Katherin Bridson als Moore, 1692
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| Katherin Bridson als Moore, 1692 |
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| Submitted by: | Joyce M 0ates |
| Date: | 10 July 2004 |
| Original: | LDS: 0106206 |
Note: The pagination may not be correct and translated or doubtful wording may not be indicated.
KK Malew Feb the 15th 1691/2
The last will of Katherin Bridson alias
Moore sic and [weak] in body but of good and
perfect memory blessed be God.
First she committed her soul to Almight God
and her body to Christian burial.
Item, she left to the poor at .... on furlett
of malt, one furlett of meal corn half one
furlett of wheat one mutton.
Item, she left to her brother Philip .....
shillings legacy.
Item, she left to her spet[?step] daughters as
.... to Margreat one sheep, to Karter one sheep
and ewe her s.... wastcoat one shift of linen
cloth; to Alles her part of the white heifer and
one shift of linen.
Item, she left to her two sisters Margret and
Bessy her part of the wool that was in Peeltown
as legacy.
Item, she left to her loving husband John Bridson
her part of the riding horse and twenty shillings
as legacy.
Item, she left to her husband her part of the
teams of .... crop of corn harrows carrs,
straddles, plow gears and harrow gears, and all
other husbandry gears whatsoever they were upon
the prayson ... if her child would come to fourteen
years of age and if it would please God to call for
the child before she come to fourteen years then
she freely left them to her loving husband John
Bridson, to wit the team of oxen, crop of corn,
harrows, carrs, straddles, and all other husbandry
gears whatsoever as aforesaid, without paying any
consideration for them to the child’s executors.
Item, she left to her daughter Bessy her best apparel
to be kept for her .... of woolen and linen.
Item, she left on her brothers and sisters if her
child died under fourteen years of age sis pence
apiece legacy, likewise she left upon John Woods
tinker between her husband and her eight shillings
six pence of due debt.
Item, she nominated constituted and [ordained] her
daughter Bessy to be her tru and lawful Executor of
all the rest of her goods moveable and immoveable
whatsoever and if her daughter will not live to
fourteen years of age then she nominated and ordained
her loving father and mother to be her tru and lawful
executors or the longer lived of them.
Item, she left the child to her father and mother
and to her husband and to be well kept; likewise she
left upon her father and mother to be loving and
kind to her loving husband and not to use him hard
in any thing. She left to Margret Kewley her maid
on smock, she left to An.. Taggert some of her old
wearing clothes.
Witnesses:
Will: Cannell his mark X,
Ann Taggart her mark X.
The Executrix being underage the father with the
grandmother sworn in Court according to Law.
Probatum est et solvit 1s.
KK Malew May 4 1692
The Inventory of the goods of Katherine Bridson als
Moore viewed and priced by four sworn men vizt.,
Tho: Woods, Tho: Quiggin, Joh Harrison, John Quinney. £ s d
Imprimis, half of 7 in horses and mares 01:10:00
Item in sheep twenty three 02:00:00
Item, half the lambs 00:05:03
Item, half of some calf cows 02:02:00
Item, half of 2 heifers and half of 2 steers 00:19:00
Item, half of six oxen 03:00:06
Item, half harrows 2s 9d, and harrow gears 00:02:09
Item, half the plow gears draught creels 00:02:03
Item, half the carrs and straddles and ladder 00:02:00
Item, half the spades and greab and hammers acts[?] 00:01:06
Item, half a keuw 2s, half 2 birlis[?] and half a tub 00:03:06
Item, half 4 barrels 2s 3d, a little wheel 18d 00:03:09
Item, half a woolen wheel 1s, 2 basket hytes[?] 2d 00:01:02
Item, half 4 little chests 2s 00:02:00
Item, half of the house tren vessels 00:02:02
Item, half of 2 pots and half a pan and griddle 00:06:00
Item, some weight and sives 3d, 2 pair of nets 00:07:03
Item, 3 old socks and carlees[?] the dead part 00:01:02
Item, half 2 old bloks 2d the dead part of
the barley xxx 00:02:08
Item, half a cadda and half 3 blankets,
2 yards of cloth 00:07:00
Item, 8 pound of hurgh yarn and half a pound 00:03:02
Item, 2 pound of flax and one pound of tow 00:01:02
4 pound half a pound of wool, 2 pound of wool .... 00:02:1
Item, 4 pound of hemp 1s, & spoons 00:01:08
Item, half 6 yards of cloth 1s 3d and 2 coarse sheets 00:02:1
Item, her shaped clothes and shoes 00:14:00
Item, her best 2 petticoats, one waistcoat,
....xxx & linens 00:16:00
Item, her shaped linen and smocks 00:05:06
Item, some .... woolen cloth 00:01:0x
Item, the dead part of tanned leather 00:02:06
Item, half 2 bedsteads and bed and boulster 00:04:00
Item, half the bed clothes 00:06:00
Item, half the earthen vessels and .... 00:00:06.
15:01:05½
Item, half the cards 9d, white candles 00:00:10
Item, some old boards and daile 00:00:04
Item, half a church and other xxx vessel 00:00:09
Item, half the lime stones 00:01:00
Item, one side of a pork 00:02:06
Item, due from Ja: Woods tinker the dead part 00:04:03
Item, in money dead part 00:05:06
Item, 1 pound scour wool;
subtotal 00:15:02½
Total 15:16:08
August the 6th 1693:
Item, the dead part of the hay 15 cars 4d a car 00:05:00;
Item, the dead part of the barley 28
stooks 7d a stook 00:16:04.
August the 27th:
tem, the dead part of oats three score and
fourteen and half a stook 4d a stook 01:07:11½
Item, the dead part of the wheat 2 stooks 5d a stook 00:00:12;
Item, the dead part of the peas 18d 00:01:06;
Item, troafe[?] and laster .... 4d the midding 9d 00:01:01;
Item old lard and candlestick 2d 00:00:02.
subtotal 02:12:10½ + 15:16:08 = 18:09:06½
There is in rent 18s 0-1/2d and tithe 5s to be deducted.
Note further that the former children goods half of
that was in the father hand is included in this
Inventory; the sum of four[?] pounds ten shillings
or there abouts.
There is 4:17:04 or thereabouts of the Inventory in
the hands of the father who had given in pledge
Thomas Bridson & Christopher Bridson.
The rest in the hands of the supervisor who hath
given pledges Mr. John Cosnahan and Robert Brew.
June 10th 1717:
This day Elizabeth Bridson came to the Records and
received from the hands of her Supervisors the just
sum of seven pounds and nineteen shillings being the
whole of her part of goods in their hands due to her
by the death of her mother and does hereby exonerate
and discharge them their assigns &c forever of the same.
As witness her mark to her name
[signed her mark] Elis: Bridson her mark X.
Before me Wm ...., Regr.
I Elizabeth Quayle als Bridson do hereby acknowledge
to be satisfied and paid in all what was due to me
from my own father Capt. John Bridson by virtue of
the contract bargain I had from him, no more claiming
or suing him for any dues to me by the same contract
and this I acknowledge to be my act and deed this
8th day of April 1725.
[signed her mark] Elizabeth Quayle my mark X.
In presence of John Bridson, John Kewley.
April 8th 1725.
The above Eliz: Quayle als Bridson acknowledges this
above xxx before me Wm Gell