Will and Inventory of Robert Day, Hartford, CT,
dated May 20th 1648

Will of Robert Day of Hartford, Connecticut.
May 20th 1648.

The will of Robert Day hee being sick and weake, yet in perfect memoery; doth order and dispose of his estate to his wife and children, in the manner following:

Impr'mis I give vnto my beloued wife Edatha Day my now dwelling howse Lott, Allso all my Land whereof I stand possessed, or that of right, doth belong vnto mee, lying in Hartford, during the tarme of her naturall life: And at the end of her life, my will is that the said howse and land shall bee deuided in an equall proportion: my will allso is that all my howsehold stuff, and Cattle and nother moueable goods shall bee my wiues to bring vp my children: And in case my wife should bee married to another man, then my surviers of my will shall haue power if they thinke good to take security for the bringing vp of the children, and for so much estate as shall bee thought meete by them, and to this my last Will and Testatement I make my wife my Executrix, and I doe desire my Deare Brethren Mr. Tailecoate, Wilerton, and Stebbing, to take care of and Assist my wife in the ordering her selfe and my children, and I give them power to doe what in their Judgments may bee for the best, to bring vp my Children and dispose of them, and that I leaue, for theire good. And to this my will I sett to my hand the day aboue written.

Robert Day

Edward Stebbing
Wallter Gaylerd

14th October, 1648

An Inventory of the Goods of Robert Day deceased.
 £sd
In the Chamber. Impro. one Bedstead; one feather bed and feather Boulster and flock boulster: 2 pillowes, & bedcase & Curtaines070000
Item: 2 blankitts, one red & yellow Couerlitt   
Item: 1 chest 10s: 1 Box 3s: 1 desck box 3s:001600
Item: 1 table 5s: 1 Cubberd 5s and Chaiers001600
Item: 3 paier of sheetes020000
Item: 6 table napkins 12s: 1 table cloth 5s.00170
Item: 6 pillow beeres011000
Item: the wearing Clothes with 3 skinns050000
Item: in Linnen yearne and Cotton wool yearne011000
Item: 2 Cushins 6s: 1 paire of Bellowes 3s.000900
Item: 1 Little Baskitt 12d: 1 warming pann 6s.000700
Item: in working tooles010800
In the Hall. Item: 1 Brass Kettle021000
Item: 1 Little kettle 12s: 1 little brass kettle001500
Item: 1 brass possnett 4s: 1 brass pott 16 s: 1 Iron pott 14s.011400
Item: 1 brass Chafin dish 3s: one skimer000506
Item: 7 pewter dishes, and some broken pewter: 1 saser: 2 pewter potts: 1 Candlestick: 1 salte: 1 small bottle: 6 ockumy spoons, 2 porringers and 4 old spoones011000
Item: 1 Lattin dripping pann: 1 spitt, 1 pistoll: 1 smoothing Iron001000
Item: in earthern ware, and wooden ware001000
Item: 1 muskitt Bandleers and sword010000
Item: 1 table and 2 Chaires000500
In the sellar, Item: in tubbs and Tables and formes010000
In ye little chamber: It: one flockbed, 2 blankitts: 1 Couerlitt, 1 feather boulster, 2 feather pillows, 2 bedsteads041200
Item: 3 hogsheads, 2 Linnen wheeles, 1 woolen wheele, one Barrill001900
Item: 1 table, 1 wheele, 1 hatchett000500
Item: 1 Leather Bottle 2s: Vld: 1 paire of tongs: fier pann, grid Iron: frying pann, one trammell001500
Item: in Bookes, and Sackes, and Ladders010000
Item: one Cow: 1 3 yeare ould heifer: one 2 yeare old heifer, with some hay to winter them1410 00
Item: 2 hoggs 3 £030000
Item: in seuerall sortes of Corne with some hemp and flax150000
Item: the dwelling howse and out howsing, howse lott and Garden450000
Item: about 6 Akers of meadow, in severall parcells with vpland260000
Summa: Totalls1421306

John Tailecoate
Gregory Willterton
Edward Stebbing

Sources: A Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of Robert Day of Hartford, Conn., Who Died in the Year 1648; Second Edition; Northampton; printed by J. & L. Metcalf, 1848; pp. 8 - 9

Colony Records, vol. 1, pp. 255/6.


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