*THE PROBATE RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY (MA)
Pages 50-51
"ESTATE OF JOHN AYRES OF BROOKFIELD."
Administration upon the estate of John Ayres of Qaboag,
intestate, was granted Mar. 28, 1676 to Susana Ayres, the
widow. There being an inventory brought in amounting to
195li., and there being seven sons and a daughter, court ordered
95li. to be divided among the children, the eldest son
John, with what he already had to be made up a double portion,
and the remainder to be equally divided, the widow to
have the rest of the estate.
Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 278.
Inventory of the estate of John Ayres of Brookfield taken Sept
13, 1675, by John Brewer, sr. and Simon Stace: six oxen, 33li.;
ten cowes, 30li.; two steers two yere old, 5li. 10s.; two heifers
the same age, 5 li. 10s.; one heifer more & too yerelings & one
bull, 8li. 10s.
Inventory taken Mar. 27, 1676 by John Brewer, sr. and Simon
Stace: one Kettle & too scillets, 1li. 10s.; pewter platters & pots
& other small things, 4li. 14s; foure coverlids & one Rug, 7li.;
Three paire of curtaines & vallants, 4li. 10s.; six good blancketts
& foure old ones, 6li.; six feather beds, nine bolsters & nine pillows,
28li.; some woolen & linen cloath, 1li. 8s.; one old bed teeking &
bolster, 15s.; two paire of sheets, five paire more of worne sheets,
4li. 15s.; twelve pillowbeers, 1li. 16s.; one hollen sheete, three
bord cloaths, 2li. 5s.; twelve napkins & three towells, 1li. 3s.;
two Guns and three cutlashs, 5li. 1s.; one sith, four sack & one bag,
11s. 6d.; a mantle, a sive botom, three spoones, 17s.; Bibles &
other Bookes, 1li. 16s.; wearing cloathes, 7li. 12s.; in money,
34li. 10s.; total 195li. 13s. 6d.
Attested in Ipswich court Mar. 28, 1676 by Susana Ayres,
the administratrix.
Statement of Susanna Ayres that she had seven sons and
one daughter and that her eldest son hath had of her husband
too oxen, one cow, a fatt hogg, one sow & piggs, one pewter
dish, a feather bed & bolster, one Rug & blancket & a paire of
sheetes
Essex County Probate Files, Docket 1,089.
*This record obtained from:
FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY
35 North West Temple
Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
Courtesy of researcher:
W. BROWN
Transcribed for the interenet by:
Gloria ODOM
Jan 14, 2004
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