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Will and Inventory for Sampson Mason

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Date: 22 Oct 1672 to 17 Nov 1676
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Will of Sampson Mason

"The 22nd Day of October in the yeer of our Lord according to the English accompt one Thousand six hundred seaventy and two. Know all men by these p'sents that I Sampson Mason of Rehoboth in the Collonie of New Plymouth in New England, Cordwinder, being sicke in body, but through the Grace of my God of Good and p'fect memory doe make and declare my last will and Testament in manor and form following; That is to say First I give and bequeath my whole estate as well Reall as p'sonall to mary my beloved wife; To have and to hold the same and every p'te thereof To the use of her the said Mary during her widdowood; onely excepting such Gifts and Legacyes as are heerin and heerafter bequeathed; Item. I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Noah; either my house which is shortly to be built in Swansey, or that house wherin I doe Now dwell, That is to say that house which his Mother my said wife shall order him to take; and an equall proportion with all his brothers in all my lands within the severall Townships of Rehoboth and Swansey; and on the Northsyde of the Towne of Rehoboth; when hee shall attaine to one and twenty yeers of age; To the use of him and his heires and assignes for ever;

Item. I give and bequeath unto my second son Sampson Fifty acrees of Land which is shortly to be layd out as my Lott on the Northsyde of the Towne of Rehoboth; to have and to hold the said Fifty acrees; from the Time that hee shall attaine to one and twenty yeers of age; To him and his heires and assignes for ever;

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Samuell that house which my said wife shall Choose for her owne p'ticulare use; with five and Twenty acrees of Land where my said wife and the overseers of this my will heerafter Named shall se convenient; To have and to hold the said house and land from and after my said wifes decease; To him and his heires and assignes for ever;

Item. I give and bequeath unto my other six sonnes an equall right to and proportion of all my lands not alreddy bequeathed within the severall Townships of Rehoboth and Swansey; and on the Northsyde of the Towne of Rehoboth; whether the same or any p'te thereof be devided or undevided; as it is or shall be layed out to the use of mee mine heires or assignes att any time heerafter; To have and to hold To them my said six sonnes; and every of them respectively; when they shall attaine to one and twenty yeers of age; and after the second Marriage of my said wife or her decease; to theire severall and Respective uses of them and to the severall and Respective uses of theire heires and assignes for ever provided nevertheless that whensoever every of my last mensioned six sons posess and Injoy an equall proportionall of land with my said sonnes Noah and Samuell; That the Remaining lands shallbe att my wifs dispose; and off my said overseers heerafter mensioned:

Item. I doe heerby declare that it is my last will and Testament; That every of my four daughters shall have such a portion of my estate both Reall and p'sonall as my said wife and the said overseers shall see meet and to be payed to every of them according to the ordfer of my said wife and overseers;

Item. I doe heerby Nominate my said deare wife Mary sole executrix of this my last will and Testament; and my beloved friends Mr. John Myles, Mr. James Brown and my brother John Butterworth to be overseers thereof; desireing that they doe see the same accomplished and p'formed according to the true Intent and meaning thereof; In witness whereof I have heerunto putt my hand and seal the day and yeere first above written.

Signed & sealed in the psence
Off Jonathan ffuller Sampson Mason
Jonathan Willmoth and a seal.
Sampson Mason[1]]
October 27, 1676
Plymouth Colony Wills 3(2):50-51
#P287

Sources

  1. ↑ Mason(1902)

The Inventory of Sampson Mason

An Inventory of the estate of Sampson Mason [...MS torn...] tuenty seauenth of October 1676
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Impr: his wearing apparrell; one blacke Cloth suite [...MS torn...]
Item 1 homemade suite briches and dublitt [...MS torn...]
Item 1 Cloth Coate and wastcoate and a paire of trousers [...MS torn...]
Item 1 Red wastcoate a paire of briches & old Coate 00 1[MS torn]
Item 2 hatts and two paire of drawers 00 10 00
Item 3 shirts three Capps and 9 bands and two handkercheiffes 00 13 00
Item 2 paire of Gloues a paire of Mittens and a tobacco box 00 06 00
Item 7 paire of stockens an apron and smale boxes 00 18 00
Item a paire of shooes and a lether apron 00 03 00
Item 5 pillows a bolster Couerlidd a paire of sheets & a blankett 03 00 00
Item a Flocke bed 2 bolsters a sheet a blankett and a Rugg 02 10 00
Item a bed 2 bolsters a paire of sheets Couerlid & bedstead 03 15 00
Item a bed bedstead a bed matt & Coard 02 10 00
Item 2 blanketts a sheepskin Rugg 2 a Couerlidd & a bolster 02 05 00
Item a bed stead & Coard and a paire of sheets & a paire of pillow bears 01 10 00
Item 2 smale peeces of New holland and a TableCloth 00 07 00
Item 3 towells & 4 yards of New Penistone 01 00 00
Item 2 yards 4 a halfe of homade Cloth & 4 yards of kersey 01 15 00
Item 6 yards of serge 5 shillings per yard 01 10 00
Item a paire of stockens and 14 yards of New Cloth 03 00 00
Item 4 yards of homemad Cloth 00 16 00
Item a bearing blankett and a Childs Coate 00 12 00
Item 9 yards of homadecloth 01 10 00
Item 2 blanketts and 12 pound of Cotten yerne 03 10 00
Item 2 Guns 2 L a harquebusse 15s 02 15 00
Item 2 Cuttleaxes powder and bulletts 01 12 00
Item 1 blankett & a knapsacke 00 12 00
Item 80 pound of sheeps woole 20 pound of Cotten woole & Flax 03 00 00
Item 3 Chests a bow and a Case with 12 bottles 01 06 00
Item 5 pewter platters & 8 peeces of pewter & 8 spoones 02 05 00
Item earthen ware & wooden ware & trenchers 01 00 00
Item 2 stone Iuggs and 2 pichers and a glass bottle 00 07 00
Item a warming pan and 2 frying pans 00 15 00
Item a Great brasse kettle and 2 skilletts 01 00 00
Item 4 Iron potts and an Iron kettle 02 10 00
Item a smale brase kettle a spitt a box Iron & a Gridiron 01 05 00
Item a paire of Andirons & 2 pott hangers 00 15 00
Item a looking Glasse and an houre Glass & 3 lampes 00 10 00
Item a Great Gratter and a wooden bottle and other small things 00 04 00
Item 4 spining Wheeles & 4 Chaires 01 02 00
Item a Great bible Mr Baxters euerlasting Rest & other books 01 00 00
Item 13 or 14 Iarrs and six barrells and 2 tubbs 02 02 00
Item 2 meate tubbs [2?] Great hogsheds & other wooden lumber 01 10 00
Item a Cradle 2 pailes and a pecke 2 Cherns 2 Cheesefatts 00 17 00
Item a warming pan lead a brush 4 paire of Cards 00 08 00
Item 2 tables 2 stooles 1 seiue and three basketts 00 10 00
Item shoomakers tooles viz: lasts kniues and all other shoomakors Inatruments and alsoe Currying kniues 10 00 00
Item in sole lether and vper Lether 08 00 00
Item 2 Chaires a paire of Fetters & 3 hoes & 2 beetle Ringes and 3 wedges and a stubb sythe a pitch fork and pickaxe 02 00 00
Item in mony 14s pins a pursse & Combe 00 16 00
Item 2 paire of plow Irons 3 Narrow axes 02 00 00
Item 3 sythes with Nibbs 4 Rakes with a Gindstone 01 05 00
Item a Cart and wheels boxes hoopes and Cart Ropes and yoakes and a plow 03 00 00
Item 2 saddles 2 bridls and a pannell 01 15 00
Item Ioyners tooles 01 05 00

[The following two items are written in the left hand margin:]

more linnin and woollen yerne 00 15 00
3 sheets a Case for a bolster and 3 pillowbers 01 15 00
[51]
[...MS torn...]okes and hingges bill hookes & hatchell 01 05 00
[...MS torn...] hookes a peece of a spade & drawing kniffe 00 05 00
[...MS torn...]mp braked & vnbraked and Flax 02 10 00
[...Ms torn...] about 50 bushells of Indian Corne 05 00 00
Item about 15 bushells of Rye 02 10 00
Item 2 oxen 08 10 00
Item 3 Cowes and 2 Calues 09 00 00
Item one 4 yeer old steer & 5 yeerlings 10 00 00
Item 1 horse and mare 03 00 00
Item 7 younge swine 03 10 00
Item 10 sheep 03 00 00
Item 15 load of hay 07 00 00
Item 6 baggs bandeleers powder hornes 00 14 06
Item 1 trusse 00 02 06
Item 8 Gallans of traine oyle 01 00 00
Item 2 trusse Irons tarr and Rosen 00 06 00
Item 4 hiues of bees 01 16 00
sume totall £155. 19. 00.

Aprissed by us the day and yeer before specifyed

Phillip Walker
Daniell Smith
Forgotten 7 peckes of salt 2 Goat skins dressed 4 sheep skins 3 bushells of wheat 4 bee hives 3 or 4 pound of feathers
Mary Mason the Relict of the deceased Sampson Mason tooke her oath to the truth of this Inventory the 17th of November 1676 before mee Iames Browne Assistant.

[2]

Sources

  1. ↑ Mason(1902)
  2. ↑ Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. III, part 2, f. 50-5




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