JOHNSON and SCHAUFELBERGER GENEALOGY
PRATT ARTIFACTS--Will of Phineas Pratt
Transcribed at Phineas Pratt
"I Phinias Pratt of Charlstown in the Countie of Midellsex Joyner being very aged and Crazye of body yett in my pfect memory and
vnderstanding doe make This my last will and Teastamoen Item I giue vnto my belouied wife Mary Pratt all my mouabl goods and fortie Shillings a year to be payed oute of my land in Charlstowne and the use of the gardon for term of hir life: this fortie Shillings is to be payed by my sonn Joseph Pratt for and in consideration of the hauing of my land and my wif is to haue a conuenient room of my sonn Joseph with a chimny in it to hir content to liue in for term of hir life. wthout molestation or trubl; but If my sonn Joseph doeth not perform this will that then my wif Mary Prat shall haue the one half of the land to hir Dispossing for hir best comfort: it is to be vnderstod that the one half wch the new hous standeth one is giuen to Joseph vpon the condistion of prouiding of a conuenient room for me and my wife for term of our liues and this other half for the paying of the fortie Shillings a year paying it quartterly that is to say ten shllig a quarter in mony and fier wood at mony price and If ther be any thing left at the death of my wife it shalbe equally deuided a mung all my children this eight of Jeneary 1677
Phinehas Pratt Sealed and deliuerd in the presents of Use Walter Alen the marke of Rebeack Alen 15:4:80: Sworn in Court pr Walter Allen"
INVENTORY
Ann Innvytory of the Estat of Phinias Prat of Charlstown deceased
a psell of land 18 00 00
In primis in woollen clothes of his 01 10 00
It in linning shirts 00 09 00
It 8 pillober & 5 napkins 00 13 00
It 5 Sheetts 01 04 00
It 4 blanckitts & 2 rugs 02 05 00
It a bed boulster & pillo 02 10 00
It a small bed 00 08 00
It 2 culbards 2 Chests one box 01 05 00
It peuter 02 02 00
It 2 bras Skillitts 5s a warmg pan 5s 00 10 00
It 2 Iorn potts on Skillit 00 09 00
It 2 Iorn keettells 01 06 00
It a tramil & fring pan 00 03 00
It a smas [small?] tabell 2 chayers 00 05 00
It a pr of hose 2 bages 00 04 00
It earthen war 5 trenchers 00 02 06
It wooden ware 00 02 00
It a hachit a houldfast a froue 00 05 00
It lumber 00 16 00
It bookes 00 08 00
16 16 06
34 16 06
thes goods are prized by Larenc Dowce & henery Balcom the 21:3:1680 15:4:80 Sworn in Court by the executrix Mary Pratt as attest, Tho:Danforth. R. Added. 4. 12. 81. Cow comon in charlstown stinted comon. 06 00 00
Note that the 300 acre parcel was not inventoried until 1738!