*[Copy of the Will and Inventory of Robert Day.--Colony Records, vol. 1. pp. 255, 6.
May 20th, 1648.
The will of Robert Day hee being sick and weake, yet
in perfect memory : doth order and dispose of his estate
to his wife and children, in the manner following:
Impr'mis I give vnto my beloued wife Edatha Day my now dwelling howse and howsing thereto
adjoyning, howse Lott, Allso all my Land whereof I stand possessed, or that of right doth
belong vnto mee, lying in Hartford, during the tearme of her naturall life : And at the end of
her life, my will is that the said howse and land shall bee deuided in an equall proportion :
my will allso is that all my howsehold stuff, and Cattle and other moueable goods shall bee
my wiues to bring vp my children : And in case my wife should bee married to another man,
then my surviers of my will shall haue power if they thinke good to take security for the
bringing vp of the children, and for so much estate as shall bee though meete by them, and
to this my last Will and Testament I make my wife my Executrix, and I doe desire my Deare
Brethren Mr. Tailecoate, Willerton, and Stebbing, to take care of and Assist my wife in the
ordering her selfe and my children, and I give them power to doe what in their Judgements
may bee for the best, to bring vp my Children and dispose of them, and that I leaue, for theire
good : And to this my will I sett to my hand the day aboue written.
EDWARD STEBBING, ROBERT DAY
WALLTER GAYLERD.
14th October, 1648.
An Inventory of the Goods of Robert Day deceased.
œ s. d.
In the Chamber. Impr. one Bedstead ; one fether bed, and fether
Boulster and flock boulster : 2 pillowes, & bedcase
& Curtaines. 07 00 00
Item : 2 blankitts, one red & yellow Couerlitt
Item : 1 chest 10s : 1 Box 3s : 1 desck box 3s : 00 16 00
Item : 1 table 5s : 1 Cubberd 5s and Chaiers 00 16 00
Item : 3 paier of sheetes 02 00 00
Item : 6 table napkins 12s : 1 table cloth 5s. 00 17 00
Item : 6 pillow beeres 01 10 00
Item : the wearing Clothes with 3 skinns 05 00 00
Item : in Linnen yearne and Cotton wool yearne 01 10 00
Item : 2 Cushins 6s : 1 paire of Bellowes 3s. 00 09 00
Item : 1 Little Baskitt 12d : 1 warming pann 6s. 00 07 00
In the Hall. Item : 1 Brass Kettle 02 10 00
Item : 1 Little kettle 12s : 1 little brass kettle 00 15 00
Item : 1 brass possnett (†) 4s : 1 brass pott 16s : 1 Iron 01 14 00
pott 14s.
Item : 1 brass Chaffin dish 3s : one skimer 00 05 06
Item : 7 pewter dishes, and some broken pewter : 1 saser :
2 pewter potts : 1 Candlestick : 1 salte : 1 small bottle : 01 10 00
6 ockum (‡) spoons, 2 porringers and 4 old spoones.
Item : 1 Lattin (§) dripping pann : 1 spitt, 1 pistoll : 1 00 10 00
smoothin Iron
Item : in earthern ware, and wooden ware 00 10 00
Item : 1 muskitt Bandleers (¶) and sword 01 00 00
Item : 1 table and 2 Chaires 00 05 00
In the sellar, Item : in tubbs and Tables and formes 01 00 00
In ye little chamber : It : one flockbed, 2 blankitts : 1 couerlitt, 1 04 12 00
feather houlster, 2 feather pillowes, 2 bedsteads
Item : 3 hogsheads, 2 Linnen wheeles, 1 woolen wheele, 00 19 00
one Barrill.
Item : 1 table, 1 wheele, 1 hatchett 00 05 00
Item : in working tooles 01 08 00
Item : 1 Leather Bottle 2s : VId : 1 paire tongs : 00 15 00
fier pann, grid Iron : frying pann, one trammell
Item : in Bookes, and Sackes, and Ladders 01 00 00
Item : one Cow : 1 3 yeare ould heifer : one 2 yeare 14 10 00
old heifer, with some hay to winter them
Item : 2 hoggs 3£. 03 00 00
Item : in seuerall sortes of Corne with some hemp and flax 15 00 00
Item : the dwelling howse and out howsing, howse lott 45 00 00
and Garden.
Item : about 6 Akers of meadow, in severall parcells 26 00 00
with vpland ________________
Summa : Totalis 142 : 13 : 06
JOHN TAILECOATE
GREGORY WILLTERTON
EDWARD STEBBING :
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(†) Posnet, a little basin or skillet.
(‡) Ochimy, (alchemy) a mixed base metal.
(§) Latten, tin, iron plate covered with tin.
(¶) Bandoleers, a large leather belt, thrown over the right shoulder, and hanging under the left
arm ; worn by ancient musketeers for sustaining their fire arms, and their musket charges,
which being put into little wooden cases, and coated with leather, were hung to the number of
twelve to each bandoleer.--Webster.
In the following register, the descendants of Thomas, the ancestor of the Springfield
branch, will first be given, and then of John, the ancestor of the Hartford branch.
To each name a number is attached which it retains under all circumstances and by which
it may always be distinguished from every other. For the sake of adding new names not at
present known, and also of making it easy to tell at a glance how many children there were in a
family, the numbering in each family ordinarily begins with a decimal. In some cases there are
still wider gaps. Those known to have died are designated by a star. It is scarcely necessary
to mention the b. signifies born; bapt., baptized; d., died, and m., married.
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*MS letter from Hon. Thomas Day of Hartford.
