PLYMOUTH COLONY WILLS AND INVENTORIES.
JOHN JENNEY'S WILL AND INVENTORY.
[fol. 50] 1644 The last Will and Testament of
John Jenney of Plymouth gent lately Deceased exhibited to the genrall Court the fift of
June in the xxth yeare of the now Raigne of our Sovraigne Lord Charles Kinge of England
&c.
I John Jenney of New Plymouth in New England
being sick and weake in body but through Gods speciall goodnes in pfect memorie Do thinke
meete to settle that estate the Lord in mercy hath bestowed on me according as I conceive
hee requireth at my hands. And therefore Do ordaine this my last will and testament. And
therefore haveing bequeathed my soule to God that gave it and my body to the earth whereof
it is
I do give unto my eldest Sonne Samuell Jenney a Double porcon of
all those lands I stand possessed of or have right unto wthin the Goverment of new
Plymouth my will being pformed
next of all I give unto Sarah my
loveing wyfe whom I ordaine my Executrix my Dwelling house and Mille
adjacent together wth all the lands thereunto belonging, my will being that shee freely
and fully enjoy it together wth all other my moveables goods and chattells so long as God
shalbe pleased to continue her life except such as I shall after Dispose of or shee shall
willingly and freely part wth to any our children according to my will and Desire
Alsoe whereas Abigaile my eldest Daughter had somewhat given her
by her grandmother and Henry Wood of Plymouth aforesaid is a
suter to her in way of marriage my will is that if shee the said Abigaile will Dwell ye
full yeare wth mr Charles Chauncey of Scittuate before her marriage (pvided he be willing
to entertaine her) that then my said Daughter Abigall have two of my cowes and my full
consent to marry wth the said Henry Wood And in case mr Chauncey be against it then I
would have her dwell wth mrs Winslowe of Careswell the said terme of one yeare ffurther
as I have given to my eldest sonn Samuell a double porcon of all
my lands whatsoever after the death of his said mother so also I give him a Double porcon
of my whole estate wth the rest of my children vizt John Abigall Sarah and
Susann
My will being that after the death-of my said wyfe my house and mill and other my lands
and goods be sold or valued to the utmost they are worth and that the estate be equally
Distributed amongst my said children Samuell John Abigall Sarah and Susan as
followeth, Samuell to have a double peon and the rest of them eich a single & equall
porcon of the same Last of all I do ordaine my worthy frends mr Wm Bradford now Goveror of
Plymoth and mr Thomas Prence of the same the Ovrseers of this my last will and testament
and Dv give eich of them a paire of gloves of five shillings price And in witnes that this
is my Will I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the xxviiith of December Anno Dm 1643.
Witnesses hereunto John Jenney (seale)
Edward Winslowe
Thomas Willett.
William Paddy.
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A true Inventory of all the goods chattells
and cattells wch were mr John Jenneys lately Deceased taken and appnse by Willm Paddy and
Nathaniell Sowther the xxvth Day of May
Anno Dm 1644 £ s d
Inpris two cowes 10 06 08
It one three yeres old heiffer 04 13 04
It iiii ewe sheepe 06 00 00
It one ewe sheepe 01 00 00
It three weather sheepe 02 05 00
It 1 cow calfe 00 12 00
It three oxen 19 00 00
43 17 00
In the chamber ovr the parlor
It 1 little feather bed & two boulsters 01 00 00
It 1 pillow 00 02 06
It 2 blanketts 00 10 00
It 1 pere of old sheets 00 05 00
It 1 old chest 00 02 00
It 1 new sheete 00 06 00
It 5 fine old sheets 01 05 00
It 5 paire of old sheets at 5s 4d 01 06 08
It 8 pillow beers at 20d 00 13 04
It i halfsheete & a peece of old linnen cloth 00 03 00
It 1 table cloth 00 04 00
It 9 old napkins at 4d 00 03 00
It a little towell & old linnens 00 02 00
It 1 old trunck 00 00 08
It a baskett wth Dressed hemp in it 00 02 06
It xlb of feathers 00 06 08
06 12 04
In the Parlor
It vi sett cusheons 00 10 00
It a feather bed and furniture to yt 3 old blanketts i old
greene rugg & curtaine 3 10 0
It an old warmeing pann 00 02 06
It a chest 00 02 00
It 9 napkins at 6d 00 04 06
It 4 fine old napkins 00 02 00
It 1 long towell 00 01 08
It 2 Diap cloths 00 01 04
It 8 course napkins 00 03 04
It old linnen table cloths 00 04 00
It 1 seeled chest 00 06 08
It a short carpett 00 03 00
It a carpett 00 06 08
It his wearing apparell 03 00 00
It 5 yards cotton Darnix 5s a black hatt 12s 00 17 00
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It a chaire table 42 & a featherbed tick 26 01 00 00
It 2 beere barrells & other lumber 00 04 00
It 3 silver spoones 00 15 00
08 04 08
[fol. 51] In the Dwelling house
It i smale globe 00 02 06
It Cartwright on the Rehemist testament 00 08 00
It mr Downams workes 00 08 00
It i old bible 00 01 00
It other old bookes 00 04 00
It a kneadeing trough & cover 00 08 00
It 2 joyne stooles 1 forrne and a chaire 00 07 06
It i spinninge wheele 00 04 00
It 3 old peecs a pistoll & a paire of bandeliers 01 10 00
It 3 salts & 2 smale pewter cupps 00 03 00
It 2 quart potts & a pint pott 00 06 04
It x peecs of pewter 32l & 3 porringers 01 15 04
It x peecs more of pewter 24l 01 04 00
It 3 smale latten pans 00 01 06
It i larg latten pan 00 01 00
It a pewter bottle 00 00 02
It 3 smaler kettles 00 11 00
It a bras cover 00 00 03
It a smale bras pann 00 12 00
It 2 larg bras kettle 22l at 26 01 08 00
It i copper kettle 22l at 01 01 00
10 16 07
It i larg copper kettle 01 05 00
It i frying pann 00 02 00
It a skimmer and an old bras ladle 00 00 08
It a bras candlestick 00 01 06
It a bras posnett 00 02 00
It a larg iron pott 00 10 00
It 4 other iron potts broken & maymed & a posnet 00 16 00
It 1 iron kettle 00 05 00
It a fire shovell & a paire of tonges 00 02 00
It 3 paire of pott hooks 00 02 00
It 2 paire of pott hangers 00 05 00
It for trees payles & other lumber 00 05 00
It a black bill 00 01 08
03 17 10
In the Dary house.
It 8 earthen panns & potts & tubbs 00 05 00
It 3 trees & a kimnell 00 02 06
It an earthen bason 00 00 02
It a churne 00 02 00
It a cheese presse 00 02 06
00 12 02
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In the chamber over the house.
It two bed steads 00 12 00
It a feather bed & boulster & two pillowes 02 00 00
It i old rugg and a blankett 00 06 00
It i paire of sheets 00 07 00
It i smale seacanvas feather bed & boulster wth cotton 00 12 06
It iiii old blanketts 00 12 00
It 2 pillowes & pillow beers 00 07 00
It i joyned table 00 12 00
It i longe wheele 00 04 00
It 2 old axes 00 02 00
It 1 smal adds & other old iron 00 07 00
It 2 old netts 00 05 00
It an old cartrope 00 02 00
It 2 jarrs tubs & old baskets & lumber 00 05 00
It a paire of steeleyards 00 06 08
It 18 bushells of wheate 03 12 00
It vi bushells of barley 01 04 00
11 16 02
Without Doores.
It 3 yeokes 00 07 06
It a paire teases for a single oxe 00 02 06
It i old Harrow 00 01 06
It i old weane and wheeles 04 00 00
It 2 cheanes & a broken one 00 14 00
It i old plow an ovrworne coulter & share & hooke 00 09 00
It a broken sith a clevis pin & old saw & a yeoke & fork 00 01 00
It i boate vi£ xs whereof she* hath a third pte 02 03 04
It ii bushells & a peck of wheate. 00 09 00
It iii bushells & a half of barley 00 14 00
It 5 pecks of peas 00 05 00
It i bushell of oates 00 02 00
It to receive for the salt panns 08 06 08
It 5 sides at tanning 04 10 00
22 05 06
Sum totall 108£ . 03s . 03d .
Nathaniel Sowther
William Paddy.
[fol. 52] Debts oweing by the Testator.
It To Samuell Chaundler 05 10 00
It To mr Paddy 04 00 00
It To Thom Pope 00 07 00
It To John Barnes 03 00 00
It To John Yeonge 01 02 00
It To Richard m: Chanceys man 00 04 00
* Sic.
