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[p. 17] 1656 A Will Appointed to bee Recorded
Aprill the 4th 1654 Mris Sarah Jeney of Plymouth being sicke and weake in body being otherwise by gods goodnes of pfect memory Doeth think good to Despose of som smale thinges that is my owne proper goods leaveing my husbands will to take place according to the true Intent and meaning therof; I bequeath to my Daughter Pope my bed and furniture therunto belonging one bolster two pillows and pillowbeers three blanketts one old Rugg one paire of sheets, further I bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Pope all my wearing Clothes to Despose of them to my Daughter Abigaill Wood and to my grandchild Sarah Wood for theire use as they have need excepting two of my petticoats which have not been worne which I give to my Daughter Sarah Pope for her paines further I bequeath to my son Samuell Jeney and to my Daughter Abigaill Wood my Mare equally to bee Devided between them; further I bequeath to my son Benjamin Bartlett all my pte of Cattle that is in the hands of Josepth Warren att the Eelriver further my will is that my sheep bee kept togeher till my legacies bee paied; And my will further is to give unto the Teacher Mr John Reyner one ewe lambe further I give to the Elder Mr Thomas Cushman one ewe lambe and the bible
* Printed at the request of a liberal contributor to the society's Colonial Research Fund.
172 Mistress Sarah Jenney's Will and Inventory
which was my Daughter Susannas further I bequeath to my loveing frind goodwife Clarke one ewe lambe and alsoe I give one ewe lambe to Thomas Southworth
Witnesse Sarah Jeney
Thomas Southworth her marke
Att the generall Court held att Plymouth the fift of march 1655 Leiftenant Thomas Southworth Testifyed upon his oath that the Will abovewritten is all the will of Mis Sarah Jeney Deceased which shee left with him
August the 18th Anno: 1655
An Addition to my late Will left in the hands of Leiftenant Southworth;
My Will is that That which is my owne since the Death of my husband I give to my two Daughters and the Children of my son Samuell. Excepting what I give as followeth one Colt I give to the three Daughters of my Children viz Sarah Wood Susanna Pope and Sarah Jeney if shee come hither to abide or ells not to have any pte of this Colt or any thing ells of my estate; morover my will is that if my son Samuell take away his Children that are now heer with mee then my will is that none of them shall have any thinge of myne estate but it shal bee Reserved for the two boyes if they Doe well when they come to age; It I give unto Benjamine Bartlett onely the Starred Cow which is att Thomas Popes Recaling whatsoever ells is mencioned in my former will; alsoe I give unto my Daughter Sarah Pope the bed I now lye on and the two pillows and three blanketts and the Rugg and also two petticoates one being of Turkey Moheire Confeirming whatsoever ells is in my former Will [p. 18] Will In Witnesse wherof I have put to my hand the Day and Yeare above Written and I give unto Leiftenant Southworth one ewe lamb
In the prsence of Sarah Jeney William Bradford her marke Alice Bradford her marke
And I Desire my loveing ffrinds capt: Standish Elder Cushman Thomas Clarke and Thomas Pope to bee the overseers of this my will;
Att the generall Court held att Plymouth the fift of March 1655 Mr Willam Bradford senir: and mis Alice Bradford Did Testify upon their oathes that this next before written was the last will and Testament of Mis Sarah Jeney Deceased;
Mistress Sarah Jenney's Will and Inventory 173
An Inventory taken the 18th of ffebrewary 1655 of the goods of mis Sarah Jeney which shee Died possessed of;
ll s d
Impr: 2 Cowes 08 00 00
It the halfe of a heifer and a steer of 3 year old att
Spring 03 10 00
It the halfe of 2 yearlinges 01 0000
It beefe in John Rouses hand four hundred grosse wanting 9 pound and of Tallow and suit and 18s in a hyde the halfe of this being mis Jeneys 02 14 02
It one Cow in henery Woods hand & halfe a 2 year old 04 00 00
It one mare 16 00 00
It one horse cf 2 year old 06 10 00
It one court of a year old 04 00 00
It 6 ewes and and an ewe lamb & a young Ram 01 00 00
It a Copper kettle 01 08 00
It one Copper kettle 01 01 00
It 2 large brasse kettle 01 08 00
It 4 smale kettles 00 15 00
> It one brasse pan and a old broken skillett 00 12 00
> It one brasse ladle and Skimer 00 01 00
It one brasse Candlestick and Skillett 00 02 00
> It one warming pan 00 03 00
It one large Iron pott 00 10 00
It one Iron kittle 00 00 00
It one Iron pot and 2 broken ones 00 12 00
It one frying pan. 00 02 00
It one Iron posnett . 00 02 06
It one paire of tonges and fier shovell 00 01 06
It one Iron Skillett 00 02 00
It one pair of andirons 00 10 00
It 2 paire of pothangers 00 05 00
It 3 old peeces & a pistell & a paire of bandeleers 01 10 00
It an Iron pestle & a wooden Morter 01 06
It a smothing Iron a paire of sheepsheers 03 06
It a paire of stilliards 06 00
[p. 19] It a Tamy petticoat & a Tallaminko wastcoat 01 00 00.
It a petticoat & wastcoat 0 16 00
It a petticoat & wastcoat of Phillip & cheney 00 17 00
It an old coat & wastcoat 00 07 00
It an old coat & wastcoat 00 07 00
It an old under petticoat. 01 00 00
It one lose coat 00 05 00
It a yard of broad cloth 00 16 00
It 3 petticoates 00 16 00
It one old stuffe "owne 00 08 00
It 2 old wastcoate 00 04 00
It a new Carsy wastcoat 00 10 00
174 Mistress Sarah Jenney's Will and Inventory
It a cloth lose coate 01 05 00
It 2 paier of bodies 00 03 00
It 2 old curtainesIt 4 say aprons 00 02 00
It one hatt 00 16 00
It a carpettIt a muffeIt 2 brushes 00 01 00
It yard of seekingIt five fine old sheets 00 02 00
It 9 paire of old sheets & 4 halfe sheets 04 00 00
It 3 silver spoones 00 06 00
It a Dozen of napkins 00 15 00
It twelve pillowbeers 00 12 00
It 7 Table clothes & 2 long towels 00 18 00
It 8 sheetsIt a salme booke 01 10 00
It old linnin and a shift It a swath
It 6 white aprones
It 6 Double clouts
It 2 silke capps & a hood and 2 Skarffes 00 00
It a Callico apron and an old pillowbeer 00
It 13 Crosclothes & DressingsIt 21 handkerchifes 00 16 00
It 6 Dressings
It 12 quoyves
It 13 quoyves 01 00 00
It 48 peeces of linnin as quoyves and Stomengers and other linnin
[p. 20] It 17 peeces of pewter 2 basons & 4 porrengers 02 19 04
It 2 quart pots & a pint pott
It 5 pewter cupps and beaker & a salt 00 06 04
It a chamber pott & 2 old Dishes & 2 Sawsers 00 05 00
It one leten Driping pan & 2 smale leten pans 00 02 06
It a letten Sugar box
It 2 bottomes of frying pans
It 5 peeces of earthen ware & a ston Jugg
It 7 trayes & other wooden Dishes & a smale tubb 00 04 0
It a Cheespresse and a paile & an old ki
It a smale spittmnell 00 02 00
It a great trough & 3 seiveS 00 01 00
It a black bill*
Cartwright on the Remise 00 01 08
It Downhams workes 00 06 00
* "bookes", was written on the margin at the left of, and in line with, this item.
Mistress Sarah Jenney's Will and Inventory 175
It 4 old bookes 00 00 06
It Mr Ainsworth on geneses & Exodus 00 02 06
It a great bible & a smale one 00 11 00
It a Chaire & form & 2 stooles 00 10 00
1t 2 whees 00 04 00
It a Chaire Table 00 04 00
It a brewers slinges 00 02 00
It a Table 00 00 12 00
It 2 bedsteds 00 12 00
It in old Iron one hundred & six pound neat 00 16 00
It an old axe & spade & other old thinges & a lamp 00 03 00
It 6 sett Cushens 00 10 00
It a bed and bolster pillow & 2 whit blanketsol 12 00
It 11 pound of sheeps woole & 4 pound of cottenwoole 15 00
It a bed & 2 pillowes 02 00 00
It a bed and bolster 2 pillowes & 2 old blankets &
2 old Rugges 03 00 00
17 08 10
More 6 neckclothes & 2 handkerchifes one course old
lyning 12 pcells of lase & yarne & odd thinges 00 07 00
It a paire of kioves & gloves & paire of sleeves 00 06 00
It yarne linnin & woolen 00 01 06
It a Cotten sheet 00 05 00
It five Chists & a Case 00 18 00
It the land & meadow att Lakenham 07 00 00
It All the land att Strawberry hill and meadow att the salthouse beach 14 00 00
It the purchasers landIO 00 00
[p. 21] It The Mill with the land belonging to it and
Dwelling house and all such thinges belonging
thertoI 00 00 00
It a gridiron & 2 paire of Cards 00 03 00
It a Dozen of trenchers & a spanish lether skin 00 04 00
It a paire of stockens & a paire of shooes & 2 old aprons 00 04 00 1 07 04 06
Summa Totalis 248 05 08
It money one peece of eight & 2 halfe Crownes &
more seaven pence in silver
It one sow & 2 piggs 00 0 00
Debts owing to the estateog 19 06
Thomas Willett; Thomas Southworth
MISTRESS SARAH JENNEY'S WILL AND INVENTORY*
Transcribed from the Original Records,
BY GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN

MISTRESS SARAH JENNEY of Plymouth was the widow of John Jenney, of Plymouth, whose will and inventory were printed in our sixth volume. Mistress Jenney's will and inventory were recorded in the Plymouth Colony Wills, Volume II, Part I, pages 17 to 2t inclusive. The date of her death has not been found, but it must have been after 12 August, 1655, the date of the codicil, and before 18 February, 1655/6, the day the inventory was taken.

[MRS. SARAH JENNEY'S WILL AND INVENTORY]
[p. 17] 1656 A Will Appointed to bee Recorded
Aprill the 4th 1654 Mris Sarah Jeney of Plymouth being sicke and weake in body being otherwise by gods goodnes of pfect memory Doeth think good to Despose of som smale thinges that is my owne proper goods leaveing my husbands will to take place according to the true Intent and meaning therof; I bequeath to my Daughter Pope my bed and furniture therunto belonging one bolster two pillows and pillowbeers three blanketts one old Rugg one paire of sheets, further I bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Pope all my wearing Clothes to Despose of them to my Daughter Abigaill Wood and to my grandchild Sarah Wood for theire use as they have need excepting two of my petticoats which have not been worne which I give to my Daughter Sarah Pope for her paines further I bequeath to my son Samuell Jeney and to my Daughter Abigaill Wood my Mare equally to bee Devided between them; further I bequeath to my son Benjamin Bartlett all my pte of Cattle that is in the hands of Josepth Warren att the Eelriver further my will is that my sheep bee kept togeher till my legacies bee paied; And my will further is to give unto the Teacher Mr John Reyner one ewe lambe further I give to the Elder Mr Thomas Cushman one ewe lambe and the bible which was my Daughter Susannas further I bequeath to my loveing frind goodwife Clarke one ewe lambe and alsoe I give one ewe lambe to Thomas Southworth

Witnesse Sarah Jeney
Thomas Southworth her marke
Att the generall Court held att Plymouth the fift of march 1655 Leiftenant Thomas Southworth Testifyed upon his oath that the Will abovewritten is all the will of Mis Sarah Jeney Deceased which shee left with him
August the 18th Anno: 1655

An Addition to my late Will left in the hands of Leiftenant Southworth;
My Will is that That which is my owne since the Death of my husband I give to my two Daughters and the Children of my son Samuell. Excepting what I give as followeth one Colt I give to the three Daughters of my Children viz Sarah Wood Susanna Pope and Sarah Jeney if shee come hither to abide or ells not to have any pte of this Colt or any thing ells of my estate; morover my will is that if my son Samuell take away his Children that are now heer with mee then my will is that none of them shall have any thinge of myne estate but it shal bee Reserved for the two boyes if they Doe well when they come to age; It I give unto Benjamine Bartlett onely the Starred Cow which is att Thomas Popes Recaling whatsoever ells is mencioned in my former will; alsoe I give unto my Daughter Sarah Pope the bed I now lye on and the two pillows and three blanketts and the Rugg and also two petticoates one being of Turkey Moheire Confeirming whatsoever ells is in my former Will [p. 18] Will In Witnesse wherof I have put to my hand the Day and Yeare above Written and I give unto Leiftenant Southworth one ewe lamb
In the prsence of Sarah Jeney William Bradford her marke Alice Bradford her marke
And I Desire my loveing ffrinds capt: Standish Elder Cushman Thomas Clarke and Thomas Pope to bee the overseers of this my will;
Att the generall Court held att Plymouth the fift of March 1655 Mr Willam Bradford senir: and mis Alice Bradford Did Testify upon their oathes that this next before written was the last will and Testament of Mis Sarah Jeney Deceased;
Mistress Sarah Jenney's Will and Inventory 173
An Inventory taken the 18th of ffebrewary 1655 of the goods of mis Sarah Jeney which shee Died possessed of;
ll s d
Impr: 2 Cowes 08 00 00
It the halfe of a heifer and a steer of 3 year old att
Spring 03 10 00
It the halfe of 2 yearlinges 01 0000
It beefe in John Rouses hand four hundred grosse wanting 9 pound and of Tallow and suit and 18s in a hyde the halfe of this being mis Jeneys 02 14 02
It one Cow in henery Woods hand & halfe a 2 year old 04 00 00
It one mare 16 00 00
It one horse cf 2 year old 06 10 00
It one court of a year old 04 00 00
It 6 ewes and and an ewe lamb & a young Ram 01 00 00
It a Copper kettle 01 08 00
It one Copper kettle 01 01 00
It 2 large brasse kettle 01 08 00
It 4 smale kettles 00 15 00
> It one brasse pan and a old broken skillett 00 12 00
> It one brasse ladle and Skimer 00 01 00
It one brasse Candlestick and Skillett 00 02 00
> It one warming pan 00 03 00
It one large Iron pott 00 10 00
It one Iron kittle 00 00 00
It one Iron pot and 2 broken ones 00 12 00
It one frying pan. 00 02 00
It one Iron posnett . 00 02 06
It one paire of tonges and fier shovell 00 01 06
It one Iron Skillett 00 02 00
It one pair of andirons 00 10 00
It 2 paire of pothangers 00 05 00
It 3 old peeces & a pistell & a paire of bandeleers 01 10 00
It an Iron pestle & a wooden Morter 01 06
It a smothing Iron a paire of sheepsheers 03 06
It a paire of stilliards 06 00
[p. 19] It a Tamy petticoat & a Tallaminko wastcoat 01 00 00.
It a petticoat & wastcoat 0 16 00
It a petticoat & wastcoat of Phillip & cheney 00 17 00
It an old coat & wastcoat 00 07 00
It an old coat & wastcoat 00 07 00
It an old under petticoat. 01 00 00
It one lose coat 00 05 00
It a yard of broad cloth 00 16 00
It 3 petticoates 00 16 00
It one old stuffe "owne 00 08 00
It 2 old wastcoate 00 04 00
It a new Carsy wastcoat 00 10 00
174 Mistress Sarah Jenney's Will and Inventory
It a cloth lose coate 01 05 00
It 2 paier of bodies 00 03 00
It 2 old curtainesIt 4 say aprons 00 02 00
It one hatt 00 16 00
It a carpettIt a muffeIt 2 brushes 00 01 00
It yard of seekingIt five fine old sheets 00 02 00
It 9 paire of old sheets & 4 halfe sheets 04 00 00
It 3 silver spoones 00 06 00
It a Dozen of napkins 00 15 00
It twelve pillowbeers 00 12 00
It 7 Table clothes & 2 long towels 00 18 00
It 8 sheetsIt a salme booke 01 10 00
It old linnin and a shift It a swath
It 6 white aprones
It 6 Double clouts
It 2 silke capps & a hood and 2 Skarffes 00 00
It a Callico apron and an old pillowbeer 00
It 13 Crosclothes & DressingsIt 21 handkerchifes 00 16 00
It 6 Dressings
It 12 quoyves
It 13 quoyves 01 00 00
It 48 peeces of linnin as quoyves and Stomengers and other linnin
[p. 20] It 17 peeces of pewter 2 basons & 4 porrengers 02 19 04
It 2 quart pots & a pint pott
It 5 pewter cupps and beaker & a salt 00 06 04
It a chamber pott & 2 old Dishes & 2 Sawsers 00 05 00
It one leten Driping pan & 2 smale leten pans 00 02 06
It a letten Sugar box
It 2 bottomes of frying pans
It 5 peeces of earthen ware & a ston Jugg
It 7 trayes & other wooden Dishes & a smale tubb 00 04 0
It a Cheespresse and a paile & an old ki
It a smale spittmnell 00 02 00
It a great trough & 3 seiveS 00 01 00
It a black bill*
Cartwright on the Remise 00 01 08
It Downhams workes 00 06 00
* "bookes", was written on the margin at the left of, and in line with, this item.
Mistress Sarah Jenney's Will and Inventory 175
It 4 old bookes 00 00 06
It Mr Ainsworth on geneses & Exodus 00 02 06
It a great bible & a smale one 00 11 00
It a Chaire & form & 2 stooles 00 10 00
1t 2 whees 00 04 00
It a Chaire Table 00 04 00
It a brewers slinges 00 02 00
It a Table 00 00 12 00
It 2 bedsteds 00 12 00
It in old Iron one hundred & six pound neat 00 16 00
It an old axe & spade & other old thinges & a lamp 00 03 00
It 6 sett Cushens 00 10 00
It a bed and bolster pillow & 2 whit blanketsol 12 00
It 11 pound of sheeps woole & 4 pound of cottenwoole 15 00
It a bed & 2 pillowes 02 00 00
It a bed and bolster 2 pillowes & 2 old blankets &
2 old Rugges 03 00 00
17 08 10
More 6 neckclothes & 2 handkerchifes one course old
lyning 12 pcells of lase & yarne & odd thinges 00 07 00
It a paire of kioves & gloves & paire of sleeves 00 06 00
It yarne linnin & woolen 00 01 06
It a Cotten sheet 00 05 00
It five Chists & a Case 00 18 00
It the land & meadow att Lakenham 07 00 00
It All the land att Strawberry hill and meadow att the salthouse beach 14 00 00
It the purchasers landIO 00 00
[p. 21] It The Mill with the land belonging to it and
Dwelling house and all such thinges belonging
thertoI 00 00 00
It a gridiron & 2 paire of Cards 00 03 00
It a Dozen of trenchers & a spanish lether skin 00 04 00
It a paire of stockens & a paire of shooes & 2 old aprons 00 04 00 1 07 04 06
Summa Totalis 248 05 08
It money one peece of eight & 2 halfe Crownes &
more seaven pence in silver
It one sow & 2 piggs 00 0 00
Debts owing to the estateog 19 06
Thomas Willett; Thomas Southworth