Elinor Creer, 1777

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       In the name of God Amen.
   I Elinor Creer of Ballasalla in the parish of Malew
   being weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and
   memory at the making hereof, do hereby make this my
   last will and testament as followeth
Imps I commit my soul to God and my body to a Christian
   burial.
   I leave and bequeath to my son Thos Creer the bed quilt which
   I wear on my own bed.
   I leave and bequeath to my daughter Elinor McCray, als Creer
   a black quilted petticoat which she now has, my best cloak
   a sheet and a cask which she now has.
   I bequeath to my grand-daughter Catherine McCray my
   spinning weel.
   I leave and bequeath to my son John Creer a chest & a box.  
   I leave and bequeath to my daughter Esther Cottier als Creer
   my blue gown, my bodies & a flannel smock & best blanket.
   I leave and bequeath to my daughter Isabel Curry, als Creer
   a feather bed and bolster, a blue and caer gown, a black gown, a bed gown
   & a cask to put herring in.
   I bequeath to my grand daughter Margaret Creer, a silk hankerchief and to the rest of
   her brothers and sisters a blue and white crer petticoat for shirts for
   them. I bequeath to my grand-daughter Ann Creer, a
   white apron. Lastly, I nominate constitute and appoint
   my loving and dutiful son Wm Creer to be my whole & sole
   Exr of all the rest of the remainder of my effects, movable &
   immovable of what kind or nature soever, hereby revoaking
   and disannulling all former will or wills by me made and this
   to be my only last will and testament. In testemony whereof
   I have hereunto set my mark to my name this 17th Decr 1773
Witnesses present.                 And also it is my desire that if any person dispute
Charle Cotteman my mrk X }         this my last will, I leave them or either of them six
   ...Bridson            } jurati  pence legacy.
                                    Elinor Creer, alias Quark, my mark.


At a Court in Castletown June 12th 1777.

The Excr is sworn in Court in form of Law & hath
given pledges for the payment of debts & legacies
namely Robert Radcliffe & Charles Cotteman, one of the
witnesses.
Solivt                          Probatum est
                                 Thomas Cubbon
								 
Inventory Of Goods of Ellinor Creer

                KK Malew
An inventory of the goods of Ellinor Creer, als Quark of KK Malew apprized by four 
men.  Sworn by ye sumner of malew the 13th Feb 1777
are as follows.
                                            £    s    d
To bolster & feather bed at 3d per lb      00 - 10 -  6
blanket				4/-
two other blankets			2/-
quilt					3/-
old quilt				6d
3 sheets				4/-
bedstead				2/6
5 and a half yds green cloth		3/-
ladder					2/-
2 gowns				3/-
3 old bedgowns			2/4
2 petticats (of the best)		3/6
3 old petticoats			3/-
old ?mantle				2/-
3 old shifts				3/6
4 handkerchiefs			4/2
3 small blankets			1/6
2 flannel shifts			1/6
white apron				1/6
black cap				3d
thread at ??				9d
check apron				1/-
old basket of caps			2/-
bodies and ?homecher		1/2
3 pairs stockings			1/-
pair of old shoes			4d
old hatchet				1d
old smoothing iron			4d
small /rinch and two old dollons	2d
old spinning wheel			3/-
cubbard				6d
winding blade				00
old arm chair				00
two sacks				1d
small chest				2d
3 old ?mools				2d
old big wheel				1d
small barrel				00
wooden bowl				1d
wooden beason			00
2 small dishes			
ladle & 3 old nochin
5 threnchen
pillow case and bags
6 pewter plates
3 pewter chargon
parcel of old spoons
2 candlesticks
glass bottles
pot & pot hook
parcel of earthenware vessels
?greasle & beaking stone & old ballners
old barrel
pair of tongues
old chaft bead
cash found in her keeping
£4 due to her from son William for a deed of gift she gave him of the house & gardens


Total of the above £9/?/?