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John Booth

Male 1700 - Bef 1750  (49 years)


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  • Name John Booth 
    Born 16 Sep 1700  Scituate, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 14 Mar 1750  Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3272  A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
    Last Modified 22 Mar 2009 

    Father Benjamin Booth 
    Mother Mary Sutton 
    Family ID F9544  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ID F27753  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ID F27756  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ID F27765  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Priscilla Peirce,   b. 1701, Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Jan 1789, Taunton, Bristol Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married Abt 1720 
    Children 
     1. Priscilla Booth,   b. 29 Jan 1721, Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John Booth,   b. 21 Jul 1729, Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Nov 1802, Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     3. Zebedee Booth, Sr.,   b. 22 Jun 1731, Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jan 1813, Middleboro, Plymouth Co, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
    Last Modified 22 Mar 2009 
    Family ID F1370  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Know all Men By these presents that I John Booth Senr. of the Town of Middleborough in the County of Plimouth in New England Being at this present Time of a Sound and Disposing Memorey and understanding Blessed Be God for the Same Yet being Sensibal of my own mortallity and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye Do make and Ordain this to Be my Last Will and Testement to Remain firm and Inviolable For Ever. I Give and Bequeath unto my well Beloved Wife Priscilla Booth the use and Improvement of the one half of my
      Dwelling house and Barn and out Houses and also the use Improvement and Income of the one Half of all my Lands meaddows and Cedar Swamps that I Dye possest of. also the use Improvement and Income of the one Half of all my Movables Both withindors and with out During the Taim of her Life.
      Item. I Give and Bequeath unto my Son John Booth junr. the one Half of all my House and Barn and out Houses also the one Half of all my Lands Meadows an Cedar Swamps and also the one half of all my Movables Both in Dores and without.
      Item. I Give and Bequeath unto my Son Zebede Booth the one half of all my Dwelling house and Barn and out Houses also the one Half of all my Lands Meadowes and Cedar Swamps also the one Half of all my Movebles Bouth within Doores and without the .... Long Equally to these my Two Sons John Booth and Zebedee Booth above mentioned to them and there heirs & assigns ..... there mother's use and Improvement of one Hafe thereof During her taime of Life as above mentioned.
      Item. I Give and Bequeath unto my Daghter Priscilla Simmons thirty three pounds Seven Shillings money to be paid Twelve months after my decease and my Will is that my son John Booth Should pay one half and Zebedee Booth my Son Shall pay the Other Half as a Legacy unto my Daughter Priscilla Simmons the thirty three pounds Seven Shillings in money which I have given unto her by the time above
      .....
      Item. I give Equally unto my Son John Booth and my son Zebedee Boothe all my Due Debts and Demands that I shall have against any at my Decease and all the money or Bills of Credit that I Shall have then by me they Equally to pay all my Just Debts and funeral Charges and my will is that my son John Booth shall be Executor of this my Last Will and Testement. This Hoping that this my Last Will and Testement will be Kept and ....ed According to the True Intent and Meaning thereof. I commite my body to the Dust and my Soul to God that gave it. in witness whereof I the aforesaid John Booth Senr. Hand hereunto Set my Hand Seal this Eighteenth Day of January one thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty.
      John Booth
      Signed Sealed and Declared by the abovenamed John Booth Senr. to be his Last Will and Testament in presence of
      us Isaac Peirce junr., John Howland, James Mead.

      Plimouth Sc. Mass. Nathaniel Southworth Isaac Peirce junr. and Josiah Holloway all of Middleborough in the County of Plimouth Yeoman. Greeting. You are hereby .... and Directed to make a Just and Equall apprizement of the Estate Which John Booth Late of said Middleborough Deceased Dyed Sezed of and make .... thereof to one under your hands and upon your Oathes as soon as you can Given under my Hand March the 17th 1750. John Cushing Judge of Probate.

      Middleborough March the 14th 1750.
      We the Subscribers being Impoured by the Honourable John Cushing Esq. Judge of Probate for to make a just apprisement of all the Estate Which John Booth Late of Middleborough Deceased Dyed Seized of which is as Followeth:
      His Wearing appariel
      His armor and Books
      His Beding ... Table Linnen and Brass
      .. Iron Earthen and Glass Ware
      Wooden Chair in the House
      Sider and Empty Casks
      Spinning Wheels Hogs fat tallow flax
      One Barril of Pork
      Sixty Bushels of Inden Corne
      Horse furniture
      Sixteen sheep
      one .... and all his Head Cattle
      his carte Wheels Yokes Chains and all Iron ...
      Horse Trows and Husbandrey Tooles
      Two Lode of Inglish hay
      ... Letather and
      Two Hives of Bees
      Two Thousand of Shingle
      300 of Lead Nails
      Hine White Pine Loges
      Cash in the old ...
      His homsted Lot with a hous barne house and all other buildings thereon
      His old farm with the House and ... thereon
      A Tract of Land Lying near Samuel Richmonds Containing about sixty three acres
      an Eighth part of the Tenth Lot of Seder Swemp
      Together With one Half Shair in the Third Shairing ....