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Saturday, January 7, 2017

Research Log - 400 Years Ago

1617


March
2 - Margerie Skynner of Braintree, Essex England wrote her will:
To my daughter Margerie five pounds (and other goods) and to her son John Gill a bullock.  To my son William Skynner five pounds.  
To my son John Skynner twenty pounds.  
To my daughter Rachell five pounds.  I do give and bequeath further to my daughter Rachell three pewter platters of the greater sort and three of the best cushions in the great chamber and my warming pan.  
To Sara Taylcoat a flock bed and a flock bolster, a coverlet and a pair of blankets (and other effects). To Rachell Taylcoate a little kettle of a gallon, a brass pot, a posnet (&c.).  
And I will that the pewter which I had of my son in law