Person:Robert Kember (1)

The Will of Robert Kember

"The Will of Robert Keymber of Lower Harston in the parish of Brixton, Devon, yeoman, dated 29 Dec. 10 James I (1612).

To wife Ann 40 marks. To son John Keymber £4 and 8 bushells of barley. To John, son of my brother Thomas Keymber £5. To Dorathy, Agnes, and Thomasine, daughters of said Thomas 5s. each. To my brother Thomas, clothing. To my daughter Jane, wife of Christopher Snelling, a ewe sheep and to her daughters, Mary and Jane, a ewe sheep each. "Itm. I gyve & bequeathe unto Joane my Dawghter the Wyfe of Peter Cawfing twoe yoe sheepe. Itm. I gyve and bequeath unto Tristram and Joane the children of Peter Cawfing to eche of them one yoe sheepe." To Joane, daughter of my son John Keymber a ewe sheep. To William Head, sometime my servant, a sheep. To Robert Bartlett my grandchild. 2 ewe sheep. To Elizabeth, daughter of George Ellis, one sheep. To all my godchildren living at my death, 4d. each. Residuary legatee and executor, my son in law, Xpofer Snelling. Good friends Thomas Wynston of Brixton and John Avent of Harston, yeomen, overseers, and to each 12d. Proved at Plympton Morris, 23 Jan. 1612-13. (Arch. Totnes. 1612.)"^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938)
   2:619.

   Robert Kember, born probably about 1555, died in Brixton, Devon, England, between 29 Dec. 1612 and 23 Jan. 1612-13.