“PLYMOUTH COLONY DEEDS

(Continued from Vol. X, p. 317)

[frances Adams To Nicholas Ware]

[p. 188] 1657 Bradford Govr:

Know all men by these prsents That wheras Willam Vassall late of the Hand of Barbados Esqr Deceased Did by his last will and Testament bearing Date the thirty first Day of July 1655 give and bequeath unto mee ffrancis Addames his Daughter the one fift pte of two third ptes of all his estate lands and Chatties; and wheras my husband James Addames att his late being att Barbados Did by a bill of sale bearing Date the tenth Day of ffebruary 1656 for the consideration therin expressed bargaine sell enfeof and confeirme unto Nicolas Ware of the said Hand of Barbadoes marchant all his and my Right title and Interest in the plantation the said Willam Vassall lived on in the Parrish of Saint Michaells in the aforsaid Hand together with all the Negrees horse Stocke &c therunto belonging and all other the estate Reall and Psenall; lands goods and Chatties belonging or any way appertaining unto him the said Willam Vassall or Debts Due unto ye said Vassall from any pson or psons whatsoever in this Hand or any other pte or place in the world excepting onely that estate hee the said Vassall had in New England att the time of his Death that is to say the land hee formerly lived on Scittuate lying and being within the Township of Marshfeild and Scittuate in the Pattent of New Plymouth and all his estate Reall and Psenall in Scittuate aforsaid or in any other pte of New England; Now know yea that the said bill of sale and sale therby made was Done and is with my full and free Concent for my selfe my selfe my heires exequitors and adminnestrators heerby Rattifying allowing and Confeirming the same to all Intents and Purposes in the said bill of sale mencioned; In Witnesse wherof I have heerunto put my hand and Seale