The Last Will and Testament of John Jenney
"The last Will and Testament of John Jenney of Plymouth gent lately Deceased exhibited to the genrall Court the fift of June in the xxth yeare of the now Raigne of our sovraigne Lord charles Kinge of England &c.
I John jenney of new Plymouth in New England being sick and weake in body but through Gods speciall goodnes in pfect memorie Do thinke meete to settle that estate the Lord in mercy hath bestowed on me according as I conceive hee requireth at myhands. And therefore Do ordaine this my last will and testament. And therefore having bequeathed my soule to God that gave it and my body to the earth whereof it s I do give unto my eldest sonne Samuell jenney a Double porcon of all those lands I stand possessed of or have right unto wthin the goverment of new Plymouth my will being pformed next of all I give unto Sarah my loveing wyfe whom I ordaine my Executrix my Dwelling house and Mille adjacent together wth all the lands thereunto belonging, my will being that shee freely and fully enjoy it together wth all other my moveables goods and chattells so long as God shalve pleased to continue her life except such as I shall after Dispose of or shee shall willingly and freely part wth to any our children according to my will and Desire Alsoe whereas Abigaile my eldest Daughter had somewhat given her by her grandmother and Henry Wood of Plymouth aforesaid is a sute to her in way of marriage my will is that if shee the said Abigaile will Dwell one full yeare wth mr Charles chauncey of Scittuate before her marriage (pvided he be willing to entertaine her) that then mys aid Daughter Abigall have two of my cowes and my full consent to marry wth the said Henry Wood And in case ms Chauncey be against it then I would have her dwell wth mrs winslowe of Careswell the said terme of one yeare ffurther as I have given to my eldest sonn Samuell a double porcon of all my lands whatsoever after the death of his said mother so also I give him a double porcon of my whole estate wth the rest of my children vizt John Abigall Sarah and Susann My will being that after the death of my said wyfe my house and mill and other mylands and goods be sold or valued to the utmost they are worth and that the estate be equally Distributed amongst my said children Samuell John Abigall Sarah and Susan as followeth, Samuell to have a double pcon and the rst of them eich a single & equall porcon of the same Last of all I do ordaine my worthy frends mr Wm Bradford now Goveror of Plymouth and mr Thomas Prence of the same the Ovrseers of this my last will and testament and do give eich of them a paire of gloves of five shillings price And in witnes that this is my Will I have hereunto sett my hand & seale the xxviiith of December anno Dm 1643.

John Jenney (seale)
Witnesses hereunto : Edward Winslowe, Thomas Willett, William Paddy.

From Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 6, p. 169-170.

THE INVENTORY OF JOHN JENNEY’S ESTATE, 1644
"A true Inventory of all the goods chattells and cattells wch were mr John Jenneys lately Deceased taken and apprise by Willm Paddy and Nathaniell Sowther the xxvth Day of May Anno Dm 1644.

Note: inventories are valued in pounds (L), shillings (s) and pence (d).  There were 12 pence (or pennies) to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound.

L s d
Inpris two cowes 10 06 08
It one three yeres old heiffer 14 13 04
It iiii ewe sheepe 06 00 00
It one ewe sheeps 01 00 00
It three weather sheepe 02 05 00
It i cow calfe 00 12 00
It three oxen 19 00 00
43 17 00

In the chamber ovr the parlor
It i little feather bed & two boulsters 01 00 00
It i pillow 00 02 06
It ii blanketts 00 10 00
It i pere of old sheets 00 05 00
It i old chest 00 02 00
It i new sheete 00 06 00
It 5 fine old sheets 01 05 00
It 5 paire of old sheets at 5s 4d 01 06 08
It 8 pillow beers at 20d 00 13 04
It i halfsheets & a peece of old linnen cloth 00 03 00
It i table cloth 00 04 00
It 9 old napkins at 4d 00 03 00
It a little towell & old linnens 00 02 00
It i old trunck 00 00 08
It a baskett wth Dressed hemp in it 00 02 06
It xlb of feathers 00 06 08
06 12 04

In the Parlor
It vi sett cusheons 00 10 00
It a feather bed and furniture to yt 3 old blanketts i old greene rugg & curtaine 3 10 0
It an old warmeing pann 00 02 06
It a chest 00 02 00
It 9 napkins at 6d 00 04 06
It 4 fine old napkins 00 02 00
It i long towell 00 01 08
It 2 Diap cloths 00 01 04
It 8 course napkins 00 03 04
It old linnen table cloths 00 04 00
It i seeled chest 00 06 08
It a short carpett 00 03 00
It a carpett 00 06 08
It his weareing apparell 03 00 00
It 5 yards cotton Darnix 5s a black hatt 12s 00 17 00
It a chaire table 4s & a featherbed tick 16 01 00 00
It 2 beere barrells & other lumber 00 04 00
It 3 silver spoones 00 15 00
08 04 08

In the Dwelling house
It i smale globe 00 02 06
It Cartwright on the Rhemist testament 00 08 00
It mr Downams workes 00 08 00
It i old bible 00 01 00
It other old bookes 00 04 00
It a kneadeing trough & cover 00 08 00
It 2 joyne stooles i forme and a chaire 00 07 06
It i spinninge wheele 00 04 00
It 3 old peecs a pistoll & a paire of bandeliers 01 10 00
It 3 salts & 2 smale pewter cupps 00 03 00
It 2 quart potts & a pint pott 00 06 04
It x peecs of pewter 32 l & 3 porringers 01 15 04
It x peecs more of pewter 24 l 01 04 00
It 3 smale latten pans 00 01 06
It i larg latten pan 00 01 00
It a pewter bottle 00 00 02
It 3 smaler kettles 00 11 00
It a bras cover 00 00 03
It a smale bras pann 00 12 00
It 2 larg bras kettle 21l at 16 01 08 00
It i copper kettle 21l at 01 01 00
10 16 07
It i larg copper kettle 01 05 00
It i frying pann 00 02 00
It a skimmer and an old bras ladle 00 00 08
It a bras candlestick 00 01 06
It a bras posnett 00 02 00
It a larg iron pott 00 10 00
It 4 other iron potts broken & maymed & a posnet 00 16 00
It i iron kettle 00 05 00
It a fire shovell & a paire of tonges 00 02 00
It 3 paire of pott hooks 00 02 00
It 2 paire of pott hangers 00 05 00
It for trees payles & other lumber 00 05 00
It a black bill 00 01 08
03 17 10

In the Dary house
It 8 earthen panns & potts & tubbs 00 05 00
It 3 trees & a kimnell 00 02 06
It an earthen bason 00 00 02
It a churne 00 02 00
It a cheese presse 00 02 06
00 12 02

In the chamber over the house
It two bed steads 00 12 00
It a feather bed & boulster & two pillowes 02 00 00
It i old rugg and a blankett 00 06 00
It i paire of sheets 00 07 00
It i smale seacanvas feather bed & boulster wth cotton 00 12 06
It iiii old blanketts 00 12 00
It 2 pillowes & pillow beers 00 07 00
It i joyned table 00 12 00
It i longe wheele 00 04 00
It 2 old axes 00 02 00
It i smal adds & other old iron 00 07 00
It 2 old netts 00 05 00
It an old cartrope 00 02 00
It 2 jarrs tubs & old baskets & lumber 00 05 00
It a paire of steeleyards 00 06 08
It 18 bushells of wheate 03 12 00
It vi bushells of barley 01 04 00
11 16 02

Without Doores
It 3 yeokes 00 07 06
It a paire teases for a single oxe 00 02 06
It i old Harrow 00 01 06
It i old weane and wheeles 04 00 00
It 2 cheanes & a broken one 00 14 00
It i old plow an ovrworne coulter & share & hooke 00 09 00
It a broken sith a clevis pin & old saw & a yeoke & fork 00 01 00
It i boate viL xs whereof she hath a third pte 02 03 04
It ii bushells & a peck of wheate 00 09 00
It iii bushells & a half of barley 00 14 00
It 5 pecks of peas 00 05 00
It I bushell of oates 00 02 00
It to receive for the salt panns 08 06 08
It 5 sides at tanning 04 10 00
22 05 06

Sum totall 108 L . o3s . 03d.
Nathaniel Sowther
William Paddy

Debts oweing by the Testator
It To Samuell Chaundler 05 10 00
It To mr Paddy 04
It To Thom Pope 00 07 00
It To John Barnes 03 00 00
It To John Yeonge 01 02 00
It To Richard mr Chanceys man 00 04 00
It To Josias Cooke 00 10 00
It To mr Gray 00 16 00
It To Samuel Jenney 05 00 00
It To James Hurst for John wood 00 04 00
It To Giles Rickett 00 08 00
It To Henry Wood 01 00 00
It To Richard Smyth 02 00 00
It To Richard Sparrow 00 15 00
It To the Apothecary for Phisick 00 10 00
It funerall charges 30s & pbat of the will &c 01 16 00
It for mending the mill & morters & planks 00 12 00
It more to Thomas Pope 00 07 00
It To ffrancis Cooke 01 10 00
From : Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 6, p. 171-174.

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