Estate of John Row(e) of Gloucester
Essex Probate Docket # None

In the name of god Amen: I John Row in my will and Testament; being in my perfect sences doe giue and Resine my soule to god that gaue it: and my Body to the earth to be Buried; and my goods: I despose of; As followeth:
I giue all my wholle estat which god hath bestowed upon me; to my wife and my to sonns; That is to say to my wife; and my sonne John; and my Sonn huah; to be equally deuided Betweene them and to euery one a like: and as for my wife: if her third part of goods will not maintaine her; it is my will my too sonns shall maintaine her all her dais; if in case shee liue unmaried;
And if she doe mary, what goods she haue at her decease shall be equaly deuided to my to sonns:: That is to say what estate she haue; at her day of mariage; and if either of these to sonns dye unmaried his estst shalbe his Brothers that doe Remaine a liue: and wittnes hereof I set may hand;
Dated ye: 15th: of ye 8:mo:1661:

The mark of
John O Row senier
Witnes:
The mark of: John II Collens senier
Steuen Glouer
John Collens Junier

Proved in Salem court 24:4:1662 and the widow and her sons John and Hugh appointed administrators to divide the estate according to the mind of the testator.

Inventory taken Apr. 2, 1662, by Samuel Delaber, John (his I mark) Collings and William Browne:

Two Cowes, 10 li .; 1 Cowe, 4 li .; 2 dry Cowe, 4 li . 10s.; 1 yocke of oxen, 16 li .; 1 yocke of oxen, 15 li . 10s.; 3 Cattle of 2 years, 6 li .; Cart & wheles, 2 li .; plow shears, chaines & harnes, 1 li . 12s.; 2 hamers, 4 weges, 9s.; 2 sawes, 3s.; old axces, 10s.; 2 pecaxes, 5s.; 1 hoe, 2s.; spad & shuvels, 7s.; pickes forke, 6d.; shot mowels, 1s.; pot hockes, 5s.; tongs & crucks, Iron pots, 18s.; 2 Cittles, 12s.; peuter, 5s.; sheves, 5s.; 1 ass, 2 li .; seves, 3s.; 3 rakes & old sithe, 2s.; a wheelbara, 2s.; Swine, 2 li .; 4 bushells of wheat, 1 li .; peaes, 14 bushels, 2 li . 9s.; tember vessels, 10s.; one gun, 12s.; bed & bed Clothes, 8 li .; Chest & nails, trunk & books, 14s.; Friing pan, warming pan, 5s.; grining stoo., 1s. 6d.; a bars skin, 5s.; Twenty busshelle of indian, 53 li .; Baken, 2 li .; Ropes & bags, 10s.; rep hoackes, 4s.; augers, chest and ades, 8s. 9d.; Lanhorne & skales, 5s.; Cotten stockens, 8s. 4d.; rye, 3 bushels, 10s. 6d.; salt & salt meat, 7s. 6d.; Thre pounds, ten shillings Due det to John Roe; Lands, 100 li .; Total, 205 li . 16s. 10d. John Roe indetted Fourty shillings.
Sworn by Brigitt Row, the widow, and John Row, her son, 9 June 1662, before Samuel Symonds.

His inventory amounted to two hundred and five pounds sixteen shillings ten pence.

Sorce: Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 8, leaf 26

Submitted by: Walter Olson