John SOULE

                   FAMILIES OF THE PILGRIMS..(GEORGE SOULE LINE)

ANCESTRAL FILE (1992)

Is the following my John Soul?  Mentions wife Hester.....
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	John Soule's Inventory	159
JOHN2 SOULE'S INVENTORY AND THE SETTLEMENT OF HIS ESTATE
Transcribed from the Original Records,
BY GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN.
JOHN2 SOULE (George1) died at Duxbury, but the date of his death is not known. He died intestate and his widow Hester was appointed administratrix, on 14 November, 1707, by Nathaniel Thomas, Judge of Probate. The record of this appointment is in the Plymouth County Probate Records, Volume II, page 87. The inventory is on the same page. The agreement between the heirs is found on page 91 of the same volume.
[p. 87] The Inventory of John Soul late of Duxbourrough Decease is as it was taken & apprized by us whose names are under written this 3d day of December 1707.
	£    s    d
Viz: one Cow & heifer	2 15  0
Wareing Clothes Libery & money	5 00  0
2 swine	0 10  0
beds & beding	8 10  0
Iron Houshold stuff & tools	2  4  0
Brass & Pewter	0 12  0
two Chests with other wooden lumber	1 10  0
flax & table linen	0 10  0
to a mean Cow hide & a maire hide at ye Tanners in Plimouth	0  5  6
one wheel & bag with a Cannoe & spectacles	1 24  6
The Estate of Hester Soul Widdow of John Soul abovesd
       which she Brought with her is as follows
Viz: 2 Iron pots with some other Lumber	1  2  0
Thomas Deleno
Abraham Samson
Ben: Deleno
Memorandum on the Ninteenth day of December 1707 before Nathll Thomas Judge of the Probate of wills &c: Appeared Hester Soul & made oath yt the above written is a true Inventory of the Estate of her Husband John Soul late of Duxborrough Deceased so far as she knoweth & when she knoweth of more that she will Discover the same
Nathll Thomas Register

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[p. 91] Middleborrough December 5th 1707 Whereas we whose names are hereunto Subscribed were desired by the heirs of Mr John Soul of Duxborrough Deceased, to make apprizement of the severall percels of land which the sd John Soul died seized of in the township of Middleborrough & which he had not in his life time disposed of, which we have acordingly done, according to the best of our Judgments as followeth: namely we have prized
	ll   s   d
1st The lot of Ceder Swamp in the six & twenty mens Purchase	3  0  0
2d The lot of land in Assawanset neck	5  0  0
3d The lot of the last division of upland in the sixteen)
shilling Purchase & the share of Ceder Swamp at
Assonet Ceder Swamp & the undivided land in the	7  0  0
sixteen shilling Purchase: all
4th The lot in the south Purchace being in Number the (*) lot	1  0  0
5th The lot in the South Purchace being in number the (*) lot	1  5  0
	Joseph Vaughan    total   17  5  0
	Jacob Tomson
March the 5th 1707 The settlement of the Estate in lands of John Soul late of Duxborrough deceased Intestate. He haveing in his life time settled all his sons Portions in land by deed & his Daughter Sarah had only one Cow of her father in his life time & his Daughter Rachel & Rebecka haveing had nothing of their father, & he leaveing undisposed some small parcells of land at Middleborrough being apprised at 17ll 5s 0d is by them that is to say Adam Wright in behalf of his children which he had by the said Sarah his wife Deceased & John Cob and Rachel his wife & Rebecka the wife of Edmond Weston Mutually agreed as followeth, That is to say the said Smal parcels of land as afforesd prized at 1711 5s 0d & the Cow said Sarah had of her father at 40 shillings makes 19ll 5s 0s which being devided in three parts makes 6ll 8s 4d to Each of them And that the Children of the said Sarah shall have the lot of the last division of upland in the sixteen shilling Purchase & the share of Ceder Swamp at Assonet Ceder Swamp & the undevidid land in the sixteen shilling Purchase all prized seven pounds to belong to the said children & their heirs the sd Adam Wright haveing paid & satisfied to the sd Rachel Cobb the sum of 2ll 11s 8d & that the said Rebecka Weston shall have the lot of land in Assawamset neck prised at five pounds & the 2 lots in the south Purchace to her & her heirs both prized at fourty
* The number of the lot was omitted.