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Estate of William Knight of Lynn
Essex Probate Docket # None
2 Dec 1653
I william knight in this my last will and testyment do giue my wife Elizebeth
the thirds of all my Estate and further that she shall Injoy my dwellinghows
So long as she liueth likwys I giu to my son John knight forety shillings
to be payd tow years after my deceas Itte I giu to my dafter Ane won shilling
and to her children fiu shillings a pease to be payd tow years After my deceas.
Itt I giue to || my sone || francis knight fiue shillings when he shall lawfully
demand it. Itt I giue to my dafter hanna forty shillings won year after my
deceas Itt I giue to John ballard forty shillings tow years After my deceas
or when my wif pleases Itt I giu to nathanyell ballard forty shillings tow
years After my deceas: All and Euery of theas leggacys to be truly payd The
rest of my Estat I will to be Equily diuided amonkst my fowr children wich
I had by my last wife Elizabeth
"only I giue to my Eldest Son Jacob a dubbell parcion to be payd in my hows
and homelott Adjoyning to my dwelling hows and medow in Rumly march If this
amounts to more then his dubbell portion then it to be payd back to my last
childre Equilly diuided likwys If the Sayd hows and land due not amount to
a dubbell porttion the[n] it is to be made oup: I further will if any of
theas my last children dye before thay come to age: then ther porttions to
return to thos that shall suruiue Equaly to be deuided amonkst them This
I will that If my wife maryes then my childrens porttions to be taken from
hurs and to be at the ouerseers disposing: I make my wife elizabeth my lawfull
Excekter to Administer on this my last will [and] Testyment I likwys make
our brother nicklis potter and Gorg keasur and John witt: to be the ouersears
of this my last will.
William C. Knight (his mark)
Wit: John Fuller (autograph) and
Nicholas Potter (autograph), both of Lynn
Inventory of the estate of William Knight, deceased, taken 22:1:1654-5, by
John Fuller (autograph) and Phillip Kyrtland (autograph):
Dwelling house, barn and fivten Ackrs of plow land, 46li; six akers of medow
in Rumly march, 10li; five akers of medow in the town march, 15li; two working
oxen, 14li; thre Cows, 13li; one heaffor in calf, 4li, 1s.; 2 year ould Stear,
3li, one yerling, 1li. 15s., 8li.15s.; one weaning Calfe, 15s.; 2 Ewes with
2 Ewe Lambs, 4li. 10s.; 2 Ewes with 2 Rame lambs, 4li.; 2 Ewes, 3li. 10s.;
1 wether Shep, 2 years ould, 1li.; three 3 year ould wetthers, 2li.5s.; one
Rame, 15s.; two swyn, 2li.; one fether bede and pillows and bolster and
coverlids, 4li.; two flock beds with other furnyture belonging to them, 2li.
10s.; five pare of sheets, 4li.; 8 napkins and a tabell cloth, 13s.; one
pillow beare, 2s.; 4 kuchins, 8s.; 2 bede steeds, 18s.; ould chests and a
truncke, 10s.; thre brase potts, 1li. 9s.; thre bras kettells, 17s.; one
warming pane, 5s.; 4 pewttor dishes, 1li.; 3 wine measurs, 5s. 6d.; 2 wine
cups, 2 dram cups, two beare cups, 5s.; severall peases of small pewttor,
5s 6d.; one Iron pott, one Iron mortter and pestill, 9s.; 2 pare of andyrons,
fier shovell and tongs, 8s. 6d.; 2 pare of pott hangers, 3s.; 1 fryinge pane
and Iron candellstick, 2s. 6d.; stolls, chears and a tabell, 11si.; beare
barrils, tubes, churn, coberd dewtraft, 18s.; thre spininge whealls, a pare
of woll cards, 8s.; 2 muskitts and kurbyn, 1li.; two swords, 5s.; two crosscut
saws, one narrow axe, a frow and a lathing hamer, a littell hammer, 8s 6d.;
2 spitts, 2s.; thre sifes, 3s.; the man's wearing apparrell, 3li. 8s. 6d.;
carts, plows, yoks and Iron works belonging to them, 2li. 12s.; in mony,
2s. 6d.; a ladder and ould Iron, 5s.; total, 154 li. 15s. Due from brother
Deken, 6s.; look, 11s.; heed, 9s.; Mikell cambell, 1s.; Joseph Armitag, 5s.;
Hugh Aley, 6s.; town, 1s. 6d.; diman, 4s.; Pharrer, 1s.; William Curtis,
6s.; a scote man, 6s.; brother kesar, 2s. 4d.; ____ & his Sonn, 12s.;
another scotman, 12s. 4d.; total, 9li. 3s.
Source: Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County,
Massachusetts;" The Essex Institute; Salem, MA; 1911-12. It was also printed
in "The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts;" The Essex Institute;
Salem, MA; 1916.
Submitted by: Asa Gage
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