Ad farther I do giue to my Daughtor Anna ad my Daugh- ter Dillivenc a parcill of upland of about on hundread ac- cares Runing a Cross Dead hill with a peice of meadow Called Dead hill meadow the Land & meadow to be Equaly Divided betwene them only my Daughter Anna to haue ten po[u]nds in it more then my Daughter Dilliuerence: ad farther I Do giue to my Daughter Marcy A parcill of Land of thirty fiue accars being westerly from my homesteed which is alredy Laied out and bounded. In witnes that this is my will and Testament I haue set to my hand ad seale this twenty fift of Otobar on thousand six hunderd seuenty three :"
Witness : Shu. walker.
Robart Haseltine.
Proved in Ipswich court Sept. 29, 1674 by Mr. Shuball Walker and David Hazeltine.
Inventory of the estate of Robart Haseltine of Bradford, deceased Aug. 27, 1674, taken Sept. 19, 1674, by William
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White and Shubaell Walker: wearing apparill, 3li. 11s .; Beading and beads, 10li. 10s .; 2 beadsteads, 14s .; Tabels, cupbord, box, chairs, chest, forme, Tubs and barills, 2li. 10s. ; pewter, brase and Iron ware, 5li .; houshould Imple- ments, 10s .; table lining and Cushins, 1li. 8s .; horse furni- ture, 15s .; Impelments for husbandry, 1li. 10s .; Corne, 12li .; Neate Cattel, 29li .; horses, 12li .; sheepe, 3li. 10s .; swine, 10li .; shepe woole, hemp, flax and hopes, 1li. 10s .; house, barne, homestead, and a peice of Meadow belonging to it, 154li. ; a parcill of wildornes land and Meadow, 240li .; total, 488li. 8s.
Attested in Ipswich court Sept. 29, 1674 by the execu- tor to be a true inventory of his father's estate; but the house, land & meadow that was given to David and Abra- ham which they were possessed of in his life time was not put into this inventory.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 12,686. ESTATE OF EZEKIEL ROGERS OF IPSWICH.
ยท Administration on the estate of Mr. Ezekiel Rogers, in- testate, granted Sept. 29. 1674, to Margret Rogers, the widow, and there was an inventory brought in. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 257.
Inventory of the estate of Ezekell Rogers late of Ipswich, taken July 29, 1674, by John Appleton and John Whipple : his waring clothes linen & woolin, 5li. 16s. ; in the parler, one bedsted, fether beed, Curtins and valants, one bolster, two pilows, li. 8s .; a syd Cubburd, 1li .; one table & a earpit, 8s. ; two Chayers & 6 stooles, 17s. ; one boxe, a small trunck & au old trunek, 10s. ; one looking glas, som whight earthen ware, 10s .; fower Cushins, a slikston, two or thre small things, 19s. 6d .; a payer of small Cobirons & a payer of tonges, 5s. 6d. ; sixe payer of Cours sheetes, 2li. 10s .; cours table Linon, 8s .; cours pilowbers, 8s .; one payer of sheetes, duz. napkins, 16s. ; half duz. napkins, two towels, 10s .; two payer of pilow- beres, 4s .; two Cubburd Clothes, one table eloth, 14s. ; pewter, 1li. 7s .; warming pane, 4s .; in the hall, thre ehayer, a Cradle 8s .; a small table & small scales & a wayt, Ss .; in the litle roome, halfheded bedsted & a trundele bedstead, 8s .; a beed teck, two sives, Iron pot, 17s .; pailes, pigines & earthen wares, 6s .; spones & trenchers, 1s .; in the siller, chern, bar- rels, tubes, 8s .; ten gall. molasses, 12s .; in the Chamber, five
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bush. of oats, 10s .; ships wool, 6s .; betle & wedges, 6s .; bridls, saddle, 12s .; thre cows & a calf, 9li .; thre horses, 11li .; one mare, one yere old colt, one colt, 3li .; thre shep & ther Lambes, 1li. 10s .; fower small swine, 2li .; two axes, 4s .; wheelbarow, 2s. & bordes, 5s .; the dweling hows, barne with the homsted, 120li .; in Nuingland mony, 4li. 10s .; an old cart & a sled, 1li. 10s .; total, 182li. 16s .; books, 4li .; in Re- vertion in England about 10li. per year & ther is 50li. taken upon it; ther is oughing in depts, 184li.
Attested in Ipswich court Sept. 29, 1674 by Mrs. Margret Rogers, the widow. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 23,988.
ESTATE OF THOMAS MEERE OF SALEM.
Administration on the estate of Thomas Meere, intestate, granted Sept. 29, 1674, to his brother John Meere, deceased, who was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Salem court. Mr. Thomas Gardner and John Clifford bound for said John Meere. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 258.
Copy of the inventory of the estate of Thomas Meere, de- ceased, taken 11 : 7: 1674, by Hillyard Verren, sr., and Thom- as Cromwell: Coate & breeches of new black Kersie, 2li. 10s .; a worne corse coat sad couller, 10s .; an old searge sute, 10s .; an old coate & cassack and drawers white cotten, 10s .; 3 pr. cover linen, drawers, 1 red cotten drawers & an old red sack, 8s .; 4 pr. worne stockins, worsted & yerne, 10s .; 1 pr. new & 1 pr. older shoes, 8s .; a linen cassake & course pillowbeere, 4s .; 9 shirts, 35s .; 3 carbits, 3s .; 3 bands, 3s .; 2 pr. sleeves & a peece of carbett, 7s .; a hat, 3s. 6d .; a cloake, 26s .; a pr. of old sheets & peece of old covering, 10s .; a small gun, 10s .; a perywigg, 16s. ; a capp & two hancerchiefs, 2s .; an old fether bolster, 6s .; 2 bookes, 2s .; an old chest, 3s .; a gould ring, 1li. 6s .; 17 yards corse black cersie at 4s. per yd., 3li. 8s .; 1 1-4 yd. of lite coullerd corse cloth, 4s .; 1 1-2 yd. less 1-16 of red cersie, 6s .; 1 pr. whit Jersie stockins & 1 pr. leggs, 4s .; 1 pr. old sleeves, 6d .; an old bible and two or 3 bookes, 5s .; 2 pr. small compasses & about 12 bras rings, 2s .; bill due to the estate, 3li. 6s .; a pr. of sheeres, 2s .; some whalbonc, 12d .; total, 22li. 10s. Estate owed Samuell Steevens, 6li. 19s.
Attested 24: 9: 1674 by John Meere, administrator. Es- sex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 22, leaf 117.
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ESTATE OF ABRAHAM WHITTIER, SR. OF MANCHESTER.
Court understanding that Abraham Whitehaire, deceased, left his will in writing but named no executor, administration upon said estate was granted Sept. 29, 1674, to Edward Whithaire, his son, who was ordered to bring in an inventory. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 258.
"ye 6 of 6mo 74 beeing desiered by John West of ye Creek to goe with him to Mr. Gidnis whear Abraham Whithaer lay sike heueing his memory and understanding willed as fol- loueth hee gane to his sonn Edward halfe of all his Land after his desees and did enioyne him not to sell: it: and his wife should hauc the other halfe of the Land and ye houes and allso the moueabels deuring her Life for the bringing up of the children which hee had by her, and at her death the halfe the Land and the houes that now belongeth to the widow shall be equeally deuided betwixt the children which hee had by this Last wief and the tooe children which I had by my first wife I giue to them fiue shilings a pees for ther Leggesi allso that halfe of the Land and houes which I Leaue with my wief for her Life is not to be sould to any body if my sonn Edward will by it."
Witness : Georg Keysar, John West.
Proved in Salem court 26: 9: 1674 by the witnesses.
Edward, son of deceased, having been appointed adminis- trator at the last Ipswich court, and whereas said Abraham in his life time made use of 5li. that properly belonged to his son John, court decreed that said John should be paid out of the estate at the age of twenty-one years, 5li. more than his proportion, upon the division of the estate. Edward also brought in an inventory which was allowed.
The estate of Abraham Whitteer is debtor : pd. to Mr. Gid- ney, sr., 1li. 17s .; to Jno. Ropes, 5s. ; to Doctr Wells, 10s. 6d .; bords & nales, 5s. ; Goodman Lord, 4s .; total, 3li. 1s. 6d. My father is Dr. to Mr. Wm. Browne, sr., 3li. 9s. 8d .; cost at court, 17s. 6d.
Inventory of the estate of Aberham Whityear, sr., late de- ceased in Manchester, taken 22: 6: 1674, by Thomas West and Samuell Leach : twenty-fiue acres of land & meadowe, 50li .; a dewlling hows, 6li .; 3 cattell, 9li .; swyne & a young mare, 2li. 10s .; Beding & howshowld stufe, 7li .; heaye, 2li .; total, 76li. 10s.
Attested 26: 9: 1674 by Edward Whitier, administrator.
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Petition of John Whityer to the court Dec. - , 1681, for the appointment of an administrator for his father's estate, his brother Edward the administrator appointed by the court 26: 9: 1674 having died before Jolin was twenty one years of age.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 22, leaves 119-121.
ESTATE OF ROBERT STARKWEATHER OF IPSWICHI.
Administration on the estate of Robert Starkweather, in- testate, granted Nov. 4, 1674, to Jennett Starkweather, his widow, and an inventory of about 20li. having been brought in and there being eight children, court ordered 5s. to each child and the remainder to the widow. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 259.
Inventory taken Nov. - , 1674, by Edward Brag, Sargen Perkins and Nathaniel Treadwell: the House, barne and fensing to it, 12li .; corne, 13li .; Hemp, 2li. 10s .; thre lods of Haye, 1li. 8s .; swine, 2li. 5s .; thre sheepe, 1li .; A cheest and the linin in it, 3li .; all his wearing cloose, 4li. 17s. 8d .; a pere of shoose, 4s .; Beed and all the things belong to it, 7li .; Beed and all the things to it, 3li .; sword and belt, 1li .; Brass and pewter, 15s .; all other Housal stoff, 3li. 13s .; two bushells of Hempseed, 8s .; His toouls about his tread, 12s .; Hachett, 10s .; Beedcords, 12s .; plow and A sise, 14s .; two yockes and Beetell rings, 5s. 6d .; a sadell, 6s .; total, 59li. 2d. Debts that he owed : to Mr. Kimbole of Boston, 1li. 9d .; Mr. Wainwright, 1li. 5s. 7 1-2d .; Edward Brag, 28li. 5s .; Thomas Knolton, sener, 8s .; Benedick Polsefor, 10s .; Ed- ward Brag, 1li. 7s .; Sargen Perkins, 5s .; Mr. Ellsen of Charlstoune, 3li .; Isack Purckinse, 12s .; goodman Broges, 11s .; Jems Kinge, 14s .; Mr. Goodhou, 8s .; Nathaniell Pipor, 3s .; Robord Perse, -; Thomas Knolten, juner, -; Sargen Clarck, -.
Attested in Ipswich court 4: 9br : 1674 by Jennett Stark- wether, administratrix of her husband's estate. Essex Coun- ty Probate Files, Docket 26, 252.
GUARDIANSHIP OF HESTER WITT.
Hester Witt came into court 24: 9: 1674, and made choice of Samuell Stocker for her guardian, and it was allowed. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 81.
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ESTATE OF LOT CONANT OF SALEM.
"The last will and testament of Lot Conant dated the 24 of the 7th month 1674. I Lot Conant aged about fiftie yeers, being sicke and weake, yet of pfet understanding doe hereby declare my last will and testament wherein in the first place, I do bequeth my soule unto god that gaue it, and my body to the graue in hope of a blessed resurrection : and for my outward estate and goods, I doe bequeath and giue vnto my fiue sonns to each of them fifty pound and vnto my sonn Nathaniell the shop and tools ouer & aboue the rest, and vnto my fiue daughters twenty pound to each of them, and this estate I leaue to lye whole unbroken till they come to full age, or to marriage estate, and in the meantime, the whole to rest in the hands of my wife, and for the bringing up of the children, and furthermore my will is that my wife be executrix and that the land be not at all disposed off from the children, and that my wife haue the dwelling house and orchard for her lifetime also that my kinswoman Leech haue a cow or heifer at her being married or going from my wife And for help vnto my wife in this matter, I do intret and desire m" John Hale, Captaine Lathrop and my brother Ex- ercise Conant to be assisting ; hereunto I haue subscribed my hand this 24 of the 7 month 1674."
Lot Conant.
Witness : Roger Conant, Exercise Conant.
Proved in Salem court 26 : 9 : 1674 by the witnesses.
Inventory taken Sept. 29, 1674, by William Dodge, sr., and John Raimont: three oxen at 4li. p., 12li .; 10 Cows at 3li. 10s., 35li .; 5 heifers at 2li., 10li .; 2 calves at 15s., 1li. 10s .; 20 sheep, li .; swine, great & smale, 10li .; a horse, 5li .; 2 beasts kild & salted for house, 5li .; land 60 akers not im- proved, 150li .; land improved, 19 akers, 104li. 10s .; meadow land 12 akers, 61li .; more land 9 akers, 40li .; a dwelling house and orchard containing about 4 akers wth an old dwelling house of his fathers, 160li .; more land 5 akers & 6 akers being purchased but not yet paid, 40li .; an old barn & cattel howsing, 5li .; a shop where Nath. Conant workes, 5li .; a third part of a river hous, 2li .; an eight part of a ketch, 20li. ; land lying at Marblehead by darbi fort, 2 1-2 akers, 5li .; a house at Marblehead, 5li .; Corn, Indian and English, 127 bush., 13li .; hay and fodder, 32 load, 20li .; a Cart a putt & a sledd, 2li .; plow takeling and chains, 2li .; axes, hoes & sithes, 1li .; a bedsteed, bed, bolster & furniture, 7li .; a livery
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eubbord & cloth, 2li .; sheets, 7 pare, 8li .; pillobies 3 pare at 4s. p., 12s .; a fine pare of pillobies, 8s .; 2 chests and boxes, 2li .; a table and 6 stooles, 1li. 10s .; 2 lether chairs, 10s .; a peece of sarge, 3li .; 2 chairs, 6s .; a fether bed, rug & blankets, 5li .; a bedsteed, down bed & furniture, 4li .; a trumell bed & furniture, 2li .; waring apparrell, Sli .; a carpett, 1li .; Cur- ten cloth, 2li .; cusshion cloth, 6s .; spining wheeles, 10s .; sheeps woll & yarn, 1li .; cotten woll, 1li. 14s .; flax and lining yarne, 1li .; peuter & peeces, 1li. 10s .; erthen ware, 10s .; a copper, 2 skillets & warmingpan, 2li .; 2 Iron potts & 2 kittels, 2li .; 2 muskets & 3 swords, 2li .; pothooks, anirons, & spittes, 2li .; total, 782li. 16s.
Attested 26: 9: 1674 by the widow, executrix of the estate. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 22, leaves 115, 116.
ESTATE OF WALTER BASTON (OF MARBLEHEAD ?).
Administration on the estate of Walter Bouston, intestate, granted 27: 9: 1674, to his widow, who brought in an in- ventory amounting to 11li. 5s. 7d. Court ordered that the es- tate remain in her hands for her necessary use until the court take further oder.
Inventory of the estate of Walter Borson (also Boston), taken by John Legge and Robart Bartlett: one Canvis Bed fild with Cattailes, 10s .; one pare of old Blankets, 16s .; one Rugg, 10s .; Three small pillows, 6s .; three small pillobers, 5s .; one pare Sheets, 10s .; one Bed Cord, 1s .; Curtains and Vallens, 13s .; Curtains Rodds, 5s .; one spitt, 2s .; Two pot hangers, 3s. 6d .; fier shovell tongs and Gridiron, 3s .; Two small pots and two Cruks, 13s .; one warming pann, 2s .; one Neck Cloth, 1s. 6d .; one Band & an old Cap, 1s. 6d .; Two old Shurts, 5s .; Three puter porringers, 3s .; one Bason, 1s .; one plate, 1s. 3d. ; one pare of Cissars, 4d .; one Raisor, 1s. 6d .; one Dusson of small wooden Dishes, 2s .; six wooden platters, 3s .; four small erthen platters, 1s .; one Glass, 6d .; 2 old hatchets, 1s. 6d .; one spaid, 1s .; one small Gun, 10s .; one Lock, 1s .; one Hammer, 6d .; Two Baskets, 1s. 6d .; Two Chests, 8s .; one Booke, 1s. 6d .; one Spining wheele, 2s .; 8 erthen pots, 1s .; Two Jars, 1s .; Three old Chears, 2s .; one Cradell, 1s. 6d .; 3 old plains, 8s .; one whelbarrow, 3s .; one Go Cart, 4s. 6d .; one Trundell Bedsteed, 3s .; one old hoe, 1s .; one old Addz, 6d .; one Bedsteed, 10s .; Six Small Swine, 2li .; one Coate, 12s .; total, 11li. 5s. 7d.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 22, leaf 118.
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ESTATE OF JOHN MARSH OF SALEM.
"The last will and testament of John Marsh That I John Marsh of Salem. though. weake in body yet of perfect mem- ory and vnderstandinge, doe thus dispose of my outward estate. Imprimis I giue vnto Susanna my wife my dwell- inge house with the orchard and all the land therevnto belong- inge for the tearme of her natural life and at her decease to be disposed by her to which of my children. she shal think fit Item I giue vnto my wife all my moueable goods only to pay out of the same such legacyes as I shal dispose of to some of my children. Item. I giue vnto Zachary my Son. a part of my farme (viz) to haue on the south. end 25 poole downe- ward the whole breadth of my farme Item I giue vnto my two sons Samuel and Jacob the remaynder of my farme to be equally devided betweene them: of which Diuision my son Samuel is to haue the choyce Item I giue vnto my son Ezei- kiel fiue pounds to be payd by my Executors at the end of the tearme of thre yeares after my decease Item I giue vnto my son Beniamin ten pounds to be payd by my executors when he shall attayne to the age of on & twenty yeares Item I giue vnto my Daughter Bethiah : thre pounds to be payd vnto her by my executors at the end of thre yeares after my decease. Item. my wil is that in case eyther of my Sons Samuel or Jacob should depart this life vnmaryed or childles then the land that I haue giuen them shal be devided betweene the surviver and my son Zachary and in case they both depart as is aboue sayd. the whole farme to fal to my Son Zachary Item. I appoynt my wife Susanna executrix of this my last wil and testament & Samuel my son to be ioyned with her Adiutor and my Louinge ffreinds Anthony Buxton & Na- thaniel Felton ouerseers. Dated. 28th of march. 1674." John Marsh (SEAL) Witness : Nathaniel Felton, Anthony Buxton.
Proved in Salem court 26: 9: 1674 by the witnesses.
Inventory taken Nov. 23, 1674: his dwelling house and orchard wth the land therevnto belonginge, 60li .; 50 acres of Vacant land, 40li .; 2 Cowes & 2 heifers, 10li. ; a horse, 1li. 15s .; 10 sheepe & lambes, 4li .; a featherbed & boulster, 2 pillows, 3 sheets, 2 blankets & an old coverlet, 5li .; An old bed 3 blankets & an old Rug, 2li .; 2 chests & an old table, 16s .; 1 ketle, 1 iron pot and a skillet, 1li. 5s .; 2 old platters & a tanker, 5s .; old bookes, 9s .; 2 wheels & 2 payre of cards,
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THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY.
10s. ; a musket and sword, 1li .; 2 hakes, 2 iron wedges, a fry- inge pan, 6s .; shoemakers tooles and a tow Combe, 10s .; In wool, 34 lb., 1li. 5s. 6d .; A churne, 2 payles, wooden dishes & other vtensels, 15s .; His wearinge Apparel, 3li. - s .; In mony, 13s .; total, 135li. 4s. 6d. Debter to Captayne George Corwine, 2li. 3-4d .; to Samll. Smal, 1li. 5s .; total, 3li. 5s. 1-4d.
Attested 26: 9: 1674 by the executrix.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 22, leaves 122, 123.
ESTATE OF THOMAS GARDNER OF SALEM.
"Weighing the vncertainety of mans life, I doe therefore in the time of my health, make this my last will as followeth : first I leaue vnto my wife Damaris, all that estate shee brought with her according to ower agreement: likewise I giue vnto her eight pounds, by the year during life, to be pd her by my six sonns out of that estate I shall leaue with them, which eight pounds I giue on this condition, that shee shall giue vp to them her right to the third pt of my housing & lands during her life 2 I giue to my daughter Sara Balch: fifteene pounds. 3 I giue to my daughter Seeth Grafton fifteene pounds. 4 I giue to my daughter Mirian Hills two daugh- ters, miriam Hill, & Susana Hill to each of them fiue pounds, to be pd to them, when they shall accomplish the age of eighteene yeares, or at theire mariage 5 I giue vnto my sons George & John Gardner that pt of my Salt meddow, lying on the west side of Capt. George Corwin's meddow, which I value at twenty pounds. 6 I giue vnto my sonns Samuell & Joseph Gardner, the other pt of my Salt meddow lying on the east side of Capt: Corwin's meddow, wch : I doe likwise value at twenty pounds
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