Estate of Anthony Colby of Salisbury
Inventory of the estate of Anthony Collby, late of Salisbury,
deceased, taken Mar. 9 1660, by Sam. Hall, Tho. Bradbury and Tho. Barnett:
His waring Apparrell, £2. 10s.;
1 feather bed & bolster & old Cotten Rugg, a payer of course sheets
& a course bed case, £4. 15s.;
one old warming pan, 3s. 4d.;
an other feather bed, feather pillow, feather bolster & a payer of sheets
& Cotten Rugg, £4. 10s.;
about £8. of sheeps wooll, 10s 8d.;
five pound of cotton wooll, 5s.;
£10. of Hopps, 6s. 8d.;
a copp. kettle & a payer of tramells £1.;
a little old brass skillett & old morter & pestle, 3s 4d.;
trayes & other dary ware, 15s.;
a landiron, gridiron, frying pan, old cob iron, 5s.;
in old peuter, 3s 4d.;
4 scythes, 8s.;
2 pillow beers, 3s.;
table, two joynstooles, 2 chayres, £1.;
old swords & 2 old muskets, £1.;
one chest & one box, 10s.;
an old saddle & a pillion, 10s.;
old lumber, 10s.;
a grindle stone with an Iron handle, 3s. 4d.;
a new millsaw & 1-2 an old one, £1.;
a croscutt saw & half a one, £1.;
a broad bow, 3 forkes, a rake, 2 axes & an Iron Spade, 12s.;
5 yoakes, 10s.;
2 Iron cheynes, 10s.;
halfe a tymber cheine & a new draft cheyne, £1. 15s.;
an old tumbrill with an old payer of wheeles, £1.;
2 sleades, £1.;
a long cart & wheels & Spanshakle & pin 4th pt. of and other cart,
£2.;
a plough & plough Irons, 10s.;
2 Canoas & 1-2 a canoa, £3. 15s.;
6 oxen, £42.; 6 Cowes, £27.;
2 3 yeare old steers, £7.;
2 Yearlins, £3.; 2 calves, £1.;
7 swine, £5. 5s.; 8 sheep, £4.;
1 mare & colt, £20.; 1 horse, 10s.;
a dwelling house & barne & 14 acres of upland in tillage, £70.;
a pasture of about 30 acres, £20.
2 lotts att yt wch is cald Mr. Hall's Farme, £5. 10s.;
about eighteen acres of fresh meadow, £40.;
ye accoodacon bought of Mr. Groome, £6.;
60 acres of upland towards pentuctt bounds with meadow to be laid out, £10.;
ye 8th pt. of ye old saw mill, £30.;
40 bushells of wheat, £9.;
10 bushels of barley & 6 of rice, £3. 4s.;
about 60 bushels of Indian corne, £9.;
total, £359. 19s. 4d.
Copied from the files of the Norfolk county court records, and sworn to by the
widow Colby, Tho. Bradbury, rec.
Anthony Colby, debtor: To Sam. Worcester, £1. 7s.; Willi
Osgood, £2. 9d.; Goodman Tappin, £1. 2s. 6d.; Abram Morrill, £2. 10s. 10d.;
John Tod, 10s.; Tho. Clarke, 9s.; Mr. Russell of Charlstown, £10.; Mr. Gerish,
£5. 8s. 6d.; Mr. Woodman, £2. 14s.; Jno. Bartlett, £2. 2s. 1d.; Steven Sweat,
£2. 5s. 5d.; John Webster, 13s.; Steven Greenleif, 13s.; Goodman Peirce, 10s.;
Goodman Cillick, £3.; Jno. Lewis, £1. 10s.; Orland Bagly, £5. 19s.; Jno.
Blower, 6s.; Mr. Worcester, £1. 13s. 6d.; Mr. Bradbury, 16s. 9d.; to the widow
Colby, £10.; Henry Jaques, £2. 10s.; Willi. Huntington, 11s.; John Severans,
£1. 13s. 8d.; Jno. Clough for grass, 6s.; for 9 weeks worke, £8. 2s.; total,
£68. 14s. 7d. Debtor p Contra: Rodger Eastman, 10s.; Robert Clements, £1. 5s.;
from ye town, 9s.; Jno. Maxfield, £2.; Leonard Hatherlee, £1.; Sam. Worcester,
14s. 6d.; Goodman Morrill, £1. 10s.; Steven Flanders, 6s.; Goodman Randall,
6s.; boards at ye saw mill, £3. 7s. 6d.; loggs to make 2000 of bord, £2. 5s.;
for work done to ye estate, £1. 2s. 6d.; total £14. 15s. 6d.
Norfolk Co. Quarterly Cout Files, vol. 1, leaf 33.
The division of the estate of Anthony Colby of Salisbury, late
deceased, made by Tho. Bradbury and Robert Pike, Apr. 9, 1661, by order of the
county court held at Salisbury. To ye widdow for hir part & the two youngest
children: ye dwelling house, barne and 14 acres of upland in tillage, £70.; ye
ferric meadow, £30.; ye household goods, £19. 19s. 4d.; a yoake of Oxen,
£14.; 3 Cowes, £13. 10s.; 7 Swine, £5. 5s.; in sheep, £2. 10s.; in Corne,
£21. 4s.; the boggie meadow, £10. To John Colby: an acre of land aded to his
halfe acre at his house, £2. 16s.; two cheyns, 10s.; a yoake of oxen £15.
10s.; Mr. Groom's accomodacons, £6.; in sheep, £1. 10s.; a cart & wheels,
span, shackle & pin & ye 4th pt. of another cart. £2. To Sarah, ye wife
of Orlando Bagly: one Cowe & one 3 yeere old steere, £8.; a young horse,
£10.; another Cowe, £4. 10s.; p. Isaac Colby, £5. 16s. More payd by Isaac
Colby to Orlando Bagly for ye which the estate was debtor. £5. 19s. 8d. To
Samuell Colby: one yoade of oxen, £13.; the pasture, £20. To Isaac Colby: the
eleven lotts of marshe at Mr. Hal's farme, 2 lotts of sweepage & one
higledee pigeledee lot, £9. 10s.; 2 yearlins, £3.; ye part of ye saw mill,
£30. To Rebecka Colby: a Cowe, one 3 year old steere & ye mare colt, £14.;
two Calves, £1.; a bed & bolster, £4. 10s.; p. Isaac Colby, £2. 11s.; p.
Sam. Colby, £5. 4s.; in corne, 11s. This division was consented to by the widow
Colby and all the children who were of capacity. Confirmed by the Norfolk county
court at Salisbury, 14:2:1663, and recorded by Tho. Bradbury, rec.
Petition of Susannah
Whittredge, Anthony Colby's widow
Upon the petition of Susanna Whittredge formerly Colbie the
Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1682 granted her power with the advice of Samuell Colbie
and Thomas Colbie to sell enough of the estate left in her hands by her former
husband for her necessary support in her old age, not exceeding the value of two
of the parts or shares which the coutr Apr. 9, 1661 allotted to her for her part
of the estate.
Petition of Thomas Challis, Orlando Bagly, Ephraim Weed and
Ebenezer Blasdell for some part of the estate of their grandfather Anthony
Collby formerly of Salisbury left in the hands of their grandmother Susanna
widow of Anthony, administratrix to his estate, afterward Susanna Whithredg,
deceased: the Court Ordered the division of the estate Apr. 9, 1661, and it was
allowed 14: 2m: 1663. Also such of us as have married the daughters of John
Collby, deceased, eldest son of said Anthony and Susanna, hath letters of
administration granted him unto the estate of Susanna Whithredg, deceased, and
hath exhibited a large account of debt from the estate and also he designeth a
further application for liberty for alienation of more of said estate.
We address ourselves to the court :where we think we ought for
ye interposing & improvement of yt authority for ye prevention of ye
evacuation of yt estate whereunto we have right (as we think) out of half gills
or gills, and ye exhausting & wasting thereof by such embezelling
trifles," also crave you advice whereby we may be orderly possessed of our
rights. Dated Sept. 28, 1698.
Citation of Samuell Coleby to appear before Jonathan Corwin,
Esq., at the house of Mr. Frances Elles to take administration on the remaining
estate of Anthoney Coleby of Amesbury, deceased. Dated Salem, Nov. 16 1699,
Said citation read to Samuell Colby Nov 18, 1699 by Ebenezer
Blasdell, Constable of Amesbury.
Essex Co. Probate Files, Docket 5,896
