Alice Carpenter

• Death Notes
  • Died on 26 or 27 Mar 1670/1

• General Notes
  •     The last will and Testament of Mistress Alice Bradford Sennr of
    Plymouth deceased; exhibited to the Court att Plymouth in New
    England the 7th day of June Anno: Dom. 1670 on the oathes of
    Nathaniel Morton and Lieut. Ephraim Morton: as followeth;
        "I allis Bradford senir of the Towne of Plymouth in the Juris-
    diction of New England widdow: being weake in bodv but of dis-
    posing mind and perfect memory blessed be God; not knowing how
    soone the Lord may please to take mee out of this world unto him-
    selfe; doe make and ordaine this to be my last will and Testament,
    in manner and forme as followeth; Imps; I bequeath my soule to
    god that gaue it and my body to the dust in hope of a Joyfull Resur-
    rection vnto Glory desiring that my body may be Intered as near
    vnto my deceased husband; Mr William Bradford: as Conveniently
    may be; and as for my worldly estate I dispose of it as followeth:
    Impris: I give and bequeath vnto my deare sister, Mary Carpenter:
    the bed I now lye on with the furniture therevnto belonging and a
    paire of sheets and a good Cow and a yearling heiffer and a young
    
    12 SOUTHWORTH GENEALOGY
    
    mare. Item I give and bequeath vnto my son Mr. Constant South-
    worth my Land at Paometty viz: all my Purchase land there; with
    all my Rights Privilidges and appurtenances therevnto belonging:
    To him and his heires and assignes for ever: Item I give and bequeath
    vnto my said Constant Southworth . . . and vnto my son Mr. Joseph
    Bradford: the one halfe of my sheep to be equally deuded betwixt
    them; and the other halfe to my son Captaine William Bradford
    Item I give vnto my said son Joseph Bradford my paire of working
    oxen and a white heffer; Item I give vnto my honored friend Mr
    Thomas Prence one of the books were my dear husbands library;
    which of them hee shall choose; Item I giue vnto my deare Grand-
    child Elizabeth Howland; the daughter of my deare son Captaine
    Thomas Southworth deceased; the some of seauen pounds; for the
    vse and benefit of her son James howland Item I giue vnto my ser-
    vant maide Mary Smith a Cow Calfe to be deliuered her the next
    springe if I decease this winter and if I doe not decease this winter;
    my will is that shese haue one deliuered to her out of my estate
    in som short time after my decease: all the rest of my estate not dis-
    posed of already by this my last will and Testament; as aboue said;
    I giue and bequeath by this my last Will and Testament; I giue and
    bequeath vnto my sonnes Mr Constant Southworth Captaine William
    Bradford to be equally tharided amongst them in equall and alike
    proportions. In Witness that this is my last Will and Testament
    I the said Alice Bradford haue heervnto sett my hand and seale;
    this twenty ninth day of December Anno: Dom. one Thousand six
    hundred sixty nine.
    
    The A marke of
    
    Signed and sealed in Alice Bradford senr
    
        the prensence off
        Ephraim Morton and her
        Nathaniel Morton (seal)
        Witnesses
    
        In the inventory of her property are included, 8 Cowes, 2 yearlings,
    a 2 yeare old steare a steare of 4 years old, 1:2 years old heiffer, 1 old
    horse with three mares 17 sheep and 2 lambs. There is mention
    of furniture in the Now Parlor Chamber,* in the outward Parlor
    Chamber, In the old Parlor Chamber. In the study in books 90 vols.
    Mr. Perkins two of them
    3 of Doctor Willets on genesis exodus & Daniel 1.00.00
        1.00.00
    Quickrawaden 0.10.00
    the history of the Church 0.08.00
    Peter Martins comon places 0.15.00
    Cartwright on Remise Testament 0.10.00
    the history of the Netherlands 0.15.00
    Peter Martin on the Romans 0.05.00
    Moors works on the New Testament 1.00.00
    
        *This was undoubtedly the new chamber which it will be seen later was
    ordered to be built
    by Constant Southworth.
    
        THE SOUTHWORTHS IN
    AMERICA 13
    Cottons Concordance 0.08.00
    Speeds history of the world 1.00.00
    W. Christian Sinnagogue & the portrature of the image
        of God 0.08.00
    the method of Phisicke 0.02.00
    Calvins harmony and his coment on the actes 0.08.00
    Downham 0.03.00
    Mr Cottons Answare to Mr Williams 0.02.00
    Taylors libertie of Prophesye 0.01.06
    Gouges Domesticall Dutyes 0.02.06
    the Institutions or Reasons discused & observations devine
        and moral the synode and the apollogge 0.06.00
    Mr Ainsworths workes the counter reison and the tryall 0.02.00
    Calvin on Genises 0.02.06
    Dike on the decaitfulness of mans hart 0.01.00
    Gifford Refuted 0.00.06
    Dod on the Commandment & others of his 0.03.00
    53 small Bookes 1.06.00
    Calvin on the epistles in Duch: and divers other Duch bookes 0.15.00
    2 Bibles 1.00.00
    the Acts of the church 0.05.00
    the Lives of the Fathers 0.03.00
    3 of Mr Bridggs his works 1.00.00
    Furniture in the old Parlor In the great Parlor (no
        chamber furniture in the great parlor) In the kitchen
        Total value 162.17.00
        Land and house not included