Estate of John Brimblecom of Marblehead
Essex Probate Docket # 3346

The Last Will and Testament of John Brimbellcom Being in his perfecte memory the 11th maye 1678 Imprmis That first I Bequeue my Body to the Dust and my Spiritte To god that gaue it as for my Estat firist I order That after the Charge of my fennerall (is paide) that all my Deptes Bee fully satisfied By my Exectors:
secondly my will is that what Estate is Lefte After my Deptes is paide that Tabitha my wife shall fully and wholly Inioye it for the Terme of Her Naturall Life
Thirdly my will is That after The death of my sd: wife That my soon Phillipe Brimbelcom and his Children after Him shall Inioye the full and whole Estat that shee shall Leave to saye my wife what is Leafte of what I Leaue her
fourthly my will is That my Excecetors out of what Estat I Leave shall pave to my too Daughters Richard Holman and mary Tucker as a Legaci Twenty shilings a peece.
fiftly my will is that my wife Tabitha and my soonn Philipe bee jointe Excecetrex and Exceceter of my whole Estate In Being By them To bee managed and Emproued as aboue further my will is That my Trusty frinds John Codner and John Leg Bee my ouerseeres of my Excetors for the Emprouement of The Estate according to this my will and Testament my will ffuther is that if my sd: sunn Die without Isshue that what is Lefte of my Estate after the death of my sd: wife and sonne and his Child or what Childrin he maye haue that it shall bee Equally diuided Betwext my too Daughters Richard and mary.

John (his I B mark) Brimbellcom.
Witness:
John (his T C mark) Codner
John Legg.
Proved in Salem court 29:9:1678 by the witnesses.

Inventory of the estate taken Nov. 12, 1678, by William Nick and Thaddeus Riddan:
one halfe of a shallop & connue & what else belongs to ye half & boat, £15.; one dweling house, out house and land with ye priviledge belonging to it, £40.; one halfe of a servants time, £5.; one bed filled with silke grasse with Rugg, Blankets, bedsteed & 2 pr. ould sheetes,£4.; 3 Chests ould ones & ould barrells, 8s.; one mus- kett, one houldbert, one Cutles, one swoard & Belt,£2.; 4 potts & a small Kittle, £1. 10s.; two pair pott hangers, two pair pott hooks, one fire shoovell & tonges, gridiron, &c., 10s.; pewter dishes, cupes & warming pann, 15s.; Table & forme & a spitt, 10s.; one frying pan & two ould Axes, 5s.; three ould Chaires, two pailes, washing tubs, wooden Trays & a dresser,6s.; wearing apparrell in all, £3.; one spining wheele, 2s.; several lean swine, halfe a cow & Calfe, 3s.; total £76. 6s.

Signed by Thaddeus Riddan and Christopher Necke
Attested in Salem court 29:9:1678 by Tabitha Brimbelcom, one of the executors.

Source Reference: Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 30, leaves 26, 27.
Submitted by: Curtis S. Brimblecom (8th great-grandson)