Elizabeth / Bessy Woods alias Thomason 1665

Submitted by: Joyce M Oates
Date: 20 December 2020
Original: 0106201

Archdeacon Will 1665A #060 German will of Elizabeth / Bessy Woods alias Thomason, died 8 November 1665: 
Summary: husband John Woods is alive, son John, son William, dau Ann of age, one son is in Ireland, witnesses: John Quirk & William Fairbrother & John Woods 
clerk, pledges: Hugh Shimmin & John Quirk.
German parish register: Bessie Thomasson  buried 8 November 1665.
?Husband: German parish register: John Woods senr  buried 11 May 1681 Episcopal Will
Will of father: ArW 1637A #089 German will of Henry Thomason senior, has barley at Leonard's Close, he left Leonard's Close to son Henry, died 21 June 1637: 
wife [Margaret Stowell/Stole] is not mentioned [her will ArW 1636A #111 German], son Henry (has a bargain contract), dau Ann, son Thomas, dau Elizabeth/
Bessy (her will ArW 1665A #060 Patrick, husband John Woods), witnesses: William Radcliffe & Charles Radcliffe.
Will of mother: ArW 1636A #111 German will of Margaret Thomason alias Stowell/Stole, dated 13 August 1636: husband [Henry] Thomason senior is alive [his 
will ArW 1637A #89 German], dau Ann Thomason, son Thomas, son Henry (has a contract bargain), witnesses: William Cosnahan vicar  & William Corrin clerk.
?Relative: German parish register: John Thomasson  buried 8 December 1666.
?Relative: German parish register: Margrett Thomason  buried 17 May 1677.

German The last will and testament of Bessie Thomasson who departed -----[fold] life the 8th of November 1665: first she bequeathed her soule to -----[fold] and her body to Christian buriall; It: she left to her son John sixe -----[fold] It: she left to her son William twenty shillings legasie, cond-----[fold] that he should not seeke any right in the houses and in case her ---[fold] sonn should clame any right by a bargaine that her son dre-----[fold] unto without her husband privities her will was then that he-----[fold] son should pay to her husband 4£ before he should have po-----[fold] and to have but two shillings legasie And did constitute and ord-----[fold] her husband her true and Lawfull execr: of all her goods mo-----[fold] and unmoveable during his life to releeve him and aft-----[fold] her husband decease to returne the leavings to her ex-----[fold] testes John Quirke In regard yr was not six pence n-----[fold] William Fairebrother concliatior[?] of six pence left Legasie -----[fold] John Woods Clerke her children ergo ye church hath or-----[fold] ym joynt admyinstrators with ye hus-----[fold] John Woods Joh: Woods & Ann Woods sworne decretum et solvit 1s in Court secunda forman legis The invent: of the goods of Bessie Thomasson priced by Allexander Younge Mich-----[fold] Callin Donold Lace & Jo: -----[fold] It: one feather bed with furniture ....................... 1£ - 0s - 0d It: her part of 3 cadowes one bedsteed one coverlet .... 0 - 8 - 0 It: halfe a table halfe two cheists ...................... 0 - 5 - 9 It: halfe wollen wheele and two barrells ................. 0 - 3 - 0 It: her part of three old barrells one churne ........... 0 - 1 - 6 It: halfe a brewing pann halfe a combe .................. 0 - xj - 3 It: the tren vessells and two brasse potts ............... 0 - 7 - 3 It: one pewder dish halfe a dish board .................. 0 - 2 - 10 It: one tub one peece of holton timber .................. 0 - 1 - 6 It: halfe a table and frame de forme ..................... 0 - 3 - 6 It: one stone trough ..................................... 0 - 0 - 6 It: her part of two bedsteeds dj litle wheele .......... 0 - 3 - 0 The goods wholly in ye hands of John Woods ye husband, & Ann -----[fold] yr hand & have given in pledges for ye forth cominge of ye sons pt of -----[fold] goods yt is now in Ireland & to secure ye office sub paena duble ye value: Hugh Shymin p Ann Woods John Quirk p John Woods 166-- Mar ye 24: Tho: Harrison merchant entereth his claime agst -----[fold] executors of Bessy Thomasson for ye sum of xjs - 8d pound: & execut: granted

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