Act by them done (this their condition considered) might be as firme as any patent; and in some respects more sure. The forme was as followeth:
In ye name of God Amen. The whole names are underwriten the loyal subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord King James by ye grace of God, of great Britaine, franc, & Ireland king defender of ye faith, etc.
Haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancements of ye christian faith and honour of our king & countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia did by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God, and one of another; covenant, & combine our selves togeather into a Civill body politick; for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame shuch just & equall lawes, ordinances, Acts, constitutions, & offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall good of ye colonie unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witnes whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at capcodd ye 11 of November [old style] in ye year of ye raigne of our soveraigne Lord king James of England, France, & Ireland ye eighteenth and of Scotland ye fiftie fourth Ano: dom. 1620.
After this they chose, or rather confirmed Mr John Carver (a man godly & well approved amongst them) their governour for that year. And after they had provided a place for their goods, or comone store (which were long in unlading for want of boats, foulnes of ye winter weather, and sickness of diverse) and b[uilding] some small cottages fir their habitation; as time would admit they made and consulted of lawes & orders, both for their civill & military govermente, as ye necessitie of their condition did require, still adding therunto as urgent occasion in severall times, and as cases did require.
In these hard & difficulte beginings they found sons discontents & murmurings are so amongst some, and mutinous speeches & carriages in other; but they were soone quelled, & overcome, by ye wisdome, patience, and just & equall carrage of things by ye gov'r: and better part with law faithfully togeather in ye maine. But that which was most sadd & lamentable, was that in 2 or 3 months time halfe of their company dyed, especialy in Jan: & february, being ye depth of winter, and wanting houses & other comforts, being infected with ye scurvie . . .
Aerial view of Plimoth Plantation |
1623 - Plymouth, MA - William Bradford received 3 acres as a passenger on the Mayflower. His wife Alice received one acre as a passenger on the Anne.
1633 - Plymouth, MA - Mr. William Bradford (governor) on list of freemen
The last will and testament, nuncupative, of Mr. William Bradford senr., deceased May the 9th, 1657 and exhibited in Court held at Plymouth June 3d, 1657.
Mr. William Bradford Senr. being weake in body, but in ppct memory having deferred the forming of his will in hopes of having the healp of Mr. Thomas Prence therein, feeling himself very weake and drawing on to the conclusion of his mortal life spake as followeth. I could have desired abler men then myself in the disposing of that I have, how my estate (is), none knowes better than yourself said he to Leiftenant Southworth. I have desposed to John and William already theire proportions of land which they are possessed of. My will is that what I stand engaged to p,forme to my children and others bee made good out of my estate, that my name suffer not. Further my will is that my dear and loving wife Alice Bradford shall bee the sole Exequitrix of my estate, and for her future maintainance my will is that my Stocke in the Kennebecke trad[e] bee reserved for her comfortable subsistence as farr as it will extend, and soe further in any such way as may be judged best for her. I further request and appoint my wel beloved Christian ffriends Mr. Thomas Prence, Captain Thomas Willett and Lieftenant Thomas Southworth to be the supervisors of the desposing of my estate according to the p,mises confiding much in theire faithfullness. I comend to your wisdome some small bookes written by my owne hand to bee improved as you shall see meet. In speciall I comend to you a little book with a black cover, wherein there is a word to Plymouth and a word to Boston and a word to New England with sundry useful verses. These p'tculars were expressed by the said William Bradford Govr. the 9th day of May, 1657 in the p,sences of us, Thomas Cushman, Thomas Southworth, Nathaniel Morton
1657 - May 22 - Plymouth, MA - An inventory of William Bradford's estate was taken.
A trew Inventory of the Estate of Mr. William Bradford Senir. lately deceased taken and appraised by us whose names are underwritten, the 22eond of May 1657, and exhibited to the court holden att Plymouth the 3d. of June 1657 on the oath of Mrs. Alice Bradford.
Beding and other things in ye old parlor
- Impr. one feather bed and bolster £3.00.00
- It. a feather bed a feather bolster a feather pillow £3.00.00
- It. a canvas bed with feathers and a bolster and 2 pillows £1.15.00
- It. one green rugg. £1.00.00
- It. a paire of whit blanketts £1.00.00
- It. one whit blankett £0.12.00
- It. 2 pairs of old blanketts, £1.00.00
- It 2 old coverlidds £1.00.00
- It. 1 old white rugg and an old kid coverlidd, £1.00.00
- It. 1 paire of old curtaines darnickes & and an old paire of sach curtaines £0.15.00
- It. a court cubbard £1.5.00
- It. a winscot bedsteed and a settle £1.10.00
- It. 4 lether chaires £1.12.00
- It. 1 great lether chaire £0.10.00
- It. 2 great wooden chaires £0.8.00
- It. a table & forme and 2 stooles £1.5.00
- It. a winscott chist & cubburd £1.5.00
- It. a case with six knives £0.5.00
- It. 3 matchlock musketts £2.2.00
- It. a snaphance muskett £1.00.00
- It. a birding peece and an other smale peece £0.18.00
- It. a pistoll and cutlas £0.12.00
- It. a card and a platt £0.5.00
In he great Rome [room]
- It. 2 great carved chaires £1.4.00
- It. a smale carved chaire £0.6.00
- It. a table and forme £1.2.00
- It. 3 striped carpetts £1.5.00
- It. 10 cushens £1.1.00
- It. 3 old cushens £0.2.00
- It. a causlett and one head peece £1.10.00
- It. 1 fouling peece without a locke 3 old barrells of guns one paire of old bandeleers and a crest £0.16.0
Linnin [Linen]
- It. 2 paire of holland sheets £2.00.00
- It. 1 dowlis sheet £0.10.00
- It. 2 paire of cotton and linnen sheets £1.15.00
- It. 2 paire of hemp and cotten sheets £1.15.00
- It. 2 paire of canvas sheets £1.10.00
- Its. 2 paire of old sheets £0.15.00
- It. 4 fine shirts £2.00.00
- It. 4 other shirts £1.00.00
- It. a dozen of cotten and linnin napkins £0.12.00
- It. a dozen canvas napkins £0.6.00
- It. a diaper tablecloth and a dozen of diaper napkins £2.10.00
- It. 10 diaper napkins of another sort of a diaper tablecloth £3.00.00
- It. 2 holland tableclothes £1.00.00
- It. 2 short tableclothes £0.10.00
- It. 2 old tableclothes £0.5.00
- It. a dozen of old napkins £0.8.00
- It. halfe a dozen of napkins £0.8.00
- It. 3 old napkins £0.2.00
- It. a dozen of course napkins & a course tablecloth £0.6.00
- It. 2 fine holland cubburd clothes £0.12.00
- It. 3 paire of holland pillow beers £0.18.00
- It. 3 paire of dowlls pillow beers and an old one £0.14.00
- It. 4 holland towells and a lockorumone £0.5.00
Pewter
- It. 14 pewter dishes weying 47 pound att 15d p pound £2.18.09
- It. 6 pewter plates & 13 pewter platters weying thirty 2 pounds att 15d p pound £2.00.00
- It. 2 pewter plates 5 sawsers 4 basons and 5 dishes weying eighteen pounds att 15d p pound £1.2.06
- It. 2 ppeplates of pewter £0.3.04
- It. 3 chamber potts £0.9.00
- It. 7 porrengers £0.3.06
- It. 2 quart potts & a pint pott £0.7.00
- It. 2 old fflagons an a yore(?) £0.9.00
- It. a pewter candlesticks a salt and a little pewter bottle £0.3.00
- It. 4 venice glasses and seaven earthen dishes £0.10.00
- It. 2 ffrench kittles £1.10.00
In the kitchen brasse
- It. 1 brasse kittle £0.15.00
- It. 2 little ffrench kittles £0.6.00
- It. an old warming pan £0.5.00
- It. 2 old brasse kittles £0.2.00
- It. a dash pan £0.4.00
- It. 3 brasse skilletts £0.4.00
- It. 3 brasse candle sticks and a brasse morter and pestle £0.7.00
- It. an old brasse skimmer and a ladle £0.1.00
- It. a paire of andirons £0.6.00
- It. an old brasse stewpan £0.6.00
- It. 2 old brasse kittles £0.5.00
- It. 2 iron skilletts and an iron kittle £0.15.00
- 2 old (?) iron pottes £1.00.00
- It. 2 iron potts lesser £0.7.00
- It. 2 paire of pot hangers 2 paire of pot hookes £0.6.00
- It. 2 paire of tongges and an old fier shouvel £0.3.04
- It. one paire of andirons and a gridiron 0.5.00
- It. a paire of iron rackes and an iron peele and another peec of old iron to lay before a driping pan £0.10.00
- It. 4 dozen of trenchers £0.2.06
- It. 2 juggs and 3 smale bottles £0.2.00
In the new chamber his clothes
- It. a stuffe suit with silver buttons & a coate £4.00.00
- It. a cloth cloake faced with taffety lineed threw with bales £3.10.00
- It. a sod coullered cloth suite £2.00.00
- It. a turkey Grogorum (Grogram) Suite and cloake £2.00.00
- It. a paire of blcke britches and a kid wastcoat £0.15.00
- It. a lead coullered cloth suit with silver buttons £2.00.00
- It. a son coullered short coate and an old serge suite £1.10.00
- It. a blacke cloth coate £0.15.00
- It. a broad cloth coate £1.5.00
- It. a light coullered stuffe coate £0.16.00
- It. an old green goune £1.00.00
- It. an old violette coullered cloake £1.5.00
- It. a short coate of cloth £0.10.00
- It. 2 old dublett and a paire of britches a short coate and an old stuffe dublit and wastcoate £1.00.00
- It. 2 paire of stockens £0.7.00
- It. 2 hates a blacke one and a coullered one £1.10.00
- It. 2 old hatts £0.16.00
- It. 1 great chaire and 2 woought stooles £1.00.00
- It. a carved chist £1.00.00
- It. a table £0.15.00
the plate
- It. one great beer bowle £3.00.00
- It. another beer bowle £2.00.00
- It. 2 wine cupps £2.00.00
- It. a salt £3.00.00
- It. the trencher salt and a drame cup £0.15.00
- It. 4 silver spoones £1.4.00
- It. 9 silver spoones £2.5.00
In the studdie
- It. eight paire of shooes of the 12s £2.00.00
- It. 6 paire of shoes of the 10s £1.4.00
- It. one paire of the eights £0.3.04
- It. 3 paire of the 7s £0.9.00
- It. 2 pairs of the sixes £0.2.08
- It. 1 paire of the 5s 1 paire of the 4s 1 paire of the 3s £0.6.00
- It. 4 yards and an halfe of linnin woolcy £0.13.06
- It. 3 remnants of English cotton £0.16.03
- It. 3 yards and an halfe of bayes £0.7.00
- It. 17 yards of course English moheer £2.2.06
- It. 4 yards and 3 quarters of purpetuanna £1.00.00
- It. 18 yards of kid penistone £3.3.00
- 5 yards of broadcloth £3.15.00
- It. 2 yards of broadcloth £1.10.00
- It. 2 1/2 yards and an halfe of olive cullered carsye £0.15.00
- It. a yard and a halfe of whitish carsey £0.7.00
- It. 4 yards of Gray carsye £1.4.00
- It. 5 yards and an halfe of kid carsye £1.7.06
- It. 4 yards and a quarter of carsey olive coullered £1.10.00
- It. 7 yards of carsye sod cullered £2.6.08
- It. 10 yards of gray carsye £2.10.00
- It. 6 yards and an halfe of kid plaine £1.19.00
- It. 9 yards and an halfe of kash £3.16.00
- It. 6 yards of holland £1.8.00
- It. a remnent of cushening £0.9.00
- It. 7 smale moose skines £4.8.00
- It. in cash £151.9.06
- It. his deske £0.5.00
- It. 2 caskes with some emty bottles £0.10.00
- It. 3 or 4 old cases £0.3.00
his bookes in folio
- It. Perkines workes £1.10.00
- It. 3 of docter Willetts workes viz on genesis exedus and daniell £1.00.00
- It. the ffrench acaddamey £0.8.00
- It. the Guictardian (?) £0.10.00
- It. the history of the church £0.8.00
- It. bodins comons wealth £0.6.00
- It. B. Bablingtons workes £0.8.00
- It. Peter martine comon places £0.15.00
- It. Cartwright on the remish testament £0.10.00
- It. the history of the Netherlands £0.15.00
- It. Peter Martine on the Romans £0.3.00
- It. Mayors workes on the New testament £1.00.00
- It. Cottens concordance £0.8.00
- Speeds general description of the world £1.10.00
- Weames christian sinnagogue and the portrature of the image of god in man £0.8.00
- It. Luther on the gallations £0.8.00
- It. the method of phissicke £0.2.00
- It. Cahins harmony and Cahins comentary on the actes £0.8.00
- It. dounhams 2 cond pte of Christian warfare, £0.3.00
- It. Mr Cottens answare to Mr. William £0.2.00
- It. Taylers libertie of phrophecye £0.1.06
- It. Gouges domesticall dutyes £0.2.06
- It. justification of speration or reasons descused & observations devine and morall the synode att dort the appollogys £0.6.00
- It. Mr Ainsworths workes the couterpoison the triang out of the truth £0.2.00
- It. Mr. Ainsworth on genisis, exedus and livitticus £0.4.00
- It. Calvin on genises £0.2.06
- It dike on the deceitfulness of mans hart £0.1.06
- It. Gifford refuted £0.0.06
- It. doe on the commandements & another of his £0.3.00
- It. three and fifty smale bookes £1.6.06
- It. Cahine on the epistles in duch with divers other duch bookes £0.15.00
- It. 2 bibles £1.00.00
- It. a paire of boots £0.5.00
- It. in lether £0.18.00
- It. 2 old chists £0.10.00
- It. 6 old barrells a bucking tubb a brewing tubb other old lumber £1.00.00
- It. a pcell of cotten woole & a pcell of sheepes woole £2.10.00
- It. a pcell of feathers £0.12.00
- It. 3 ewe sheep £4.10.00
- It. 3 middleing sheep and a poor one £4.00.00
- It. a rame lambe and an halfe & a half an ewe lamb £0.16.06
- It. the old mare £12.00.00
- It. a lame mare and an horse coult £14.00.00
- It. a horse of two yeare old and advantate £7.00.00
- It. another horse coult of yeare and advantage £5.10.00
- It. 4 bullockes £20.00.00
- It. 7 cowes £28.00.00
- It. a bull £4.00.00
- It. 2 young bulles of two year old £4.10.00
- It. a heifer of three yeare old not with calfe £3.5.00
- It. 2 heifers of two years old £5.00.00
- It. 4 yearlings £6.00.00
- It. five calves £3.00.00
- It. a sow and 2 hoggs £2.15.00
- It. 2 shoats £1.4.00
- It. five smale shoates £1.10.00
- It. the house and orchyard and some smale pcells of land about the towne of Plymouth £45.00.00
- It. 2 spinning wheeles and a wether £0.16.00
- At the Westward in debs upon the duch account consisting in divers pcells £153.00.00
Item debs owing to the estate
- It. the Kenebeck stock consisting in goods and debts both English and Indians £256.00.00
- More debts owing in the bay
- It. in douce the shoomakers hands £5.00.00
- It. in Mannasah Kemptons hands £5.00.00
- It. more belonging to the estate in diverse pticulars £57.00.00
Debts owing from the estate
- It. to Mr. Davis and Mr. Sheffe £5.00.00
- It. to Samuell Stirtivant £2.3.00
- It. 2 the townes land £1.12.00
- It. John Jourdaine about £2.00.00
- It. to goodman Clarke about £3.10.00
- It. two goodman Nelson for killing of cattle & for veale £0.18.06
- It. to William Palmer £12.4.00
- It. to the church of Plymouth £5.10.00
Som pcells of land not mencioned above belonging to Mr. William Bradford Senr.
- It. one pcell att Eastham and another att Bridgewater
- It. a smale pcell about Sautuckett and his purchase land att Coaksett with his right in the townes land att Punckatessett
By us Thomas Cushman, John Dunham
- It. Sundry implements forgotten belonging to the teame.
- Joseph b. 1665
- Elisha b. ca. 1669, d. 1745 md. 1) Hannah Cole 2) 1719 Bathsheba Brock 132a-153v
- (--?--) d. young
- (--?--) d. young
- (--?--) d. young
- (--?--) d. young
- (--?--) d. young
- (--?--) d. young
- Hannah b. 1719 md. Joshua Bradford
- Joseph b. 1721, never married
- Sylvanus b. 1723, d. 1725
- Nehemiah b. 1724, never married
- Laurana b. 1726 md. 1745 Elijah McFarlin
- Mary McFarlin b. 1746 md. 1768 James Murfree
- Sabra McFarlin
- Joseph McFarlin
- David McFarlin
- (--?--) McFarlin
- (--?--) McFarlin
- Elijah McFarlin b. ca. 1751, d. 1827 md. 1774 Sarah Marshall
- Hannah McFarlin md. 1768 Caleb Rider
- Laurana McFarlin b. 1755, d. 1834 md. 1776 David Churchill
- Abigail McFarlin d. before 1822 md. 1775 Stephen Martin
- Mary b. 1727, d. before 1730
- Elisha b. 1728, d. before 1730
- Joseph (2nd) b. 1729, never married
- Lois b. 1731
- Deborah b. 1732 md. 1751 Jonathan Sampson Jr.
- Jonathan Sampson b. ca. 1753 md. 1780 Bethia (Edson) Barden
- Hannah Sampson md. 1785 Benjamin Bosworth
- Ephraim Sampson d. 1810 md. 1) 1783 Elizabeth (Edson) Barden, 2) 1808 Mary (Besse) Covill
- Deborah Sampson b. 1760, d. 1827, aka Robert Shurtleff served 3 years as a private soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and drew an army pension. Deborah was wounded at the battle of Tarrytown and the bullet was never removed. She md. 1784 Benjamin Gannett
- Nehemiah Sampson b. 1764, d. 1818 md. 1789 Bathsheba Baker
- Sylvia Sampson b. 1766, d. 1836 md. 1799 Jacob Cushman
- Elisha Sampson
- Alice b. 1734, d. 1795 md. 1756 Zebulon Waters
- Nehemiah Waters b. 1758
- Asa Waters b. 1760, d. 1845 md. 1) 1785 Lydia Smith, 2) 1810 Mary (Lyon) Smith, 3) 1839 Susan Shepard
- Matilda Waters b. 1761 md. 1781 James Nash
- Rebecca Waters b. 1762, d. young
- Daniel Waters b. 1769, d. 1781, killed in action American Revolution age 16
- Hannah Waters b. 1767, d. 1817 md. 1788 David Drake
- Zebulon Waters b. 1768, d. 1831 md. 1) 1794 Zilpha (Drake) Lovel, 2) 1802 Lucy Belcher
- Samuel Waters b. 1770
- Mary/Molly Waters b. 1773, d. 1823 md. 1802 George Randall
- Chloe Waters b. 1775, d. 1816 md. 1794 Lemuel Monk
- Asenath b. 1736, d. 1818 md. 1) 1753 Nathan Estey, 2) 1755? Daniel Waters, 3) 1765 Benjamin Packard
- (--?--) Etsey
- Bethia Waters b. 1757, d. 1837 md. 1774 Samuel Packard
- Lusee Waters b. 1759
- Samuel Waters b. 1762
- John Packard b. 1765 md. 1789 Hannah Randall
- Lois Packard b. 1767
- Jedidiah Packard b. 1771, d. 1816 md. 1792 Anne Bretton
- Meletiah Packard b. 1773, d. 1852 md. 1) 1794 Elijah Bliss, 2) 1797 Eliphat / Eliphalet Worthington
- Carpenter b. 1739, d. 1823 md. 1761 Mary Gay
- Chloe b. 1762, d. 1770
- Azurbah b. 1765, d. 1823 md. 1791 Enoch Wentworth
- Hannah b. 1767, d. 1840 md. 1) Zenas Cooke, 2) 1791 William Jameson
- William b. 1770 md. Sarah Sweetland
- Mary b. 1772, d. 1845 md. 1792 Levi Morse
- Chloe (2nd) b. 1776, d. after 1860 md. ca. 1802 William Burton
- Emily b. 1781
- Abigail b. 1741, d. 1760
- Chloe b. 1743
- Content b. 1745, d. 1745 1 day old
- Peter b. 1676/7
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