Inventory of the estates of Susanna Jordan, deceased Jan 25 1672, taken
Feb 4 1672, by William Pilsbury, Moses
Pilsbury and Anthony Somerby:
cow, £3; 15s;
two heifers coming three yere old. £5;
one pigg, 3s 4d;
her wearing apparrell, £2;
an old flockbed, a paire of sheets, an old Rug & blancket, £1; 10s;
two old Iron potts, one pr of pot hooks, frying pan, bucket, 2 tramells £1; 4s;
a little cubbard, 2 old chests, a keiler, an old hogshead & 2 trayes, 14s;
3 old pewter dishes, an old chamber pot, a pint pott & a broken cup, 13s;
An old sword, a spit, fire shovel & tongues, 10s;
a brasen candlestick, pr of sheep shears, an old brasse skillet & some lumber, 3s;
total £15; 12s 4d.
Debts due from Abraham Merril, £1;10s; Richard Bartlett, £1;;
Thomas Barbur, 9s.
The deceased owes to Henry Short £1; 10s; goodman Ordway 5s 5d; John
Bartlet, 2s; Will Bolten, 3s 8d; Tristrum Coffin, 12s; John Knight, 6s;
to Abell Merrill for wintering two cowes 3 winters & 2 calves, £7;
4s; cutting &making 3 load & halfe of hay, 18s; charges for her
funerall for coffin & diggeing the grave, £1; due to Joane Merrill,
£2; 5s; total £12; 5s 1d.
Administration on the estate of Susan Jordan, intestate, granted Mar
25 1673 to Abell Merrill, her youngest son.
Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, 5:193
Attested in Ipswich court 25:1m:1673 by Abell Merrill.
Source: Printed "Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts;
1635 - 1681," In three volumes,The Essex Institute; Salem, MA; 1916
