Submitted by: | Joyce M Oates |
Date: | 10 February 2003 |
Original: | LDS: 0106203 |
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50 Bride 1775: In noie dei amen. I Isabel Quarke sick in body but whole in mind and perfect memory praised be God for the same do make my last will and testament as followeth. Imprimis I commit my soul to God and my body to Christian burial. Item, I leave to the poor a bowle of corne, a sheep & 2 goose. Item, I leave to each of my children one shilling apiece legacy. Item, I leave to my two married daughters as much of there portion as is unpaid,, which the executor of my will knows of. Item, I leave to Willam Cotter my grandchild 1s. Item, I leave to the parson a mutton. Item, I constitute and ordain my daughter Ann Cotter my true and lawful Executor of all the goods that my son left me in his will as also of my own whatsoever moveable and unmoveable, & to pay all such legacies as is by me bequeathed, to see me honestly buried & to see my will truly performed. Last, I do appoint my son John Cotter & Samuel Xtian my son in law to assist my executor in all her concerns as much as in them lies. John Harrison parson, Nicholas Moore clark, jurati. The executor sworn in form of law. Probatum et solvit 12d. A true Inventory of the goods of William Cotter & Elizabeth[sic, Isabel] Quark proffered as followeth: item 3 white blankets and one cador 1 : 00 : 00 item for 23 yards of linan cloth 1 : 03 : 00 item 2 chests 2 baskets 00 : 03 : 10 item hemp & flax 00 : 05 : 06 item one coute and haxx 0 : 04 : 00 item butter oil and earthen dissish 00 : 03 : 06 item for sickles & showes 00 : 05 : 00 item for herring nets & fishing gear 00 : 12 : 00 item for herrings & barrels 01 : 07 : 00 item for 4 pottels of wheat 00 : 04 : 00 item for 2 cows 02 : 16 : 00 item for 2 steers 3 years old 01 : 04 : 00 item for one ox 01 : 10 : 00 item for one half a mare 00 : 10 : 00 item for one old bedstock and boards 00 : 02 : 00 item for sickles 00 : 01 : 00 item for half a horse hide and [lent seele] 00:01:05 item for salt 00 : 01 : 06 item for 18 sheep 01 : 04 : 00 item in money 03 : 00 : 00 item in a bill mortgage for lands 02 : 05 : 00 Sum 19 pounds 8s 9d Note ye crop of corn and half the geese belonging to husband and ye quarter of the boat is to be prized for the executor and added to the Inventory within 14 days. sub poena &c, and what increase may be had. The goods in ye Executors custody and have given pledges in form of law Willm Cowle & Nicho: Moore.
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