On 14 Aug 1623 William second married
Alice Carpenter (740) , daughter of
Alexander Carpenter (294) (1551-1612) &
Priscilla Dillon (-1664), in Plymouth, MA.
31 Born ca 1590 in Somerset, England.16 Alice was baptized in Wrington, Somerset, on 3 Aug 1590.31 Alice died in Plymouth, MA 26 or 27 Mar 1670/1.62,63 “on the 26 Day of March 1670 Mistris Allice Bradford senir: Changed this life for a better haveing attained to fourscore yeares of age or therabouts shee was a godly Matron; and much loved while shee lived and lamented tho; aged when shee Died and was honorabley enterred on the 29 Day of the month aforsaid; att New Plymouth”. Buried 29 Mar 1670/1 in Plymouth, MA.62
Alice arrived at Plymouth in June 1623 in the Anne.
Will: From the Southworth Genealogy:33
The last will and Testament of Mistress Alice Bradford Sennr of
Plymouth deceased; exhibited to the Court att Plymouth in New
England the 7th day of June Anno: Dom. 1670 on the oathes of
Nathaniel Morton and Lieut. Ephraim Morton: as followeth;
"I allis Bradford senir of the Towne of Plymouth in the Juris-
diction of New England widdow: being weake in bodv but of dis-
posing mind and perfect memory blessed be God; not knowing how
soone the Lord may please to take mee out of this world unto him-
selfe; doe make and ordaine this to be my last will and Testament,
in manner and forme as followeth; Imps; I bequeath my soule to
god that gaue it and my body to the dust in hope of a Joyfull Resur-
rection vnto Glory desiring that my body may be Intered as near
vnto my deceased husband; Mr William Bradford: as Conveniently
may be; and as for my worldly estate I dispose of it as followeth:
Impris: I give and bequeath vnto my deare sister, Mary Carpenter:
the bed I now lye on with the furniture therevnto belonging and a
paire of sheets and a good Cow and a yearling heiffer and a young
12 SOUTHWORTH GENEALOGY
mare. Item I give and bequeath vnto my son Mr. Constant South-
worth my Land at Paometty viz: all my Purchase land there; with
all my Rights Privilidges and appurtenances therevnto belonging:
To him and his heires and assignes for ever: Item I give and bequeath
vnto my said Constant Southworth . . . and vnto my son Mr. Joseph
Bradford: the one halfe of my sheep to be equally deuded betwixt
them; and the other halfe to my son Captaine William Bradford
Item I give vnto my said son Joseph Bradford my paire of working
oxen and a white heffer; Item I give vnto my honored friend Mr
Thomas Prence one of the books were my dear husbands library;
which of them hee shall choose; Item I giue vnto my deare Grand-
child Elizabeth Howland; the daughter of my deare son Captaine
Thomas Southworth deceased; the some of seauen pounds; for the
vse and benefit of her son James howland Item I giue vnto my ser-
vant maide Mary Smith a Cow Calfe to be deliuered her the next
springe if I decease this winter and if I doe not decease this winter;
my will is that shese haue one deliuered to her out of my estate
in som short time after my decease: all the rest of my estate not dis-
posed of already by this my last will and Testament; as aboue said;
I giue and bequeath by this my last Will and Testament; I giue and
bequeath vnto my sonnes Mr Constant Southworth Captaine William
Bradford to be equally tharided amongst them in equall and alike
proportions. In Witness that this is my last Will and Testament
I the said Alice Bradford haue heervnto sett my hand and seale;
this twenty ninth day of December Anno: Dom. one Thousand six
hundred sixty nine.
The A marke of
Signed and sealed in Alice Bradford senr
the prensence off
Ephraim Morton and her
Nathaniel Morton (seal)
Witnesses
In the inventory of her property are included, 8 Cowes, 2 yearlings,
a 2 yeare old steare a steare of 4 years old, 1:2 years old heiffer, 1 old
horse with three mares 17 sheep and 2 lambs. There is mention
of furniture in the Now Parlor Chamber,* in the outward Parlor
Chamber, In the old Parlor Chamber. In the study in books 90 vols.
Mr. Perkins two of them
3 of Doctor Willets on genesis exodus & Daniel 1.00.00
1.00.00
Quickrawaden 0.10.00
the history of the Church 0.08.00
Peter Martins comon places 0.15.00
Cartwright on Remise Testament 0.10.00
the history of the Netherlands 0.15.00
Peter Martin on the Romans 0.05.00
Moors works on the New Testament 1.00.00
*This was undoubtedly the new chamber which it will be seen later was
ordered to be built
by Constant Southworth.
THE SOUTHWORTHS IN
AMERICA 13
Cottons Concordance 0.08.00
Speeds history of the world 1.00.00
W. Christian Sinnagogue & the portrature of the image
of God 0.08.00
the method of Phisicke 0.02.00
Calvins harmony and his coment on the actes 0.08.00
Downham 0.03.00
Mr Cottons Answare to Mr Williams 0.02.00
Taylors libertie of Prophesye 0.01.06
Gouges Domesticall Dutyes 0.02.06
the Institutions or Reasons discused & observations devine
and moral the synode and the apollogge 0.06.00
Mr Ainsworths workes the counter reison and the tryall 0.02.00
Calvin on Genises 0.02.06
Dike on the decaitfulness of mans hart 0.01.00
Gifford Refuted 0.00.06
Dod on the Commandment & others of his 0.03.00
53 small Bookes 1.06.00
Calvin on the epistles in Duch: and divers other Duch bookes 0.15.00
2 Bibles 1.00.00
the Acts of the church 0.05.00
the Lives of the Fathers 0.03.00
3 of Mr Bridggs his works 1.00.00
Furniture in the old Parlor In the great Parlor (no
chamber furniture in the great parlor) In the kitchen
Total value 162.17.00
Land and house not included.