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Estate of Thomas Wickes of Salem
Essex Probate Docket # None
The Last will & testament of Thomas Wickes of
Salem made ye 9 : 7 mo : 1655
I Thomas wickes being weake of Bodie but of pfect memory doe ordaine this
as my Last will & testament
Impr I giue & bequeath unto Alice my wife ye one third of all my estate
Reall & personall
Ite. I giue & bequeath unto My two daughters Bethiah & Hannah the
remainder of my estate to be equally Deuided betweene them the whole estate
to remaine in ye posession of my wife untell my daughters be of ye age of
eighteene yeers || either of them || orshalbe otherwise disposed || of ||
before in mariage, whereby my said wife may ye better be inabled to bring
up my two daughters---
The will of Thomas Wickes of Salem was proved in the Salem quarterly court
24 : 4 : 1656. The copy is from the original on file in the office of the
clerk of courts at Salem, volume III, leaf 53. "The Essex Antiquarian" Vol
VI, P. 165
Inventory of the estate of Thomas Weeke, lately deceased, taken by Hilliard
Veren and Thomas Cromwell. Amount £192, 10 s; real £57, house,
shop, barn and land; personal £135, 10s Due from the estate, £42,
10 s "The Essex Antiquarian" Vol IX, #1, P.62
Sources: See above
Submitted by: Roseanne Montgomery
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