ATWOOD-L Archives

Archiver > ATWOOD > 1998-08 > 0904426282


From: <>
Subject: Re: [ATWOOD-L] Mayflower
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 17:31:22 EDT


In a message dated 8/29/98 8:15:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

>
> It boasts a Probate Will and Inventory for a John Atwood.
>
>
[JOHN ATWOOD'S WILL AND INVENTORY]
[fol. 46] The last Will and Testament of mr John Atwood deceased exhibited to
the Court the vth June 1644 in the xxth yeare of the now raigne of Or
Sovraigne Lord Charles King of England &c . & proved according to order.
Know all men to whome these prnts shall come That I John Atwood of New
Plymouth gent this twentieth of October 1643 being weake through many
Infirmyties and Diseases in body but in pfect memorye Do make and ordaine this
to be my last will and testament to continue for ever firme and invyolable
ffor my breethren God hath blessed them that they be aswell to give to me as I
to them and for their children they be many I do here give and bequeath them
greate and smale yeong and old male and female which were borne before the
date of these prsents twelve pence a peece if demaunded And for my little
kinsman William Crowe and my brother and sister Lee and their two children Ann
and Mary I leave them to the will of my wyfe to deale wth them as shall seeme
good to her and I do therefore ordaine my loveing wyfe Anne Atwood to be my
full and sole Executrix to whome I will and bequeath all the rest of my estate
my debts being first payd and shee paying my debts and legacies before
menconed I do then by these prnts ratifye and confirme her my lawfull full and
sole Executrix and soe do deliver and bequeath to her all my lands houses
either for cattell Corne or for any other use or imployment wth all goods
houshold stuffe plate and ready moneys whatsoevr I have or shall have in new
England at my decease And all those debts which be due to me in old England
and Verginia I give them all to my loveing wyfe and do confirme her my sole
and lawfull Executrix the day and yeare above written Witnesse my hand and
Seall the xxth of October 1643
Read sealed and published pr mee Jno Atwood in the prsence of (his seale)
William Bradford} and testyfyed by them in open Court aforesd
Robert Hicks}
A true Inventory of all the goods chattells & cattells of mr John Atwood
lately Deceased taken & apprised by mr Robte Hicks mr Willm Paddy Thomas
Southwood and Nathaniell Sowther the xxviith Day of ffebruary Anno Dni 1643.
154Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventory.
In the Hall
£ s d
Inpris one Table00 . 10 . 00
It 3 leather chaires and 3 smaler leather chaires01 . 10 . 00
It 2 flagg bottome chaires & one frame for a chaire00 . 26 . 00
It a chest of Drawers02 . 10, 00
It a bedstead wth a tester01 . 26 . 28
It 5 curtaines & vallence01 . 23 . 24
It 1 greene rugg01 . 10 . 00
It 1 cradle rugg00 . 26 . 00
It 1 paire of blanketts01 . 00 * 00
It 1 feather bed & tick & boulster23 . 10 . 00
It 11 feather pillowes00 07 00
It 1 houseclock23 . 00 . 00
It a corslett & a pike01 . 15 . 00
It 1 old peece & a pistoll00 . 13 . 24
It 1 bowe & arrowes & quiver & case00 . 05 . 00
It 1 little vice00 . 01 . 26
It 1 head peece & a buffe coate01 . 23 . 24
It vi cusheons of three sorts00 . 14 . 00
It 1 carpett00 . 26 . 28
It 3 pictures00 . 01 . 06
It 2 brushes00 . 01 . 00
It 1 paire of sheets01 . 00 . 00
It 2 paire of sheets at 10s pr paire01 . 00 . 00
It 3 paire of sheets at 13sh 4d0: . 00 . 00
It 1 duzzen of table napkins00 . 09 . 00
It ½ duzzen of table napkins00 . 24 . 00
It 5 fine table napkins00 . 26 . 28
It 1 duzzen of Diapr napkins 1 cupbord cloth & a short table cloth01 . 24 .
00
It 1 bordered cupbord cloth00 . 26 . 00
It 3 cupboard cloths at 2sh 400 . 27 . 00
It 2 short table cloths00 . 10 . 00
It 2 longr table clothes01 . 00 . 00
It 4 paire of pillow beers00 . 10 . 00
It 2 paire of sheets at 12s00 . 04 . 00
It 6 paire of course old sheets at 5s01 .10 . 00
It 6 course hand towells at 6d00 . 23 . 00
It 4 finer hand towells at 9d00. 03 .00
It 3 short table cloths at 3s00 . 09 . 00
It 4 course table napkins at 3d00 . 01 . 00
[fol. 47] It I large table salt wth a trenchersalt & a cover of silver05
.00. 00
It 1 silver boule and a wine boule03 . 00 . 00
It ½ duzzen of silver spoones at 5s01 . 10 . 00
It 2 paire of tongs & 3 fire pans00 . 03 . 04
It 2 paire of racks & 2 hookes00 . 05 . 00
Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventory.155
It 1 paire of old bellowes00 . 00 . 24
It 1 next * of boxes00 . 03 . 24
44. 09 . 00
In the studdy
It the acts and monuments in 3 volumes0., . 0 . 00
It Calvine upon Deutronomie00 . 28 . 00
It history of the church00 . 28 . 00
It Harts Dyett of the Diseased02 . 05 . 02
It Calvine on Tymothy & Titus00 . 26 . 28
It Rogers seaven Treatises00 . 26 . 00
It Dounams warfar 2 pt02 . 04 . 02
It ii french bibles00 . 13 . 00
It Brightman on the Revelacon00 . 26 . 28
It Prins Historie Muscick02 . 04 . 02
It for Divers other bookes23 . 24 . 00
It 3 paire of sheares02 . 02 . 02
It a paire of gold scales & weights a tinderbox
& burneing glasse & other triffles00 . 02 . 00
It 1 concordance00 . 10 . 00
09 . 09 . 04
His apparell
It 1 gowne lined & faced wth furr03 . 00 . 00
It 1 shuite of stuffe01 . 10 . 00
It 2 cloth cloakes24 . 00 . 00
It 1 stuff cloake01 . 00 . 00
It 1 black gregorm shuite01 . 10 . 00
It 1 black pincked Dublet00.10 . 00
It 2 gerdles & a paire of gloves00 . 10 . 00
It 2 hatts01 . 00 . 00
It other weareing apparell02 . 15 . 00
15 . 15 . 00
In the Garret.
It 1 paire of Andirons02 . 02 . 02
It 1 other paire of Andirons02 . 10 . 02
It 1 smale paire00 . 05 . 00
It 1 still01 . 10 . 00
It 1 iron beame02 . 05 . 02
It an iron for a grindle stone00 . 02 . 26
It a pcell of wolf in a bag00 . 26 . 00
It a tennant same00 . 23 . 00
It pillion00 . 02 . 00
It mackerell lines00 . 01 . 00
07 . 04 . 06
In the staire Chamber
It 1 half headed bedstead and cord02 . 05 . 02
It 1 old red rugg00 . 15 . 00
* Sic.
156Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventory.
It 3 old blanketts & an old white rugg01 . 01 . 00
It a peece of a rugg mantle00 * 02 00
It a canvas flock bedd00 10 00
It pillow & a smale boulster00 . 24 . 00
It 1 carpett & a cupbord cloth00 . 26, 00
It a chest & a case00 . 05 . 00
It 4 candlesticks00 . 01 . 00
It gerdles & hangers00 . 05 . 00
It 2 paire of mittens00 . 02 . 00
It a pcell of wollen yarne00 . 26 . 00
It 1 duzzen trenchers00 . 00 . 26
It beere and wine glasses00 . 03 . 00
It an alleblaster morter00 . 02 . 00
It 6 blew earthen Dishes00 . 03 . 00
It scales & weights00 . 02 . 26
It an old cloak bagg00 . 01 . 00
It 2 paire of candlesticks00 . 13 . 04
It a tinn dreping pan a stew pan and a breadcup all00 . 23 . 00
It 1 Duzzen of sawcers00 . 23 . 26
It 4 smale plates00 . 02 . 00
It 1 band pewter pott00 . 24 . 00
It 2 sawce pans00 . 01 . 28
It 1 hand candle stick00 . 01 . 00
It 1 walle candle stick00 . 01 . 26
It 1 bason & ewre00 . 28 . 00
It a cabinett00 . 01 . 00
It 5 chaire frames at 2s 600 . I, . 26
It 1 old trunck00 . 01 . 26
It 11 old tubbs00 . 01 . 00
27 . 17 . 00
In the Kitchen
It little bras potts00 . 23 . 04
It 1 bras possnet00 . 26 . 00
It 2 bras kettles & a little one00 . 10 . 00
It a bras stew pan wth the iron & a chaffing dish00 . 28 . 00
It 4 bras candlesticks a lampe & a ladle00 . 28 . 28
It on old warmeing pan 18d & an iron posnet 3s00 . 24 . 26
It 2 chamber potts00 . 24 . 00
It 52li of pewter dishes at 14d23 . 00 . 24
It 6 porringers at 8d a custerd pan . 16d00 . 05 . 24
It 4 saucers & a bason00 . 03 . 00
It 2 quart potts 3 pint potts ½ a pynt & a gill00 . 10 . 00
It for lattine creeping pans & other tinn thinges00 . 03 . 00
It a jack & 3 spitts00 . 23 * 04
It iron potts & 3 paire of pott hookes00 . 15 . 00
It a copper for a furnice01 . 00 . 00
It an iron peale 18d & a forme & a stoole 12d00 . 02 . 26

Always optimistic--Dave

This thread: