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The Last Will & Testament of William Bradford
The last Will and Testament Nunckupative of Mr William Bradford senir : Deceased May the Ninth 1657 and exhibited to the court held att Plymouth June 3d 1657
Mr Willam Bradford senir : being weake in body but in prfect memory haveing Defered the forming of his Will in hopes of haveing the healp of Mr Thomas Prence therin; feeling himselfe very weake anddrawing on to the conclusion of his mortall life spake as followeth; I could have Desired abler than myselfe in the Desposing of that I have; how my estate is none knowes better than youerselfe, said hee to Lieftenant Southworth; I have Desposed to John and WIllam alreddy theire proportions of land which they are possessed of; My Will is that what I stand Ingaged to prforme to my Children and others may bee made good out of my estate that my Name Suffer not;
ffurther my WIll is that my son Josepth bee made in some sort equall to his brthern out of my estate;
My further Will is that my Deare & loveing wife Alice Bradford shalbee the sole Exequitrix of my estate; and for her future maintainance my Will is that my Stocke in the Kennebecke Trad bee reserved for her Comfortable Subsistence as farr as it will extend and soe further in any such way as may bee Judged best for her;
I further request and appoint my welbeloved Christian ffrinds Mr Thomas Prence Captaine Thomas Willett and Leiftenant Thomas Southworth to bee the Suppervissors for the Desposing of my estate according to the prmises Confiding much in theire faithfulness
I commend unto youer Wisdome and Descretions some smale bookes written by my owne hand to bee Improved as you shall see meet; In speciall I Commend to you a little booke with a blacke cover wherin there is a word to Plymouth a word to Boston and a word to New England with sundry usefull verses;
These pticulars were expressed by the said Willam Bradford Govr the 9th of May 1657 in the prsence of us Thomas Cushman Thomas Southworth Nathaniell Morton; whoe were Desposed before the court held att Plymouth the 3d of June 1657 to the truth of the abovesaid Will that it is the last Will and Testament of the abovesaid Mr WIllam Bradford Senir.
The inventory of the goods of William Bradford, deceased 1657
beding and other thinges in ye old parler
Pounds Shillings Pence
Impr: one feather bed and bolster 03 00 00
It a featherbed a featherbolster a featherpillow 03 00 00
It a Canvas bed with feathers and a bolster and 2 pillowes 01 15 00
It one green rugg 01 00 00
It a paire of whit blanketts 01 00 00
It 2 paire of old blanketts 01 00 00
It one whit blankett 00 12 00
It 2 old Coverlidds 01 00 00
It 1 old white rugg and an old ridd Coverlidd 01 00 00
It 1 paire of old curtaines Darnickes & an old paire of say Curtaines 15 00
It a Court Cubberd 01 05 00
It a winescot bedsteed and a settle 01 10 00
It 4 lether Chaires 01 12 00
It 1 great lether Chaire 00 10 00
It 2 great wooden Chaires 00 08 00
It a Table & forme and 2 stooles 01 05 00
It a winscott Chist & Cubburd 01 05 00
It a Case with six knives 00 05 00
It 3 matchlock musketts 02 02 00
It a Snaphance Muskett 01 00 00
It a birding peece and an other smale peece 00 18 00
It a pistoll and Cutlas 00 12 00
It a Card and a platt 00 05 00
in the great rome
It 2 great Carved Chaires 01 04 00
It a smale carved Chaire 00 06 00
It a Table and forme 01 02 00
It 3 striped Carpetts 01 05 00
It 10 Cushens 01 01 00
It 3 old Cushens 00 02 00
It a Causlett and one headpeece 01 10 00
It 1 fouling peece without a locke 3 old barrells of guns
one paire of old bandeleers and a rest 00 16 00
linnin
It 2 paire of holland sheets 02 00 00
It 1 Dowlis sheet 00 10 00
It 2 paire of Cotten and linnin Sheets 01 15 00
It 2 paire of hemp and Cotten sheets 01 15 00
It 2 paire of Canvas sheets 01 10 00
It 2 paire of old sheets 00 15 00
It 4 fine shirts 02 00 00
It a Douzen of Cotten and linnin napkins 00 12 00
It a Douzen of Canvas Napkins 00 06 00
It a Diaper Tablecloth and a Douzen of Diaper Napkins 02 10 00
It 10 Diaper napkins of an other sort a Diaper tablecloth and a Diaper Cubbard
cloth 03 00 00
It 2 holland Tableclothes 01 00 00
It 2 short Tableclothes 00 05 00
It a Douzen of old Napkins 00 08 00
It halfe a Dousen of Napkins 00 08 --
It 3 old Napkins 00 02 00
It a Douzen of Course napkins & a course tablecloth 00 06 00
It 2 find holland Cubburd clothes 00 12 00
It 3 paire of holland pillowbeers 00 18 00
It 3 paire of Dowlis pillowbeers and an old one 00 14 00
It 4 holland Towells and a lockorum one 00 05 00
pewter
It 14 pewter dishes weying 47 pounds att 15d pr pound 02 18 09
It 6 pewter plates & 13 pewter platters ewying thirty 2 pounds att 15d pr pound 02 00 00
It 2 pewter plates 5 sawsers 4 basons & 5 Dishes weying eighteen pounds att 15d pr pound 01 02 06
It 2 plates of pewter 00 03 04
It 2 quart potts & a pint pott 00 07 00
It 2 old fflagons an a yore [ewer] 00 09 00
It a pewter Candlesticke a salt and a little pewter bottle 00 03 00
It 4 venice glasses and seaven earthen 00 10 00
In the kitchen brasse
It 2 ffrench kittles 01 10 00
It 1 brasse kittle 00 15 00
It 2 little ffrench kittles 00 06 00
It an old warming pan 00 05 00
It 2 old brasse kittles 00 02 00
It a Duch pan 00 04 00
It 3 brasse skilletts 00 04 00
It 3 brasse Candlestickes and a brasse morter and pestle 00 07 00
It an old brasse skimmer and a ladle 00 01 00
It a paire of andjrons 00 06 00
It an old brasse stewpan 00 06 00
It 2 old brasse kittles 00 05 00
It 2 Iron skilletts and a Iron kittle 00 15 00
2 old great Iron pottes 01 00 00
It 2 Iron potts lesser 00 07 00
It 2 paire of pothangers 2 paire of pothookes 00 08 00
It 2 paire of tonggs and an old fier shovell 00 03 04
It one paire of Andjrons and a gridjron 00 10 00
It a spitt and an old Iron Driping pan 00 05 00
It a paire of Iron Rackes and an Iron veele and another peec of old Iron to lay before a Driping pan 00 20 00
It 4 Dozen of Trenchers 00 02 06
It 2 Juggs and 3 smale bottles 00 02 00
in the New Chamber his clothes
It a stuffe suite with silver buttons & a Coate 04 00 00
It a Cloth Cloake faced with Taffety and lineed throw with baies 03 10 00
It a sad coullered Cloth suite 02 00 00
It a Turkey Grogorum suite and cloake 02 00 00
It a paire of blacke briches and a rid wastcoat 00 15 00
It a lead coullered cloth suit with silver buttons 02 00 00
It a sad coullered short coate and an old serge suite 01 10 00
It a black cloth coate 00 15 00
It a broad cloth Coate 01 05 00
It a light Coullered stuffe Coate 00 16 00
It an old green goune 01 00 00
It a light Cullered Cloth Cloake 01 15 00
It an old violett Coullered Cloake 01 05 00
It a short coate of Cloath 00 10 00
It 2 old Dublett and a paire of briches a short coate and an old stuffe Dublitt and wastcoate 01 00 00
It 2 paire of stockens 00 07 00
It 2 hates a blacke one and a coullered one 01 10 00
It 2 old hatts 00 16 00
It 2 great Chaire and 2 wrought Stooles 01 00 00
It a Carved Chist 01 00 00
It a Table 00 15 00
the plate
It one great beer bowle 03 00 00
It an other beer bowle 02 00 00
It 2 wine Cupps 02 00 00
It a salt 03 00 00
It the trencher salt and a Drame cup 00 15 00
It 4 silver spoones 01 04 00
It 9 silver spoones 02 05 00
In the Studdie
It eight paire of shooes of the 12s 02 00 00
It 6 paire of shoes of the 10s 01 04 00
It one paire of the eights 00 03 04
It 3 pare of the 7s 00 09 00
It 2 paire of the sixes 00 02 08
Item 1 paire of the 5s 1 paire of the 4s 1 paire of the 3s 00 06 00
It 4 yards and an halfe of linncy woolcye 00 13 06
It 3 remnants of English Cotten 00 16 00
It 3 yards and an halfe of bayes 00 07 00
It 17 yards of Course English moheer 02 02 06
It 4 yards and 3 quarters of purpetuanna 01 00 00
It 18 yards of rid penistone 03 03 00
It 5 yards of broad cloth 13 15 00
It 2 yards of broad cloth 01 10 00
It 2 1/2 yards and an halfe of olive cullered Carsye 00 15 00
It a yard and an halfe of whitish Carsey 00 07 00
It 4 yards of Gray carsye 01 04 00
It 5 yards and an halfe of rid Carsye 01 07 06
It 4 yards and a quarter of Carsy ollive coullered 01 10 00
It 7 yards of Carsye sad Cullered 02 06 08
It 10 yards of gray Carsye 02 10 00
It 6 yards and an halfe of rid plaine 01 19 00
It 9 yards and an halfe of rash 03 16 00
It 6 yards of holland 01 08 00
It a remnant of Cushening 00 05 00
It 7 smale moose skines 04 08 00
It in Cash 151 09 06
It his Deske 00 05 00
It 2 Cases with some emty bottles 00 10 00
It 3 or 4 old cases 00 03 00
his bookes in folio
Mr Perkines workes 01 10 00
It 3 of Docter Willetts workes viz on genesis exodus & Daniell 01 00 00
It the ffrench acaddamey 00 08 00
It the Guiciardin 00 10 00
It the history of the Church 00 08 00
It bodins Comons wealth 00 06 00
It B Babbingtons workes 00 08 00
It Peter Martire Comon places 00 15 00
It Cartwright on the remish Testament 00 10 00
It the history of the Netherlands 00 15 00
It Peter Martire on the Romans 00 05 00
It Mayers workes on the New Testament 01 00 00
It Cottens Concordance 00 08 00
his bookes
Speeds generall Description of the world 01 10 00
Weames Christian Sinnagogue and the portrature of the Image of God in man -- 08 00
It Luther on the gallations 00 02 00
It the method of phiscicke 00 02 00
It Calvins harmony and Calvins Comentary on the actes 00 08 00
It Downhams 2cond pte of Christian Warfare 00 03 00
It Mr Cottens Answare to mr Willams 00 02 00
It Taylers libertie of Prophecye 00 01 06
It Gouges Domesticall Dutyes 00 02 06
It Justification of Seperation or reasons Descused & observations Devine & morall the synode att Dort; the Apollogye 00 06 00
It mr Ainsworths workes the Counterpoison the triing out of truth 00 02 00
It Mr Ainsworth on geniseis Exodus & livitticus 00 04 00
It Calvin on genises 00 02 06
It Dike on the Deceitfulness of mans hart 00 01 06
It Gifford refuted 00 00 06
It Dod on the Comaundments & an other of his 00 03 00
It three and fifty smale bookes 01 06 06
It Calvine on the epistles in Duch with Divers other Duch bookes 00 15 00
It 2 bibles 01 00 00
Misc.
It a paire of boots 00 05 00
It in lether 00 18 00
It 2 old Chists 00 10 00
It 6 old barrells a bucking tubb a brewing tubb & other old lumber 01 00 00
It a pcell of Cotten woole & a pcell of sheepes woole 02 10 00
It a pcell of feathers 00 12 00
It 3 ewe sheep 04 10 00
It 3 middleing sheep & a poor one 04 00 00
It a rame lambbe and an halfe & half an ewe lamb 00 16 06
It the old mare 12 00 00
It a lame mare and an horse coult 14 00 00
It a horse of two yeare old and advantage 07 00 00
It an other horse coult of yeare and advantage 05 10 00
It 4 bullockes 20 00 00
It 7 Cowes 28 00 00
It a bull 04 00 00
It 2 young bulls of two year old 04 10 00
It a heifer of three yeare old not with Calfe 03 05 00
It 2 heifers of two years old 05 00 00
It 4 yearlings 06 00 00
It five Calves 03 00 00
It a sow and 2 hoggs 02 15 00
It five smale shoates 01 10 00
It the house and orchyard and some smale pcells of land about the towne of Plymouth 45 00 00
It 2 spinning wheeles & a wether 00 16 00
Att the Westward in Debts upon the Duch account Consisting in Divers pcells 153 00 00
Item Debts owing to the estate
It the Kennebeck Stocke Consisting in goods and Debts both English and Indians 256 00 00
More Debts owing in the bay
It in Doute the shoomakers hands 05 00 00
It in Mannsses Kemptons hands 05 00 00
It more belonging to the estate in Divers pticulars 57 00 00
Debts owing from the estate
It to Mr Davis and mr Sheffe 05 00 00
It to Samuell Sturtivant 02 03 00
It 2 the townes land 01 12 00
It John Jourdaine about 02 00 00
It To goodman Clarke about 03 10 00
It two goodman Nelson for killing of Cattle & for veale 01 18 06
It to William Palmer 12 04 00
It To the Church of Plymouth 05 10 00
Some pcells of land not mencioned above belonging to Mr William Bradford senir: It one pcell att Eastham and another att Bridgwater It a smale pcell about Sawtuckett and his purchase land att Coasksett with his right in the townes land at Punckatessett By us:Thomas Cushman and John Dunham
It Sundrey Implements forgotten belonging to the teame
