601.Henry Birdsall. Henry died in Salem, MA on 17 Nov 1651.
Henry Birdsall was probably related to Thomas Birdsall who appears in some Norwich church records. Thomas Birdsall and Alice Spendler were married 7 Jan 1588 at St. John Timberhill, and their children were baptized at St. John Timberhill and St. Gregory’s between 1598 and 1602.
Will: Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1, Salem, Essex Institute, 1916, page 143 http://archive.org/details/probaterecordse00instgoog
Estate of Henry Birdsall of Salem.
Will of Henry Birdsall proved 28: 9: 1651, and inventory brought in. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 3, leaf 39.
Inventory taken Nov. 17, 1651 by Tho. Trusler and Edmo. Batter: One dwelling house, outhouses & 1 acre & quar. land, 1Oli.; 5 acres of upland in the Northfield & half acre of salt marsh in the southfield, 4li. 10s.; two Cowes & hay, 10li. 10s.; 1 feather bed, 1 boulster & 2 pillows, 3li. 5s.; 1 high bedsteed & 1 trundell bedsteed, 1li. 2s.; 1 Covled, 3 blankets & 3 curtayns, 2li.; 1 setle, 5s.; 1 chest, 6s. 8d. & 2 Cubbords, 15s., 1li. 6s. 8d.; 1 small table bord & 2 Joyne stools, 5s.; 2 chaires & cushines, 3s. and 3 payles, 4s., a meal tubb, 4s., 11s.; 2 Iron pots & 1 kitle, 12s.; 2 brasse kitles, 7s. & 2 brass skillets, 3s., 1 brass morter, 11s.; 3 great pewter platter, 10s. & 3 smale platters, 3s., 13s.; halfe dossen saucers, 1 pewter plate, 1s. 4d., 1 pewter bason, 1s., 2 saucers, 1s., 2 bekers & 1 wine tap, 2s., 4s. 6d.; 1 saltseller, 1s., trencher, 6d., earthen dishes & wooden dishes & bowles, 5s. 6d., 7s.; 1 old sword, musket & halberd, 9s.; books, 5s.; 1 paire Andirons, 3s.; tongs & fore shovels, 2 paire pott hooks, 1s., 2 pair hangers, 5s., 17s. ; tubbs & barrells, 3s. & 1 brasse pane, 18d., 4s. 6d.; wearing aparrell, 3 Coats, breeches, dublet, stockings, shooes & 3 shirts, 2li. 17s. 6d.; 4 napkins, 2s., 4 pillow bers, 4s.; 3 pair of sheets, 18s. 4d., 1li. 4s. 4d. ; 1 pewter pott, 1s. 6d.; 3 hundred of boards, 18s.; timber, 5s.; tooles for his trade, 21i., 2li. 5s.; 2 swine, 40s. & a remnant of cloath, 12s., 21i. 12s.; 1 bedstead, 15s.; total, 47li. 19s. l0d. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 2, leaf 25.
On 9 Apr 1610 Henry married Agnes Kempe in St. Stephen’s, Norfolk. Agnes died in England ca 1630.