Saml £5. To the poor of the town £10. To Martha Ballard dau. of my late wife and now wife of Mr. James Ballard of Boston, house and land in Boston now in the occupation of Capt. Nathl. Byfield, sold to me by mortgage of Richard Price late of Boston Merchant decsd, for £300. All else to go to said dau. in law Martha Ballard who with husband to be exectrs.' This gentleman bore the same arms as John Jolliffe, of London, Governor of the Muscovy Company, and descended from the Jolliffes of Bothoms in Stafford County. The same arms were also borne by the family of Carverswell Castle. (Guellam's Heraldry.) (Taken from Drake's Histor. Antiq. of Boston.) "At Upton Snodesbury, Worcester, in the fourth aisle of the Rectory. Thomas Jolley, June 28, 1704 aged 87 years 9 mos." "Thos. Jolly of Whittington, Derbyshire, was excommunicated for not attending church." |