Person:Samuel Scullard (1)

Estate of Samuel Scullard of Newbury

"'In the name of god amen In the Twenty seaventh day of March in the yeare of our lord 1647 I Samuell Scullard being sick in body but of pfect memory thanks be given to god; And I doe ovdaine & make my last will & Testament as followeth first I bequeath my soule to god & my body to the earth in hope to be raised againe in the resurreccon by Jesus Christ my saviour Secondly I give & bequeath all my estate to my wife & children that is to say one halfe to my wife & the other half to my two Children Mary & Sarah by equall porcons and my will is y^t if my wife be now with child & bring forth a Sonne then my will is that my estate be diuided into three parts and my sonne to have one part my wife one part & my two daughters one part to be equally divided betweene them But if my wife bring forth a daughter then my will is that my estate yet should be diuided into three pts my wife to have one part & my two daughters to have two parts to be equally diuided betweene them Now my will is that my childrens porcons should be improved for the bringing vp of my children vntill they be twelve yeares of age and after the Twelve yeares to be improved to their advantage vntill they be eighteene yeares of age the two daughters or three before, if they be married and the sonne at one & Twenty and then to be paid to they themselves. And for that forty pounds which I am to have of my wives father Richard Kent at his decease of my wives porcon my will is that my wife should have Thirty pounds of it her selfe besides. And I doe not account yt w^th my other estate and for the other ten pounds of it to be equally diuided betweene the Children. Likwise my will is that if any one of my children die that then that porcon is to be diuided equally betweene my wife & children. Likewise I doe desire my three frends Henry Short Richard Kent Jun & Richard Knight to see that this my will & Testament be pformed.'

[No signature.]

Witness: John Sweett, w^m Moneday. Proved 28 : 7: 1647 [September 28, 1647], by Henry Short and Richard Knight.

Inventory taken Apr. 7, 1647, by Stephen Kent, John Merrell and John Emery: … total, 1391i. 19s.; debts that are owing from him, 10li. 18s. 4d. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 1, leaf 27.

Administration granted 28: 7 : 1647 [September 28, 1647], to John (his mark) Bishop and Rebecca (her mark) Bishop, his wife. The houses and lands to be divided between said John and his wife and the two children. The cattle and the rest of the stock for John and his wife to take as they were appraised. Henrye Short, Rich. Knight and Rich. Kent were ordered to dispose of half of the houses and lands of Samuel Scullard for the good of the children. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 1, page 11.

Samuell Denise of Woodbridge in the province of New Jersey acknowledged the receipt from John Bishop, sr., sometime of the Island of Nantucket, of 'fortie od pounds,' in behalf of his wife Sarah Dennis, formerly Sarah Scullard, it being her share given unto her by her father Samuel Scullar. The 51i. given her by her grandfather Richard Kent included in the value. Dated Sept. 19, 1670. Witness: Richard Dole, Wm. Chandler.

Jno. Roffe of the Island of Nantucket acknowledged the receipt from Jno. Bishop, sr., sometime of the Island of Nantucket, of 'forty od pounds, in behalf of his wife Mary Rolfe, formerly Mary Sculler, it being her share given unto her by her father, Samuell Sculler. The 51i. given her by her grandfather Richard Kent included in the value. Dated Sept. 19,1670. Witness: Wm. Chandler, Nathaniell Clark, Richard Dole. Ipswich Deeds, vol. 3, page 162."^[6]

"The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass., 1916-20), I: 82-84 … states that the Bishops, identified as husband and wife, were granted administration on '28: 7: 1647 [September 28, 1647],' although, according to the original Newbury Vital Records, p. 3 [FHL #886,202), John Bishop m. Rebecca Scullard, widow, five days later, on 3 Oct. 1647. Court sessions sometimes lasted several weeks, and the docket number for the granting of the Scullard administration was 34 (Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, Book 1646-1666, p. 11 [FHL #877,462]). The court apparently reached item #34 after 3 October. The couple must have gone to get administration of her late husband's estate immediately after their marriage."^[5]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Samuel Scullard, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
   299.

   "Scullard, Samuel: [Origin] Abbots Ann, Hampshire; [Emigration] 1637; [resided] Newbury; [NeTR 11, 36; MBCR 1:236; TAG 75:181-86]."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} 2 Samuel¹ Scullard, in Reed, Paul C. The English Origin of Samuel¹ Scullard of Newbury, Massachusetts. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul 2000)
   75:183-86.

   "2 Samuel¹ Scullard (Robert^A) was born probably in Hampshire, England, about 1616-17. He died at Newbury, Massachusetts, [before 7] April 1647, aged possibly about 30. He left a nuncupative will, which suggests that his death was sudden. He was in New England in 1638, at which time he would have been just of age, and followed or accompanied the Rev. Stephen Bachiler to Newbury in that year. He presumably came over immediately after attaining majority or perhaps emigrated with a relative or guardian. … His will was dated 27 March 1647 and proved on 28 July 1747. Administration was granted to John Bishop and Rebecca, his wife, at the Quarterly Court Session that began on 28 7th month [September] 1647.

3.   Samuel Scullard, in 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)
   4:43.

   "Scullard, or Skullard, Samuel, Newbury 1637, at Hampton next yr. but soon back to N.; by w. Rebecca, d. of Richard Kent, had Mary, b. 9 Jan. 1642; Rebecca, 4 Feb. 1644; Sarah, 18 June 1645; and prob. the oldest ch. Martha d. 6 Mar. 1645; and he d. 1647. In Oct. of this yr. his wid. m. John Bishop, and his d. Mary m. 4 Dec. 1656, rather young, John Rolf."

4.   Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
   2:717.

   "Scullard, … [Samuel. S. (copy of vital records made by Henry Short about 1690.)], [died] Apr. __, 1647."

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Reed, Paul C. The English Origin of Samuel¹ Scullard of Newbury, Massachusetts. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul 2000)
   75:183-84.

   "Edward Holden, comp., 'Births, Marriages, and Deaths, from the Files of Suffolk County,' NEHGR 20(1866): 144, states that Samuel Scullard d. 6 March 1643—which is actually the date of his daughter Rebecca's death—aged 80. The information was probably recorded long after the fact, hence the discrepancies. That Robert^A Scullerd named only two children in his will might also indicate they were born in the years immediately preceding his death. Given the ages of Samuel's spouse and children, it is more likely that '80' was a misreading of '30.' This is reflected in Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Baltimore, 1985) 658."

6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
   1:82-84, 1896.