This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1706 Probate Papers for the estate of Thomas Paine (1633-1706) of Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts:
a) Volume 3, pages 360-361:
b) Volume 3, pages 362-363:
The transcription of the Thomas Paine documents is:
[page 360]
In the Name of God Amen The Twelfth Day of May 1705 I
Thomas Paine of
Eastham in y^e County of Barnstable in y^e Prov^e
of the Massachusetts
Bay being Aged and Weak in Body but of
prfect mind and
memory Thanks be given to God. Therefore Cal-
ling to minde the
mortality of my body and Knowing that it
is appointed for all
men once to Dye Do make and ordain this
my Last Will &
Testament That is to say principally and first of
all I Give and
Recommend my Soul into y^e hands of God that gave
it and my Body I
Recommend to the Earth to be buryed in Decent
Christian maner
Buriall att y^e Discretion of my Execut^s, Nothing
Doubting that att
y^e Generall Resurrection I Shall Recive y^e same again
by the mighty power
of God. And as Touching such worldly Estate
wherewith it hath
pleased God to bless me in this Life, I Give Demise
and Dispose of y^e
same In the following manner & form.
Imp^r I Give and
bequeath to my son Nicholas Paine his heirs & assigns
for ever all my
Lands Mills house and housing att Keofhogansett
In sd Town of
Eastham With all my Right & Title to all Town
priviledges and my
Two Shares in y^e Land purchased of mr. Sam^a
Smith Called the Ten
Pound purchase as also all my meadow Lying on
or by Samsons Island
and between Samsons Island & Hog Island in
sd Eastham, as also
my upland at at both Ends of Samsons Island and
my Shear of meadow
which Lies to the Southward of Porky Island
which was Granted to
me by y^e Town in y^e year of our Lord 1703.
Item I give to my
Daughter Mary the Wife of Israel Cole Ten shillings money,
all the Rest and
Residue of my Estate both Real & prsonall Goods & Chattels
what-
soever I Give and
bequeath to be Equally Divided to and among my Children
viz: Sam^ll Paine,
Thomas Paine, Elisha Paine, John Paine, Nicholas Paine,
James Paine, Joseph
Paine, Dorcas Vickerie the wife of Benj Vickerie and
the Three Eldest
Children of Mary my Daughter the wife of Israel Cole
viz. James Rogers
Mary Cole and Abigail Yeats (that is to say) the sd
Children of my sd
Daughter hall have (with the Ten shillings which she is
to have) and Share
an Equal portion with y^e Rest of my sd Children which
shall be equally
Divided among them. And I Do also hereby Constitute make
and ordain my Two
Sons Samuel Paine & Thomas Paine to be y^e Executors of
this my Last Will
and Testament & I Do hereby uterly Disalow Revoke and
Disannull all and
Every other former Testaments Wills Legacys and bequests &
Executors by me in
any ways before named Willed & bequeathed Ratifying &
[page 361]
Confirming This and
no other to be my Last Will & Testament. In witness
whereof I have
hereunto Sett my Hand & seal y^e Day & year above Written.
Signed Sealed
Published pronounced & Declared
by the sd Thomas
Paine as his Last Will Thomas Paine {seal}
and Testament in y^e
presence of us
the Subscribers
John Rogers [mark R]
John Rogers Jnr
Eleaizer Rogers
October the Second
1706 Then John Rogers Sen
John Rogers Jnr and
Elieazer Rogers Before Barnabas
Lothrop Esq^r Judge
of Probates and Granting Letters of
Administration
within y^e County of Barnstable
made oath that they
did see mr Thomas Paine Late
of Eastham now
Deceased sign & seal this above written
instrument and heard
him Declare it to be his Last
Will & Testament
& that he was of Disposing mind
and memory when he
so did so far as they know.
Attest William Bassett Reg^tr
Barnabas Lothrop
Esq^r Commisionated by the Gouvernour & Councill for y^e
granting of Probate
of Wills a Letters of Administration Within y^e County of
Barnstable in y^e
Province of y^e Massachusetts Bay In New England; To
all to whom these
presents Shall Come or may concern, Greeting &c. Know
y^e that on y^e
Second of October 1706 before me att Barnstable y^e Will of
Thomas Paine Late of
Eastham Late of Eastham yeoman Now Deceased to
those presents
anexed was proved approved and allowed who having while he
Lived and att y^e
time of his Death Goods Chattels Rights & Credits in y^e aforesd
County y^e
Administration of all and Singular y^e goods Chattels Rights &
Credits of
of sd Deceased and
his Will in any manner Concerning Was Comitted unto Sam^a
Paine and Thomas
Paine Sons of sd Deceased his Executors y^e same Will
named Well and
faithfully to administer on and to make a True & perfect
Inventory of all &
singular the Goods Chattels Rights & Credits of y^e sd Deceased
and the same to
Exhibet Into ye Reg^trs office of sd County accoding to Law
and also to Render a
plain & True accompt of y^r sd Administration upon
oath When Lawfully
Called thereto. In Testimony Whereof I have
hereunto Sett my
Hand and Seal of sd Office Dated att Barnstable
the Second Day of
October One Thousand Seven Hundred & Six.
Barnabas
Lothrop
[page 362]
An Inventory of all
& singular the Goods Chattels & Credits of
M^r. Thomas Paine of
Eastham in the County of Barnstable Deceased
prised at Eastham
Augst y^e 30^th 1706 by y^e Subscribers
| Imprimus To Lands meadows Housing & Mills Two Hundred
pounds |
200 – 00 - 00 |
| It To Cash att 15 penny weight to Six Shillings, Ninety Two
Pounds fourteen Shillings and four pence |
92 – 14 – 04 |
| It to plate att Eight Shillings pr ounce nine Pound Six
shillings and four pence |
09 – 06 – 09 |
| It to beds bedsteds and other Houshold Stuff Cloth Tools old
iron and Lumber Seventy six pounds five shillings & five pence |
76 – 05 - 05 |
| It To Debts nine and Twenty pounds, fifteen Shillings & a
peney |
29 – 15 – 01 |
| It To Desperate Debts four and Twenty Shillings and Eight pence |
01 – 04 – 08 |
|
409 – 05 - 10 |
October y^e 2^d
1706. Then M^r Samuel Paine
and Cap^t Thomas
Paine Executors to y^e Last Will Sam^ll
Freeman
and Testament of M6R
Thomas Paine their Deceas^d Joshua Bangs
Father made oath
before Barnabas Lothrop Esq^r
Judge of Probates
and Granting Letters of Administration
Within this County
of Barnstable that y^e above written
is a True Inventory
of y^e Estate of y^e sd Thomas Paine
Deceased so far as
they Know and that if any thing
materiall and of
value shall further Come to their
Knowledge They will
also bring it to this Inventory.
Attest W^m Bassett Reg^tr
The source citation for this record is:
Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Barnstable County, "Probate Records, Vol 1-3, 1692-1747 (images 406-407 of 577), Thomas Paine, 1706, Will, Letters Testamentary and Inventory.
Thomas Paine (1633-1706) married Mary Snow (1630-1704) in 1650, and they had ten children between 1650 and 1669.
The will of Thomas Paine, written 12 May 1705 and proved on 2 October 1706, names nine of the children. Sons Thomas Paine and Samuel Paine were named executors of the estate. Some of the real estate, including the house, was bequeathed to son Nicholas Paine. The rest of the real and personal estate was to be divided amongst all the children, plus three children of his deceased daughter Mary The estate Inventory totaled £406, with £200 of that the housing and real estate.
Thomas and Mary (Snow) Paine are my 8th great-grandparents. I am descended through their son John Paine (1661-1731) who married Bennet Freeman (1671-1716) in 1689.
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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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