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three younger Sisters, viz. to Elezabeth Wells, Hanah, & Lydia Wells I haue all readye giuen them into the hands & custodye, of Thomas Wells my youngest son, whom I trust, and confide in, to giue the same, as I haue bequeathed, vnto his three younger sisters, and to keep the rest, vnto himself besid matter of legacies, and they not att age as yet. Ite I giue unto Abigaile my wife, the thirde parte of the English money, wch shall remaine, & be left, and not paide, vnto the legatyes, that's deceased in England, & kindred of our vnkle Lumkins. And my will is, that my saide wife, shall haue the tuishion, of my Daughter, Elezabeth Wells, and of my Daughter Lydia wells, vntill they marrye, or come to the age of one & twenty yeares, but, if the saide Lydia. doe not keepe wth her mother, then she to be wth her sister Sarah Massie, if all parties be willing. Ite my will is, that Mis- teris Marye Roggers of Rowley, shall haue the tuishion, & education, of my Daughter Hanah Wells, vntill she marrye, or come to the age of one and twenty yeares, hopeing the said misteris Roggers, will please to doe mee that favoure. Ite I giue vnto our Cussen Marye Baker (alis Loue) of Col- chester, soe much new England money, as is Equivalent, vnto fifty shillings of old England money, and my will is that my Executor, doe faithfully endeavoure to conveigh the same vnto her, (it being in refferrence to an agreemt betwene, both my Bro: Warners, and my self in answ: to a request of our Aunt Lumkin (alis stone, late deceased), and to take advise of my Bro: Dan" Warner. about the conveighing of the same, alsoe my Executor maye further direct hims: by wt I haue sett downe in my booke of accompts, to that pur- pose, as in fol. 57 and by a letter sent vnto vs from Coll- chester.
"Ite I gine & bequeath all the rest of my wholl Estate, both moueable, & unmoueable, personall and reall, houssen & lands. vnto Nath: Wells, my eldest son provided he doth fully accept herein, to be my executor whom I make & ordaine, to be the sole executor of this my last will & tes- tament, Allwaies provided that if the said Nath : wells shal dye, & cease this life wthout anve issue of male (lawfully be- gotten) my will is, that then, the saide houssen & lands here in Ipswich bounds, shall returne vnto the sd Thomas wells my youngest son, & to his heires of male, and the sd Thomas my son, then to paye vnto Lydia, Nathaniells wife (my Daughter in lawe) the sume of fortye pounds, wthin one yeare, & a halfe next after the deceas of Nath: her hus-
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band, (this premised, yt ye sd Thomas my youngest son, doe then fully possese & enjoye, the aforesd houssen & lands) and this forty pounds, to be paide in cattle neate, and in corne, malte & porke, twenty pounds thereof, to be paide in cattle neate; & in good condition (bulls onely excepted) and the other twenty pounds, to be paide in wheate, malte, porke & Indian Corne, the Indian corne, not to exceed the sume of eight pounds, & all to be good & m'chantable, & paide att the currant m'chantable price, as such, then goes att, here in Ipswich, & all to be delived here at my now dwellinge house, onely the malte att some malte kilne in Ipswich where the sd Thomas shall then haue his malte. And the sd Thomas my youngest son, shall paye vnto the saide Nathaniells children, the sume of one hundred, & forty pounds, the one halfe in cattle neate, & in good condition, (bulls onely excepted) and in horss kinde, and the horss kinde not to exceed the sume of fifteene pounds; and the other halfe of the hundred & forty pounds, to be paide in wheate, malte, porke, pease, & Indian Corne, the Indian Corne (in all) not to exceed the summe of twenty pounds, and this hundred & forty pounds, & the paye thereof, to be equally devided, & proportioned amongst, & paide vnto them, wthin one yeare & a halfe, next after they marrye, or when they come to the full age of one & twenty yeares, and all to be in'chantable, & paide here att my now dwelling house, onely the malte at some malte kilne in Ipswich, where the sd Thomas wells my son shall haue his malte, (this allwaies premised yt the sd Thomas my son, haue the possesion of the houssen and lands). Also my will is, & it is my reall intent, that my son Nathaniells children, shall haue the sume of eight pounds yearely paid by my son Thomas Wells, or his assignes, towards theire bringeinge vp whilest they come to ye age of fifteene yeares, & the paye yrof, for kind & quallity as to theire mother aforesaide, yet when anye of them doe come to the age of fifteene yeares then their proportion of yt eight pounds p annum, to be abated. And for the yearely payemt. thereof vnto my Grand children, my will is, that the sd Thomas Wells my son, or his assignes, shall paye the same into | |the hands of || the hon- ered Courte, held in Ipswich aforesd, or to whom they shall please, yearely to appointe, for the childrens good, & then my son Thomas, to be discharged. Ite my will is, that if the sd Nath : my Eldest son shall dye, & cease this life, wthout anye issue of male (as aforesd then the sd Thomas Wells, my son he being possest of the houssen & lands, as aforesd,) shall
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paye vnto my son John Wells, his bro: or to his assignes, the sume of forty pounds, wthin foure yeares next after the de- cease, of theire Bro: Nath : Wells, and for the portions, that I haue giuen & bequeathed vnto my three youngest Daugh- ters, as is not then due, and henee vnpaide, viz. att the death of their Bro: Nath : my Eldest son, my will is, that my son Thomas Wells, or his assignes shall then paye these portions, provided that my son Nath : Wells his executors, or assignes, doe leave soe much stock vpon this farme, vnto my son Thomas, as shall amounte to the one halfe of these portions, & that this stoeke soe left be in such as theire portions is to be paide in, or in such, as shall satisfie the sd Thomas, my youngest son. Ite my will is, that if anye thinge fall out, amongst my wife & children (or anye of them) otherwise then well, that then, my loueing & faithfull friends, whom I shall chuse, & appointe ouerseers of this my last will, will please to examine, consider, & advise, to mutuall agrement, who (by theire wise discression) maye settle matters amongst them, soe as maye tend most & best to peace and brotherly loue, wch Christ Commands. Finally, I desire, my loueing and faithful friends, Thomas Bishope, Sen". and Mr Thomas Andrewes, to be the overseers of this my last will, and testa- ment. And to be the gardians of my son Thomas Wells, dure- ing the time of his minority, & non-age, to whom I giue as a token of my respecte & loue, ten shillings a peece : In wit- ness whereof, and to all wch, I the above named Thomas Wells Sent. haue herevnto sette my hande & seale, Dated the 31st, of the fifth month, Commonly Called July. In the Eighteenth yeare, of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord Charles (the second) by the grace of god, king of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, in the yeare of our lord god, one thou- sand, sixe hundred, sixty sixe."
Thomas Wells. Sen" (SEAL) Witness : Thomas Bishop, Senior, Thomas Burnum, Senior.
Proved in Ipswich court Nov. 15, 1666 by Thomas Bishop and Thomas Burnam before Mr. Samuell Symonds and Maj. Gen. Denison.
Inventory taken Nov. 12, 1666, by Thomas Bishop and Robert Lord : the house, barne and farme, 650li .; 49 acres of low marshes neare hog Iland, 100li .; 18 acres at hog Iland, 18li .; 6 aeres at Plumbe Iland, 12li .; two mares, one foale, 11li .; two 2 yearling horses, Sli. 10s .; 4 oxen & hay to winter them, 23li .; 10 cowes & the hay, 40li .; 5 two yearlings & the hay, 15li .; 1 bull and the hay, 4li .; 3 yearlings & hay, 6li .;
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7 calfes & hay, 7li .; 19 sheepe and lambes & hay, 11li .; 7 swine, 9li .; two paire of sheetes, 1li. 10s; 8 paire of ould sheetes, 3li. 4s .; 2 table cloths, 12s .; 11 napkins, 14s .; 7 pil- lowbeeres, 14s .; 5 yards of cotten & lennen cloth, 15s .; 10 course towells, 10s .; a small fetherbed, boulster, ? pillows, flock bed, green Rugg, blankett, bedsted curtaines and valens, Yli. 10s. : trundle bed, small bed boulster & 2 blanketts, 1li. 10s .; warming pan, 2 basketts, 16s .; Trunke, 3 chests, 2 boxes, 2li .; two tables, 3 chaires, 1li. ; a citterne, 10s. ; armes, 2li. 10s .; 2 paire old sheeres & pressing Iron, 5s .; smothing Iron, cloke bag & some other small things, 6s .; 2 paire of tongs, a slice & paire andirons, 1li. 2s .; 20li. corse yarne, 2li .; 40li. of Towing yarne, 3li .; 2 brishes & some small things, 4s .; bookes, 3li .; cheny dishes, howre glass & other small things, 10s .; nayles, 15s .; bushell of salt, 5s .; croscut saw, 5s. ; ads, cannooe & ladders, 3li .; his weareing apparrell, 8li .; in sheeps woole, 1li. 16s .; a bed pt feathers & most flocks, 1li. 15s .; cheeses, 1li. 6s .; fether bed, boulster, 2 pillows, blew rugg, 2 blanketts, & bedsted, 7li. 10s .; hatchell, two planes, 10s. ; flockbed & other beding and a case, 2li .; 10 saeks ould ones & hops, 1li. 10s .; sadle, ould pillion and other furni- ture, 1li. 5s .; chest, little table, 6s. 8d .; spitt, greediron, tramell, lampe, bellows, 12s .; tubs, beer vessells, cheese press, 1li. 15s. ; beefe, butter, apples & hyde & tallow, 5li .; 2 brasse kettells, brasse potts, candlestiek, frying pan, 2li. 10s .; 3 Iron potts, Iron skillett & pot hookes, 2li. 4s .; pewter, 3li. 4s. ; Remnants of eloth, maps & papar pictures & small things, 1li .; a halfe bushell, wheeles & cards, 12s .; pailes, sives, churne and other things, 1li .; siths & tackling, 16s .; bettle & 3 wedges, spades & other small Iron things, 20s .; axes, hows, shave, mattock & other tooles, 1li. 5s .; cart wheeles, tumbrill, plows & Irons, +li .; yoakes & chaines and a brake, 1li. 15s .; forkes, rakes, sled, sickles & other things, 1li. 5s. ; flax & hemp unbroke & some broke flax seed & hemp seed & whit leather, 16s .; Inglish corne, 25li .; Indian corne, 30li .; English money, 17li. 10s .; in other money, 1li. 13s. 7d .; debts due unto the estate, 124li. 3s. 9d .; bookes in Thomas wells hands, 8li. 6s. 3d .; total, 1214li. 3s. 3d. Debts due from the estate that appeare about 200li .; cleare estate, 1014li. 3s. 3d.
Attested 15: 9m : 1666 by Nathaniell Wells.
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 29,317.
Thomas Wells, Jr., of Wells, York Co., youngest son of Thomas Wells, acknowledged Dec. 23, 1669, the receipt from
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his brother Nathaniell Wells, of his legacy according to the will of his father, and released all claim to his estate sit- uated at "Chebacho" in Ipswich, adjoining the lands of Maj. Gen. Denison on the southwest, Mr. Samuell Rogers on the south and southeast, Mr. John Emerson's farm and Sagamore hill, north and northeast, and Mr. Epps' land northeast, and in all other lands in Ipswich belonging to his father. Witness : Robert Lord, Sr., Mary Lord.
Acknowledged Dec. 28, 1669 by Thomas Wells. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 3, page 141.
ESTATE OF ARTHUR SANDIE OF MARBLEHEAD.
Administration on the estate of Arthur Sandy, late de- ceased, granted 27: 9: 1666, to Margerett, the widow, and Nicholas Merritt, who were ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Salem court. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 172.
Margarett Sandin and Nicholas Merrett, administrators of the estate of Arther Sandin, deceased, brought in an inven- tory amounting to 120li. 9s. 11d., clear estate. Court June 25, 1667, ordered 20li. to Mary, the wife of said Nicholas, who is the daughter of said Sandin, and the rest of the estate to Margaret, the widow. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 3.
Inventory taken Apr. 8, 1667, by Moses Mavericke, George Corwin and Samuell Ward: One dwelling house, garden and orchard, outhouses, with a garden plot at the east end of the dwelling house, 85li .; 1 aker of fresh meadow, 15li .; six pound first purchas in this farm, we value it at 12li .; 1 bed and furniter in the parlor, bedsted, 1 fether bed, bolster & 2 pillows, 1 matt and straw bed, 1 rugg, 2 blankets, 11li .; 1 Cows Comanedg and half, 3li .; 1 table, 3 joint stools, 16s .; 4 krtians, 8s .; 1 Carpett, 13s .; 4 pair of shetts, 5li .; 1 shett, 1li. ; 1 table Cloth, 15s .; 6 pelobers, 1li. 15s .; 1 old shett, 7s. 6d .; 6 napkins, 9s .; 1 table Cloth and 1 towell, 7s .; 1 old Chest, 5s .; 1 old loking glas, 3s .; 1 Chest, Ss .; 1 eathen ba- son, 1 Earthen dish & 2 glases, 4s .; 1 old flock bed and bol- ster in the midle rom and 1 matt, 1li. 2s .; 1 blankett and Coverled, 1li. 10s .; 2 fether pillows and pillowbers, 1li .; 1 table and 2 stols, 10s .; 2 Chaires, 7s. 6d .; 1 old boks, Sd .; 1 warming pan, 7s .; waring cloths, 8li. 12s .; in the midle rom, 5 Shets and 1 table Cloth, 3li. 10s .; 2 Chests, 7s .; books, 1li .; Cask and other lumber in the seller, 1li .; in the keching, 1
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silver wine Cupp, 14s .; 5 pewter dishes, 2li. ; 5 porengers, 5s .; 4 plats, 6s. ; 2 basons, 7s .; 4 Candelsticks, 16s .; 2 salt sillers, 2s. 6d .; 1 funill, 9d .; 5 pewter poots, 15s .; 2 pint potts, 5s .; 2 small pots & 6 Small Cups, 8s .; 1 bear bowl, 1 beaker, 1 pint pot, 4s. 6d .; 1 Chamber pot, 2s .; 1 pestle and morter, 12s .; 2 Iron poots, 1 Iron Skellitt, 2li .; 2 haks, 2 pair poot- hoks, 1 fir shovel, 13s .; 1 bras poot, 1 bras skillett, 10s .; 3 bras ketls, 3li .; 1. pair bras skalls, 3s .; 2 driping pans and 1 dish, 3s .; 1 tray, 2 gratters, 1s. 6d .; 1 pair bellows, 6d .; 1 old Chest, 2s. 6d .; 1 Cuberd, 10s .; old Iron, 6s .; 2 Chairs, 1 stoll, 2s .; in the leantoe Chamber, in lumber, 2s .; Earthen ware, 4s .; 1 small keller and 2 bbls., 7s .; 1 Churn, 3s .; in the brew hous, 1 firnas, 5li .; tubs and sive, 14s .; 1 laser and grinston, 3s. 6d .; old Cask in the Cow house, 1li. 3s .; in the Chamber, 1 bedsted, 10s .; 1 flock bed and bolster, 1li. 10s .; 1 matt, 5s. ; 2 old ruggs and 2 blankits, 1li. 2s .; 1 old straw bed and saks, 5s. ; in old Cask and other lumber, 10s .; 2 sives, 4s .; 1 Cow, 4li. 10s .; 1 saw, 1li .; 1-2 a Skiff, 1li .; 1 sarvant boy for his time to Come, 5li .; 1 yearling, 1li .; more in depts, 51li. 1s. 11d .; total, 248li. 13s. 2d. Debts owing, 120li. 9s. 11d. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 12, leaf 113.
ESTATE OF SAMUEL SHARP OF SALEM.
Mr. Samuell Sharp of Salem, dying intestate, about ten years ago and no inventory of his estate having been brought in until this present court, and it appearing that there was but little estate and on account of the estate not being ad- ministered at the time, the wife of the deceased had lived upon the town, court 27: 9: 1666, ordered that 25li. be al- lowed to the children to be divided among them by the select- men of Salem and the remainder to remain in the selectmen's hands for the widow. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 173.
Inventory taken June 18, 1664, by John Browne, sr. and Hillyard Veren : Dwelling house & about 3 Acres of ground, 50li. ; a sow & 2 piggs, 1li .; one feather bead, 1 pr. blanketts, 1 old Rugg, 3 pillowes & 1 bolster, 4li .; 2 very old flock beads & 2 bolsters, 2li .; an old beadsteed, with curtaines & valene, 1li. 10s .; a side Cubboard, 15s .; an old table & 2 stooles, 10s .; one chest, 6 smale old chaires, 10s. 8d .; 2 old smale kettles, 2 skilletts, scumer & warming pan, 1li. 6s .; a pestle & morter, 4s .; 2 haukes, 1 pr. of tongues, a spitt, 12s .; a smale Iron pott broaken & hoocks, 3s .; a chafin dish &
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smooth Iron, 2s. 6d .; old earthen potts & glasses & other lumber, 3s .; pewter, 17s. 6d .; a cullender & 5 old occumy spoones, 3s .; old bookes, 12s .; 6 old Cource napkins, 6s .; 3 table cloathes, 6 pillow beeres, 10s .; 5 old sheetes, 1li. 5s .; 1 boule, tray & a pr. of bellows, 2s .; 2 smale beere vessells, 2s .; 2 old tubbs & a paile, 2s. Sd .; a baskett, old chest & old bar- ell, 5s .; total, 67li. 1s. 4d. Estate debtor to several men, 10li. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 12, leaf 28.
ESTATE OF MRS. ELIZABETH SCUDDER OF (SALEM ?).
Mr. Hen. Bartholomew, administrator of the estate of Eliz. Scudder, brought in an inventory and it was allowed 27: 9: 1666. After the debts were paid, the remainder was to be disposed of according to the will of the husband of said Eliza. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 177.
Inventory of the estate of Elizabeth Scudder, widow, taken by Henry Bartholomew and Hillyard Veren, administrators : One house with two acres of lande belonginge to it, pt. of it in orchard, 24li .; debts, Henry Josline, 7li .; Nathaniell Car- rill, 2li .; Giles Corey, 7s. 6d .; total, 33li. 7s. 6d. Debts she oweth, 10li. 12s. 9d. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 12, leaf 32.
ESTATE OF RALPH TOMPKINS OF SALEM.
Administration on the estate of Ralph Tompkins, de- ceased, granted 27: 9: 1666 to John Tompkins, and he pre- sented an inventory. Court ordered that the five acres of land mentioned in the inventory be given to said John, and after all debts were paid that the remainder of the estate be given to Mary, daughter of John Foster. Salem Quar- terly Court Records, vol. 4, page 177.
Inventory of the estate of Ralph Tompkins of Salem, taken 12: 9: 1666, by Thomas Gardner and John Kitchin: Five acres of land, 7li. 10s .; 1 cow with ye fodder to keep her this winter, 5li .; 1 swine, 2li .; 1 brass kettle & 1 fryeing pan, 1li. 2s .; 1 hake & 2 small washing Tubbs, 4s .; 1 payle & 4 Trayes, 5s .; a percell of Indian corne in ye eare, 1li. 10s .; 2 bush. of pease, 7s .; 4 bush. of barley, 18s .; 1 Iron pott & a paire of pott hooks, 10s .; a small percell of Lynnen yarne, 8s. ; a warming pan & 2 brass skilletts, 7s .; a pestell & mor- ter, 2s .; 4 pewter dishes & a latten candlesticke, Ss .; 1 lat- ten Tunnill & 2 earthen dishes, 1s .; a smoothing Iron, 1s .;
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an old chest & some other old stuffe, 6s .; total, 20li. 19s. Debts owing, 5li.
Samuel (his mark) Aburne, aged fifty-two years, deposed that at the burial of the wife of Ralph Tompkins, late de- ceased, as soon as the company had departed, he went in to said Ralph, who was weak and not likely long to survive his wife, to put him in mind of making his will. He also wished to speak with him about the will which his wife made, which was to dispose of what was hers before her marriage. De- ponent told Tomkins that his sister. Tomkin's wife, had bequeathed all her property to Mary Foster because she had been so helpful to her during her long sickness, doing for her what nobody else would do. Tompkins replied that he fully agreed to this but he would like to have the use of it during his life and he would rather increase than diminish it. Before making his will he would first talk with his son Foster, and deponent thought that it was his intention to give what he had to Mary Foster. Also that Tomkins was of this mind when he was removing to Bridgewater, and when, thinking never to see him again, deponent reminded him of Mary Foster.
An (her M mark) Small, aged about fifty years, deposed that Goodwife Tomkins told her that she had willed all to Mary Foster and that the cow was brought up from a calf for said Mary.
Edward Grove, aged about forty years, deposed.
Nathaniel Felton, aged about fifty years, deposed that Tompkins desired to have the bed and other household stuff, but if he removed to Bridgewater to his son Samuel's etc.
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 12, leaves 33, 34.
ESTATE OF RICHARD JOHNSON OF LYNN.
"The Last will, & testimonye off Richard Johnson of Lynn in the Countye of Essex being weake of bodye but off good memorye & understanding this two, & twentyeth daye of August Anº 1666 Impr I bequeath my bodye to the earth, & my spirit to ye Lord yt gaue it & 2ly I bequeath to my sonn Dan": Johnson that Lott I bought off John Pearson usually called Churchmans Lott as alsoe that Lott Joyneing to it called Thornes Lott, alsoe twoe acres of Fresh meadow Lying in the great meadow in the Countrye as alsoe twoe acers of salt marsh in Rumnye Marsh which is pte of that Lott I bought of Richard Blood (viz) hee the sd daniell to take pos-
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session of it to him his heires, & assignes | |for ever|| when he comes to bee at ye age of twentye one yeares or at his mariage if hee marrye beffore (this being to be vnderstood concerning thornes Lott abouesd that hee is not to have it vntill the deseace of his mother & then to possese it, & alsoe the other pte of that aboue written which I bought of Rich- ard Blood as alsoe two steares, & two Cowes at his marryage or when hee comes to be one, & twentye yeares ould if hee marrye not before : I bequeath to my son Sam11. Johnson that Lott which was Formerlye william Crofts which I Bought of m' Taylor, & alsoe two acres of Fresh meadow in Reedye meadow (viz) hee to haue possession there of to him his heires & assignes For ever after his Mother deseace
"I bequeath to my two daughters Abigall Collins, & Eliza- beth Toleman Fiue pounds p peese, & to each of their | now being ; children twentye shillings p peece to bee paid them after the deseace of my wife if shee Leaue estate to doe it I bequeath to my Loueing & Faithfull wife all the rest of my estate reall & psonall, & make her sole executrix And doe Appoynt & impoure m' Tho: Laughton, James Axey, & Andrew Mansfeild to be over seers of this my will. In wit- nesse where of I have sett my hand the daye & yare aboue written."
Richard (his O mark) Johnson.
Witness : Thomas Laughton, James Axey and Andrew Mansfeild.
Proved in Salem court 27: 9: 1666 by Thomas Laughton and James Axy. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 12, leaf 35.
Will of Richd. Johnson, deceased, was proved upon oath of Mr. Tho. Laighton and James Axy. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 4, page 177.
Inventory of the estate of Richard Johnson of Lyn, taken 18: 7: 1666, by Thomas Laughton, James Axey and Henry Collins: In corne, 5li. 14s .; in weareing clothes, shoos and stockings 7li. 16s .; three paire of sheets, 1li. 15s .; one straw bed, 10s .; linnen & woolen Cloath, 1li. 11s .; sackes, tow winnow sheets and three yeards of cloath, 2li .; one bed stead and the bedinge one it, 6li .; spininge wheels, a tube, chest & a press, 17s. ; old beding & a bedstead, 1li. 10s .; in yearne, 1li. 10s .; a tube & the mault in it, 8s .; in woole, 16s .; in cheese, 2li. 10s .; one peece of new woollen cloath and buttens, 1li. 17s. ; tow pair of sheets and three shirts, 2li. 17s .; five Pil- lowbears and tenn Napkins, 1li. 10s .; one bolster tick & a
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table cloath, 16s .; one bedstead and the beding on it, 9li .; money, Ali .; A Cubberd & a cushing one it and a table & a forme, 1li. 18s .; one chest, boxes & chears, 14s. 6d .; a mus- kett, sword & rest, 1li. 10s .; one bible, tow paire of wool cards & a warminge pann, 14s .; a brush, a paire of sheers and a lookinge glasse, 7s .; In Pewter, 1li. 10s .; Tininge panns, earthen and wooden ware, 19s. 6d .; Iron pots and cettles and a skillett, 2li. 4s. 6d .; table & a wooden morter and other wooden lumber, 1li. 3s .; eight Barrells & a fryinge Pann, 1li. 7s. ; a pair of and Irons, a paire of tonges, spits, hangers, an Iron pestle & a Iron crow, 19s .; a Lume & a wheele, tow sives, a spade & a smoothinge Iron, 1li. 9s .; one heckle, tow sives, three Axes, tow forkes, a auger, a rake & a parcell of flax, 1li. 3s .; carts, wheeles, yoakes, chaines and a plough, 3li. 5s .; hay, 8li .; a sider press, Sli .; six oxen, 30li .; Five cowes, 20li .; one younge beast & three calfes, 6li .; one mare, 5li .; one young mare & colt, 7li .; sheepe, 6li .; swine, 6li. 2s .; paire of boots, 5s .; housinge, orchyeards, upland & meadow, 175li. ; debts due, 25li. 10s .; debts owinge, 22li .; total, 346li. 17s. 6d. Attested in court by the widow. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 12, leaf 36.
ESTATE OF ROBERT MANSFIELD OF LYNN.
"The Last will & testament of Robert Mansfield of Lynn in the County of Essex beeing weake in body but of pfect memory : the third day of August Anno: Dom 1664 Im- primis I bequeath, my body to the dust my sperit to God that gave it 2dly I bequeath to my sonn Joseph Mansfield my whole Acomadation in buildings lands & meddow, ex- sept 3 acres that I bought of John Deken wch lyeth in the neck by Jo. Ramsdell 3dly I bequeath to my sonn John Mansfield att my death two cowes or two heifers in calfe & foure pounds to be payd him out of that three acres in the neck I bought of John Deken as aforesayd, and the two cowes, or the two heifers to be payd by my sonn Joseph and the foure pounds 4ly I bequeath to my sonn Andrew Mansfield at mine & my wifes death, The bed I vsually lye upon with all the apptenances and foure pounds, to be payd him out of the three acres of land in the neck wch I bought of John Deken as abovesayd And wheras I give my sonn John and my sonn Andrew foure pounds a peece, to be payd them out of the three Acres of Land yt I bought of John Deken, as aforesayd my sonn Joseph, haveing soe payd them : then this three Acres of Land to remaine his for ever wch is to be after
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