"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
The subject today is the 1760 will and other probate papers of Jabez Snow (1696-1760) of Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts:
The transcription of these probate papers is:
[page 151, middle of right-hand page of first image]
In the Name of God Amen I Jabez Snow
of Eastham in the County of
Barnstable in the Province of the
Massachusetts Bay in New England yeoman being
Arrived to Declining Age but through
Gods Goodness yet of Disposing Mind and
memory Do therefore Now make this my
Last Will and Testament in Manner
and form as follows that is to Say
first of all I Commit my Soul to God that Gave
it and my body to the Earth to be
Decently Buried. Item I Give unto my Dear
and Loving wife Elisabeth Snow one
third part of all my Personal Estate
forever that is to say after my Just
Debts is paid out of the whole of my Estate
both Personal and Real also I give to
my said Loving Wife the use and
Improvement of one third of all my Real
Estate During the Terme She Shall
Continue to be my Widdow or till Death
shall call her hence.
Item I Give to my three Sons and three
Daughters after my Just Debts & funeral
Charges are Paid all my Estate both
Personal and Real Equally to be Divid-
ed Between them that is to Jabez Snow
to Joshua Snow and Edward Snow
to Eunice Horting Elisabeth Snow and
Hannah Snow but inasmuch as
Eunice Horting ^has^ had Given to her
already to the value of eight Pounds
Lawfull Money in my Judgment it is my
Will & Desire that the other five
Namely Jabez Snow Joshua Snow Edward
Snow Elisabeth Snow and
Hannah Snow Should have Each of them
the Sum of Eight Pounds
Lawfull Money first to make them Equal
with Eunice Horting if
ther Sghould be so much left after all
debts and Charges is Paid & if any
[page 152]
Remains then to be Equally Divided as
above between Them all.
Lastly I Do Constitute and appoint my
Trusty Son Jabez Snow to
be my Sole Executor of this my last
will and Testament Declaring
this and no other to be my last will.
In Witness whereof I Do here-
unto Set my hand and seal this thirty
first day of July in the Year
of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hund and
Sixty.
In Presence of
Thomas Bacon Jabez Snow {LS}
Willard Knowles
Isaac Paine
To all People to whom these presents
shall come Silvanus Bourn Esq'r
Judge of Parobe ^Wills^ &c. in the
County of Barnstable within the Province of
the Massachusetts Bay in New England,
Sendeth Greeting.
Know ye that on the Seventeenth day of
march Anno Domini 1761
the Instrument hereunto annexed
purporting the last Will and
Testament of Jabez Snow late of Eastham
in sd County Gent'mn Deceased
was presented for Probate by Jabez Snow
the Executor therein Named
then Present Thomas Bacon Willard
Knowles & Isaac Paine Witnesses
thereto Subscribed who made Oath that
they saw the said Testator
Sign Seal and Heard him Declare the
Said Instrument to be his Last
Will and Testament and that they
Subscribed their Names togather
as Witnesses to the Execution thereof
in the said Testators Presence
and that he was then to the best of
their Judgment of sound and
Disposing Mind. I Do Approve and allow
of the Said Instrument as
the Last Will and Testament of the
before Named Deceased and Do
Commit the Administration thereof in
all matters the same Concerning
and of his Estate whereof he Died
Siez'd and Possessed in said County
unto Jabez Snow the before Named
Executor well and faithfully to
Execute the said Will and to Administer
the Estate of the said
Deceased According thereto/ He
accepted of his said Trust, and to
Inventory of the Estate of said
Deceased Acording to Law and he
shall Render an Account upon Oath of
his Proceedings when there
unto Lawfull Require. I Testimony
Whereof I have hereunto set my
Hand and Seal of Office the Day and
Year above Written.
Silvanus Bourn
Exam'd Da'd Gorham Reg'r
We the Subscribers Being Appointed by
the Honourable
Silvanus bourn Esq'r Judge of Probate
for the County of Barnstable to make
a Just and Impartial apprisement of the
Estate Capt'n Jabez Snow Late of
Eastham in the County of Barnstable
Deceased upon Oath apprised sd Estate
this Twenty fourth Day of March one
Thousand Seven Hundred and
Sixty One as followeth (viz.)
[page 153]
The Dwelling house and Barn and Corn
House ….......................... 28--0--0
All the Land adjoining to the House
…........................................... 52-06--0
The Meadow in the Great meadow and Land
Adjoyning …........... 13-19--0
the Meadow in the Boat meadow and the
Shedge flatts …............. 10-13--4
the wood Lott at fresh Brook
…...................................................... 28--0--0
the wood Lott near David Brown
…............................................... 18-13--4
the wood Lott near Smallies Way
…............................................... 10-13--4
two Half Lots at the Back Side
…................................................... 9--6--8
the one half of a House that was Joseph
Snows and the }
Land adjoyning
…......................................................... }
….......... 9--6--0
the Pew and a third in the Meeting
House ….................................. 3-14--0
The Wearing Apparal
….................................................................. 2--1--4
The Bed and Beding in the Great Room
…..................................... 4--0--8
The Bed and Beding in the Chamber
….......................................... 5--4--0
The Bed and Beding in the Bedroom
….......................................... 3--5--4
Two Small Beds and Beding with the
Linning …............................ 4--0--0
Two Silver Spoons 6 Tea Spoons and one
old Cup …..................... 2--7--4
The Pewter
…................................................................................... 1--3--4
Two Oxon Two Steers
…................................................................
12--8--0
Two Cows
…................................................................................... 4-16--0
Two farrew Cows
…........................................................................ 3-14--8
one Heiffer
….................................................................................. 2--0--0
Eight Sheep 3 Swine 3 Young Creatures
and Hay …...................... 8--5--4
Indian Corn and Pire
…................................................................... 2-10--0
Guns and Sword
….......................................................................... 1--4--0
The Iron ware
….............................................................................. 2--5--4
Chists Tables and Chairs
…..............................................................
2-10-10
The Remaining Part of the Personal Estate is
…............................. 6--1--2
£ 254 –
0 – 4
Edward Knowles }
Nathaniel Atwood }
Apprisers
Samuel Smith Jr. }
Barbstable SS By the Hom. Silvanus
Bourn Esq'r Judge of Prob.
Jabez Snow Executor Presented the
foregoing and made Oath that it Contains
a True and Perfect Inventory of the
Estate of Cap't Jabez Snow late of Eastham
deceased so far as hath Come to his
Hands and knowledge and if more here
after Appear he will Cause it to be
added. The Subscribing Apprisers have
Sworn as the law directs. Silvanus Bourn
May 9 1761
Exam'd Da'd Graham Reg'r
The source citation for these probate records is:
Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Barnstabnle County, Probate Records, Volume 12, 1759-1774, pages 151-153, Jabez Snow, 1760 will and inventory.
Jabez Snow and Elizabeth Paine (1702-1772) married in 1720 in Eastham, Massachusetts, and resided there for the remainder of their lives. They had six children alive at the time Jabez wrote his will on 31 July 1760. He died on 6 September 1760 and his wife Elizabeth died in 1772. Elizabeth and their six living children were named in the will of Jabez Snow; the only married daughter at the time was Eunice Horting [Horton].
The will is very simple - one third to the wife and the rest bequeathed to the six children. The will of Jabez Snow was peroved in the Banrstable Probate Court on 17 March 1761, and the Inventory was filed and approved on 9 May 1761 (255 years ago today!). The probate records available on Ancestry.com do not provide a distribution to the children or the account of the executor. There may be other records available in the Ancestry.com collection that were not indexed. There are probably records in the Barnstable Probate Court that were not microfilmed by the FHL.
Jabez and Elizabeth (Paine) Snow are my 6th great-grandparents. Their eldest child, daughter Eunice (Snow) Horton, who married Nathaniel Horton in 1742, is my 5th great-grandmother.
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