Estate of Thomas Wellman of Lynn
Essex Probate Docket # 29277

Inventory of the estate of Thomas Wellman deceased Oct. 10, 1672, taken by Thomas (his / mark) Kendall and Jeremiah Sweyen:
his wearing Cloths, £ 3 11s; on Bed, Curtins, and valene, £ 9; Bed, £ 2 10s; on Bed more, £ 3; on dusen of napkins, £ 1 4s; Fower paire of sheets and on sheete, £ 4 17s; three tabel cloaths, nine pilabars, nine touels, £ 3 15s; two Chists and two Boxes and three Chaires, £ 1 6s; to Chaires, 2s; tow Bibles and other Bookes, £ 2 15s; milck vesels, 16s; sic earthen pots, on skillet, on motar, two Iron posts, on smothen Iron, £ 1 1s; on paire of stelyards, 18s; warming pann, 7s; fower Barrells, on Churne, on Cheese tub, three sackes, £ 1 5s 6d; Gridiron, on paire of toungs, fire shovell, on crowe of iron, 12s; Brasse and puter, £ 5 8s 6d; two spets, 4s; two paire of adirns, £ 1 10s; on Brasse pot, on kittell, on tramell, on paire of pot hookes, £ 2 2s; on Chest and on tabell, 10s; wedges, axes, hammers, shaving knife, chaine and a peece of a chaine, on Iron foot, £ 1 10s; on pilyon, 4s; three Guns, two swords and ammanishon, £ 2 16s; on Loome, tow spining whels, £ 3 9s; tubes, two sives, on half bushell, 9s, on dweling howse, £ 30, nine score ackers of upland and meddow, £ 2000; Barne, £ 20; fower oxen, £ 20; five Cowes, £ 15; on mare, £ 3 10s; two horsses, £ 5; on callfe, £ 1; Carts, yockes, plows, sleed, £ 3 3s; fifteen swine, £ 9; English Graine, £ 3 9s; Inden Corne, £ 8 15s; on whip sawe, on tennent sawe, on handsawe, oger, two chessels, £ 1 6s; ould Barrells, troves anmd tubes, £ 1; three hundred of bords, and sedere stuf, £ 1; tree two years oullds, £ 7 10s; Debts, £ 13 9s 5d; total £ 370 10s 7d

Delivered in Ipswich court Mar. 25, 1673

An Agreement dated Mar. 22, 1672/73, concerning the estate of Thomas Wellman, decesed, intestate, that the widow shall be executrix, and the estate be divided to the eldest son Abraham, one half of the land, and the other half to the widow and her youngest son Isack, during her life, at her death to the son Isack; the barn to the widow's disposing; the new dwelling house to the widow during her life, and at her decease, or if she should marry again to her eldest son; to the eldest daughter Elizabeth Welman, the second daughter, Sarah Wellman and the younger daughter Mary Wellman, £ 30 each, to be paid by their mother in cattle and household goods.

Signed Elizebeth (her I mark) Wellman, Senear
Abraham Wellman
Isack Wellman
Elisabeth (her E mark) Wellman, Juner
Mary (her V mark) Welman

Presented in Ipswich court Mar. 25, 1673 by the widow of Thomas Wellman and allowed with this proviso, that the daughters shall receive their portions at the age of twenty one years, and if the widow marry, to give security for the daughter's portions.

Source: Printed "Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts;
1635 - 1681," In three volumes,The Essex Institute; Salem, MA; 1916

Submitted by: Mariana Bean Ruggles