| Submitted by: | Joyce M Oates |
| Date: | 13 January 2016 |
| Original: | 0106203 |
Archdeacon Will 1676A #62 Bride will of Daniel / Donold Cowle ?of the Creg, dated 5 January 1676/7: Summary: 2nd wife Catharine Cowle als Cowle is alive; underage children by 2nd wife: John & second son Daniel/Donold & William, children by 1st wife: eldest dau Isabel, dau Ellin (married in 1677 to ?William Cottier, mother & gma dead & left her legacies per 1677 note) will of 2nd wife: ArW 1679A #43 Bride will of Catharine Cowle alias Cowle of the Creg, dated 18 January 1679/80: husband xxxx [Daniel] Cowle is dead, sons Daniel & William Cowle, eldest son John Cowle, brother John Cowle, brother Hugh Cowle (dead, has a daughter), friends & supervisors William Joughin & John Kneale, also: John Cowle Gubbon/Gibbon, Daniel Teare, John Key of KK Andreas, Margaret Key,John Quirk, Bahie John Kneale, Daniel Kneale, her maid Christian Joughin, Daniel Joughin, Margaret Joughin, Bahie Christian, Margaret Christian,
Nomine Dei amen, I Donald Cowle sicke in body and whole in mynd & pfect memory praised be God, make my last will & testamt: as followeth &c: Imprmis: I committe my soule to God and my body to Xtian buryall &c It: I leave to my eldest son my pte of the crop of corne and geares belonging to husbandry, and also the lands which I bought to him yt shall inherit the farme as heire --ceeding mee in the tenement; It: I leave legasy to my second son Donold Cowle one sheep and lambe, It: I leave to my eldest daughter Isabell Cowle 6d legasye, It: I leave to my Daughter Ellin Cowle legasie a yew lambe, It: I leave to my wife for legasye my pte of the choice horse, It: I constitute & ordayne my 3 children viz: John Donald and Wm Cowle my true and lawfull execrs: of all the rest of my goods move able and unmoveable whatsoever and ordayne & appoint my beloved wife Katherin Cowle supvisor of my children and themselves and goods to her tuition with all things else during there minority and if my wife refuse to stand to the children and goods then I appoint my two daughters supvisors and to have themselves & goods as before; It: I take one my chardge yt I have pd: John Kneale all his wives portion I pmise to the utmost peny saving 5s yt is yet unpd him, lastly I leave to the poore at all hallowtyde a fir: of corne to bee given them and to the witnesses 6d to bee given ---- in drinke testes Donald Crenilt } probat est et solvit xijd Margt: Key } jurati The wife is sworne and hath ye tuition of ye children wth their goods and hath -----[torn] security. John Cowle and Dan Christian ---- ----- The crop of corn wth ye geeres is reserved for the heyre and the wife is obliedged that ye cropp shall be according to ye usuall course of the ground £ s d The whole Invent: is ............... 07 - 16 - 10 deductions 05 - 09 - 01 cleare 02 - 07 - 09 The money is left to ye Cort: discrecon The sheepe are yett to be added and some other things wch are to be brought in within a month sub paena xs[10s] Invent prced by Do: Xtin Wm Cotter, Donald Xtin junr, Jo: Cowle sworn in forme of law £ s d Inprmis corbs prced to xjs .............................. 0 - 11 - ---- It: the heires pte of all husbandry geares prced ........ 0 - 2 - 10 It: the summe of all the rest of the goods prced ........ 7 - 3 - 0 It: the heires pte of the crop of corne is to bee prced It: in monyes ........................................... 7 - 0 - 0 Note yt complaint is made to this Court that ye seven pounds above Inventoried ------ before the Court day debts due to ye testatr as himselfe nominated more to be deducted as due by Ellin from Margt: Gouldsmyth .............. 4s Cowle, daughtr to ye above Dan: Cowle b-----[edge] from Jo: Cowle Cubon ................ 4s of her mother (the deceadts: first wife -----[edge] from Xtian Cowle Ramsay ........... xiiijd of ................ 04 - 06 ----- more to Joh: Kneale[?] 00 - 0------ ------- forTyth ............ 00 ------ ------ --------- [edge crumbled] [next page, at bottom of ArW 1676A #63 Bride of John Christian:] ---- ye 12th 77 ---ll: Cotter[?] entrs his claim in behalf of his wife Ellin Coule ---- ------- -------- executors ----- of Donold Cowle for the sume of six pound, & a bo----[edge] -------- the decedts: ----- had in his hands of the goods due to the sd Ellin ---- the death of her mothr: ----- for ye summ of 20s wch was depositted ----- ye decedts hands for the use of the Clamier by her grandmother wch now may be due to her by the death of eithr of ym & craveth tryall
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