Estate of Edmund Ingalls of Lynn
Essex Probate Docket # None

August 28. Anno Dom: 1648. I edmund Ingalls of Linne being of perfect memory comit my soule to God, my body to the grave and dispose of my Earthly goods in this wise,
firstly I make my wife Ann Ingalls sole Exectrix: leauing my house & houslot together with ye Stock of Cattle & Corne wth her. Likewise I leaue Katherine Skipper wth my wife.
Item. I bequeath to Robert my sonne & heire, foure pound to be payd in two yeers time by my wife either in Cattle or Corne; likewise I bequeath to him ||or his heires || my house & houslot after the decease of my wife. Likewise I bequeath to Elizabeth my daughter twenty shillings to be payd by my wife in heifer calf in two yeers time after my decease.
Likewise to my daughter Faith wife to Andrew Allin I bequeath two yeerling calues, and injoyne my wife to pay to him forty shillings debt in a yeers time after my decease.
Likewise to my sonne Johm I bequeath the house & ground that was Jerimy fitts lying by the Meeting house only out of it the sd John is to pay wthin foure yeers foure pound to my sonne Samuel and the ground to be his security: further I leaue wth the sd John that three acres land he hath in England fully to possesse & Enjoy.
Likewise I giue to Sarah my daughter, wife to william Bitnar my two Ewes.
Likewise to Henry my sonne I giue the house that I bought of Goodman west, & six acres of ground lying to it, & three acres of marsh || ground || lying at Rumly Marsh, and this the sd Henry shall possesse in two yeers after my decease, Only out of this the sd Henry Shall pay to Samuel my Sonne foure pound wthin two yeers after he Enters upon it.
Likewise I bequeath to Samuel my Sonne Eight pound wth is to be discharged as above in the promisses.
Lastly I leaue wth mary the heifer Calfe that formerly she enjoyed and leaue her to my wife for future dowry.
Finally I appoint Francis Ingalls my brother & Francis Dane my sonne in Law overseers of my will, and order that those things that haue no particular Exemption in the will mentioned be taken away presently after my decease: I intreat my overseers to be helpful to my wife for ordering these matters.

his mark Edmund X Ingalls his mark
Witness: William Morton, Francis Dane, Francis Ingols
Proved 14:9:1648 by Francis Ingalls, and 27:4:1649 by William Morton.

Source: Essex County Quarterly Court Files 1:103

Inventory taken by Edward Burchum, Henry Collins and Francis (his mark) Ingils:
one payer of oxen, £ 12; too Steares, £ 8; one oxe, £ 5; thre Cowes, £ 11; one mare, £ 10; too ewe Sheepe, £ 3; too hoges & too piges, £ 2; hay £ 4; Coren, £ 6; plow yoke & cheans, £ 1; hempe & flax in the bune, £ 1; one bede with the furnituer, £ 4; one bed with the furnituer, £ 1; one trundell bed, 3s 4d; one bed in the chamber, £ 1 10s; thre payer of Shetes, £ 1 4s; a table cloth & too napkines 4s; one chiste 6s; three lininge wheles 5s; one tube, 1s; one carpette, 10s; purse & aparell, £ 1 10s; pote hooks & keckines, 10s; thre brase kettels, 10s; puter, 16s; wooden ware, 4s; two gunes, £ 1; spite, tonges & dripinge pab, 5s; table, chare & stooles, 10s; a broylinge Ieren, 6d; an ax & could Ieron & a too hand saw, 15s; thre bibels, 10s; one beare barill & other hushellments, 5s; house & lands, £ 50; total £ 135 8s 10d. Debts and legacies to be paid out of the estate: To Mr. Leader, £ 1 16s; to Mr Sauage, £ 1 12s; to the kow keeper, £ 1 5s; to Kather Skeper, £ 50; to John Hud, 10s; to marke graues, 8s, to Robert Driuer, 5s; to Mr. Emery, 15s; to Mr. Whightinge, 8s; att Ipswitch, 11s; to Joseph Armatage 14s 4d; a Shoomaker, 12s; to Mr. Jobitt, £ 1 2s; to Mr. Kinge, £ 1; total. £ 60 18s 4d. Legacies to Roberte Ingols, his sonne, £ 4; to Elizabeth, his daughter, £ 1; to Faith, his daughter, £ 3; to John Ingols, his sone, £ 13 10s; to Sarah, his daughter, £ 3; to henry Ingols, £ 8; to Samwell Ingols, £ 8; Mary Ingols lefte to her mother the executrix for her porchon; total, £ 40 10s.

Source: Essex County Quarterly Court Files, 1:104

Submitted by: Mariana Bean Ruggles