Essex County, MA: Early Probate Records, 1635-1681. VOL 1. P 21. The New England Historic Genealogical Society

This will was proved in Ipswich Court 28th, first mo 1643.

The 15th 12th month 1642 I desire to comend my soule into the hands of the lord Jesus Christ, I desire my goods may be equally divided to my wife & all my children, only my sonne John Roffe must have ye howse & land more then all the rest of my children and that their porcons shal be divided when they be 21 yeares of age if they marry not before in case my wife dye or marry then the goods shal be divided; otherwise not till my eldest childe come to be 21 yeares of age But still to remayne in their mothers hands with the rest till that either of them are 21 yeares of age or marry. If any of my children dye then that porcon shalbe equally divided betweene my wife & the rest of my children I doe give vnto my wife one great brasse pott and one great brasse pann, and a great brasse posnett and a chafing dish and five pewter platters I doe give vnto my Kinsman Thomas Whittear a swarme of bees. I desire my brother John Roffe and my Cosen John Saunders of Sallisbery and William Mondy of Newberry to oversee my will and order it to my desire & accordinge to my will wittness hereunto I wit my hand.

In […] in howse & land, £30
Six kowes, £30, foure oxen, £24, one bull & one steere, 3 yeare old, £7.10s, three beasts, two years old, £8, two beasts, one yeare old, £2.10s, three Calves, £1. 4s, three hoggs, £1. 4s, in bees, £7.10s, in haye, £4, in Soyle, £1, in Cart, Shead & 3 Yoaks, £1. 6s

within the howse
one fetherbed & flockbed, £3.10s, Six fether pillowes, 18s 4, Coverleds, £2 5, blanketts, £1.10s, 3 paier of Sheets, £1. 8s 2li. and a halfe of bee wax, 2s.6d, In bowlster case & pillow & napkins, 10s, In porke, £2. 7s, In butter & cheese, 12s, in barrells & butte[r] Cherne & other lumb., 18s, in pewter, £1. 7s.6d, in brasse, £3.13s, a brasse pott, £1, in iron potts, £1. 6s, in brasse, £3.13s, a brasse pott, £1, in iron potts, £1. 6s, A chafing dish & a posnet, 5s, 12 bushells of indian corne, £2. 2s, 9 bushells of wheate, £2. 0s.6d, 2 bushells of pease, 9s, In hogsheads & howes & other lumber, 16s, In apparrell, stockins & shoes, £3, In muskett & fowling peeces & 2 Swords & bandileers, £1.19s, In working tooles & lanthorne, 15s, In bookes, £1, In spining wheeles, 10s, In a chest & chaiers & other lumb., 16s, In harrow tines, 10s