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Monday, August 17, 2020

Amanuensis Monday -- 1703 Inventory of the Estate of Joseph Clark (1642-1702) of Medfield, Mass.

This week's document for transcription is the 1703 Inventory of the estate of Joseph Clark (1642-1702) of Medfield, Massachusetts, in Probate Packet 2,794 in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts probate court records:

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The transcription of these papers is:

An Inventory of the Estate of Joseph Clark sen'r Late of Medfield (Deceased) as it was made by y'e Subscribers hereunto
To his wareing Cloathes Books and armes	7—14—00
To Cash	56—13—11
To three beds with y'e beding to them at Equal price	20—03—00
To one other bed six sheetts two blankets, case for a bolster	4—01—00
To curtains, small linnen Riding hood, Searge linnin and woollen Clo??	2—19—05
To brass Kitles skilletts and warming pan	7—12—00
To peu ter platters peutter pots and other Smale peuter ware	2—06—00
To iron pots, Tramells, andirons, and other iron ware in y'e house	3—12—06
To two jugs and other Earthen ware	0—03—00
To Killers, pails, chees phatts and other wooden ware in y'e house	2—06—06
To three Tables, a joynt stool, and y'e chaires	1—12—06
To one chest with y'e lock, 6's and two other chests, 8's	0—14—00
To Spining Wheels, cards and little Cubbard	0—15—00
To Sadles, pillion, pillion cloath and pannell	1—14—00
To Sacks and Sacking cloath	0—16—09
To Sheeps wooll and Cotten wooll	1—12—10
To yarn linnin and Knotsm yarn hemp & flax Dressed & undressed	3—01—02
To many Schales and other Schales	0—07—00
`To Cartm irons, wheels, plows, chains, yoaks, harrow, slead, horse Tackling, axes botle Rings and wedges	8—01—06
To Sithes and tackling to them, spades, shovels, hows, pick iron bar, bells, carpenters Tools Rings sickles other Small tools and old irons	2—19—10
To fans, Rops, sives, cheess presse, Sider barrells meal hutch butter tub, old tubbs and old barrells	2—14—06
To 25 pounds of hops, 500 new brick and a grinston	1—15—10
To Six oxen 23'li and Eleven Cows 31li-10s	54—10—00
To 12 young cattle 21li, and four horse kind 7'li-15s	28—15—00
To ten Sheep and two Swine	4—04—00
To Pork barrelled 2p	7—12—06
To y'e Dwelling house at home mantt house orchard and all y'e land and meadow on y'e noth East side of the way together with y'e barn land & orchard by y'e barn	138—00—00
To 63 acres of meadow and swamp in y'e pine swamp	189—00—00
To 12 acres and a Rood of paster at y'e clay pits	30—00—00
To 17 acres 3 Roods and five Rods of land in & by y'e south plain	43—05—00
To 4 acres and ½ of land adjoyning to y'e home lot of Nath'll Clark	7—00—00
To y'e Dwelling house at planting field with y'e land adjoyning to it	41--00—00
To 2 acres of meadow in Center meadow	10—00—00
To 5 acres & a ½ of meadow by Stop River and seven acres and 3 Roods of upland adjoyning to it	23—00—00
To 4 acres of course meadow by Stop river and six acres a halfe and 20 Rods of upland adjoyning to it	13—18—00
To 7 acres and 14 Rod of woodland on y'e south side of Stop River	2—16—00
To 10 acres and ½ of woodland in two percels on y'e south side of Stop River by Wrentham line	4—04—00
To four acres and a halfe of wood land by boggastow brook	1—16—00
To 15 acres and a Rood of upland and meadow on y'e West of Boggastow brook formerly granted to James Alin	11—00—00
To 33 acres of Land in y'e New grant	4—03—00
To 18 acres of land in y'e black swamp Devidant	1—16—00
To 54 acres of wood land in Deadham bounds	6—15—00
To 4 acres of Cedar Swam in Deadham bounds	2—00—00
To the house in Wrentham bounds with 54 acres of land lying on both sides of y'e highway	66---15—00
To 13 acres & 3 Roods of meadow by Stop river	41—15—00
To two acres and 3 Roods of meadow by Tiles End	6—00—00
To 32 acres and 3 Roods of meadow and upland by Dirty brook	27—12—00
To 32 acres of upland on y'e great plain by Dirty brook	11—00—00
To 14 acres of woodland & other land adjoyning to John Turner land	5—00—00
To 7 Cow commons and two sheep Commons in Wrentham bounds	5—18—00
Due to y'e Estate by bills and bonds in money	25—03—09
Sum total	1023—04—01

March y'e 13'th 1702/3

Henry Adams

Sam'll Barbur

John Plimpton

Suffolk ss. By the Hon'ble Isaac Addington Esq'r
Judge of Probate &c
Joseph Clarke and Solomon Clarke Administrators take oath
That this contains a just and true Inventory of the Estate of
their late Father Joseph Clarke of Medfield Husbandman
dece'd so far as hath come to their knowledge, and
that if more hereafter appears they will cause it to be Added.
Jurat Cor Isa'a Addington
Boston, March 15'th 1702/3

The source citation for this probate case file is:

Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Packet #2,794 (11 images), Joseph Clark of Medfield, administration granted 1703; "Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1636-1893," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 22 July 2020); from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org.

Joseph Clark (1642-1702) died intestate on 4 September 1702 in Medfield. He married Mary Allen (1642-1702) in 1663, and they had 12 children between 1664 and 1685. Only five children (Joseph, Esther, Solomon, David and Aaron) were alive, or had heirs, in 1702.

This probate packet contains 11 pages, including the Letter of Administration (with administrators sons Joseph Clark and Solomon Clark), an inventory of the real and personal estate of Joseph Clark, The inventory was taken 13 March 1702/3 and totaled 1,023 pounds, 4 shillings and 1 pence, of which the real estate totaled about 775 pounds. There is no account or indication of how the personal property was divided.

A committee of five Medfield men had a challenge dividing the real property. Each child's portion amounted to about 129 pounds (since the eldest son received a double portion of about 258 pounds). In 1725, the committee men informed the probate court that the division should have included another half parcel of land to Aaron Clark, but it was overlooked. The Court ordered the half parcel of land directed to Aaron Clark.

Joseph and Mary (Allen) Clark are my 8th great-grandparents, through their son Joseph Clark (1664-1731) who married Mary Wight (1667-1705) in 1686.

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

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Monday, August 10, 2020

Amanuensis Monday -- 1704 Division of Real Estate of Joseph Clark (1642-1702) of Medfield, Mass.

This week's document for transcription is the 1704 division of the real estate of Joseph Clark (1642-1702) of Medfield, Massachusetts, in Probate Packet 2,794 in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts probate court records:

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The transcription of these papers is:

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In obedience to and persuance of an order of y'e hon'ble Judge of
probate for y'e County of Suffolk bareing date y'e ninth day of July anno
Domoni 1703 Directed to us whose Names are hereunto subscribed or any

three of us to make a Division of y'e housing and lands of Joseph Clark late

of Medfield, husbandman (Deceased), Intestate among and to his children

and there Legall Representatives according to Law we y'e said Subscribers

have Divided y'e said Estate to each one his full share as followeth.

viz.

To Joseph Clark his Eldest Son for his Double portion all the lands

att home on y'e East Side of y'e Cart way with y'e houseing on said side of said way

and also y'e barn and barn yard and orchard by it. More four acres of land

at y'e End of y'e home field adjoyning to Natt'a clarks land; More two acres

of Meadow in center meadow; More one third part of sixty three acres

of meadow and Swamp lying by Stop River y'e midle part onely he is to

take a neck of meadow as part of it, it being about three as it lyeth

Between y'e brook and y'e upland; More twelve acres of land called

Clay pitt paster through which he is to allow a leading Cart way for the

use of Solomon Clark and his heirs to his swamp allowance to be made;

More ten and a half of woodland on y'e south side of Stop River by Wrentham

line; More Eighteen acres of land in and at Black Swamp; More the one

half of fifty and four acres of woodland in Deadham bounds next to

puffers land; and also one Cow Common Right in Wrentham bounds.

To Solomon Clark for his share or portion the house and land at plant-

ing field; and also one third part of sixty three acres of meadow and

Swamp that part next his house; More twelve acres of Land in South

plain next to Jonathan Boydons Land; More ten acres and od measure

of Course meadow and Land lying by it by Stop River; More four

acres and a half of Woodland by Boggastow Brook; More Eighty three

acres of Land in y'e New grant; more Seven acres and od measure of wood-

land on y'e south side of Stop river; More y'e one half of fifty four acres

of Cedar Swamp in Deadham bounds and also two Cow Common

Rights and one sheep Common Rights in wrentham bounds.

To David Clarks heirs for there share orp ortion the house in Wren-

tham bounds and y'e new ????? now within fence; and also y'e one half of

fourteen acres and and a Rood of meadow in wrentham bounds by

Stop river y'e Down Stream End of it; More y'e one half of five acres

and a Rood of meadow and four acres and three Rood of upland lying

by it in medfield bounds by noon hill y'e upstream End of it; More one half

of two acres and three Roods of meadow at Tiles End; More y'e one half of

the Land lying at y'e End of y'e new field y'e northerly part of it; More one half

of fourteen acres of woodland in wrentham bounds; More ten acres &

a half of Swamp and meadow by Stop River next to Joseph Clarks;

More fourteen acres of woodland and other lands adjoyning to John

Turners Land; more six acres of Land in y'e old field on y'e west side of the

highway y'e northerly side of it; and also one Cow Common Right and

one sheep Common right in wrentham bounds.

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To Aaron Clark for his share or portion Sixty and four acres

of land and meadow in wrentham bounds by Dirty Brook; more

Seven acres of y'e old field on y'e southerly side of it; more y'e one half of

fourteen acres and a Rood of meadow Land in wrentham bounds by

Stop river y'e upstream end of it; more y'e one half of five acres

of meadow Land by noon hill in medfield bounds y'e down stream

End of it with three acres of upland by it; more one half of two acres

and three Roods of meadow Land at Tiles End; more y'e one half

of fourteen acres of woodland in wrentham bounds; more five

ares and three Roods of upland at South plain on that side

next to Benj- Clarks Land; more ten acres and a half of meadow

and Swamp by Stop River next to John Turners Land; more

fifteen acres and a Rood of Land on y'e west side of Charls River

by Boggastow Brook part meadow and part upland and

also three Cow Common Rights in wrentham bounds.

Medfield octob'r y'e 13'th 1704 memorandum that Thomas Thurston and Esther

Thurston y'e daughter of said Joseph Clark dec'd

have sold all there Right title and Intrest in sd

Estate to there brothers and there heirs; and have

forever Released y'e same.

Presented by the Committee Sam'll Barbur

Dec'r 5'h 1704. Henry Adams

Jeremiah X Morse

Eleazear Whelock

John Fisher

Suffolk Ss. By the hon'ble Isaac Addington Esq'r

Judge of Probate &c

I Accept & Allow of the within written Division made

by the Committee therein named, as a Settlem't of y'e Estate

in housing & Lands of Joseph Clark late of Medfield

Husbandman deced Intestate, each party to whom any Share

is thereby Alloted to give Security as the Law directs, if

Debts be afterw'ds made to Appear, to pay back his or

her Ratable p't thereof. And of the Administrator's charges.

Boston ???? Decem'r 5'th 1704. Isa. Addington

The source citation for this probate case file is:

The committee of five Medfield men had a challenge dividing the real property. Each child's portion amounted to about 129 pounds (since the eldest son received a double portion of about 258 pounds). In 1725, the committee men informed the probate court that the division should have included another half parcel of land to Aaron Clark, but it was overlooked. The Court ordered the half parcel of land directed to Aaron Clark.

Joseph and Mary (Allen) Clark are my 8th great-grandparents, through their son Joseph Clark (1664-1731) who married Mary Wight (1667-1705) in 1686.

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Monday, August 3, 2020

Amanuensis Monday -- 1731 Estate Inventory of Joseph Clark (1664-1731) of Medfield, Mass.

This week's document for transcription is the 1731 Estate Inventory of the estate of Joseph Clark (1664-1731) of Medfield, Massachusetts, in Probate Packet 6,138 in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts probate court records:

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The transcription of this Inventory is:

An Inventory of the Estates goods Chattels & houses & lands of Cap't Joseph Clark late of Medfield Deceaced as it was apprized by the Subscribers here unto Medfield September y'e 2'd 1731 viz. As followeth
	£	s	d
To books arms paper money Bonds & silver money	143	16	0
To Several Suts of Cloathing with a Cane	25	0	0
To Several Beds and bedding belonging to them	35	10	0
To Brass and puter Earthen and glass bottels	11	10	0
To iron pots fire pan tongs hagues hand irons & tow comb	5	17	0
To Sheets table Cloaths & knapkins	17	12	0
To sacks wool flax and hemp	11	14	11
To spinings wheels Chests Chairs tubs killers trayes Barrels Dishes Spoons Cheese press and other wooden wear	3 12	0 0	0 0
To Indian Corn and wry & malt & flax	58	08	2
To sadels Cart Rope Cart wheels yoke irons & plows	13	15	0
To sithes sickels saws hamers & Carpender tools bar iron axes hows Chains horse tacklin harrow teeth & other old iron	14	1	0
Stock of Chattel
To one yoke of oxen and five Cows	55	0	0
To horses young Chattel Sheep and Swine	53	10	0
To a small work house neare the Dwelling house	8	0	0
To the Dwelling house with y'e Conveniencys of it	90	0	0
To a malt house with y'e privilidges belonging to it	60	0	0
To y'e Barn yard with y'e privilidges belonging to it	30	0	0
To a Corn mill with y'e mill pond & privilidges belonging to it	100	0	0
To all y'e land orchard & medow land & plow land & pasture land lying on the East side of y'e highway by y'e house	66	0	0
To three acres of plow land lying on the northwest side of the highway that goith to the house	36	0	0
To twenty one acres of medow land lying by Stop River	270	0	0
To an orchard on y'e south side of the highway that goeth by the house	30	0	0
To a persal of plow land and pasture land on the south side of the high way that goeth by y'e house	90	0	0
To a persal of pasture land lying neare the Barn Called y'e neck	168	0	0
To a persal of woodland & medow land Containing Eighty Acres lying in the Bounds of Walpole by Joshua Fishers shoub med	88	0	0
To twenty seven acres of wood land lying in the Bounds of Walpole	60	0	0
To Eighteen acres of Devident land neare Rock medow	34	0	0
To ten acres & half of wood land on the south side of Stop River	21	0	0
To all the land lying in the Bounds of Wren- tham upland & medow land belonging to this Estate that came to our knowlidg	70	0	0
To the land in the Black Swamp Devident	43	0	0
To the land in new Medfield all his rights there	75	0	0
To the land in y'e Contry goar all his rights there	75	0	0
To Six acres of medow land & upland neare Dea. George Barbur in the north part of y'e Town	110	0	0
To Eleven acres of land part upland & part Swamp Lying in y'e plat of Land Called y'e neck the widow claiming the one half of it as her right	56	0	0
To a sartain house & half an acre of Land it stands on in the north part of the Town	40	0	0
To a percal medow and upland in the north part of the Town Called the green with Land joyning to it	120	0	0
To two acres of medow in Center medow	40	0	0
To eleven acres at Crambery pond	33	0	0
To Eight acres three roods in two percals near pine hill being part upland and part swamp	25	0	0
To five acres of land in the north part of y'e town in two persals part upland and part swamp	36	0	0
To land in Revertion not yet laid out	2	10	0
	2434	07	1
Samuel Smith Ebenezer Mason John Eles

[Note: I had some problems getting the numbers in the correct row in Blogger. Please consult the images]

The source citation for this probate case file is:

Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Packet #6,138 (48 images), Joseph Clark of Medfield, administration granted 1731; "Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1636-1893," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 22 July 2020); from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org.

Joseph Clark (1664-1731) died intestate on 13 July 1731 in Medfield. He married (1) Mary Wight (1667-1705) in 1686, and they had seven children between 1687 and 1703. Joseph married (2) widow Abigail (Turner) Smith in 1707 in Boston, and they had one child.

This probate packet contains 48 pages, including the letter of administration, an inventory, an account, and a division of the real and personal estate of Joseph Clark, along with 16 pages of the estate of his son, Joseph Clark (who also died in 1731), and the estate of Joseph's widow, Abigail, who died in 1750. The inventory totaled 2,434 pounds, 7 shillings and 1 pence, of which the real estate totaled 1968 pounds, 10 shillings.

Joseph and Mary (Wight) Clark are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter Hephsibah Clark (1699-1791) who married Timothy Hamant (1699-1774) in 1727.

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Friday, July 31, 2020

52 Ancestors - Week 341: #551 Marie (Wight) Clark (1667-1705) of Medfield, Massachusetts

Mary Wight (1667-1705) is number 551 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #550 Joseph Clark (1664-1731) in 1686 in Medfield, now Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

* their daughter, Hephzibah Clark (1699-1791), #275 who married #274 Timothy Hamant (1699-1774) in 1727.

* their daughter #137 Patience Hamant (1735-1780) who married #136 Moses Smith (1736-1806) in 1762.

* their son #68 Aaron Smith (1765-1841) who married #69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) in 1795.

* their son #34 Alpheus Smith (1802-1840) who married #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.

* their daughter, #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1851.

* their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.

* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.

* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

* Name: Marie Wight[1–2]

* Alternate Name: Mary Clark

* Alternate Name: Mary Wight Clark

* Sex: Female

* Father: Thomas Wight (1629-1690)

* Mother: Mehitabel Cheney (1643-1693)

2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

* Birth: 20 February 1667, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[1,3]

* Death: 16 December 1705 (age 38), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3–4]

* Burial: after 16 December 1705 (after age 38), Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]

3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

* Spouse 1: Joseph Clark (1664-1731)

* Marriage 1: 8 April 1686 (age 19), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]

* Child 1: Mary Clark (1687-1717)

* Child 2: Mehitable Clark (1690-1765)

* Child 3: Hannah Clark (1692-1773)

* Child 4: Esther Clark (1695-1774)

* Child 5: Joseph Clark (1697-1731)

* Child 6: Hephzibah Clark (1698-1791)

* Child 7: Thomas Clark (1703-1776)

4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

Marie Wight was born 20 February 1667 in Medfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Thomas and Mehitable (Cheney) Wight[1,3].

She married Joseph Clark (1664-1731) on 8 April 1686 in Medfield[2]. He was the son of Joseph and Mary (Allen) Clark of Medfield.

They had seven children, all born and recorded in the Medfield town records. They were:

* Mary Clark (1687-1717), married 1705 Nathaniel Smith (1684-1762).

* Mehitable Clark (1690-1765), married 1715 Timothy Morse (1687-1765).

* Hannah Clark (1692-1773), married 1709 John Robbins (1688-1774).

* Esther Clark (1695-1774), married 1715 Ebenezer Turner (1693-1759).

* Joseph Clark (1697-1731), married 1718 Experience Wheeler (1697-1754).

* Hephzibah Clark (1699-1791), married 1727 Timothy6 Hamant (1699-1774).

* Thomas Clark (1703-1776), married 1727 Abigail Morse (1696-1777).

Mary's father, Thomas Wight (1629-1690) died intestate in Medfield, and left an estate, but there is no mention of any of the children in his estate file. Mary's mother, Mehitable (Cheney) Wight, reportedly died in 1693 in Medfield.

Mary (Wight) Clark died on 16 December 1705 in Medfield[3-4] at age 38, leaving seven children between the ages of 2 and 18.

Marie (Wight) Clark is probably buried in Vine Lake Cemetery in Medfield, but there is no gravestone. There is a Find A Grave memorial for her[4].

5) SOURCES

1. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Births, page 105, Marie Wight entry, 1667.

2. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 128, Joseph Clark and Marie Wight entry, 8 April 1686.

3. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image, (http://www.findagrave.com), Vine Lake Cemetery (Medfield, Mass.), Mary Wight Clark memorial #95763645 .

4. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Deaths, page, 202, Mary Clark death entry, 16 December 1705.

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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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Monday, August 17, 2020

Amanuensis Monday -- 1703 Inventory of the Estate of Joseph Clark (1642-1702) of Medfield, Mass.

Monday, August 10, 2020

Amanuensis Monday -- 1704 Division of Real Estate of Joseph Clark (1642-1702) of Medfield, Mass.

Monday, August 3, 2020

Amanuensis Monday -- 1731 Estate Inventory of Joseph Clark (1664-1731) of Medfield, Mass.

Friday, July 31, 2020

52 Ancestors - Week 341: #551 Marie (Wight) Clark (1667-1705) of Medfield, Massachusetts