Amanuensis Monday - Probate Records for Estate of John Garnsey (1648-1722) of Rehoboth, Mass. - Part 3

This week's documents for Amanuensis Monday are from the Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Court records for John Garnsey (1648-1722) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (presented in date order):

a)  Probate Packet 10414 (image 8 of 22):

The transcription of this record is:

The accomptt of Seth Garnsey & James Bowen Administrators

to y^e Estate of John Garnsey Late of Rehobath deceased intestate

of theire Payments and for to much as hath come to theire hands

& Possession oute of y^e same as followeth viz.

The Accomptants Chargeth themselves with all and Singular the

Goods Chattels Rights and Credits of y^e deceased Contained in an

Inventory exhibited unto y^e Registry of y^e Court of Probate for y^e

County of Bristoll upon Record amounting to

y^e Summ of                                                              £195 : 13 : 11

The Personall Estate of s^d Summ is £ 85 : 13 : 11

The Accompants desire allowance for y^e payment of

Sundrie Debtts and disbursements on y^e Estate

as followeth

To funerall Charges; To 3 gals of Rum	00 : 18 : 00
To y^e Coffen	00 : 06 : 00
To Sugar & ye Spice	00 : 02 : 06
To Digging y^e Grave	00 : 04 : 00
To five payre of Gloves	01 : 02 : 06	02 : 13 : 02
To twoo days & halfe Going to Bristol	00 : 10 : 00
To John Horton one day to Bristol	00 : 04 : 00
To y^e Judge of Probate etc	00 : 09 : 06
To Justice Rogers for Swearing y^e apprizers	00 : 05 : 00
To twoo days attending on sd work	00 : 06 : 00	01 : 14 : 06
To Jonathan Kingsley	00 : 11 : 00
To Doctor Allen	00 : 10 : 00
To Doctor Wood	00 : 00 : 09
To John Hunt	00 : 01 : 04
To Richard Patrick	00 : 02 : 06	01 : 05 : 07
To y^e Administrators for their trouble In administring & travling to Bristol		01 : 00 : 00
To y^e apprizers for apprizeing y^e Estate		00 : 05 : 00
To y^e vallowing a& Registering this acct		00 : 07 : 00
To Recording y^e Inventory		00 : 03 : 00
		£ 07 : 05 : 03

                                     May 9^th 1722         Seth Garnsey

                                                                      James Bowen

Bristol Ss May 9^th 1722

By y^e Honob^le Nath^a Paine Esq^r Judge of Probate of

Wills & etc.

Seth Garnsey & James Bowen presented the above Written Accompt

and made Oath that it Contains a just and true accomptt

as their administration on y^e Estate his father In Law Mr

John Garnsey late of Rehobath deceased so far as they hath proceeded

therein which accordingly I approve & allow.

                                                                Jurat Coram Nath^a Paine

The source citation for the entire probate packet is:

Bristol County [Mass.] Register of Probate, Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Records, 1690-1881, Estate File 10414 (22 images), John Garnsey of Rehoboth, 1722; digital images, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org); citing original records at Probate Registry, Taunton, Mass.

John Garnsey (1648-1722) resided in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts when he died on 31 March 1722.  He married three times - with his first wife Elizabeth (1652-1714), he had 13 children; with his second wife, Judith Ormsbee (1673-1715), he had one child; with his third wife, Sarah (Miller) Titus (1655-1742), he had no children.

John Garnsey died intestate - leaving no will to probate, so the Probate Court went through the administration process of appointing an administrator, the administrators took an inventory, submitted an account, and distributed the estate to the heirs at law.  There are 22 images in the probate packet for John Garnsey of Rehoboth on the American Ancestors website.  

In the first post in this series (Part 1), the widow and eldest son petitioned the court to relieve them of administratrix/or responsibility, and the Court appointed Seth Garnsey and James Bowen as administrators.

In the second post (Part 2), the three appraisers produced an Inventory of the estate totaling £110 in real estate and £85-13-11 in personal estate.

In this Post 3, the admnistrators have made their account and had it approved by the probate court.

There will be several more posts for this intestate estate in Bristol county, Massachusetts.

John and Elizabeth (--?--) Garnsey are my 8th great-grandparents, through their eldest child, Mehitable Garnsey (1673-1742) who married John Horton (1672-1752) in about 1689, and resided in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:" 

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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