Will of Jonas Pickles, 1664

WILL OF JONAS PICKLES
1664

The Last Will and Testament of Jonas Pickles Deceased Jonas Pickles of Scittuate lying upon his Death bed; not longe before his Death; yett haveing his pfecte sences and memory (as wee Doe Really apprehend) Declared what was his will unto us Lydia Springe and hanah Ganett the wife of Mathew Ganett; The said Jonas Pickles Calling us unto him said; as for the land I have bought I give it one halfe to my wife, and the other halfe, to my Children; and as for my estate; I give it all to my wife; and as for the farme that I hiered of the widdow Bird; what Right I have therin; I give that unto thee my wife;

In witness hereof wee sett to our hands, this 15th Day of December 1664

The marke Lydia Springe

The marke of hanah Ganett

Lydia Spring took her oath to this Nuncupative Will this 27 7 1665

before mee John Alden Assistant

The oath, of hanah the wife of Mathew Ganett to the will above expressed taken this 28th the 7th (65) (28 July 1665) before mee John Alden Assistant;

An Inventory of the estate of Jonas Pickles Lately Deceased in goods and Chattles taken by us whose names are underwritten this 15 Day of December 1665 and exhibited to the court held att Plymouth the 10th of October (sic) 1665 on the oath of Allis Roes; f s d

lmpr: one mare 06-00-00
Item 3 Cowes 12-00-00
Item 2 steers 05-00-00
Item 1 yeare old heiffer 01-00-00
Item 3 Calves 03-00-00
Item in swine 11-00-00
Item in porke 04-10-00
Item his wearing apparrell 12-00-00
Item 5 paire of sheets 05-00-00
Item pillow bears napkins Table clothes and other linnine 03-00-00
Item I yard of Rid Cotten 00-04-00
Item in Linnine and woolin cloth 00-18-00
Item 2 beds 2 bolsters 5 blanketts 1 Rugg 4 pillowes 10-00-00
Item in yearne and woole 02-00-00
Item I muskett sword and bandoleers 01-10-00
Item in pewter and brasse 02-00-00
Item 2 Iron potts I skillett trammells pothookes fierslice 01-15-00
Item in earthen ware 00-10-00
Item a handsaw 2 axes 2 Augers and other tooles 01-10-00
Item I Chist 2 milke payles trenchers & other wooden vessells 03-00-00
Item a Cradle a sytlie agtidjron 00-10-00
Item in Tobacco 01-00-00
Item a panell a bridle and a box Iron 00-10-00
Item Corne in the bame and the shed which wee can not vallue
Item 3 baggs powder bedd & other Lumber 00-10-00
Item 4 pound of honey 00-15-00
Item a bed rugg I spade I pichforke 1 axe forgotten
sume 79-02-00

Edward Jenkens
Isacke Chittenden

(Plymouth Colony Records, Wills and Inventories 1633-1669. Volume 1 Edited by C. H. Simmons, Jr., Picton Press, Camden, Maine. LC F63.S56. 2:30)

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