In this volume there is abstracted every item and entry, page by page, in all of the Bristol County Probate Volumes 11-17, and 124-126, covering the years 1745 to 1762. Included are wills, inventories, administrator's accounts, receipts, divisions of estates, petitions, guardianships, and other matters relating to the probate of estates. There are references to over 7,000 persons, many mentioned several times in the records. Not only are the probate records of present-day Bristol County abstracted, but also those of the now Rhode Island towns of Bristol, Warren, Barrington, Little Compton, and Tiverton from 1745-1747, until which time they were all situated in Bristol County, Massachusetts.