the Executors to this my Last Will and Testament, which Executors I impower or any two of them to sell so much of my out lands as they shall think proper or necessary for the support of my children during their minority and to my wife the time she remains my widow. Item-After my just debts and funeral charges are paid I give to my eldest son Joseph a double portion of all I have among his Brethren. Item I give unto my loving children Abigail Bliss and Eliphalet and Hannah and Epaphras and Ashbel and Thaddeus and Theodor and Mary equal portions out of my whole estate and my will is that what I have charged to my son Pelatiah and my daughter Abigail Bliss on my Book shall be reconed as so much paid toward her portion and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke & declare null all and every other former Testaments, wills, legacies & bequests & Executors by me in any ways before named, willed and bequested ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament-In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the said Joseph King as his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us the subscribers. John King John Levitt Joseph King (seal) Be it known unto all men by these presents that Whereas I, Joseph King of Suffield in the County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticut have made and declared my Last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the fourth day of March, 1756 I the said Joseph King by this present Codicil do ratify and confirm my last Will and Testament and whereas my wife Hannah is supposed to be pregnant with child my will is that the child to be born of her body, shall have an equal portion in my whole estate with the rest of my children and my will is that my wife shall have one third part of my moveable estate forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of March 1756. Signed sealed published and pronounced and declared to be the Codicil to my last will and testament in presence of us the John King Joseph King (seal) Both the above will and Codicil still remain on file in the Probate Office at Hartford, Conn. The will was made two days before the death of Capt. Joseph King. The child expected to be born, and provided for in the Codicil, was born on May 14, 1756, a little more than two months after Capt. Joseph's death and was christened by its mother Ichabod. ("The Glory has departed," I Samuel, ch 4, v. 21.) INVENTORY OF ESTATE OF CAPT. JOSEPH KING. An Inventory of the Real and Personal Estate of Capt. Joseph King late of Suffield Deca £ S d viz a Blew Broadcloth Coat Silver Trimming Red Jackit gould Trimming Red Plush Briches gould Trimming both Blew Camblet Coat & Jackit Blew Broadcloth Coat & Jackit 14 5 Plush Briches 3/ Leather Briches silver Buttons 10/0 Worsted Cap /9 Beaver hat 16/ three holand shirts 6/ home spun Shirt 2/ Cane Silver head 3/ 13 I 2 5 pr Silver Shoe Buckels 8/ Do nee Buckels 3/ pr gould Studds 9/ pr Silk Stockins 5/ Worsted Stockins 1/ pr Boots 2/6 2 pr 2 pr Shoes 2/ Two ps yarn Stockins 1/9 Small Bible 2/6 old Do /6 Willard Body Diviny 14/ a Large acct Book 10/ a Silver Tanker wt 23 (oz) the making sa Tanker 5/ Twenty-nine ounces & the 3a part of a ounce Silver the making of siven Large Silver Spoons & Two Small Tea Spoons worth 4/ One pr Scails 2/6 pr Small Do & weight & Box 3/ pr great Stilyards 8/ pr Small Do 1/3 pr Large Tongues 3/ old D° /6 Slise 1/3 1070 9 Brass Shovel & Tongues 10/ great Candle Stick 14/ I Large hand Irons 7/ one pr small Do 1/ 1 pr 3/ melting ladle /4 Warming pan 10/ old Do /8 Tost Iron /5 Frying pan 3/3 Iron Candlesticks /8 Brass Tinder 3 Tramils 9/ Iron pot 3/ one Small Do 3/ Iron One Copper Skillet 6/6 one small Do 2/6 1000 One Brass Skillet 3/ one small Do 1/9 Tea Kittle 5/6 0 Small old Brass Kittle 1/ old Do /6 Brass Scimer one Large Pewter Platter 5/ one 3/6 Two @3/ /6 One Bason 1 three great Basons 1/6 four pint three Porringers 1/9 Two quart Cups & pint Cup & abt 6lb old pewter 3/2 Butter Sasser /4 Two Tin Tunnels /6 Seven Wooden Bowls 2/11 one pail 1/ one Do /6 one Do /4 Gallon Bottle /6 one quart Do /3 a Case of Knifes & forks 4/ three Knifes Dear horned handles 4/ 3 forks @ /4 1/ six knifes & forks a /3 1/6 hand saw 2/6 Inch auger & one 3/4 both 2/6 Four Two hamers 1/ Tap Bore /3 Two Gimblets /4 I pr Compass 1/3 old Drawing Knife /6 nipers /2 A Case Draws 48/ a Round Table 9/ Two Small one small Trunk 3/ old Cass with Eight Bottles 6/ a Large Portmantle Trunk 3/ Large old Trunk 1/6 a Map of the World 2/ Two Earthen plates & 3 Do a Shugar Box /8 a SILVER SEAL KINGS Coat of ARMS 3/ 16 Vials 16. 2 Drinking glasses /6 five glass bottles 2/ 0 13 3 4 ΙΟ 0 3 o 6 6 0 7 O 0 6 9 2002 O II 2 4, 1⁄2 pint bottles /4 2 Salt sellers & 2 1⁄2 pint glasses 1/4 2 more glass bottles /8 a Large Squar Table Collerd 2/ 0 a Desk 10/ an Inlaid Box 2/ Old flat Desk 3/ a Large Trunk 3/ another Do 4/ old Squear Box 1/6 o qa Pickture of Cap Kings first wife 10/ Two picktures with glass 1/6 three small Do /6 one with panel image &c one Brock glass /4 a Chest of four Draws in the South Room a Chest Iron bound & rings 3/ one Do 1/6 a Common Table folds one side 2/ small D° /6 a Large Round Table in the South Room 4/ a Plush Back Chear 3/ Two Stools workt Bottoms 5/ a Leather Chear & Stool Do 1/9 Ten Cainback Chears a 1/4 one great Chear Cainback 2/ one Slat back Do 3/ Six Slat Back Chears a /9 Seven old Chears a 15a p. c. 2/10 old great D° 2/6 one hour glass 1/4 a Chease press 5/ pr hetchets 5/ a Lome & the Tacklin belong to it one holland sheet 5 yds 12/6 one pr fine home spun 15/ one pr Do 12/6 one pr Do 6/8 Ten & 1⁄2 pr Sheets @25/ all fine Diaper Table Cloth 4/ one Damask Do markt H. D. 6/6 fine Do 7/6 Six Damask Napkins @ 1/3 pc 7/6 Six more Damask Do Markt H. D. 8/ four home made Do markt H. K. 4/4 Four Diaper Table Cloths 4/3 y new Diaper 2/9 one yd Do 1/I four Coarse Towels new 2/ all Seven old Do a /3d p. c. 1/9 Two pillerbears a/9 p. c. 1/6 Nine pillerbiers 4/6 Two pr old Wooling Sheets 7/ one fether Bed under Do Bolster & 2 pillers 45/ markt A one Wooling Blanket 8/ one Do 5/ one Rugg 7/ Red Bedsted & Tester & Vallants to it belonging 5/ one Bed & Bolster Markt B 13/ one Blanket 2/6 one Do 1/6 one Do 4/6 Trundle Bedsted & Cord 4/ one Bedsted & Cord 6/6 O II 6 15 5 4 5 II 3 3 I 0 15 1 2 2 Chiney Curtains head Cloth & Tester & Bars & rods all 2 10 0 Stamped Lining Bedquilt a 8/ a Cotton Counterpin 8/ one fether Bed Bolster & Two Pillers & Under Bed Markt C all one Rugg 7/6 Blanket 3/6 Bedsted & Cord in the South Chamber 5/6 one fether Bed under Do Bolster & one piller Markt D all one white Woolin Blankit 7/6 one Bed Blankit 9/ old Bedsted & Cord 2/ one fether Bed & Bolster Markt 48/ E a Black & Blew Rugg 12/ Bedsted & Cord 4/ a Bed & Bolster Markt F & under Do a Black & White Rugg 10/ one white Blankit 3/6 one Do 1/6 old bedsted & Cord 2/ all Two peses of old Blankits 8/ Lot of old Blew Curtins & Iron rods 3/ a foot Wheel 6/6 a great Wheel & Spindle 2/ small Hand Wheel 1/3 a real /2 ΙΟ 16 ΙΟ 17 8 abt 25 lb of flax a /4 8/4 Elevin Bushels Wheat a 4/ 2 abt 6 lb Tow a /2 1/ Ten old Casks 3/ meal trough /6 one sythe Snath & Tacklin 2/6 steel Trap 5/ Three Bushel of flax seed a 2/6 7/6 one pr Cards 2/ one half hogshead 1/1 Two old Barrels 1/ Large Tub 2/3 To Scald hogs in thirteen Barrels of Cyder a 5/6 pc Including the Barrels five old Barrels a 1/ pc 5/ nine Barrels more 9/ Fifty Bushels Indian Corn in the ear a 1/6 Brush Sythes and old spade all Cart Wheels & Boxes & Cap pins 40/ Dung fork 4/ horse plow & irons 7/ Crow Barr 5/5 Pitch- 4 rakes 1/6 one ox hide raw 14/ Ridle Sive /4 30030 I 86 6 4 I 4 60209 16 I 4 3++0003 8 6 2000630 13 ΙΟ 0271 |
