Person:Henry Rolphe (2)

Estate of Henry Rolfe of Newbury

"The 15th 12th month 1642 I desire to comend my soule into the hands of the lord Jesus Christ, I desire my goods may be equally divided to my wife & all my children, only my sonne John Roffe must have the howse & land more then all the rest of my children and that their porcons shalbe divided when they be 21 yeares of age if they marry not before In case my wife dye or marry then the goods shalbe divided; otherwise not till my eldest childe come to be 21 yeares of age But still to remayne in their mothers hands with the rest till that either of them are 21 yeares of age or marry. If any of my children dye then that porcon shalbe equally divided betweene my wife & the rest of my children. I doe give vnto my wife one great brasse pott and one great brasse pann, and a great brasse posnett and a chafing dish and five pewter platters I doe give vnto my Kinsman Thomas whittear a swarme of bees. I desire my brother John Roffe and my Cosen John Saunders of Sallisbery and william Mondy of Newberry to oversee my will & order it to my desire & accordinge to my will.

Henry Roffe

Witness: Thomas Hale ,Thomas Cowllman, william Mose.

Proved 28:1:1643

Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 2.

Inventory taken 1:1:1642, by John Woodbridg, Henry Short and Richard Knight: howse & land, £30; Six kowes, £30; foure oxen, £24; one bull & one steere, 3 yeare old, £7. 10s.; three beasts, two years old, £8; two beasts, one yeare old, £2. 10s.; three Calves, £1. 4s.; three hoggs, £1. 4s.; Bees, £7. 10s.; haye, £4; Soyle, £1; Cart, Slead & 3 Yoaks, £1. 6s.; within the howse: one fetherbed & flockbed, £3. 10s.; Six fether pillowes, 18s.; 4 Coverleds, £2; 5 blanketts, £1. 10s; 3 paier of Sheets, £1. 8s.; 2li. and a halfe of bee wax, 2s. 6d.; bowlster Case & pillow & napkins, 10s.; porke, £2. 7s.; butter & Cheese, 12s.; barrells & butte[r] Cherne & other lumb., 18s.; Pewter, £1. 7s. 6d.; Brasse, £3. 13s.; a Brasse pott, £1; iron potts, £1. 6s.; A chafing dish & a posnet, 5s.; 12 bushells of indian corne, £2. 2s.; 9 bushells of wheate, £2. 6d.; 2 bushells of pease, 9s.; hogsheads & howes & other lumber, 16s.; in apparrell, stockins & shoes, £3; muskett & fowling peeces & 2 Swords & bandileers, £1. 19s.; working Tooles & lanthorne, 15s.; bookes, £1; spining wheeles, 10s.; a chest & chaiers & other lumb., 16s.; harrow tines, 10s.; total £153. 8s. 6d.

Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 3."^[3]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Hoyt, David W. The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. (Providence, RI, 1897-1919)
   I:301.

   Henry(1) Rolfe, of Newbury, bro. of John)1_, m. Honour -----; d. March 1, 1642-3; will Feb. 15, March 28, 1642-3.

2. ↑ French, Elizabeth, and J. Gardner Bartlett. Genealogical Research in England - Rolfe. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 1912)
   66:249.

   (Parish Registers of Whiteparish, Wiltshire, 1559-1655) 1585 "Christened the 5th of septemb: Henrye Rofe ye sonn of John Rofe."

3. ↑ Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
   I:21-22.
4.   Unknown. Some Materials Towards a Genealogy of the Family of the Name of Rolfe. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1849).
5.   Rolfe, Henry. Henry and John Rolfe of Newbury and Salisbury and Their Children. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1882).
6.   Celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Newbury: June 10, 1885. (Newburyport Mass.: Printed by order of the Historical Society of Old Newbury, 1885)
   131-132.
7.   Currier, John J. "Ould Newbury" : historical and biographical sketches. (Boston: Damrell and Upham, 1896)
   97, 155, 272.
8. ↑ Hoyt notes that "several errors of importance [Coffin's Newbury, Register 1849, pp. 151-2, and Register 1877, p. 87] are corrected in this (his) work.