Will and inventory of William Pontus of Plymouth, and inventory of James Glasse (Plymouth Colony Wills)

Printed in The Mayflower Descendant 11 (1909) pp. 92-94, read in the archive.org full text.

Will of William Pontus (9 Sept 1650; exhibited at the court of 4 Mar 1652/3 on the oaths of John Dunham senior and Joshua Pratt; signed by his mark). To “my eldest Daughter Mary,” debts and funeral expenses first paid, “my Dweling house with all my lands goods, and all things else whatsoever is mine.” To “my other Daughter hannah twenty shillings sterling as an adition to her portion which in my life time I have allreddy given her.” Executor “my soninlaw James Glasse.” Witnesses Joshua Pratt, James Hurst, John Donham. No wife is named.

At the same court Samuel Dunham testified that Pontus had given “his soninlaw John Churchill and hannah his wife one third pte of his meddow att the Watering place near Plymouth,” on condition that John make half of the new fence, maintain a third of it, “and bee healpfull towards the maintainance of him whiles hee lived.” Mary Glasse, widow, consented, and the court confirmed the meadow to John Churchill and his heirs.

Inventory of William Pontus, taken 20 Feb 1652/3 by Nathaniel and Ephraim Morton, on the oath of “Mary Glasse Widdow”: £12 17s in all, the house and land £8; a chest and a box, a pot and hooks, a pewter platter, an iron skillet, two chairs, “4 ould stooles,” “one old lanthorne a trewell and a lampe,” a fork and a spade, a drawing knife, old wearing clothes and old bedding.

Inventory of James Glasse, taken 20 Feb 1652/3 by John Dunham senior and Ephraim Morton, on the oath of “Mary Glasse Widdow”: “2 cowes and a steer,” a chest and box, a sow, basins, a platter and porringers, three chairs, “one fowling peece,” tools, books, sheets and bedding.