Person:Samuel Bitfield (3)

The Will of Samuel Bitfield

Samuel Bidfield. - Will. 12 : 3 : 1659. I giue vnto my wife my dwelling house and yard with the out house in the yard during hir life, pruided shee stay in this Cuntry and keepe the sayde house in repare, and after her decease or going out of the Cuntrie into England, my will is, saide house shall fall to Samuell Plumer, my grandchild, and to his heires. If hee dye with oute issue, it shall goe to the next sonn and his heires, and soe to the rest successuily. Unto my wife, £40, and halfe the houshould goods; the other halfe to bee devided to my tow dau's children, to each of them Alike, that is to say, Samuell Plumer, John Plumer, Ephraim Plumer, Mary Plumer, John Steuens, Sameull Steuens. Also, vnto John Steuens and Samuell Steuens, £10, to each; also, my two mares and two horses, after my decease, if non of them bee sold before; and they to receiue this gift at the age of 21 yeares. Vnto my sonn, Samuell Plumer, all my wareing Cloths, both linell and wollin. To Mr Tompson, £5; to Mr Willson, 40s.; to Mr Norton, £3; to James Penn, 40s; to John Seirch, 20s.; to William Dinsdale, my Joynter, axes, oders, and all my other working tooles, wth on coat and a pare of britches. My wife executrix, and James Penn and Samuell Plumer, ouerseers. It is my will that James Penn shall take the £20 I doe giue to my two grandchildren, and keepe it till the come to age.

Witnesses Nathaniel Williams Madott Enges. Who deposed 20th Sept. 1660

Inventory taken 13th 7th mo 1660 by Richard Dole, Joseph Armitage. Amt. £512.

Elizabeth Bidfield, widow of Samuel, deposed.^[4]

1. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:155.

   Beetfield, or Bitfield, Samuel, Boston, constable 1652, d. 1 Sept. 1669, left wid. Eliz.

2. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).

   Bidfield, Bedfield, or Betfield, Samuel, Boston, cooper, freeman. 2 June 1641, and my conject. is, since his name is not found in our list of ch. Mem. that he was liv. then at Braintree, but was a constable of Boston 1652, had two ds. and d. 1660. By his will, of 12 May 1659, he provid. for w. Eliz. s. Samuel Plummer, wh. had, I suppose, m. his d. Mary, and John and Samuel Stevens, ch. of his d. Eliz. and William S. of Newbury dec. and at N. I suppose he d. His inv. of 13 Sept. 1660, shows good est. See Drake's Hist. of Boston, 250 and 331, with Geneal. Reg. X. 83.

3.   Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883)
   75.

   Samuel Bitfield deceased the 10th of September (1660).

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Trask, William B. Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (1848-1866, 1876-1878)
   10:83, Jan 1856.
5. ↑ Based on marriages and children, estimate Elizabeth born about 1624 and Mary born about 1626.