Will and Estate Inventory of William Barsham

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Last Will & Testament

"I William Barsham of Watertowne… doe declare this to be my last will and testament…

I give unto my son John Barsham a hifer of two years old and the vantage and fowre ewe sheep and five pounds in silver : I give unto William Barsham the son of my said son John twente shillings in silver : I give unto my son Joshuah Barsham : twentie shillings in silver and my good musket : I give unto my son Nathaniell Barsham all my working tools and my furnes kettle : I give unto my daughter Hanna Spring a cow and fowre ewe sheepe and three pounds in silver and my bible: I give unto my Daughter: Susanna Capen one cow and fowre ewe sheepe and three pounds in mony and my joined chaire : I give unto my daughter Sarah Browne one cow and fowre ewe sheep and three pounds in silver and my great armed chaire : I give unto my daughter Rebecka Winship my farme of seventee two Acres : Bonded norwest and by west with Mr Carter, East and by East with [ ] noreast and by north with John Sherman : Sow west and by south with Mr Wollcot : I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Barsham my farme of sixtee fowre Acres : bounded norwest and by west with Mr. Samuell southage and by east with widdow Bartlet : noreast and by north with Henry Kimball : south west and by south with Capten Jenison : I give fowre Acres of meadow in the meadow called Thatchers meadow : unto my two daughters last named : to be eaqually devided between them: also I give unto my two daughters named namly Rebecka Winship and Elizabeth Barsham all my houshould stuff : excepting what is before mentioned : to be eaqually devided between them:

I nominate and apoynt my well beloved childrin Nathaniell Barsham Rebecka Winship and Elizabeth Barsham to be executors of this my last will and testament and I desire my loving friends Thomas Hanning and John Stone to be overseers of this my will… this 28th August : 1683 :
William Barsham
In the presence of
Thomas Hanning
John Stone

As an addition to this my last will and testament… I doe give and bequeath unto my childrin… in addition to what I have all redie given them… namely to my daughters Hannah Spring : Susanna Capen Sarah Browne Mary Bright and my son John Barsham to each of them twente shillings apiece to be paid them in mony… this 15th of Aprill : 1684
William Barsham
In the presence of
William Bond Senior
Thomas Hanning
John Stone

Estate Inventory

This is an inventory of the Estate of William Barsham who deceased ye 3d of July 1684…

In cash………………………………….………........026 – 04 – 06
Two oxen……………………………………….......005 – 00 – 00
Three cows…………………………………..........009 – 00 – 00
Twentie sheepe……………………………........005 – 00 – 00
All his working tools…………………..…........008 – 00 – 00
A furnis kitle…….…………………………….......001 – 10 – 00
A hifer of two yeers and ye vantage.......002 – 10 – 00
A fether bed a fether boltster two fether pillows
curtains two blankets a blue rug A straw bed a bed
stead all together as it stands……………..007 – 00 – 00
Eleven paire of sheets and one odd sheet.006 – 10 – 00
Twelve pillow beers………………………….....001 – 00 – 00
Nine towels seventeen napkens………….001 – 10 – 00
Five Table cloaths………………………………..000 – 15 – 00
Joined chest…………………………………………000 – 06 – 00
Eight chairs………………………………………….000 – 18 – 00
Seven cushons…………………………………….000 – 15 – 00
Five pewter platters one bason and chamber pot a
quart pot……………………….........................000 – 15 – 00
A hive or honey combe………………………..000 – 08 – 00
Fowre old small old books…………………..000 – 05 – 00
A warming pan a frieing pan a paire of tongs a fier
shovel [ ] a paire of bellows [ ] a paire of cobirons
a driping pan a trammell……………………..001 – 00 – 00
A bedstead curtains and [ ] two blankets.001 – 15 – 00
Two chests a litle table………………………..000 – 18 – 00
Fowre old coats a cloake three westcoats three paire
of breeches two old hats six shifts Two [ ] five caps
ten bands fowre handkercheefs five paire of
stockings all…….........................................006 – 00 – 00
Fifteen yards of homemade woollin cloath.003–00–00
A trundle bed stead a flock bed a flock bolster a
fether pillow and old rug………….............001 – 00 – 00
A kneeding trough a forme fowre barrels three
cheese vats a trunnell and old churne...000 – 14 – 00
A fier lock musket………………………………..000 – 15 – 00
Seventee two acres of land called farm
land…………………………………......................010 – 00 – 00
Sixtee fowre acres of land called farme
land……………………………………………...........010 – 00 – 00
Fowre acres of meaddow in Thatchers
meaddow ………………………………………......004 – 00 – 00

Apprized the day and yeere above writene by us:
John Sherman
William Bond
Simon Stone ^[1]

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1. ↑ Middlesex Probate Court- docket no. 1329