Will of Richard Bowen, dated June 4, 1675 Richard Bowin's Will
[3:1:147] The last Will and Testament of Richard Bowin senir of Rehoboth in the Collonie of Plymouth in New England exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth aforsaid the fouth of June Anno: Dom 1675 on the oath of Mr John Pecke as followeth
Be it Knowne unto all men by these prsents that I Richard Bowin senir: of Rehoboth in the Collonie of New Plymouth in New England Doe the Day and Date above written ordaine and make this my last will and Testament being in my Good and prfect Memory and understanding as followeth;
Item I Give to my beloved wife Elizabeth two Cowes and one heiffer a yeer old and a Mare 5 yeer old and a Mare Colt two yeer old and one Colt that followeth the Mare;
Item I Give unto my wife my best bed; with all that belonges to it; and all my linnine two Pewter platters; with som other small peeces of pewter; both the bras kettles I Iron pott I skillett one frying pan all my poultry and halfe my swine younge and old alsoe I Give to my wife one Coffer; and halfe my provisions after my buriall; halfe of my Corne; halfe my hay that is Gathered in or may be Growing att my Decease; halfe my butter Cheese Bacon and porke; one hake with the eke belonging to it; one Cherne one brewing tubb one powdering tubb one beer barrell and my milk vessells; Cushens one Candlesticke; all these foremensioned prticulars; I Give to my beloved wife to Dispose of att her Death unto whom shee will; moreover I Give unto my wife my bible my warming pan; halfe my house that prte of the Leanto, nearest unto the Chimney; as alsoe halfe my orchyard; and halfe my home lott; excepting that prte I sould unto Stephen Paine senir: being an acre more or lesse; all these I say I Give unto my beloved wife, the full tearme of her life; moreover my wife shall have libertie to mow two load of hay on my meddow att Palmers River and three load more on my meddow on the New meddow necke, every yeer soe longe as shee liveth;
Item I Give to my son Willam one hundred pounds Comonage; my lott on the East syde of the plaine my lott in the second Devision; my prte of ffresh meddow lying and being neare the mile run; my ffresh meddow at Palmers River all my meddow that I have mowed att my meddow on the New meddow necke The other pte of this meddow, I have Given unto my son Obadiah; and my son Richard, as will appeer by a Deed of Gift under my hand; Moreover I Give unto my son Willam; halfe my house halfe my barn; halfe my orchyard halfe my home lott except that I sould to Steven Paine senir: and it is my Will that that after my wifes Decease that my son Willam shall have all my housing and barnes orchyard homlott with all those lands and meddowes before mensioned unto him and his heires forever;
Item I Give unto my son Willam halfe my swine halfe my Corne halfe my hay; Ingathered or may be Growing and halfe my provisions; butter Cheese bacon Porke;
Item I Give to my son Willam halfe my Cart and wheeles my Cart Rope with my plow and plowirons belonging to it 2 Chaires two hogsheads, and all other Corne vessell my wife Can spare; my hake with the Ringe; on it; my Great brasse pott an Iron pott and my Great brasse pan; and alsoe it is my will that hee shall have the land which is to be Devided according to the Devision of 20 acrees to the hundred pound estate; and alsoe my lott lately layed out on the necke Called Wachamaquat necke; and all such lands as shalbe Devided after the Date hereof; according to the proportion of a hundred pound estate; I alsoe Give unto my son Willam; my Chest in the hall my Coffer in the seller loft my Chaine my hay knife Dung forke Pikes Rakes hand saw augers 2 beetle ringes and all my Iron wedges; as alsoe that oxe Called Duke; and my bible after my Wifes Decease;
Item I alsoe Give unto my son Willam the bed hee now lyeth on and the furniture belonging to it; and one bed sheet and my winnow sheet; and all my boards about my house, and all my wearing apparrell;
Item I Give unto my son Obadiah halfe a hundred pounds of Comonage; my plow Irons of my breakeing plow and my thawrtcutt saw and halfe my logg Chaine; and the other halfe I Give to my son Willam;
Item I Give to my Daughter Allice Wheaton my Daughter Sarah ffuller and my Daughter Ruth Kenericke my old mare and a Colt that suckes on her;
Item I Give to my Daughter Allice Wheaton my fflagon and two pewter platters;
Item I Give to my Daughter Sarah ffuller my warming pan after my wifes Decease; and a pewter platter when the will is proved;
Item I Give to my Daughter Ruth Kenericke one pewter platter;
It is alsoe my will that if any of these fornamed beasts [p.148]: viz: neat beasts or horses given Doe Die or come to any lose, the lose shalbe to the pticular prson or prsons unto whom they were Given; my executor shalbe free hee shall not make it Good to him or them; Item all the Rest of my Goods lands Chattles or whatsoever I have not Given in this my Will and Testament; I Give to my son Richard whom I make and ordaine my sole executor to pay my Debts and to Discharge my legacyes and to see my body buried; witnes my hand the Day and yeer above written
Witnes The marke R of Richard Stephen Paine Junr: Bowin senir: John Pecke;
A true Inventory of the estate : viz : Lands Goods and Chattles of Richard Bowin senir of Rehoboth late Deceased exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the 4th of June 1675 on the oath of Richard Bowin Junir: as followeth:John Read senir:
Imrp: his wearing apparrell 004 00 00 Item a bed beding bedsteed & furniture belonging to it 007 00 00 Item 6 great pewter platters att 5s apeece 001 10 00 Item 3 smale pewter platters 000 10 00 Item 2 old pewter platters 000 03 04 Item 2 smale pewter basons 000 05 00 Item severall smale peece of pewter 000 07 00 Item an old fflagon 000 03 00 Item an old Chamber pott 000 01 06 Item an old warming pan 000 03 00 Item 2 brasse pans 001 10 00 Item 2 brasse kettles one brasse skillett I Candle
sticke and some other old brasse001 00 00 Item an Iron pott 001 00 00 Item 2 old shirts 4 capps I bolster Case I pillow Case 000 07 06 Item I sheet and a remnant of Canvas 001 10 00 Item more in sheets and a smale Table Cloth 2 towells 000 17 06 Item a smale remnant of Cloth 000 02 06 Item a fflocke bed & bolster and uper Covering I
blankett and a Canvas sheet and bedsteed003 00 00 Item 20 bushells of Indian Corne 003 00 00 Item a Cart Rope 000 07 00 Item a paire of tonggs 000 02 06 Item 2 pothangers 000 06 00 Item a handsaw 000 02 00 Item 3 wedges 2 beetle ringes 000 06 00 Item a billhook and pease hook 000 04 00 Item an ax and an old hatchett 000 04 06 Item a frying pan 000 02 00 Item an old hoe 000 02 00 Item a hammer pincers and borier 3 Chissells & a
paire of pronggs000 04 00 Item some peeces of old Iron 000 02 00 Item a Great bible 000 10 00 Item 4 Chistes 000 14 00 Item 2 tubbs I butter tubb and a Cover 000 10 00 Item 3 old barrells 000 03 00 Item tryed sewett 000 02 00 Item 2 old Chaires 3 Cushens 000 02 00 Item 2 old smale trayes a straining Dish a pudding
pan000 01 06 Item an old bagg 000 07 00 Item a Cherne a Cover a tray and old hatchett 000 06 00 Item an hay knife and an old hatchett 000 02 00 Item a spitt and pronges 000 04 00 Item scales and waights and a pestell 000 16 00 Item a smale barell 000 01 00 Item 5 nibbs & a ringe 000 02 06 Item Rye and pease 000 02 03 Item a Great brasse pott 002 00 00 Item a logg Chaine 000 12 00 [p. 149] Item in horse kind 12 00 00 Item 2 oxen 10 00 00 Item 2 Cowes 06 00 00 Item in hay 02 05 00 Item: a plow : Chaine yoakes & Cart 01 04 00 Item in Debts 00 18 09 Item more in lumber 00 03 00 Item in porke 00 05 00 Item in houses lands and Comonage 100 00 00 sume totall 175 15 08
Willam Carpentor
John Pecke
The will and inventory of Richard Bowin, Sr., of Rehoboth, were recorded in the Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Volume III, Part I, pages 147-149.