The 11th day of the 10mo December 1646: To god be the prayse, I John ffayrefeild beinge in perfect memory though weake in Boddy doe make this my last will and Testament in manner & forme as followeth.... I doe Give and Bequeath to Elizabeth my beloued wife my pte of house & ground which I haue in Coptnershipe with Joseph [Bat]chelder to her & to her Heires foreuer Item: I doe giue vnto my wife all my moueables within dores and without as namely my Cowes Cattle Swine Corne Housall Implyments and vtensels Bed bedings Lininge Woolinge Brass Peuter mony Debts and whatsoeuer is mine either in Possession or accruinge or belonginge to me for her the said Elizabeth to haue and injoy the same as her owne fee Simple to dispose of at her pleasure without Interruption or molestation from any other, and also my will is that my said wife shall haue the vse and occupation of the house I now liue in and the ground Appertayninge thereunto and of my fearme had from Salem; vntill such time as Beniamen my yongest sonne shall Come to twenty yeeres of Age; and then my minde and will is that this house & Land & my moueable Goods || then remaininge || shall all be equally in the proportion devided, betwine my wife, and three Children || soe many of them as shall then survive ||. And further this is my will that my wife shall see the bringinge vp of my Children Christian Like and Honestly and alsoe the due disposall of them vnto such honest occupations or lawefull Callings or Conditions of life as she in her wisedom with the advice of the supervisors of this my will shall esteem most meete, this her said Care of them to extend towards my said Children vntill my yongest son Beniamine Comes to twenty yeeres of age And Likewise my will and pleasure is my sonne Walter shallrset himself satisfyed with what I heere haue done as Concerninge him and to take it as my minde and advice that he would approue himselfe dutifull vnto his Mother vpon whose Curtisy he shall depend for ought elce he might expect; Alsoe my minde is my said wife shall make no estripp or wast of Timber fensinge, and shall keepe my said houses in good & sufficient Reperrations and my ground sutably fenced and inclosed accordinge as she finds the same duringe the same space of Tearme, and in Cause she shall disposs her selfe in marryage that then she shall before the solemnisinge of the same enter into sufficyent bond & security for the fulfillment of this my will vnto the Supervisors, further my minde and will is that for my gunes and swordes: my Chrildrne shall haue the vse of them as need require Item I giue vnto Mathew Edwards my Cossen Twenty Acres of vpland lyinge within my fearme had from Salem with two acres of middow to be laid out most indifferently by my supvisors to injoy it at one and twenty yeeres of Age. Item I Constitute And ordayne Elizabeth my wife sole Executrix And my Louinge and well approued freinds Mr. Henery Bartholomew of Salem and Robertt Hawes of Salem these two Supvisars to this my last will and Testament. In witnes where of I haue set to my hand and Seale.


his mark       
John      Fairefild.


     Witness: Jo. Fiske, William Fiske, Robert Hawes.
     Proved 7: 5: 1547, by William Fiske and Robert Hawes, and 8: 5: 1647, by Jo. Fiske. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 77.

     Inventory taken 23: 10: 1646, and sworn to by widow Elizabeth Fairfield, 7: 5: 1647: One dwelling house, 7li. 10s.; seventie five Acres of upland and seven acres of meddow, 21li. 16s.; fearme of Eightie Acres of upland and eight acres of meddow, 6li.; a Joynte purchase with Joseph Bachelder, containing fortie eight Acres of upland and three Acres of meddow & a dwelling house and a Cowhouse & Corne sowed upon it, 10li.; wheat unthrashed, 1li.; Rye unthrashed, 1li.' Indian corne, 8li. 15s.; five loads of hay, 2li. 10s.; three cowes, 13li. 10s.; three yeereling Calves, 4li. 16s.; one sucking calfe, 8s.; one fatt Hogge, 2li. 10s.; one sow, 1 li. 15s.; one hogg, 1li. 8s.; two shotts, 1li. 4s.; three piggs, 1li. 4s.; one feather bed & Bolster & five feather pillowes, 3li.; under bed, one greene rugge and one blankett, 1li. 12s. 6d.; one feather bed, one feather boulster and one flock boulster, 2li. 5s.; two coverlits, one pillow and two under Blankets, 16s. 6d.; Greene lincye woolsie curtaynes and a darnick Vallience, 1li.; one Bedstead and cord, 5s. 6d.; fowre payre of old sheets, 1li. 4s.; two sheets and a halfe of fine flax, 1li. 8s.; fowre pillowbeeres, 8s.; two diaper napkins and three playne napkins, 4s.; two hand towells & one old boord Cloth, 4s.; one great brass kettle, 18s.; one middle brass kittle, 12s.; one lesser brass kittle, 7s.; one brass bakinge pann with a Cover to it, 7s.; three brass skillitts and a brass scommer, 5s.; one small iron pott, 2s.; five peuter dishes, 9s.; two fruitt dishes and two sawcers, 3s. 6d.; fowre peuter porringers, 2s. 4d.; one pinte pott of peuter, 2s.; one double salt of pewter, 1s. 6d.; one peuter Candlestick, 1s. 8d.; six pewter spoones, 6d.; a chamber pott of pewter, 2s.; two chests, 10s.; three boxes, 3s.; one cubbortt, 5s. 6d.; two payles, 2s.; one beere barrell, 5s.; one spitt, 2s.; a payre of andyrons, 3s.; a gridiron, 1s. 6d.; a frying pay, 1s.; a payre of tongs & fyre shovell, 1s. 6d.; a warming pan, 2s. 6d.; a muskett with a fyrelock, 14s.; an old Fowlinge peece, 14s.; a pistoll dag, 5s.; a sword and bandlears, 8s.; a beetle & fowre wedges, 4s.; two old axes, 3s.; a crosscutt saw, 8s.; a hand saw & two old shovells and payre of pinsons, 4s.; twenty-three harrow tines, 4s. 9d.; three hanginge locks, 2s.; an iron foot, 1s.; two payre of hookes & eyes for a gatte, 2s.; a browne bill, 2s.; an iron spade, 4s.; twenty pounds of leadinge weights, 5s.; old iron, 5s.; three sickles, 2s.; a Bible with Bezes notes, 10s.; a smoothing iron, 2s.; a black stuff sute, 1li.; an old jerkin and bretches of silke russet cloth, 12s.; an old full coate and whood, 1li.; an old Black hatt, 2s.; a payre of boots, 1s. 6d.; a wicker fan, 4s.; a halfe bushell and halfe peck measure, 2s. 6d.; two old hoggs heads, 4s.; a barrell with a cover, 3s.; hempe, 5s.; two baggs, 2s.; fower trayes, 3s.; a trundle bed, 5s.; a broad box, 6d.; a sheele barrow, 1s. 6d.; fower old howes and an old garden rake, 3s.; a pitchfork and a dung forke, 2s.; a woollinge sheele and a lingeinge wheele, 6s. 8d.; a brason morter & pestell, 3s.; eighten pound of drest hempe, 12s.; three old ohayres, 3s.; two pott racks & a payre of bellowes, 5s.; a lether sack and an iron peele & some other old iron, 3s.; a mattocke, 2s. 6d.; total, 113li. 3s. 7d. Essex County Quarterly Court Fils, vol. 1, leaf 78.

     2 cowes, 9li.; 3 steers and heighfers of 2 years old, 7li. 10s.; 1 calfe under one yeere, 10s.; 1 hogge, 2li.; a sowe and a smale pigge, 1li. 4s.; a bush. of Indian Corne, 3 bush. of wheate; total, 20li. 4s.; for the keeping of the two Children, the one 2 years & 5 months & the other 2 years, 10li.; the rent of the Farme & stock, per yeare, 8li.; the wife's pte., 4li.; 1 child 5 moneths, 1li.; the estate being devided into 4 pts is to each, 9li. 12s. 10d. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 79.