| The Last Will & Testament of Freelove Crawford | ||
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At a Meeteing of the Towne Councill of Providence June: the 17th:1712: this day Willm: Crawford presented |to| the Councill the last will & Testament of his deceased Mother ffreelove Crawford; for their Examination:; The sd will being Read in the Councill; The said william Crawford being Executor, upon his solomne Engagement declared the said will to be the last will & Testament of his said deceased Mother; said will beareing date the twenty fourth day in May in the yeare one Thousand seven hundred & twelve; John Arnold, John Whipple & John Yates junr: then also appeared before the Councill & upon theer solemne Engagement did declare that they saw the said ffreelove Crawford signe the said Will; The said William Crawford the same day also presented to the Councill an Inventarey of the Estate of his sd mother & upon his solemne oath did declare that sd Inventarey did Containe all & whole the moveable Estate of his sd mother that he knew of Excepting what was at sea, a venter which he did not know what was become of it until he he could Receive information, the which if more at any tin should come to his knowledge, it should be added to to sd Inventary: william Hopkins & Richard browne who were the apprisers of sd Estate did also before the Councill the same day as is aforementioned solemnely declare that they had made a true appriseall according to the best of their vnderstanding of sd Estate of what was brought to theire vew. The aforsd Will being by the Councill Examined was by the Councill approved; And the sd Inventa|r|ey Allowed: It is ordered by the Councill that Thomas olney Clerk, shall on ye Councills behalfe take bond of sd Willm Crawford, (to say) his owne bond, for the true & legall Administeration, on sd Estat and Executeing truely of said Will: Ordered by the Councill that Tho: Olney Clerk do on the Councill theire behalfe signe & seale a letter of Adminesteration & deliver it to sd William Crawford;/ Here followeth the Record of the last Will and Testament of Mris ffreelove Crawford who departed this life June the first day, 1712. I ffreelove Crawford of Providence in the Coloney of Roade Island & Providence Plantations in New England (widdow) being weake of body but in sound & disposeing memory Praise be to God for the same; Do make this my last will & Testament in manner & forme following: ffirst & principally I comitt my soule into the mercifull Hands of Almighty God my Creator, & my Body I Comitt to the Earth to be decently buired after the descression of my Executor hereinafter named; And as to my worldly Estate I Give & bequeath as followeth. Imprimis I Give & bequeath unto my son William Crawford his Heirs or Assignes all my part of the Sloope Dolphin, it being already Regestered in his name. Item I Give & bequeath unto my two sons, William Crawford and John Crawford all my Part of that sloope which is now in building by Mr. Nathaniell Browne of Rehoboth my part being foure eights, & the said foure Eights to be Carried on, finished & Rigged with my estate; And be to the only Proper vse & behoofe of my aforesaid two sons Equaly their Heirs & Assignes forever. Item I Give & bequeath unto my aforesaid two sons William Crawford & John Crawford one hundred & Thirty seven Pounds a Piece, in Current money of New England or merchantable shopp Goods, to be to them my aforesaid two sons their Heirs & Assignes forever. Item I Give unto my Daughter Anne Carr her Heirs or Assigne|s| one hundred Pounds of Current Money of New England, or Merchantable shopp Goods. Item I Give unto my Daughter Mary Crawford her Heirs or Assignes one hundred Pounds of Current Money of new England to be paid by my Executor unto my aforesaid daughter Mary when shee Comes to the full age of twenty one yeares, or at the day of her Marriage, which shall first be. Item I Give unto my two Children namely John Crawford and Mary Crawford their Heirs & Assignes each of them a ffether bedd, but my Executor is ordered not to deliver them untill they my said Children attaine to the age of twenty one yeares, that is to say; My aforesd son John at the age of twenty one yeares shall have a fether bed & furniture thereunto Compleat delivered to him by my Executor: And also my daughter mary at the age of Twenty one yeares, or upon the day of her Marriage, which shall first Come, shall have a fether bedd & furniture thereunto Compleat delivered her by my Executor. Item I Give to my two daughters Anne Carr & Mary Crawford the Remainder of all my household stuff to be Equally devided betwixt them my aforesd aforesaid two daughters their Heirs or Assignes: But my will is that my daughter Marys part be kept in the hands of my Executor untill shee attaine to ye age of twenty one yeares or untill the day of her Marriage, which shall first bee; And also my Will is that all the debts that have been Contracted by my son william Crawford, though Charged to him & in his name shall be paid out of my Estate, by Reason he dealt for me & brought the Proffitt to my Estate. And also I do order that the hundred Pounds that I have Engaged to my son William Crawford be paid out of my Estate & in the spashue that I have ingaged it to be paid in; Also my Will is, that my Executor shall Compleat the Legacyes appoynted in my husbands will./ Item; I Give & bequeath vnto my foure Children namely William Crawford, Anne Carr & John Crawford & Mary Crawford the Residue of all my whole Estate that is not here before bequeathed and Given, after Debts, funerall Charges and other Expences are duely paid; the Remainder to be equally devided betwixt them my aforesaid foure, Children & to be to the only Proper vse of them their Heirs & Assignes forever./ Also I do appoynt my aforesaid son William Crawford sole Executor of this my last will & Testament./ And I do also appoynt my loveing Brother Thomas ffenner and my Cousin Richard Waterman junr: overseers to see that this my said will be performed vnto whose care I Comitt my daughter Mary Crawford, who are to appoynt a Place for her tuission & bringing up: And my said Executor shall be oblieged to Place her at such place as shall be appoynted by said overseers; In Wittness of all the above Written I do hereunto set my hand & seale, this twenty fourth day of May in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred & twelve./ Signed Sealed and pronounced } Memorandum my son John in the presence of us, } may have his bed now, if his John Arnold } brother William be willing./ John Whipple } the mark of John Yeats junr: } freelove X Crawford Recorded June ye 25th 1712 Tho: Olney Clerk./ | ||
Here followeth the Record of the Inventarey of the Estate of ye deceased Mris ffreelove Crawford.
THe Inventarey of the Estate of Mris ffreelove Crawford of Providence in ye Colony of Roade Island & Providence Plantations, in New England (Widdow) who departed this life
the first day of June anno: Domi: 1712../
lb - s - d
Imprimis;
To her weareing Apparell 47-07-00
To a fether bedd, Bolster, 2 Pillowes, 2 }
Blanketts and Rugg Curtaines & bed stead } 12-00-00
Chest, drawers & Carpitt 02-04-00
To :2 Truncks and frame 00-18-00
To a old Case, 4 bottles & two Muggs 00-08-00
To small Box, i Trunck & hatt case 01-10-00
To 63 bookes, many being of small, value 04-10-00
To Mufe & a cape & a cane 01-03-00
To Box Iron, 3 old heaters & a Goose 00-04-02
To a warmeing pan & pair a Tobacco Tongs 00-12-06
To 5 knives in an Old Case: 4/0 00-04-00
To 5 guns & lookeing Glass 09-06-00
To baskits & barks; 4 old shirts 00-15-00
To 11 Pillow Cases, 7 sheets, & 2 bolster Cases 03-14-00
To Table linnen & Towells 00-15-00
To i great Table, 3 fformes, pair hand Irons a }
great Chaire & two Cushins } 03-00-00
To Candles box Glass & few pictures 00-05-00
To 8 wooden Chaires, 6 lether, ditto, & a Table 03-03-00
To A fether bed, bolster, 2 pillows, bolstor Case }
two Pillow Cases, pair sheets, Coverlid & }
bedsted } 08-00-00
To Campene: bed sted; 1 bed, 3 sheets; bolster }
Coverlid & Curtains } 14-00-00
To Glass Case, 4 Pictures, i glass Jugg, & two glasses 00-14-00
To Earthen Cupps, plates & bason 00-07-00
To Cubbard & Carpitt & bolster Case 04-03-00
To 14 Napkins & Table Cloath 01-04-00
To some Child bedd linnen & a Table Carpit 01-19-00
To 6 Pillow Cases, 2 bolster Cases & 3 sheets 03-16-00
To 4 Window Curtains, Table Cloaths & Napkins 03-16-00
To 3 chamber Potts & some old lumber 0i-06-00
To side saddle, 2 blankits, sheete & small Rugg 04-10-00
To White suger, bookes & baskitts 02-05-00
To Callico: bedd quilt 02-05-00
140 03 08
To 5 Peuter Platters, & i Bason; i Ale qrt 02 05 00
To 5 Platters, 5 basons, 10 Porrengers, 11 plates }
1 Alepint: 2 plate Rings; i Ale qurt, and some }
small Pewter. } 03-19-00
To i Brass; 2 Iron Chafeing dishes; 2 brass; i Tinn }
2 Iron Candle sticks, & some Tinn waare } 02-05-00
To a Copper frying pan & 2 qurt pots & Iron frying pan 00-18-00
To 4 Brass kittles; one brass bread pan; 2 brass }
skilletts & some small brass } 08-10-00
To 4 Iron Potts; i Iron skillett, i spit & flesh fork 02-04-00
To 4 Iron Tramills; 2 paire Tongs & fire shovell 0i-09-00
To Iron dripping pan; Earthen & stone Waare 0i-16-00
To wooden waare & 6 spoones 06-08-02
To linnen & Woolen wheele, & few basketts 00-14-00
To some Neat Cattle 30-10-00
To washing Tubb; salt box beanes & sive 00-10-00
To 5 horse kind 24-16-00
To 16 sheepe & Two swine 04-18-00
To Whet stones, Broomes & sheeps wooll 00-16-09
To Lumber in the Garrett, & few fethers 01-10-00
To Table linnen, Co|u|rse linnen & Woollen 00-15-00
To A few fethers; 2 sives & some small lumber 01-11-00
To Copperus, & whale bone, Tobacco & Tallow 02-07-06
To Cheese, meat & butter 03-14-00
To some Old lumber 00-16-00
To 6400 hog-d: stuff: 6000 barll stuff 23-16-00
To Coopers Tooles & Lumber in ye Coopers shopp 02-05-02
To 200 bush; salt: 13 barrlls biefe, 14 barrlls pork i00-00-00
To shingles, maple plank: and befe fress 17-10-00
To 10 barrills sider & som Great Caske 06-03-00
To White & Pitch pine boards 02-15-00
To silver Tankerd; salt seller: 2 porrengers and }
7: spoones } 21-05-06
To 2 brass doggs: 15s/0d:a table Trunck, Chest }
and baskitt } 02-01-00
To 8 paire of sheetes Coverlidd & 3 Pillowes 09-10-00
To wine, mallasses, biskett & old Caske 07-07-00
To 2 Tunnills, i wine qurt: i Gimblett 00-03-00
295-08-01
To i00, bushll oates: & barll: Tallow 12-10-00
To Percell|a|Pease, Indian & Rye Corne 03-11-00
To fflower, Tobacco & Hoggs Lard 13-13-00
To Redd wood, sibag, & some Corne & kash, bord nailes 06-19-00
To Weights, scales, blanket, Pailes & some wooll 03-11-00
To Neats lether made & unmade and lumber 02-07-00
To some Tooles for husbandry and a Boat 22-15-00
To Cotten, sithes broad hoes, salt baggs & Deers }
leth|er| } 05-15-00
To stilliards scales, Axes knitting Needles sickles }
sheepe sheares and bridle stars } 03-04-06
To i wine and tw|o| dram Cupps of silver 02-06-00
To Diapers, linnens, stuffs Pewter Nailes, hatts }
and sundry other shopp Goods 188-04-06
To Gold 12-17-06
To Paper & silver Money 26-15-06
To Bill: bonds & mortgage deeds 642-12-00
947-0i-00
The inventarey which is Written on this Paper is a true Inventarey of what was brought to our vew, according to the best of our vnderstanding;
Taken the 17: June: 1712; by us
William Hopkins
Richard Browne./
Recorded June the 26th 1712: Tho: Olney Clerk./
Here followeth the Record of ye letter of Administeration to William Crawford.
Whereas Mris ffreelove Crawford of the Towne of Providence in the Coloney of Roade Island & Providence Plantations in New England (widdow) departed
this life upon the first day of June in this presant yeare one thousand seven hundred & twelve; And by her last will & Testament beareing date the twenty
fourth day of may one Thousand seven hundred & twelve, Shee Ordained and appoynted her son William Crawford her Executor the said Will to Execute and performe;
And you the said William Crawford haveing presented the said Will to the Towne Councill of said Providence for the Examination thereof; And the said Councill
haveing Examined the said will and the same approved; And you haveing given bond for the |true &| legall Executeing thereof;
Wee Joseph Jenckes Assistant & Thomas ffenner Assistant together with all the Rest of the Now Towne Councell of said Providence; Do now by these presents Comitt
unto you the said William Crawford the full and whole Power of Administration on the Estate of your said deceased mother, on the same fully to Administer, & therein
to act do & Proceede in all poynts and perticulars according as the law doth direct; And to performe & Execute the said will according to the true Meaneing & intent
thereof: And to Render an account of your acteings therein to the Councell when by them Required.
By order of the Councell; and on
Dated June ye 27th; their behalfe
1712: Tho: Olney Clerk.
Recorded June the 17th:
1712; Tho: Olney Clerk./
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