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"my will is further that my houseing, with the rest of my lands & goods, & estate with the medow before mentioned, shall be deuided into seauen equall pts: yf don with agree- ment or elce, the meddow before mentioned, only excepted shall be sould (& with the meddow as I haue valued it) shalbe deuided in to seauen equall pts: which I doe giue to my six sons as followeth : first I giue to my son thomas two pts of ve seauen, he paying to his mother in law forty six shillings by the yeare, during her life: (21y:) I gine to my son George Gardner one pt of the seauen, he paying to his mother in law 23s by the yeare duering her life : 31y I giue
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to my son Richard Gardner one pt of the seauen he paying to his mother in law, 23s by the yeare, duering her life: 41y I giue to my son John Gardner one pt of ye seauen, he paying to his mother in law 238 by the yeare during her life. 51y I giue to my son Samuell Gardner, one pt of the seauen, he paying to his mother in law 238 by the yeare duering her life. Gly I giue to my son Joseph Gardner one pt of ye seauen, he paying to his mother in law 238 by the yeare during her life. I doe appoynt my sons George & Samuell Gardner, to be the executors of this my will & doe desire my loueing freinds, mª Joseph Grafton | Sen || & Deacon Horne to bee my ouer seers to see this my will pformed"
Thomas Gardner the 7: 10: 68
Witness : Robert Pease, Samuell Golthrite.
Proved Mar. 29, 1675 by the witnesses before Edward Ting, Esq. and Maj. Hathorne, Esq. and Hilliard Veren, clerk of the court at Salem.
Copy, Essex County Probate Records, vol. 301, page 62.
The will of Mr. Thomas Gardner was brought into court by his son, Mr. Samuell Gardner, one of the executors, Mar. 29, 1675, and allowed. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 83.
Inventory of the estate of Mr. Thomas Gardner, taken 4: 11m : 1674 by Hilliard Veren, Sr. and John Pickering: an old dwelling house with about 10 acres of land adjoyning, with ye orchard, fences & appurtenances, 30li .; ten acres of ground in the northfield, 27li .; about 100 acres of upland & meddow, 100li .; about 20 acres of land lying in the woods, 3li. ; about 2 3-4 acres of salt marsh lying above ye mill, 40li. ; feather bed, bolster, 2 pillowes, flock bolster, with ye blanketts, Rugg, curtaines, bedsteed with a coverled, 7li. 10s .; truckle bedsteed, fether bed, pillowes, blankets & coverled, 3li. 5s .; feather bed, Rugg, feather bolster, flock bolsters & pillowes belonging thereunto, 4li .; 7 pr. of sheetes, 3li. 15s .; 12 tow- ells, 6s .; 11 napkins, 9s .; 1 pr. of holand pillowbeeres, 6s .; 4 yds. of breams, 6s .; 1 pr. dowlas pillowbeers, 5s .; 2 pr. cource pillow beers, 7s .; table cloath, 4s .; 3 shirts, 20s .; wearing apparrell, 8li .; pewter & 2 latten peeces, 35s .; silver spoons, 12s .; brass kettle & skilletts, 40s .; 2 Iron potts & pothookes & trevett, 11s .; 1 pr. andirons, 10s .; haukes, slice & tonges, 8s .; 2 spitts, 8s .; a sid cubbord, 35s. ; a square table,
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4s .; a wenscott chaire, 5s .; chaire with a bord bottom, 3s. 6d .; 6 old chaires, 4s .; a litle square table, 4s .; a chest, 4s .; 2 joyne stooles, 4s .; a forme, 2s .; table & carpet, 11s .; in lum- ber, 2s. 6d .; 2 old barrells of guns, 5s .; in money, 35s .; cow, 3li .; Debts due to ye estate from severall men, 30li .; total, 274li. 16s. The estate is Dr. about 6li.
Attested 29: 1: 1675 by Mr. Samuell Gardner, one of the executors before Ed. Ting, Esq., Maj. Wm. Hathorne, Esq. and Hilliard Veren. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 10,667.
GUARDIANSHIP OF ROGER HASKELL OF (SALEM ?) .*
Roger and Josiah Hascall, sons of Roger Hascall, deceased, came into the court Mar. 30, 1675, and made choice of their uncle Wm. Hasscall as their guardian.
The court Mar. 30, 1675, appointed said Wm. Hascall as guardian to Samuell and Sarah Hascall, the other two chil- dren of his brother, and he was bound for the payment of the estate to the four children of his brother when they come of age.
Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 262. ESTATE OF JONATHAN GAGE OF BRADFORD.
Jonathan Gage being deceased and having left a paper calling it his will, but those he left as executors refusing to meddle with the estate, court Mar. 30, 1675, ordered Mr. Francis Wainwright to administer upon said estate, to sell the land and pay the bills ; also to be helpful to the widow so far as he can and give account to the court within a year or as soon as he can with convenience, in order that court may order the remaining estate. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 262.
Inventory of the estate of Jonathan Gage deceased Mar. 15, 1674-5, taken Mar. 22, 1674-5 by Henry Kingsbury and Sher. Walker : wearing apparill Linnin and wolen, 3li. 15s. 6d .; bead and beading, 3li .; bookes, 6s .; Chests and boxes, 8s .; Iron, brass, peuter, Earthen and wooden ware, 3li. 8d .; sword and belt, 12s .; Utencils for husbandry, 2li. 1s. 6d .; Cattel and swine, 15li. 6s .; bridle, sadle, pillian, 13s .; pro- visions, 17s .; Eyght Acres of broken up land and orchard,
* See also Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Mass., vol. 6 (1917), page 46.
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29li .; housing, 3li. 10s .; Rough Land 52 acres, 52li .; total, 114li. 9s. 8d. Debts due from the estate : 20s. per year to old widdow gage by order of Sergant John gage during her life; debts as he was executor to his father which is not yet known certainly, but thought to be 3li. ; his own proper debts not yet known but thought to be 44li. and most of them to the mer- chants.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 30, 1675 by Hester Gage, reliet of Jonathan Gage. Essex County Probate Files, Dock- et 10,486.
Whereas Mr. Francis Wainwright had power granted to him to administer upon the estate of Jonathan Gage at Ips- ' wich court, in Mar. 1675, and had paid part of the debts, as per account brought in, the remaining part being mostly in land, is willing the widow should make the best of the estate, and resigned his administratorship. Court Mar. 28, 1676, granted administration to Hester Gage, the widow. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 279.
ESTATE OF JOSEPH REDDING OF IPSWICH .*
"I Joseph Redding of Ipswich being sensible of the in- firmityes [of age : copy] now growing upon mee, & not know- ing how soon the Lord may [call me: copy] out of this pres- ent world, After the Commending my soule into [the hands of : copy] my mercifull Sauiour & Redeemer, and my body to decent b[uriall, in hope : copy] of a blessed Resurrection unto life, do in case of death, [thus dispose of the : copy] tem- porall estate wch God hath gratiously given vnto [me Inprimis I give all my: copy] whole estate both Lands and Chatteles to Agne[s my beloved wife dureing the: copy] time of her naturall life: After her decease I g[ive the same to the : copy] children of my daughter Hunt, such as ar now living, a[nd any that may be: copy] borne of her afterward to be equally divided amongst them [as they come to: copy] age, the sons at ye Age of one & twenty years, the daughters, [at the time of : copy] their marrige; If any of them should dy befor that time my [will is, that: copy] the [rest : copy] shall have th[ere] share equally divided amongst them: I [apoynt Agnes : copy] my wife the sole executrix of this my last will herby disanull [ing all other : copy] Wills. And if my wife shall dy before | | all || the sayd children [be of age I :
* Copy, Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 265.
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copy] ordayn my daughter Hunt to be my sole Executrix for the ti[me following : copy] In witnes hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seale [this fifteenth: copy] of December Ano 1673."
Joseph. (his I mark) [torn]
Witness : William Hubbard, Mary Hubbard.
Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 30, 1675 by the witnesses.
Inventory taken Mar. 8, 1674 by Jonathan Wade and John Dane: The howse and howsing, homlot &c., 90li .; 6 akers areable land at laboring vayne, 45li .; 4 akers marsh at la- bor in vayne next fits, 30li .; 1 aker 1-2 marsh and thatch next the creke, 9li .; 6 akers and 3 akers marsh at plum Iland, 18li .; 1 aker 1-2 pasture at hart break hill, 9li .; 9 neat Cattell and a small one, 38li. 10s .; 4 swine, 2li. 10s .; 30 shepe, 12li .; in bills, bonds and small debts and redy money, 47li. 14s .; 44 bush. barly, Sli. 16s .; 4 bush. wheat, 1li .; 10 bush. Indian Corne, 1li. 10s .; wooll and yarne, 1li. 6s .; ba- con, 10s .; brasse and peuter, 5li .; Iron ware and cart, 4li .; 1 fan, 14s .; beding, lining and wearing aparell, Chaires, Cushons, books, &c., 25li .; whels, Chests, tubs, bedsteds, &c., 3li .; Earthen ware and small ware, 14s .; total, 353li. 4s .; funerall Charges to be deducted, 2li. 4s.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 30, 1675 by the widow, the executrix.
Goodman John Palmer, Sergt. at Rowly promised to his son at marriage to Goodman Hunt's daughter, one third of his land at Rowly and this third to be made half at his and his wifes decease, Betty Hunt to have her legacy and what ever Goodman Hunt and his wife shall add; also, he is to have a farm of one hundred acres at Merimack, upland and meadow.
Samuell Hunt, Senr. agrees to pay or cause to be paid to Elizabeth Hunt, his only daughter, the legacy left her by will from her grandfather, if she marry to her content. Sam- uell Hunt, Elizabeth Hunt.
Witness : Jno. Dane, Ezekiel Northend.
The legatees mentioned in the will of Joseph Reading that lived to age were four, Saml., Will., Joseph and Elizabeth. The clear estate per inventory 351li., divided by 4, 87li. 15s .; 201li. of it land, 150li. of it moveables, and about 10li. money.
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The complaint of Francis Palmer of Rowley, Mar. 29, 1693, showing that Joseph Reding late of Ipswich, in his will gave his whole estate to Agnes his wife during her life and at her death to be equally divided amongst the children of his daughter, the wife of Samuell Hunt, at age or marriage, and made his wife Agnes sole executrix, but if she died before they came of age he made his daughter sole executrix for the time following she being the mother of the said children whose names were Samuell, William, Joseph, Elizabeth and Peeter Hunt. Peter died before the age of twenty one years, and according to the will his share was to be divided to the other four, one being Elizabeth whom your complainant mar- ried and had two children by. Before their marriage Sam- uell her father promised what he would give his daughter, some estate he had received, which the said Samuell saith now his daughter is dead, is part of Joseph Reding's legacy to his daughter but is inconsiderable to what he promised when he engaged his father Palmer to give him half of his lands in Rowley. The complainant is a fourth person interested by said will in the 351li. of estate and now kept out of it by his wife's father and mother, Samuel and Elizabeth Hunt and the other legatees, whether it is done by the said Samuell and Elizabeth, executrix, or the legatees their sons William and Joseph the possessors of the land he cannot tell but desiring his due share petitions that the executrix may be summoned to give an account why he is kept out of his share of the estate more than the rest of the legatees. If summons is granted the complainant shall be ready to give bond for 10li. to re- spond to all charges. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 23,418.
Elizabeth Huntt of Ipswich, executrix of the will of her father Joseph Riddings of Ipswich, with the advice of her husband made a division of her father's estate that was left at the decease of her mother, according to the will as follows: to the satisfaction of her eldest son Samuel Huntt, to her only daughter Elizabeth Palmer her share due her by the will at marriage, which according to the desire of her husband and her father in law, was all in household goods, pewter, brass, etc. which belonged to her grandfather and grand- mother : to her other two children William and Joseph Huntt the land belonging to their grandfather. Dated Mar. 28, 1693.
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Acknowledged May 5, 1693 by Elizabeth Huntt wife of Samuel Huntt of Ipswich before John Hathorne, Jus. Peace. Samuell Huntt of Concord acknowledged Mar. 26, 1690, the receipt of the legacy given him by his grandfather Red- dings. Mary (her R mark) Huntt.
Ipswich Deeds, vol. 5, page 598.
ESTATE OF GEORGE SMITH OF IPSWICH.
"In The name of god Amen : The Thirteene day of Aprill one thousand Six hundred & Seventy foure : I George Smith, of Ipswich in the County of Esexe, being sick in body but of good & perfect memory (god be praysed) doe make & ordaine this my last will & testament in maner & forme fol- owing That is to say: I comend my soull into ye hands of god my maker hopeing asuredly through the onely meritts of Jesus christ my saviour to be made pertakers of life everlast- ing : & I comend my body to the earth where of it is made :: I giue to my Sone Samuell Smith my Dwelling house & my too oxen : But the rest of my estate namely : my house lot with the priveledge of comonidge with the barne & other out houses being on it : & my Six aker lot & my marsh at Plumbe Iland with all my stocke both neat Cattlle & sheepe & Swine & horses likwise all my houshold goods with all my other tacklinge of husbandry & what ever else though not here expresed wch is my estate When my Debts are paide I giue to my Sons Thomas & Samuell Smith to be equally Devided between them both: uppon these condisons folowing: In- primis : That my loueing wife shall haue the bed in the par- lor with the furneture belonging to it to be at her owne dis- pose : & that my wife shall haue the parlor to her self for her owne use & the use of the Ciller & the other Romes in the house & of the houshold goods for her nesesary use: & that my wife shall haue the choise of one of my cowes & too sheepe for her owne use, & my too sones shall be at equall charge to maintaine them for her both winter & Sumer & put in other cattlle in There roome if they miscary : & That they also find my wife firewood fit for her use & keepe her one hogg continualy : when one is Kiled to bring up another for her use all wch shee shall enjoy while shee remayns a widdow & my will is yt my Sonns shall Pay my wife forty Shillings apeice per anum & that my wife shall haue The comand of a horse for her use while shee remaynes a widdow : likwise my will is that my daughter Sary newman shall haue my mare
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if shee desire it if not Then my Sones both betweene them to giue her the worth of her: |& fiue pound more within foure yere after my deceas|| & I giue to my daughter Rebeca ten pound to be paid her by my Son Samuell : & I giue to my Daughter Elizabeth ten pound Six pound of it to be paid by my son Samuell & foure by my sone Thomas & if either of them | |or both|| marry within one yere after my decease then to haue the one halfe of it paid them & the other halfe within one yere after yt if they are not then to have all paid to them within too yeres after my decease if they desire it: & I giue my daughter Johana: the bed & what belongs to it wch she lyes on : & twelue pounds to be paid her at twenty yeres of her age: by my Son Thomas Smith : & my will is That my Son Samuell shall pay to my son Thomas fiue pound towards the building of his house : & also my sone Thomas shall haue free liberty to dwell in my house till his owne be finished fit to liue in : & I make my Sones Thomas & Samuell the Execu- tors of this my last will & Testament and hereunto set my hand This thirteene Day of Aprill in the yere of our Lord one thousand Six hundred & seventy foure."
George Smith.
Witness: John Brewer, Senr., Walter Roper.
Proved in Ipswich court Mar. 30, 1675 by the witnesses.
Inventory of the estate of George Smith, deceased Dec. 15, 1674, taken Dec. 29, 1674 by Daniell Epps and John Whip- ple : the dwelling hous, barne and out housing together with ye fences the ground about them with ye Comonage, 110li .; A six acre lot within ye comon feild, 36li .; A marsh Lott at Plumb Island, 10li .; Two Oxen, 11li .; five cowes, a steere & a calfe, 19li .; a mare, 1li. 10s .; 2 colts, 2li .; a horse, 2li. 10s .; 12 sheepe, 4li. 5s .; swine, 1li. 15s .; his wearing cloaths linene & woolin, 7li. 10s .; The hie bedstead in ye parlor with ye bed and all furniture belonging to it, Sli .; a trundle bedstead with ye beding to it, 2li. 10s .; Cubbard, Chests and box, 2li .; chayres, 15s .; Table linine, 10s .; Cushins, 8s .; bookes, 6s .; warming pan, 10s .; 2 payre of sheers, 5s .; 2 cowe bells, 1s. 6d .; 2 Joyne stooles, 5s .; yarne, 12s .; 2 wheeles, 6s .; sheeps woole, 6li., cotten woole, 5li., 11s .; 2li. cotton woole, 4s .; Tubs & keelers, 9s. ; payles & pigin, 7s .; Tables, 6s. 8d .; bar- rels, 7s .; 4 trayes and a tub, 7s .; Pewter, 1li. 10s .; tine ware, 5s .; Earthen ware, 9s .; 2 pressing Irons, 4s .; lamps, 3s .; fire slice, tongs and bellowes, 10s .; Two Iron pots & skillit, 1li. 5s .; brass, 1li .; spoones, trenchers & dishes, 3s. 8d .; Two
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muskets, two swords with apert, 3li .; frying pan, hand saw with other small things, 6s .; Saddle, bridle & pillyon, 18s .; a small bedstead & beding in ye chamber, 1li .; Indian Corne 30 bushells, 4li. 10s .; fifteen bushels of barly, 3li .; collar & horse harnis, 4s .; cart ropes, 10s .; bees and bee hives, 8s .; porke & beefe, 3li .; six load of hay, 3li .; about two bushells of wheat & bushell and halfe of rye, 15s .; Two Canows & tackling, 2li .; flax and hemp, 3s .; two hundred of boards, 12s .; fork tins 4 payre, 6s .; beetle & 5 wedges, 10s .; croscut saw & 3 axes, 1li .; spad & shovel, 4s .; 5 howes, 10s .; Iron foot, 2s .; chees pres, 2s .; plow and the Irons to it, 12s .; Cart with furniture belonging to it, tumbrell, wheells and chayne, 4li. 5s .; sled, brake & clearer, 8s .; fann, 8s .; bagg, 2s .; 600 of board nayles, 6s .; total, 262li. 10d.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 30, 1675 by Thomas Smith. Essex County Probate Files, Docket 25,524.
ESTATE OF RICHARD BISHOP OF SALEM.
Administration on the estate of Richard Bishop was grant- ed Mar. 30, 1675, to his son Thomas Bishop and his son-in- law John Durlan, by Maj. Wm. Hathorne and Edward Ting, Esq., and said Bishop and Durland were ordered to settle the estate at the next Salem court. Mary, the relict, and John Durland brought in an inventory. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 83.
An imperfect will of Richard Bishop, deceased, being pre- sented July 20, 1675, and all parties concerned being not present, the case was referred to the next Salem court. Sa- lem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 87.
Whereas there was administration granted, Mar. 30, 1675, by the Worshipful Major Wm. Hathorne and Edward Tyng, Esqrs., to Tho. Bishop and John Durland, of the estate of Richard Bishop, deceased, court 21: 10: 1675, confirmed the action and further ordered that the twenty-two acres in the north field and half an acre of meadow that is undisposed of, be divided between three of the children, viz., John, Nathan- iell and the wife of John Durland, only to John, the eldest, a double portion. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 92.
Inventory of the estate of Richard Bishop, taken Mar. 8, 1674-5, by Nathaniel Felton and Richard Croade: His dwel- ling house & out housing with the garden plott, Orchard &
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the Land thereunto adjoyning besides what is John Durlans, 60li .; his upland in the north Field being adjudged to be about Two & Twenty acres good & bad as it lyes be it more or less, 35li .; one halfe acre of salt marsh in the north Field, 5li .; one Cow, 3li. 10s .; Two Small Swine, 16s .; one Feather Bed & Bolster, 3li. 13s .; an old Feather Bed & Two pillowes belonging to it, 2li .; Two Small Feather pillowes, 2s .; Two old Coverletts, 7s .; an old white rugg, 12s. ; an old Blankett pretty thicke, 7s .; Two old blanketts very much worne, 6s .; one new sheete of cotton and Lynnen, 12s .; 3 old Sheetes about halfe worne cotten & linnen, 12s .; 3 pillowbears, 6s .; his woollen Apparrell, hatts & shoes, 3li. 10s. ; his Lynnen, 1li. 5s. ; an old Bagg & Two old Sythes, 3s .; five pounds & halfe of Combed Flax, 5s .; five pound of cotton Wooll, 4s. 2d .; Two pound of Lynnen yarne, 4s .; one old gunn, 12s .; one. greate Brass Kettle, 1li .; Two Iron potts, 13s .; one Iron Kettle, 5s .; one Fryeing pan, 6s .; one bell mettle skillett, 5s .; an old warming pan, 2s. 6d .; an old brass pan & 2 old Kettles, 5s .; one Syth in the Shed, 2s. 6d .; a parcel of old Iron & decayd Tooles, 5s. ; an ax, a Cow Bell & an Iron Foote, 7s. 6d .; one harrow, Two pitchforks, one mucke Forke, one spade, an old Iron chaine & 2 crookes, 1li .; one cross cutt saw & an Iron Lamp, 4s. 6d .; Two chests in the Lodgeing roome, 10s .; Two old chests in the Leanto, 6s .; a Small Table at Henry Coleburnes, 4s. 6d .; a small Cubbard in the Fore roome, 6s .; his bookes, 7s .; in pewter new & old, 15s .; Lattin ware, 7s .; earthen ware painted, 1s. 6d .; Thirty Three pounds of hemp shipt at 5d. p. li., 13s. 9d .; Thirteen bundles of hemp at 3d. p bundle, 3s. 3d. ; old barrells, stooles, Tubbs, chaires & such kind of lumber & woodden ware in ye sevrall places about ye howses, 1li. 10s .; Two earthen potts, 18d .; seven bushells & 3 pecks of Indian corne, 1li. 2s. 3d .; Two Flitches of baccon cont. 38li. at 6d. p li., 19s .; fouer bushells & halfe of pease, 18s .; in old England money with a 5s. p. of gold, 2li. 2s .; in new England money, 1li. 4s .; due by Goody Cole in money by bill, 3li .; due by Richard Croade in money, 1li. 12s. 6d .; due by Francis Skerry, 5s .; in money recd for hay, 15s .; in money lent to be made good, 8s .; due by Josias Southwicke, 1li .; due by Samuel Ebborne, 8s .; one pewter Beacar, 1s .; a percell of pallasadoes, 10s .; a Grindstone, 5s .; total, 143li. 19s. 11d. Due from Edward Winter of what he was to pay for wintering his cow, 2s .; due for a calf sold, 8s. Debts due from the estate, disbursed about his funeral, for
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wine, 9s .; sugar, 2s .; cloaves, 1s .; ye Coffin, 10s .; ye grave, 5s. ; for a messenger to go for Thomas Bishop, 3s. 6d .; for a woman to help wash his clothes, 1s. 9d .; in money to Doctor Wells, 3s .; due to ye Cow keeper, 3s. 9d .; due for ye Cun- stables rate for ye year '74, 3s. 6d .; due to Richard Croade for hire of his horse & cart & for harrowing, 5s .; for Tyme spent about ye Inventory, 3s .; due to Nathaniel Felton for his Tyme about the Inventory, 3s .; due to Mr. William Browne, sr., 1li. 5s. 5d .; For ye widdowes care and paines in looking after Two cowes & Two Swine near about fower moneths left to ye discretion of the Judicious Court for what they shall please to allow her.
Attested Mar. 29, 1675 by Mary, the widow, and John Dur- lan one of the administrators.
Richard Bishop's agreement, dated 12 : 5: 1660, upon mar- riage with Marie Gault: "Wheras Richard Bishop and Marie Goult Intend by the preuission of god in some short tyme to Joyne together in marriage and for the mutuall good of them both we agree vnto theise Artickles & Couenants hereafter exprest Viz. Impr. the said Richard Bishop doth Covenant to and with the said Marie Goult that in Case god soe please he leaue the said Marie a widow then she shall during her natu- rall life haue and enjoy the dwelling house of the said Rich- ard Bishop wth garden and Orchard and the remaynder of the 2 acre lott the said house standeth vpon with a lott of upland opossit to the said house ouer the River wth all tim- ber and Fyre wood wch she may nessessaralie use for & dur- ing her life tyme but not to gyue nor make sale of any of it: as alsoe one halfe acre of salt marsh lying upon the North riuer ouer against the house of the said Bishop the said Rich- ard Bishop doth Covenant to and wth the said Marie Goult that if the said Richard Bishop doe dye before the said Marie & then leave her a widow that the said Richard Bishop shall grant halfe the estate he dyes possesed of Vnto the said Marie viz of his Cattell, Corne hay houshould goods and money as her owne proper goods for euer. 3. It is agreed mutualle be- twixt the said pties that the house wherin the said Marie Goult at present lyueth in shall be sould by henerie Skerie senior and Jefferi Massey for the paymt of the debts William Goult left unpaid at the tyme of his death. 4 the said Marie Goult doth promis & grant to and with the said Richard Bishop that he the said Bishop shall haue the best bed she now hath wthall the Furniture therevnto belonginge."
Witness: Jefferie Massey and Henery Skerry.
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Letter of attorney, dated May 22, 1675, given by John Bishop, of South Hampton, Long Island, to his brother John Dorlan of Salem, fisherman, in the settlement of the estate of his father Richard Bishop. Witness: Samuell Williams and Hilliard Veren, sr.
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