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The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1 - 1635-1664 (on microfiche)

by Essex County, MA Probate Court, pub. 1916.

Sample entry:

ESTATE OF ANNE SCARLET OF SALEM

     Will of Anne Scarlet, who died "the last day of the 12th month," dated 2:1:1689. "I doe Desire to have some order taken for the payings my brother Samuell... in old England the some of Tenne pownds w_th he layd out for mee. And also my brother D[avid's] Children twelve shillings a peece to buy them a w_thall.] And for the rest of my goods & moveables, & lynnen & wollin I desire they shall be equallie Devided to my three children, Mary Margaret & Joseph equally alike to them: Also I Doe give unto my sister Dennie my blew gowne further I give to my brother James Hindes tonne shillings. And alsoe my three Children to be wholy execute_rs & my brother Browning & his wife advisers. And also my brother Joseph Grafton I desire him to advise in the ordering of my goods & my things as are above written. And that my children may equallie devide such of my goods as shall remayne after these things be discharged that are above named equallie amonge them."

Anne Scarlet,

Witness: James Hinds, James Moulton.

Mr. Endecott, Dep. Gov., delivered the will to Court 11m"1642: proved 30:4:1643.

Salem Quarterly Court Files, Vol. 1, leaf 16.

Indexed. There are 526 pages on four microfiche. The letters in the text are fat but still readable.

Surnames:

Abbott Adams Ager Alderman Anard Anderson Andrews Annable Antrum Averill Avery

Babson Bacon Badger Bailey Baker Balch Ballard Barker Barnes Barrett Bartholomew Bartlett Bartoll Batchelder Beadle Beard Beckes Belflower Belknap Bellingham Bennet Birdsall Blaisdell Blumfield Boovey Bowtwell Brabrooke Bradley Bradstreet Bridgman Browne Bullock Bunker Burrill Burt Butcher Buxton Byley

Calle Call Candall Cantlebury Cartwright Chamberlla Chandler Chaplin Chin Churchman Chute Clarke Clements Cook Cockerell Codner Cogswell Colby Cole Conant Cooke Cooley Cooper Corwithy Creeke Crimp Cromwell Cross Cummings Cutting

Davis Deale Dent Dickinson Dillingham Dorman Dow

Esborne Elle Ellthorp Elliott Ellitt Eyers

Fairchild Farr Fay Firman Flake Flint Fowler Fralle French Freind Frithy Fuller

Galnes Gardner Garven Gilbert Goffe Golt Goodale Goodridge Goog Goose Goybe Gray Griffin

Hatfield Hardy Harker Hart Harwood Hauxworth Hawes Heard Hersome Hobson Hollingsworth Holman Holyoke Homan Hooke Hopkinson How Howe Huckstable Humphries Hunter

Ingalls Ingersoll Ivory

Jackson James Jarrat Jewett Jinggles Johnson

Keniston Kenning Keat King Kirtland Knight Knowlton

Lambert Lamson Lane Laskin Leach Lee Lewis Lightfoot Littlebale Lockman Lowell Lame Lumpkyn Lunt

Mason Mattox Merrill Mighill Millard Miller Mitchell Moores Morrill Morse Moulton Mountjoy Maddle Mudge Muzzey

Nelson Nevill Newball Nicholson Norington Norris Norton Noyes

Odry Oliver Osgood

Park Parrot Partridge Patch Payne Pease Peasley Perkins Philbrick Pickering Pickworth Pike Pitford Pittice Plasse Pollard Pomeroy Porter Pride Priest

Quilter

Rea Read Radverne Reyner Richardson Ring Roberts Robinson Rogers Rolfe Rooten Row Rowell

Sadler Sallows Sanders Sandle Scarlet Scott Scruggs Scudder Scullard Sears Sewall Shatswell Sherman Sibly Selton Smith Somerby Southmead Southwick Spencer Spooner Stevens Stileman Stuart Symonds

Talbey Thorne Tibbott Tilton Teravers Trealor Tree Trumble Trusler Tucker Turner Tuttle

Varnam Varney Verin

Wake Waklye Walcott Walridge War Ward Waters Wathen Watkins Webster West Whipple White Whittingham Wickam Wickes Wild Wilkes Williams Willix Winsley Wise Witter Wood Woodbury Woodis Woodman Worcester Wright

Yoo Yongs

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