Estate of Margery Knowlton (widow of John) of Ipswich
Essex Probate Docket # None
This is to certify that I, Margery Knowlton,
widow, do make my Bro. Thomas Knowlton, executer to use and assigne in my
steade to fulfill my husband’s Will, and also for myselfe to give to my
children according to our Wills for my household doe give equally to be
devided between my three children John, Abraham, and Elizabeth. Only I
give my gread Byble to John and all my wearing apparell to Elizabeth, and
an iron pott with a bed ticke that is hers and 20s that is John’s and two
candlesticks that are Abrahams and I make Mr. Treadwell and my brother
Wilson my overseers. Also Abraham is to have the yearne and cloth to make
two shifts and to have a new hatt.
Space for this page is provided by
The Marke of margery Knowlton.
The 3 wer made before she set her hand.
Proved in Courte held at Ipswich the 28th of March 1655 by the oath of
Theopolis Wilson
Elizabeth Wilson and
Wm. Treadwell
Before me Robert Lord, Cleric
Source: "The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and
America", by Rev. Charles Henry Wright Stocking, D.D., New York, 1897"
Submitted by: Jan (Wilson) Ramos
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