Will & Inventory of Nicholas Snow

The Last Will and Testament of Nicholas Snow

"A writing ordered to be Recorded Declaring the manor of Nicholas Snow his Disposing of his Estate as followeth; viz: Nicholas Snow of Eastham Late Deceased;
"I Nicholas Snow of Eastham being weake and Infeirme of body but of prfect Memory and understanding, not knowing the Day of my Departure but yett Dayly expecting my last Change; I thinke meet to leave this behind mee as my last Will and Testament; Impr: I Comend my soule into the Armes of Gods Mercye through Christ Jesus in whom I hope to sleep and my body to a Decent buriall; and as Concerning my temporall estate that God of his Goodnes hath Given mee; It is my last Will and Testament that after this manor it should be Disposed off;
"Impr: To my son Marke Snow I Give and bequeath all that twenty acrees of upland lying att Namskekitt wher his house now stands, and two acrees of Meddow; and all that broken marsh there of mine att Namscekett; Item two third of my Great lott att Satuckett lying next the Indians Ground; and that syde of my lott Next the Indians land I Give to him and his heires lawfully begotten of his body for ever; and what hee Can purchase more of upland and meddow of the Indians there at Satuckett I Give to him all this abovesaid lands or meddow or Marsh purchased or unpurchased I Give to him and to his heires lawfully begotten of his body forever;
Item To my son Joseph Snow I Give that other third prte of my Great lott att Satuckett; and two acrees and an halfe of meddow lying att Namscekett neare the head and an Necke of upland lying between it lying on the westsyde of Willam Twinings, all this abovesaid land and meddow I Give to my son Joseph Snow and to his heires Lawfully begotten of his body forever;
"Item To my son Steven Snow I Give twenty acrees on the southsyde of my Great lott att Ochett, and then acrees of My little lott att Satuckett lying between Daniell Cole and Edward Banges by the side of a Little pond, an acree and an halfe of Meddow att the boat meddow, lying between Thomas Williams, and Samuell freeman and that prte of my Meddow att the Great Meddow, That lyeth between Josiah Cooke and the Eelcreeke; all this abovesaid land and medow I Give to my son Steven and the heires lawfully begotten of his body; for ever
"Item To my son John Snow I Give all that my land att Paomett Purchased or unpurchased whether upland or meddow; and all my Right and title or privilidge there; all the abovesaid upland or Meddow right and Privilidge att Paomett I Give to my son John Snow; and to the heires lawfully begotten of his body, forever.
"Item To my son Jabez: Snow I Give all this my Land lying between my house and my son Thomas Paines, and seaven acrees att the basse pond lying between Daniell Cole and Willam Browne; and an halfe acree of Marsh att the end of it and six acrees of upland att the herring pond; and an acree and halfe of meddow att silver springe lying on the Northsyde of Willam Walkers, and the Clift of upland adjacent to the above said Meddow and all the sedge about it, to Ephraime Done; and that prte of my house hee lives in as longe as my wife or I Doe live
"Item I Give him two acrees of Meddow att the Great Meddow lying between the Eel Creeke and Joseph hardings;
"Item To my son Jabez I Give that my four acrees of Meddow att Billinsgate Due to mee yett unlayed out; All this abovesaid upland and meddow I Give to my son Jabez Snow and the heires of his body lawfully begotten for ever.
"Item This my meddow about my house I Give to my son Jabez;
"Item I Give to my Loveing wife Constant Snow all my stocke of Cattle sheep horses swine whatsoever, to be att her Disposall for the Comfort and support of her life, with all the moveable Goods I am posessed of and after her Decease, stocke and Movables to be equally Devided amongst all my Children;
"Item To my wife I Give the use and Disposall of the prte of my house shee now Dwells in DUring her life time, and after her Decease to be my son Jabez Snowes - Item I give to my loveing wife that ten acrees of upland att Pochett, and 20 on Billingsgate Iland, for her Desposall for the Comfort of her life, but if shee need it not, and leave it undesposed; I Give it then to my son Steven Snow;
That twenty acrees of upland att Billingsgate if my wife leave it undesposed, then to be my son Jabez Snowes
"I Doe Give to the Church of Eastham for the furniture of the Table of the Lord, with pewter or other Nessesaries I say I Doe Give ten shillings, out of my estate after my wifes Decease;
"That this is my last Will and Testament I have sett to my hand and seale; this fourteenth Day of November one thousand six hundred seaventy and six
Nicholas Snow
Witnes, Signed & Sealled in the presence of us
Samuell Treate
Thomas Paine senir

"It is my Desire that Deacon Samuell ffreeman and John Mayo would oversee the true and ffaithfull prformance of this my Last Will, and Testament and be healpfull in any Case of Need Concerning the same;
"Att the Court of his Matie held att Plymouth the fift of March 1676/77 Mr Samuell Treate made oath to this Writing that hee Did see Nicholas Snow Signe and seall it, and Did Declare it to be his Mind for the Disposall of his estate:
"Thomas Paine made oath att the Court fore Names, that hee Did see Nicholas Snow signe and seale This Paper or writing above Coppied; and heer entered abovesaid."
Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 3, p. 167-169.

The inventory of the goods of Nicholas Snow, deceased 1676

Note: inventories are valued in pounds (L), shillings (s) and pence (d). There were 12 pence (or pennies) to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound.

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"An inventory of the estate of Nicholas Snow of the Towne of Eastham in the Collonie of Plymouth in New England late Deceased

Impr : To a prsell of Coopers tooles	ll	s	d
Item 1 axe	00	04	0
Item 1 Cresett	00	03	0
Item 1 adds	00	02	0
Item 2 hoells	00	01	6
Item 1 heading knife	00	00	6
Item 2 Drawing knives	00	03	0
Item one Crosse stocke	00	00	6
Item 1 Joynter	00	05	0
		19	6

TO Carpenters tooles & other thinges
Item 4 augers	00	03	0
Item 2 old addses	00	03	0
Item 3 Chissells	00	01	6
Item 1 Gouge	00	00	6
Item 1 three spare Chissell	00	03	0
Item 1 old handsaw	00	01	6
Item 2 old addses	00	02	0
Item 1 trewell	00	01	0
Item 3 plaine Irons	00	02	6
Item 1 sawsett	00	00	6
Item 1 foreplaine	00	01	6
Item 1 bill hooke	00	01	6
Item 1 pair of pincers	00	01	0
Item 2 Cow bells	00	05	0
Item 1 Croscut saw	00	03	0
Item 1 frow	00	03	0
Item 1 whipsaw	00	08	0
Item 1 Crow Ireon	00	06	0
Item 3 Iron weddges	00	03	2
Item 1 old Couller	00	01	6
Item 3 peeces of Iron Cheine	00	06	0
Item 1 bolt and shakle	06	02	6
Item 1 plow bolt	00	00	6
Iron old iron	00	08	0
Item 1 tinnine lampe	00	01	0
Item 1 ringe and staple	00	01	0
Item 2 pot hangers	00	06	0
Item 1 paire of tonggs	00	02	6
Item 1 Gridjron	00	02	6
Item 1 paire of pothookes	00	01	0
Item 2 paire of sheers	00	02	0
	04	05	6

Item 1 fier slice	00	03	00
Item 1 paire of bellowes	00	02	00
Item 1 old sickle	00	00	09
Item 1 smale hatchell & padlocke one Chest locke	00	02	06
Item 1 box smoothing Iron and heaters	00	02	06
Item 1 smale Gun	00	12	00
Itemn 1 rapier	00	03	00
Item 1 barrell of a Gun	00	10	00
Item 1 warming pan	00	07	00
Item 1 Driping pan	00	04	00
Item 1 Iron kettle	00	10	00
Item 1 fryin pan	00	02	06
Item 1 brasse kettle	01	18	00
Item 1 Iron skillett	00	03	06
Item 1 smale brasse skillett	00	00	09
Item 1 Iron pott and hookes	00	03	06
Item brasse Morter and pestle	00	04	00
Item 6 alcemy spoones	00	02	00
Item 2 pewter platters	00	08	00
Item 1 pewter platter	00	06	00
Item 2 pewter platters	00	06	00
Item 2 smale pewter basons	00	04	00
Item 1 smale pewter Dish	00	02	00
Item 2 pewter porrengers	00	02	00
Item 1 pewter salt	00	01	06
Item 1 pewter bowle	00	01	00
Item 1 pewter quart	00	02	00
Item 1 pewter Candlesticke	00	01	06
Item 1 old pewter bason	00	01	00
Item 1 old pewter salt	00	00	06
Item 1 old pewter Cawdle pott	00	00	06
Item 1 pewter bottle	00	01	06
Item 1 tennine pint pott	00	00	06
Item 1 old pewter Dish	00	00	06
Item 1 little pewter Dish	00	01	00
Item 2 pewter sawsers	00	01	00
Item 2 old sawcers and one pewter Dram Cupp	00	00	06
Item 1 earthen Jugg	00	01	00
Item 1 smale earthen Jugg	00	00	06
Item 1 smale glass bottle	00	00	06
Item 1 brass skimer	00	01	0
Item 1 erthen Cupp & one erthen porring Dish	00	00	^^
	07	12	0^

Item 1 Glasse bottle
Item 1 Glasse bottle	00	01	06
Item 1 Cheesfatt	00	00	06
Item 2 earthen pudding pans	00	00	08
Item 1 earthen pan	00	00	06
Item 9 wooden trayes	00	04	00
Item 2 meale seives	00	02	02
Item 1 woolen spining wheele	00	03	6
Item 1 milking paile	00	01	0
1 milking paile	00	01	6
Item 1 old Cart rope	00	01	0
Item 1 Great Coate	01	00	0
Item 1 troopers Coate	01	03	0
Item 1 old frise Coat	00	03	0
Item 1 paire of sarge briches	00	12	0
Item 1 paire of Cloth briches	00	08	0
Item 1 paire of old briches	00	02	0
Item 1 pair of briches	00	08	0
Item penistone wastcoate	00	10	00
Item 1 wastcoate	00	02	0
Item 1 paire of Drawers	00	01	6
Item 1 paire of Drawers	00	07	0
Item 1 paire of stockens	00	03	6
Item 1 paire of stockens 1 Neckcloth 2 shirts	00	08	8
Item 2 linnen Capps and three woolen Capps	00	02	0
Item 1 hatt six shillings	00	06	0
Item 2 yards and an halfe of Carsey	00	12	5
Item 2 yard & 3 quarters of Carsey	00	16	0
Item 3 yards of Lincy woolsey	00	10	6
Item 3 yards and three quarters of hommade cloth	00	08	0
Item 2 yards and an halfe of hommade cloth	00	07	06
Item 3 yards of homade Cloth	00	09	00
Item 7 yards and a quarter of hom made Cloth	01	02	0
Item 1 paire of sheets	01	08	0
Item 1 paire of sheets	01	06	0
Item 1 paire of sheets	01	06	0
Item 3 old sheets	00	08	0
	15	09	00

Item 2 Chests locke and Key	00	16	00
Item 2 oxen	07	10	00
Item 2 Cowes	04	00	00
Item 1 Cow	01	17	00
another Cow	01	10
Item 10 Napkins and an old towell	00	10	00
Item in silver Mony	02	05	00
in flax	00	01	04
Item 1 Card of buttons	00	01	04
Item a prsell of old bookes	00	04	00
Item a paire of gloves	00	02	00
Item 1 Psalm booke	00	01	00
Item 1 old box	00	01	00
Item 1 pound and halfe of woolen yarne	00	03	00
Item 10 pound of linnine teare yerne	01	00	00
Item 1 old Winscott Chest	00	03	00
Item 1 Great Chaire	00	02	06
Item 2 smale old Chaires	00	01	0
Item 2 forms 2 s	00	02	00
Item 1 paire of New Plaine heeld shooes	00	04	06
Item 1 broad hooped rundlett 1 old Case 3 emty bottles	00	03	0
Item on old lookeing Glasse	00	00	6
Item an old hoe and a Masons hamer	00	02	0
Item a feather bed	03	00	00
Item 1 bolster	00	10	00
Item 4 pillowes	00	10	00
Item 1 rugg	00	14	00
Item 2 blanketts	01	10	00
Item 1 blankett	00	06	00
Item 5 old pillow bears	00	04	00
Item 1 pillowbeer	00	03	00
Item 2 smale Curtaines and vallence	00	02	06
Item 1 halfe bushell Measure	00	01	06
Item a prsell of tryed tallow	00	05	00
Item an earthen pott	00	00	06
Item 1 earthen pott	00	00	04
Item in butter	00	05	00
Item in bees wax	00	03	00
Item a tubb with hony tubb and all	00	08	00
item an old bagg	00	03	00
Item a paire of old Cards & reele	00	01	00
Item 1 booke	00	01	00
Item 1 beer barrell	00	02	00
Item 1 pillowbeer	00	02	00
Item 1 Napkin	00	01	00
Item 2 paire of old stockens	00	02	00
Item 1 old bagg	00	00	06
Item 1 Great Iron pott with the legg out	00	08	00
Item 1 winscott bedsteed	00	12	00
Item 1 featherbed	01	15	00
Item 1 bolster	00	08	00
Item 2 old blanketts	00	02	00
Item 1 old Rugg	00	03	00
Item 1 old Winowing sheet	00	01	00
Item 1 Dore locke and key	00	01	06
Item 1 featherbed	02	10	0
Item 1 bolster	00	10	00
Item 2 Rugg	00	14	00
Item 2 old Chamber potts	00	01	06
Item 1 plow plaine and a rabbett plaine	00	01	06
Item 2 yards and halfe of New Linine Cloth	00	05	00
Item 3 yards and an halfe of New stecy linnine Cloth	00	05	03
Item 2 pond of powder	00	03	00
Item 5 pond of shott and bulletts	00	01	08
Item an old Chest	00	02	06
Item in Nailes	00	01	06
Item 1 seifting trough	00	02	00
Item 2 paire of smale hinges	00	01	00
Item 5 Dear skins wash Lether 6 s pr pound	03	18	00
Item 1 paire of wooden scales	00	02	06
Item 2 old barrells	00	04	00
Item 1 barrell of beefe	01	06	00
Item 1 hyde	01	00	00
Item 1 linnine spinning wheel	00	04	00
Item in Mault	00	02	00
Item in salt	00	02	00
Item in old Caske	00	04	00
Item 59 pound of sheeps wool	02	10	00
Item one Musterd shott	00	01	00
Item a prsell of beeffe	00	06	0
Item twenty seaven sheep	09	00	0
Item in Indian Corne	05	08	0
Item in wheat	00	12	0
Item in Rye	00	10	0
Item 1 oxe yoake and Irone	00	02	0
Item 1 Cart and wheels	01	10	0
Item 3 hives of bees	01	10	0
Item four swine	01	06	0
Item 3 hundred and 30 foot of board	01	00	0
Item in horse fflesh	04	10	0
Item 1 five yeer old steer	02	10	0
Item in young Cattle	04	01	0
The totall sume errors excepting in the Casting up	102	10	9