1641 23 September
WILLM KEMPE
(Vol. I, fol. 40) Mr Willm Kempe 1641
Lres of Administracon are graunted to mris Eliabeth Kempe the second of November in the xviith yeare of the Raigne of our Sovraigne Lord Charles King of England &c. to administer upon all the goods cattells and Debts wch Willm Kemp her husband Dyed possessed of or were Due & apprtaineing unto him at the tyme of his Decease prvided she exhibite a true Inventory thereof wth all convenyent speede.
A true Inventory of all the goods and Chattells moveable of mr Willm Kemp of Duxborrow late Deceased taken by us whose names are hereunto sett at the request of mrs Elizabeth Kemp this 23th Septembr in the yeare of or Lord God 1641.
In the Inner Chamber
i feather bed and two pillowes 03 00 00
3 white blankets 01 00 00
1 blew Rugg 01 00 00
4 yerds of white fusteon 00 05 00
i pillow case 00 01 06
2 remnants of Canvas 00 02 00
i remnant of white fusteon 00 00 06
i remnant of girth web & 4 buckles 00 02 00
3 paire of traces & a new Rope wth some small ropes 00 10 00
4 Iron boxes for cart wheeles & 4 new Iron hoopes for wheels 00 12 00
i latin water pot for a garden 00 00 08
i paire of garden sheares 00 01 06
2 iron washers & 5 iron clouts new & 2 new plow slips 00 01 06
2 horse locks & keeyes 00 01 00
2 nibbs and i ring for a sythe 00 00 06
2 paire of hinges 00 01 06
12 harrow tteth 00 01 06
20 Iron staples & 3 iron bolts 00 04 00
i bill hooke and 5 old sickles 00 03 00
i iron acar staff 00 00 06
2 padlocks & i stock lock 00 02 06
i iron baile for a kettle 00 00 08
certaine peecs of old iron 00 04 00
i pitche fork pronges 00 00 08
i red basill 00 00 08
3 qr of a yard of buckrome 00 00 08
i smale curtaine & a prcell of fring 00 01 00
Curtaine Ringes & sadlers nayles 00 01 00
07 19 10
a prcell of Twine 00 02 00
i new shooe 00 01 00
quarries of glasse 00 02 00
i spitt 00 00 08
i horse bitt a crupper & i bridle Reane 00 00 08
2 joyned stooles 00 02 00
3 smale Remnants of new cloth 00 01 06
i bushell of wheate brann 00 00 04
3 barrells 2 firkins 2 hogsheads & a half barrell 00 05 00
2 earthern potts 00 00 04
2 sheets of leade 00 02 00
3 cases for guns of list wth other lumber 00 01 06
00 19 00
In the Kitchen Chamber
i flock bedd and two boulsters 00 12 00
2 white blanketts & i old greene Rugg 00 15 00
5 smale peecs of bend leather & 2 shoomaker knives 00 03 04
1 small pursnett &^ 2 lines 00 02 00
i red basill 00 00 08
a prcell of 6d nayles 00 03 00
i weyer sieve 00 01 06
i smale bagg of feathers 00 01 00
i sieve 00 00 03
i prcell of unthrest beanes 00 00 06
i paire of old sheets 00 02 00
i hogshead & a shelfe 00 00 08
i thwart sawe 00 03 00
i old tapstry carpett 00 04 00
2 earthern old oyle potts 00 00 04
i paire of new hempen sheets 00 12 00
vi paire of couse thinn sheets 00 00 08
certaine lumber 00 00 08
i great boxe 00 01 00
05 01 11
In the parlor
1 paire of bras brandirons 00 12 00
i belt and hangers 00 12 00
i Dagger 00 01 00
i rapier staffe 00 01 00
i girdle wth silvr buckles 00 02 00
10 silver spoones 02 10 00
i jugg pott tipt wth silvr 00 10 00
i cup tipt wth silver 00 04 00
i gould ringe 00 18 00
6 thrum queshions 00 12 00
2 old Darnix queshion 00 00 08
06 02 08
i framed table 00 10 00
4 joyned stooles and 2 joyned chaires 00 10 00
i old brodred stoole 00 01 00
i great chest 00 08 00
i smale chest 00 01 06
i trunck covered wth seale skins 01 00 00
2 smale old Truncks 00 05 00
i Cabbanett 00 04 00
2 old boxes 00 00 04
i case of bottles 00 03 00
2 brushes 00 00 08
i new hatt 00 10 00
4 hattbands 00 01 04
4 old hatts 00 01 04
a remnant silk bone lace 00 02 00
glew and an old balck boxe 00 00 06
5 paire of flaxen sheets i paire of new hampen 04 00 00
2 duzzen of fine napkins & 2 table cloathes 02 00 00
i sheete 00 06 00
5 holland pillow coats 01 00 00
2 duzzen of Course napkins 00 10 00
3 paire of old pillow coates 00 03 00
7 course towells 00 03 00
3 course table cloathes 00 07 00
i hand towell 00 02 00
i remnant of holland 00 04 00
2 short table cloathes 00 06 00
2 yerds of white fusteon 00 01 04
i wrought holland cubberd cloth 00 08 00
i leather hat case 00 03 00
i half holland shirt & i holland shirt 00 12 00
6 shirts 00 12 00
7 holland handkerchiefs 00 07 00
10 capps 00 05 00
13 bands 00 08 00
3 handkercheiffs 00 02 00
3 smale pillowes 00 02 00
i paire of linnen bootshose i fusteon wascoate &
a remnant canvas 00 04 00
i rubbing brush 00 00 02
nutmeggs 00 03 00
ginger 00 01 00
cloves 00 00 08
a remnant of fine holland i yard of bone lace 00 04 00
i spining wheele 00 03 00
3 irish stockings 00 02 00
16 17 10
3 paire of wollen stockings 00 06 00
6 blew curtaines and vallence 01 16 00
i li of gray threed 00 02 00
i buffe coate 01 10 00
i cloake 00 13 06
i greene Curtaine 00 01 00
i leather Dublet wth silvr buttons 01 00 00
i paire of gloves 00 01 00
i paire of breeches and a Dublett 01 00 00
i frize jerkine 00 08 00
i black suite and gerdle 01 05 00
i black cloake 01 10 00
3 horsmans coats 02 00 00
i boulster tick 00 04 00
116 bunches of threed buttons 00 18 00
i darnix carpett 00 03 00
i remnant of broad cloth 00 02 00
i long coate 00 10 00
i dublet & i Casock 00 03 00
2 yerds of saye 00 05 00
6 yerds of 1/2 tammey 00 18 00
2 remnants of stuff 00 04 00
i feather pillow 00 02 00
2 greene vallens 00 02 00
i paire of linnen drawers 00 01 00
In the outlett Inner Romme
3 blanketts 00 05 00
i flockbed & boulster 00 10 00
i chaire & i tubb 00 06 00
5 earthen panns i butter pott 00 02 00
01 13 00
In the Cellor
i hogshead & 3 firkins 00 05 06
In the wash house.
3 cheese fatt i soyle dish 00 02 06
2 latten pans & 2 earthen potts 00 01 06
i stone pott 8 earthen pott 00 00 08
2 dossen trenchers 00 00 08
2 payles i wodden platter i traye 00 03 00
i melting ladle 00 01 06
i iron pott 2 paire of pott hookes 00 06 00
i iron dripping pann 00 04 00
i iron kettle 00 10 00
01 10 04
In the kitchen
i Corslett and headpeece 01 00 00
2 paire of bandiliers 00 02 06
i case of pistolls 00 10 00
i paire of Wollen sheares 00 01 00
2 swordes 00 06 00
2 Carbines 01 00 00
i fowling piece 00 15 00
i half pike & a rest 00 03 00
i jack and 3 spitts 00 16 00
2 paire of bootes 00 03 00
i trowell 00 00 06
i bread grater 00 01 06
2 leaden waights 00 06 00
i lanthorne 00 00 08
i halbert 00 03 00
i warmeing pann & i gally pott 00 05 06
9 platters and a voyder 01 10 00
8 pewter dishes 2 basons i Cullender 00 17 00
6 great porringes 00 07 00
2 pye plates 2 smale plates 00 04 00
3 chamber potts 00 03 00
4 candlesticks 00 04 00
i bason 00 01 00
i pint pott & a peuter pottle 00 01 06
i ewer 00 01 06
4 sawcers 3 salts 4 pottingers i tinn copper 00 02 06
2 smale pattes i quart pott 00 02 00
2 plate covrings i stewpan 2 tinn candlesticks 00 02 06
i flaggon 00 02 00
2 bras candlesticks & i bras ladle 00 04 00
chaffeing dish i scummer i little morter 00 09 00
i bras skellet & i posnett 00 05 06
3 bras panns 01 00 00
i great bras kettle 01 00 00
i little kettle 00 05 00
i old bras pott 00 12 00
stone jugg 1 leather bottle 1/2 a pike 00 02 06
12 trenchers 00 00 06
i salt 00 05 00
i smothing iron 00 01 06
i slick tone 2 mackrell lines i melting ladle 00 02 00
i frying pann 00 02 00
i paire of towe cards 00 01 00
3 mattocks 00 06 00
6 hoes 3 axes 00 10 00
4 wedges 00 03 00
i iron shovell 00 03 00
i lampe 00 00 06
fire pan tonges and Andiron 00 04 00
i paire of bellowes 00 01 00
2 paire of pott hangers 00 06 00
an adze 2 frowes i hammer 00 05 00
i gouge 2 chissells i drawing kniffe 00 03 00
i handsaw i hatchett a little grafting saw i pr shott moulds
and i paire pinchers 00 06 00
2 augors i perser 00 01 06
i bagg wth bulletts pouder horne & moulds 00 02 00
i shott bagg 00 00 02
Without Doores.
i grindlestone 00 04 00
hempe and seede undressed. 00 10 00
garden stuffe 00 05 00
2 Cocks of hey 02 00 00
2 ladders 00 04 00
2 chest of glasse 00 15 00
In the Cow house
5 goate skins 00 01 00
i seane nett 00 05 00
In the barne
i steele Mill 00 10 00
sampe morter 00 02 00
i bushell 00 03 00
i sack cloth and 2 sacks 00 06 00
a copper wth a wodden Curbe 01 00 00
2 hogsheads 2 barrells 00 05 00
4 pitchforks & 2 rakes 00 05 00
glasse leade 00 12 00
12-1/2 thrane of Rye 03 00 00
12 thrane of sumer wheate 03 00 00
pease 00 12 00
4 bushell Indian Corne 00 10 00
2 steare Calves 02 00 00
2 yeareling heiffers 06 00 00
i yeareling heiffer 02 10 00
2 yearling steers 03 00 00
i sow shoate & a barrow shoate 00 13 00
2 oxen 4 yers old 14 00 00
38 14 00
6 ewe goates 02 00 00
4 ewe lambes 00 12 00
iweather 2 yeres old 00 08 00
4 yereling weathers 00 13 04
2 yaokes & two cheanes 00 15 00
04 8 04
At mr Partrich house
i fowling peece 01 00 00
i smale old fowleing peece 00 05 00
i sieve 00 00 04
i boxe 00 01 06
i boxe 00 04 00
i cradle 00 04 00
i hanging bedstead 00 02 06
2 cowes & i diseased 07 00 00
i heiffer 2 yere old 03 00 00
i steare 2 yere old 03 00 00
i Coult 06 00 00
6 hoggs 04 00 00
i hogg 01 00 00
i Cannow 00 05 00
i farn 00 03 00
i weane rope 00 03 00
i peck wth pitch in it 00 01 00
Indian Corne 1000 hills old & new esteemed 50 bushell 06 00 00
i still yerd 00 02 00
i still 00 16 00
i Hutchell 00 05 00
i bell 00 00 08
i shallop 10 00 00
i ewe labme 00 10 00
8 foules 00 04 00
a rake head 00 00 02
44 07 02
This Inventory was subscribed by Wm Collyer
Jonathan Brewster
Christopher Waddesworth
Comfort Starr.
his was but, 169 15. 5:
tot. 172. 9.5.
More debts oweing to him and what he owed
In debts oweing to Mr. Willm Kemp at his death
by mr William Collier 00 17 08
by Captaine Standish 00 12 00
by mr Alden 00 18 00
by Christopher Waddesworth 12 bushells of Indian Corne
& i bushell of Rye
by Nicholas Robins 00 09 00
by Willm Brett 02 05 00
by John willis 01 02 00
by Joseph Biddle 00 08 00
Debts oweing by mr Kemp at his Death
to mr Atwood 5 bushell of Indian corne i bushell of wheate
to mr Hanberry 16 bushell of Indian Corne
to mr Partrich 4 bushell of Indian Corne & 2 bush wheate
& i bushell of Rye & 3s 2d in money
to John Hill of Boston x bushell of Indian Corne
(From the Mayflower Descendant, Vol. LV, P. 75)