Probate, Relating To The Estate Of Jacob Tomson3.
[BEB: MDPlym. Co. Prob., 5: 140] On 22 September, 1726, "mr Jacob Tomson of
middleboro" was appointed administrator on the estate of "your Father Jacob
Tomson Esqr late of Middleboro .... dyed Intestate"
[From unrecorded bond] On 22 September, 1726 Jacob Tomson,
as admirristrator, with Thomas Tomson and Ichabod King, as sureties, all three of
Middleborough, gave a bond for £2000. The witnesses were Consider Howland and Nehemiah
Bennett.
[From original warrant] On 23 September, 1726, "mr
Isaac Cushman mr David Bosworth both of Plimpton and mr Samuell Harrow of
Middleborough" were appointed to appraise "all the Estate both Reall and
Personall" [Also recorded, 5 299.]
[5: 427] An inventory of "ye Estate
both Real & Personal" was taken, by the three appraisers, at Middleborough, 7
March, 1726/7. The personal estate was valued at £652, 19s., 7d. "Instruments
belonging to Surveying & writing" were valued at £2, 3s., 9d.; "Paper &
Parchment" 7s.
The real estate, amounting to £4568, 3s., was as follows:
"His two hundred acre Lotts being in Number ye 12th & ye 18th Lotts with ye 14th
Lott of meadow all in ye 26 mens Purchase & given by Deed to His Son Jacob"
£220.
"His Lott of meadow in ye upper meadow in sd Purchase" £20.
"His Lott of meadow Ground bought of John Haskall & Isaac Wallker being ye 10th
Lott in sd Purchase" £18.
"His Lott of Cedar Swamp bought of Adam Wright being ye 34 Lott in sd Purchase"
£60.
"This Lott in ye first allottment in ye Sixteen Shilling Purchase in ye Right of
anthony Snow being ye 46th Lott" £55.
"His Lott in sd first alkittment bought of Jabez Wood being .... ye Eleventh
Lott" £30.
"His two Lotts in ye third allottment in sd Purchase in ye Right of John Haskall
being ... ye 23d & 24th Lotts with I/4 of ye 18th Lott &: 19th Lotts in Said 3d
allottment" £33.
"His 3/4 of ye 44th Lott in ye above sg first allottment" £36.
"His 169th Lott Bought of Samuel Barrows, His one halfe of ye 173 Lott bought of
Samuel Dellanoe & His 2/3 of ye 156th & 174th Lotts in ye Right of mr Samuel
Fuller all in ye third allottmont in ye Sixteen Shilling Purchase" £63.
"Ells 51st & fifty Second Lott & ye Lott which He bought of Samuel Sampson
all in ye South Purchase: with His Sixteen
The Estate of Jacob Tomson, Esq. 169
acres Laid out with ye Lands of Ephraim morton in sd Purchase with all ye Comon Land which
He bought of Leiut Nathaniel Southworth in Said Purchase Except a Small Parcell thereof
Lying on ye west side of ye black Brook" £173.
[p. 428] "His Thirty acre Lott Called ye Pine wood Lott in .... Snipetuit Purchase
with ye 14th Lott III sd Purchase as also His Lott of Cedar Swamp adjoyning thereto"
£95.
"all His Rights in ye Little Shares in last allottment in Said South Purchase"
£8.
"His 3/4 of ye 57th Lott in assawamsett neck in ye Right of Experience michell, with
3/8th of ye Saw: mill on Bartletts Brook £42, 1s.
"His Homestead with Buildings with all His Lands meadows & Swamps whether in
middleboro, Plympton, or Pembrooke Lying on ye north side of winnatuxit River Excepting
His Lott of meadow Lying on ye north Side of Colchester brook in Plympton" £1099,
5s.
"His 3/8th of ye Saw: mill near His House" £34.
"His Lott of Cedar Swamp :Bought of Samuel Bennett in ye 26 mens Purchase with one
third of His 21 acres of Land on ye Beach Island in sd Purchase" £43, 6s.
"His fourty first & fourty Eight Lotts in ye South Purchase" £40.
"His 2/3d of a Lott on assawamsett neck in ye Right of mr Samuel Fuller" £16.
"His Lott of Cedar Swamp Bought of Nathan Howland being ye 16th Lott with one third
Part of His 22 acres on ye Beach Island both in ye 26 mens Purchase" £28, 7s.
"His fifty ninth, Eighty Seventh & Eighty Eighth Lotts in ye South Purchase"
£80.
"His three twenty five acre Lotts butting on ye great River with His Lott of Cedar
Swamp in ye Right of Capt Mathew Fuller & one third Part of His twenty one acres of
Land on ye Beach Island all Lying in ye 26 mens Purchase" £183, 7s.
"His Lott of meadow lying on ye north side of Colchester brook in Plympton with 1/8th
of ye Saw: mill on Bartletts brook in middleboro" £67, 10s.
His Lott of Land in ye original Right of John morton in ye first allottment in ye 16
Shilling Purchase His 8th 9th & tenth Lotts in ye Second allottment in ye Sixteen
Shilling Purchase with His Peice of Land bought of Leiut Nathaniel Southworth adjoyning to
ye Southerly Side of ye abovesaid tenth Lott" £118.
"His Eleventh Lott in Snipetuit Purchase with His Lott in
170 The Estate of Jacob Tomson, Esq.
ye Cedar Swamp Called black brook Cedar Swamp in sd Purchase. His two Shares & a Halfe
in ye fourth allottment in ye Sixteen Shilling Purchase" £75.
"His two Lotts in ye first allottment in ye Sixteen Shilling Purchase being .... ye
62d & 65th Lott with two thirds of ye 40th Lott in Said first allottment" £97.
"His Halfe Lott of Cedar Swamp bought of david Alden in ye 26 mens Purchase"
£11.
[p. 429] "His Quarter of a Share of Cedar Swamp in ye Right of Experience michel in
ye Sixteen Shilling Purchase with His two & a Quarter acres of meadow on baiting
Brook" £3, 10s.
"His 106 acres of Land in ye five mens Purchase with ye 157th Lott in ye South
Purchase given by deed to His daughter marcy Bennett" £160.
"His 4th & 20th Lotts in ye South Purchase" £60.
"His 105th & 106th Lotts in sd South Purchase" £60.
"His 107th & 108th Lotts in sd South Purchase £54.
"His 114th & 168th Lotts in sd South Purchase £41.
"His 197th Lott in Said South Purchase" £20.
"The one halfe of His Share of Land in ye Purchase Called Lothrops & Tomsons
Purchase adjoyning to Rhochester Lands" £100.
"His 58th & fifty ninth Lotts on assawamsett neck with one third Part of ye
Island Called annuxanan in quitticus Pond" £40.
"His 32 acres of Land on sd neck being Part of ye Lott which did formerly belong to
Foelix ye Indian" £50.
"His one Halfe of ye Lott of Land at wopanockett in ye Right of william Bradford
Junr" £11.
"His 3/4 of ye two Lotts in South Purchase in ye Right of Experience michel"
£38.
"The one Halfe of His Share of Land in .... Lothrops & Tomsons Purchase adjoyning
to Rhochester Lands" £100.
"His 30th & 37th Lotts with Halfe ye 28th Lott all Lying on assawamsett
neck" £64.
"His 6th Lott in Snipetuet Purchase with His 122 acre between sd 6th Lott &
Quittagues Pond in sd Snipetuit Purchase" £160.
'His 37 & fourty Seventh Lotts in ye South Purchase" £45.
His Halfe Lott in ye Second allottment in ye Right of william Bradford Junr being ye 47th
Lott" £15.
His 82 d & 98th Lotts in ye third allottment in ye Sixteen Shilling Purchase"
£38.
His 106th & 1 17 Lotts in sd 3d allottment ' £35.
His 121st & 124 Lotts in sd 3d allottment" £48.
The Estate of Jacob Tomson, Esq. 171
"His 128 & 181 Lotts in sd 3d allottment" £48
His 163d & 164 Lotts in sd 3d allottment £30.
"His 2/3d of a Share in ye Right of mr Samuel Fuller & I/4 of a Share in ye Right
of Experience michel in ye fourth allottment in ye 16 Shilling Purchase" £1, 18s.
"His Second Lott 69th & 70th Lotts in ye Second allottment in ye 16 Shilling
Purchase" £97.
"His 45th 48th & ye 57th Lotts in ye third allotment in ye Sixteen Shilling
Purchase with 16 acres at Sprouts meadow near Said Lotts" £128.
[p. 430] "His Sixty Second, 74th & 75th Lotts in Said 3d allotment with halfe ye
63 Lott in Said allotment" £110
"His Halfe of ye 53 Lott in sd 3d allotment" £18
His 2/3 of a Share of Cedar Swamp in ye Right of Samuel
"His 4 shares in ye Right of matthew Fuller, Peregrin White, anthony Snow, & I
Share bought of Timothy wood in ye South allohnent in sd Purchase" £8.
"His 90 acres of Land laid out to ye westward of the Pond Called ye Elders Pond in ye
16 Shilling Purchase" £160.
all His Interest in ye Lands Laid out on ye Easterly Side of namaskett River on ye
northerly Side ye fall brook in sd Sixteen Shilling Purchase" £17.
"His 1/4 of ye Saw: mill on ye Herring River" £30
The inventory was sworn to by "mr Jacob Tomson administrator, and by the three
appraisers, on 9 March, 1726/7.
[5 :230, 231] On 22 March, 1726/7,
Caleb Tomson, Esther Tomson, Hannah Tomson and Mary
Tomson, children of "Jacob Tomson Esqr Late of middleborough", and all minors
between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one, chose "mr Thomas Tomson of middleborough
as their guardian, and the choice was allowed.