John Read 1677

Submitted by: Joyce M Oates
Date: 14 August 2017
Original: 0106203

Archdeacon Will 1677A #056 Rushen will of John Read, died 20 November 1677, intestate:
Summary:  son John & dau Alice Read both underage, wife is alive, brother Henry Read, 
brother in law Henry Watterson, brother Thomas Read, brother in law? John Costeen

[torn]----- ----- of ---rley dj .............. 0 - 9d [torn]---- dj firlet of salt ................. 0 - 11 in money ................................. 1 - 0 - 0 Rushen John Read departed this life about the 20th of Novembr: Int------[fold] wherof the Church having Intelligence hath decreed his ------[fold] John Read & daughter Alice Read both undr: age sole Administrators ------[fold] all his goods moveable and unmoveable the next kin on the fa------[fold] side supvisors & a Legasy to the wife upon sight of the Inv------[fold] Salvo tamen vincuig suo jure The wife is sworn in Court to bring in a true Inv------[fold] The onckle Henry Read and the Ants husband Henry Watt------[fold] are sworn supvisors, ye other oncle Thomas Read and Jo------[fold] Costen are to be sworn to be joynt supvisors wth ye other ------[fold] ye next Sabbath day by the minister of the parish and to ------[fold] certifyed. The goods of John Read one of the Administ------[fold] in the hands of the supvisors & vizt: Hen: Watterson & He------[fold] Read and have given pledges for the forthcoming of ye sa------[fold] Willm Gell of Castletown & Rich: Crebbin in forma l------[fold] The goods of Alice Read in the hands of the mother who h------[fold] given pledges John Shurlock, & John Watterson in forma legis Decretum et solvit 2s 4d Debts deducted out of ye Invry: of Jo: Read by ye consent of ye Supvisors ..................... 10£ - 10s - 00d [next page] Trinity An Inventory of the goods ------[fold] Rushen John Read praized by 4 sworne m------[fold] Wm Gawne, John Nelson, John Gell Gilbert Gell Jan: 25th 1677/8 Itt: all the smale wooden vessels dj .................... 0 - 0 - 8 Itt: 2 potts 2 muggs 1 earthen dish 1 tub 1 pale } 7 wooden dishes 1 little brasse pan } ....... 0 - 4 - 1d dj .........................................} Itt: 2 barrells 2 stounds 1 little } keave & 1 old little stounde, dj } .................. 0 - 3 - 4 & 1 chiarn ......................} Itt: 1 great wheele & 1 little wheele dj ................. 1 - 2 Itt: 1 little table & 1 chaire dj ........................ 0 - 7 Itt: all the sives & dollans 1 being 5 dj ................ 0 - 4 Itt: 1 loominge kitchen & baskett dj ..................... 0 - 6 Itt: 3 blanketts & 1 fledge dj ........................... 5 - 0 Itt: 1 new payre of breeches 1 coate 1 payre } of stockings 1 yeard & a halfe of cloath} ........... 4 - 6 the whole ..............................} Itt: 2 sheetes dj ........................................ 3 - 4 Itt: 3 kercheifes dj ..................................... 1 - 0 Itt: 2 canvasses dj ...................................... 0 - 7 Itt: 1 heckells dj ....................................... 0 - 5 Itt: 1 old bed dj ........................................ 2 - 4 Itt: 2 thrane of flaxe dj ................................ 0 - 10 Itt: 7 slippings of yearne & 2lb of woollen } yearne dj ...........................} ............ 0 - 7 Itt: 1 quart & a halfe of wooll dj ....................... 0 - 10 Itt: all the woorkinge tooles dj ......................... 01 - 6 Itt: 1 silver spoone & 5 pewter spoones dj ............... 2 - 0 Itt: 1 baskett dj ........................................ 0 - 3 Itt: 1 kitchen & a halfe of flax seede dj ................ 0 - 3 Itt: 1 cow dj ............................................ 9 - 0 Itt: all the sheepe younge & old being 14 in all dj ...... 8 - 2 Itt: due to the deceased for a pawne ..................... 5 - 0 2 - 18 - 5

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