APPENDIX I.1 THOMAS HOOKER'S WILL AND INVENTORY OF ESTATE. The last Will and Testament of Mr. Thomas Hooker, late of Hartford, deceased. I Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, vppon Connecticutt in New England, being weake in my body, through the tender visitation of the Lord, but of sound and perfect memory, doe dispose of that outward estate I haue beene betrusted withall by him, in manner following: I doe giue vnto my sonne John Hooker, my howsing and lands in Hartford, aforesaid, both that which is on the west, and allso that wch is on the east side of the Riuer, to bee inioyed by him and his heires for euer, after the death of my wife, Susanna Hooker, provided hee bee then at the age of one and twenty yeares, it being my will that my said deare wife shall inioye and possess my said howsing and lands during her naturall life: And if shee dye before my sonne John come to the age of one and twenty yeares, that the same bee improued by the ou'seers of this my will for the maintenance and education of my children not disposed of, according to theire best discretion. I doe allso giue vnto my sonne John, my library of printed bookes and manuscripts, vnder the limitations and provisoes hereafter expressed. It is my will that my 1 See page 151. sonne John deliuer to my sonne Samuell, so many of my bookes as shall bee valued by the ou'seers of this my will to bee worth fifty pounds sterling, or that hee pay him the some of fifty pounds sterling to buy such bookes as may bee vseful to him in the way of his studdyes, at such time as the ouerseers of this my will shall judge meete; but if my sonne John doe not goe on to the perfecting of his studdyes, or shall not giue vpp himselfe to the seruice of the Lord in the worke of the ministry, my will is that my sonne Samuel inioye and possesse the whole library and manuscripts, to his proper vse for euer; onely, it is my will that whateuer manuscripts shall bee judged meete to bee printed, the disposall thereof and advantage that may come thereby I leaue wholly to my executrix; and in case shee departe this life before the same bee judged of and setled, then to my ouerseers to bee improued by them in theire best discretion, for the good of myne, according to the trust reposed in them. And howeuer I do not forbid my sonne John from seeking and taking a wife in England, yet I doe forbid him from marrying and tarrying there. I doe giue vnto my sonne Samuell, in case the whole library come not to him, as is before expressed, the sum of seuenty pounds, to bee paid vnto him by my executrix at such time, and in such manner, as shall be judged meetest by the ouerseers of my will. I doe allso giue vnto my daughter Sarah Hooker, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, to bee paid vnto her by my executrix when she shall marry or come to the age of one and twenty yeares, wch shall first happen; the disposall and further education of her and the rest, I leaue my wife, advising them to attend her councell in the feare of the Lord. I doe giue vnto the two children of my daughter Joannah Shephard deceased, and the childe of my daughter Mary Newton, to each of them the sum of ten pounds, to bee paid vnto them by my sonne John, within one yeare after hee shall come to the possession and inioyment of my howsings and lands in Hartford, or my sonne Samuell, if by the decease of John, hee come to inioye the same. I doe make my beloued wife Susannah Hooker, executrix of this my last Will and Testament, and (my just debts being paid,) do giue and bequeath vnto her all my estate and goods, moueable and imouable, not formerly bequeathed by this my will. And I desire my beloued frends Mr. Edward Hopkins and Mr. William Goodwyn, to affoard theire best assistance to my wife, and doe constitute and appoint them the ouerseers of this my will. And it hauing pleased the Lord now to visitt my wife with a sicknes, and not knowing how it may please his Matie to dispose of her, my minde and will is, that in case shee departe this life before shee dispose the estate bequeathed her, my aforesaid beloued frends, Mr. Edward Hopkins and Mr. William Goodwyn, shall take care both of the education and dispose of my children (to whose loue and faithfullnes I commend them,) and of the estate left and bequeathed to my wife, and do committ it to theire best judgment and discretion to manage the said estate for the best good of mine, and to bestow it vppon any or all of them in such a proportion as shall bee most sutable to theire owne ap'hensions; being willing onely to intimate my desire that they wch deserue best may haue most; but not to limmitt them, but leaue them to the full scope and bredth of their owne judgments; in the dispose whereof, they may haue respect to the forementioned children of my two daughters, if they see meet. It being my full will that what trust I haue comitted to my wife, either in matter of estate, or such manuscripts as shall bee judged fitt to bee printed, in case shee liue not to order the same herselfe, bee wholly transmitted and passed ouer from her to them, for the ends before specified. And for mortallity sake, I doe put power into the hands of the forementioned beloued freinds, to constitute and appoint such other faithfull men as they shall judge meete, (in case they bee depriued of life or libberty to attend the same, in theire owne persons,) to manage, dispose and performe the estate and trust comitted to them, in as full manner as I haue comitted it to them for the same end. THOMAS HOOKER. This was declared to bee the last Will and Testament of Mr. Thomas Hooker, the seuenth day of July, 1647. In the presence of HENRY SMITH, SAMUELL STONE, JOHN WHITE. AN INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE OF MR. THOMAS HOOKER, DECEASED, TAKEN THE 21ST APRILL, 1649. In the new Parlour; It.: 3 chaires, 2 stooles, It.: in ammunition, 47. It.: in a table, & In the ould Parlour; It.: 2 tables, a forme, 4 chaires, 4 stooles, 4 table carpetts, window curtaines, andirons and doggs &c., in the chimny, LE S. d.] 05 00 00 06 00 00 • [05 00 00] In the Chamber ouer that; It.: a featherbed and boulster, 2 pillowes, a strawbed, 2 blankitts, a rugg, and couerlitt, darnix hangings in 7 peeces, window curtaines, curtaines and 09 00 00 valence to the bed, a bedstead, 2 chaires, and 3 stooles, andirons &c. in the chimny, & a courte cubberd, [6 S. d.] 14 05 00 It. curtaines and valence to the same bed, In the Hall Chamber; It.: a trunck of linnen, 05 00 00 27 00 00 03 05 00 12 00 00 In the Kittchin Chamber; It.: a featherbed, a . In the garritts: It.: in corne and hoggsheads and other houshould lumber, It. in apparrell and plate, : 21 00 00 . 14 15 00 In the Kittchin; It.: 2 brass kettles, 3 brass potts, 2 chafing dishes, 2 brass skilletts, a brass morter, a brass skimmer, and 2 ladles, 2 iron potts, 2 iron skilletts, a dripping pann, 2 kettles, 2 spitts & a jack, a p' of cobirons, a pr of andirons, a p of doggs, fire shouell and tongs, 2 frying panns, a warming pann, a gridiron, 7 pewter dishes, 2 porringers, I p' of bellowes, a tinn dripping pann, a roster, & 2 tyn couers, potthooks and trammells; all valued at . 40 00 00 12 10 00 |