Source: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records by Charles William Manwaring. Vol. 2, Hartford District 1700-1729. Pages 177-178. Also consulted: Some Descendants of Daniel Clark, of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639-1913 Compiled by Emma Lee Walton, Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, Forty-Second Street Building, New York 1913 Pages 18-25
The full will was carried in the Walton book and missing parts inserted in Manwaring's version
shown below by being denoted in brackets [ ]
Will of Capt. Daniel Clarke, Windsor dated August 31, 1709.
[Imps. I commend my soul unto the faithfulnes of the Lord Jesus Christ expectinge his perfecting
of sancity in me and my felicitie in the eternall enjoyment of him at his appearance. And my
body to Christian buriall. As for that little portion of Terrene estate that it hath pleased the Lord
to intrust me with, I do Will and dispose of it as followeth,]: In the first place, all my just debts
and funeral charges to be paid. And Whereas, I obliged to my now wife £40 to be paid her out
of my estate in case she shall survive me, as will appear by an instrument to which I have signed
and sealed, my will is that sd. sum be truly paid according to the tenor thereof in my engagement
in such estate as may conduce to her comfort, with £5 in provision as an addition to the sum
aforementioned of £40.
For the rest of my estate, my will is that my wearing apparel should be divided among my sons
that shall be living to receive them.
My will is that if the confirmation be obtained from Owaneco of the 100 acres he promised,
which is laid out and bounded, and for which I have obtained the grant of the General Court, I do
order that it be entirely sold, whereof 1/4 part of the product of it shall redound to my now wife
if she be living to receive. The other three parts shall be equally divided amongst my three
daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sarah, or to their children if any of them do die before it be
affected. [Provided in first place that the expence that may be disbursed for the perfecting of the
title of the land be satisfied.] [It. My Will is that the rest of my personal estate shal be devided
between my three Daughters as followeth, My Daughter Elizabeth (the estate being devided into
four parts) shal have her third part as her sisters have and of the fourth part she shall have the
one half of it, and Mary and Sarah the other half divided between them.]
I give to my son John the ox chain that he borrowed of me and to my son Samuel my musket. I give to Johnny my best powder horn, and to my son Daniel I give my cutlass and my buff belt and buff coat. And I do hereby ratify and confirm those alienations that my sons have made of lands that I gave them. And to my wife, if she survive me, I order towards the sum aforementioned of £40 particularly the bed, bedsted and furniture that we used to lie on, and my best trunk with bars on the cover, and the lesser of the great kettles, with what she desires of pewter and other utensils in the house, to be valued according to the agreement. And to my son Jonas I give 10 shillings besides his proportion of my wearing apparell. And I do constitute my son John Clarke and my son-in-law Roger Wolcott executors. And I desire my honored kinsman Col. Matthew Allyn (if God please to grant him a safe return) to be supervisor if need require.
[And for the confirmation of what is above written I have hereunto subscribed my name and
fixed my seale This 31 day of August In the yeare of our Lord 1709]
Signed: Daniel Clarke, LS.
Witnesses: John Moore, Sen.; Thomas Moore
Codicil, dated July 10, 1710: On serious consideration I think meet to alter somewhat in my will,
on the other side, in a particulars: First, respecting my daughter Elizabeth Drake, wife of Lt. Job
Drake, my will is that she shall have a double portion out of my dividable estate and the other
two parts to be divided between my other two daughters, Mary and Sarah.
Signed: Daniel Clarke, LS.
Witnesses: John Moore, Sen.; Thomas Moore.
Court Record, Page 18: September 8, 1710. Will and inventory exhibited.
Winsor August the 14th: 1710 We whose names are hereunto subscribed have Joyntly and allso, sevorally Chosen Mr. John More and Mathew Allyn to apprize the estate of Capt. Daniell Clark of Winsor, late, deseased, and pertikulerly his sd wife martha the forty pounds given her by her late husband: Capt. Danll Clarke by, by a wrighting under his bareing Date Febr. 12th anno dom 1688/9: witnes our hands--
the sevorall persuns subscribing martha Clarke
to the above written acknowledged John Clarke
those signeing heare unto in presence Jedadiah
and wittnes of us Sarah
Jno. Wolcott Senr Samll Clarke
William Woolcott Job Drake
Inventory taken September 8, 1710 by Matthew Allyn and John Moore, Senior. Valued at £95-00-08 [An Inventory of the estate of Capt. Danll Clark Late of Windsor Decd August ye 12th: 1710 wherein firstly is set down perticularly what was set out to mrs martha Clark widw and Relict to sd Capt Clark with the Consent of the Legatees for the fullfilling of the fourty pounds engaged before marriage and the five pounds Given her by his will: being £45 in the whole]
Impr a bed bolster and pillow £3-5s; a green shag Rug £1-10s 04-15-00
a Kercy Coverlid and white Blanket 20s Curtains and Vallons 20s 02-00-00
Bedstead and Cord 14s a warming pan 16s a frying pan 6s 01-16-00
fire slice and tongs 10s bellows 3s old skillet 3s 00-16-00
a old Lanthorae 2s bras Ladle and flesh fork 4s 00-06-00
a old bel metle morter 4s-6d: a qt pot & 2 beacers 6s-6d 00-11-00
a Iron Candlestick 18d; a brass kittle at £4 a Iron Kittle 21s 05-02-06
a Grid Iron at 6s a smal spinning wheel 5s-6d 00-11-06
a great and smal chair 5s: 4 plates 5s-6d a poringer 18d 00-12-00
1 puter platter 8s 1 smal one 2s one bason 4s 00-14-00
a brass skimmer 2s6 a pail 3s a milk bowl 10d 00-06-04
a hammer 2s-3d a tap augre 2s-3d a meal sive 2s 00-06-06
a wheat Riddle and wort sive 3s a chamber pott 4s 00-07-00
a drawing Knife 3s-4d a old ax a spade 7s 00-15-09
a peas hook 2s bittle rings and 2 wedges 6s-6d 00-08-06
two swine at £4 2 Cows £9 13-00-00
a pair of traces 12s flax in the sheaf 19s 01-11-00
a trunck and old chest 20s old churne 3s-6d 01-03-06
1/2 bear barll 20d one pair of sheets 30s 01-11-08
a pair of Cob Irons 20s a linnen flasket 9s 01-09-00
2 bus 1/2 of barly malt: 11s-3d a old pair stilliards 5 Iron pot & hooke 20s 01-16-06
1 old cotton sheet, 1 Linnen 2 old old pillowbers 30s a old ½ busll 2s 01-12-00
the Ry in ye barn 42s: to have 7 busll of barly out of ye barn 28s 03-10-00
45-01-06
Here follows the Remainder of the Inventory belonging to said Capt.
Danll Clarks estate apprized as pay To his waring apparell of all sorts 13-15-00
a Cutliss and buff belt £1: In Colony Bills £3 as pay £4-10s 05-10-00
a muskit £2 a flax 3s a powder horn 6d 02-03-06
£3 of lead 1s-6d 3 old pouches 1s-6d Candoleers 1s 00-04-00
a wainscot chest £1 a great old trunk £1 02-00-00
a featherbed bolster and pillow £3-10s: a blanket 8s 03-18-00
a diamond Coverled 16s a bedstead cord and 2 Iron rodds 18s 01-14-00
3 Curtains and Vallons 12s a feather bolster and pillow 8s 01-00-00
a flock bed £1; 2 old bolsters 4s 2 spinning wheels 7s 01-11-00
a barll with some sope 4s a reel 1s-6d a stand 1s 00-06-06
2 wooden morters and pestle 2s 2 old pecks 1s 00-03-00
a working bench 6d a tin dripping 1s-6d a cheesfat 1s 00--03-06
old barll with feathers 10s 6 old barlls 6s: 3 hogsetts 4s 01-00-00
a bed stead and matt 5s a meal sive 1s a old chest and some salt 1s 00-07-00
a rying sive 6d meal trought 2s a old clock 2s 00-04-06
2 old broad chissells 1s 2 narrow chissells 1s a bil hook 1s-6d 00-03-06
a brest wimble and bitt 1s: 3 old augers 2s-6d a spring Lock 2s 00-05-06
a Gally pott 6d a fender 6d a sickle 6d old Iron 6d 00-02-00
a bag 3s 1 ditto 1s 2 old smal truncks 2s 00-06-00
12 Run of Linnen yarn and ten of toe yarn: £1-5s-8d 01-05-08
a pair of fine sheets £1-15s 1 new sheet 15s 1 cotton sheet 15s 03-05-00
an old sheet 2s 2 fine pillowbers 10s: a diaper table cloath 1 01-12-00
7 diaper napkins 10s-6d: 5 ditto 4s a old table cloth 1s-6d 00-16-00
2 toe napkins 2s-6d an old table cloath 6d 4 towels 2s-6d 00-05-06
old Kercy Blanket 10s a green Rugg 14s 01-04-00
a diamond Coverled 15s a bed sted and Cord 9s 01-04-00
3 corn Baskets 2s a pair of hatchells 8s Iron dung fork 2s 00-12-00
Cart rope 3s a chees press 2s-6d 3 old barrells 2s 00-07-06
In the Kitchen a great Brass Kittle £3: 1 ditto £1 04-00-00
2 brass panns 11s a small bras pott 5 s a bras chafing dish 5s 01-01-00
a basting Ladle 1s a pair of andirons with bras heads 12s 00-13-00
a puter flagon 8s a bowl 1s 4 porringers 6s 00-15-00
3 puter platters: £1-4s-0 1 ditto 6s 1 ditto 4s 2 ditto 2s 01-16-00
9 plates 13s-6d a great puter bason 6s: 1 ditto 4s 01-03-06
a candlestick 4s-6d: 1 ditto 1s: 3 smal basons 4s-6d 00-10-00
a smal sarcer 1s a pint pott 2s-6d: 1 old ditto 1s a bracer 18d 00-06-00
a salt seller dramcup & tumbler 2s 3 spoons 18d Shears 1s 00-04-06
a tobaco knife 1s a box and Iron 2s a tin fish plate 1s 00-04-00
a smal trevit 1s a spitt 4s a tramel 6s 00-11-00
Iron to hang over ye fire 1s a saddle hammer 3s 00-04-00
a pair of pincers 1s a old chissel & smal file 1s 00-02-00
a branding Iron 2s 2 pailes 3s 00-05-00
2 gimblets 6s: a peggin bal 6d 2 thimbles 6d 1 doz of trenchers 1s 00-02-06
a earthen pan 1s-6d a cream pott 1s 00-05-06
a hour Glas 1s-6d a smal table 4s 00-05-06
a great Bible £3-10s-od mr hookers survey 3s 03-13-00
part of 2 old bibles 3s a psalm book 2s on Daniel 3s 00-08-00
a Lattin bible 6s: 4 Lattin books 4s a smal trunk 2s 00-12-00
a Cubbard 16s a Leather Coller 1s 00-17-00
3 forks 6s a hoe 1s a stubbing hoe 1s a hansaw 1s 00-09-00
2 old rakes 1s a old chamber pot 1s 00-02-00
2 old axes 2s a pair of Cart bands 12s 2 chaires 2s-6d 00-16-06
a plow chain and caps 13s-6d plow and Irons 15 01-08-06
a pair of old Cart wheels & boxes & axltree pins 00-01-00
a yoke and Irons 2s-6d 16 small harrow teeth 7s 00-09-06
a Grindstone 8s 2 old tubbs 1 old Barll 5s 00-13-06
a yoke of oxen 12-00-00
a cow £4-10s one yearling £1-15s 06-05-00
a pease hooke 1s hay in the barn £2-10s 02-11-00
barly in the barn more than mrs Clark is to have 7 bus 01-08-00
a horse at £4-10s 04-10-00
a plow chain in Johns hand 00-12-00
a tub and a forme 1s 00-01-00
The foregoing Inventory was taken by
us as witnes our hand this 8th of september 1710
Mathw. Allyn
John Moore Senr
At a Court of Probate holden at Hartford, for the County of Hartford September 8th Anno: Dom: 1710 John Clarke and Roger Wolcott, Executors of the Last Will and Testament of Capt. Daniell Clark late of Windsor decd. exhibited in the Court this Inventory of the Estate of the said deceased, and the Sd John Clark, and Mrs. Martha Clark Widdow, relict of the Said decd. made Oath that this Same Inventory contains an accompt of all the Estate of Said Capt. Danl. Clark decd. that at present they know of, and that whatever else of the Sd Estate Shall hereafter come to their hands or knowledge, they will bring an account thereof to this Court that it may be added to the Inventory.
Test Caleb Stanly Clerk