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.

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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