April 23, 1673
Plymouth Colony Wills 3:60-70
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The Inventory of Thomas Prence
An Inventory of the Goods and Chattles of Thomas Prence Esqr Lately deceased taken and apprised by Thomas Cushman Ephraim Tinkham senir and William Crow the 23 day of Aprill 1673
In the New Chamber
Impr: 1 Table and forme and Carpett att 01 02 00
Item 1 Court Cubbert 01 05 00
Item 1 Green wrought Cubbert Cloth and Cushen 02 00 00
Item 1 green old Cushen 00 00 06
Item 1 wrought stoole and yellow Couer to it 00 03 00
Item 1 old great Cloth Chaire 00 04 00
Item 1 great winscoot Chest 00 12 0
Item 1 portmantle, and a locke to it 00 04 0
Item 1 yard and three quarters of homade Cloth 00 07 0
Item 1 parsell of powder 01 10 00
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07 07 06
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In the New Parlour
Item 1 great draw Table and forme 02 00 0
Item 1 great old striped Carpet 00 07 0
Item 1 window Curtaine 00 03 0
Item 1 Great wooden Chaire 00 08 0
Item half dozen of high Lether Chaires 02 00 0
Item 1 Cushen stoole 00 01 6
Item 1 paire of brasse Andjrons 1 fier shouell & tonges 01 18 00
Item 6 smale brasse peeces for Andjrons 02 00 0
Item 1 Iron for the fier 00 01 8
Item 1 Tenant thward saw 00 03 0
Item 1 old Runled 1 old Cloth 2 old Cases 00 01 00
Item 1 brush 00 01 00
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07 06 2
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In the Clossett
Item 4 longe necked bottles and 1
Rundlett 00 03 0
Item 1 Nest of drawers 00 06 6
Item 10 pound of Ledd in waights 00 03 4
Item 3 Case bottles 00 00 9
Item 1 knife 1 pen knife 1 old aule 00 01 00
Item 1 stone Iugg 1 old feirkin 1 old Case
1 old pott 00 02 0
Item 3 Cheesfatts 00 01 6
Item 13 smale Galley potts; 4 vyalls 00 03 6
Item 1 baskett 1 peece of whalebone and a parsell of bees wax 00 02 9
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01 04 4
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In the old Parlour
Item 1:12 square Table 00 10 00
Item 1 great Chaire with a backe 00 03 0
Item 1 smale Chaire 00 01 6
Item 4 Cushens 00 04 0
Item 1 winscott Chest 00 08 0
Item 1 Chest 00 05 0
Item 2 Ioyn stools 00 02 00
Item 1 Trundle bed stead 00 06 0
Item 1 paire of old sheets 00 08 0
Item 1 Couerledd 00 15 0
Item 1 Couerledd wrought 01 04 0
Item 1 apple Roster and bread Roster 00 03 00
Item 2 fierlocke Musketts 02 00 00
Item 1 hundred and quarter of Nailes 00 01 6
Item 1 old hand baskett and a parsell of Flints 00 01 6
[61] Mr thomas Prence his Inventory
Item 4 pound of bulletts or therabouts 00 01 00
Item 1 pair of Andirons 00 12 00
Item 1 paire of Tongs 00 02 00
Item 2 siluer spoones eighteen shilings 00 18 00
Item 4 siluer spoones 01 10 00
Item 1 siluer Tobacco box 00 15 00
Item 1 looking glasse 00 12 00
Item 1 window Curtaine 00 03 00
Item 2 powder hornes and a brush 00 02 00
Item 1 paire of stillyards 00 10 00
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11 17 06
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Apparrell
Item 1 blacke broadcloth Cloake 02 00 00
Item 1 black stuffe suite 02 10 00
Item 1 blacke turkey tamy Cloak 02 00 00
Item1 broad cloth Cloake 03 00 00
Item 1 Cullered stuffe suite and Coate 02 10 00
Item 1 broadcloth longe Coate 03 00 00
Item 1 paire of broadcloth briches 01 00 00
Item 1 blacke Coate and a smale Coate 00 16 00
Item 1 smale Coate 00 18 00
Item 1 stuffe Coate 00 12 00
Item 1 Ryding paire of briches 00 08 00
1 old Cloth Coate 00 08 00
19 02 00
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More Aparrell
Item 1 Cloth hood 00 04 00
Item 1 paire of Fringed Gloues with Gould and siluer 01 00 00
Item 1 paire of Good Buck skin Gloues 00 06 00
Item 1 hatt and Case 00 16 00
Item 1 paire of silke stockens 00 14 00
Item 1 paire of woolen stockens [...]
Item 2 paire of wosted stockens 00 08 00
Item 2 paire of yarne Gloues 00 03 00
Item 2 paire of shoos 00 11 00
Item 1 paire of old boots and boothose topps 00 07 00
Item 1 dowlis shirt 00 12 00
Item 1 dowlis shirt 00 10 00
Item 1 holland shirt 00 08 00
Item 1 paire of demety drawers 00 08 00
Item 6 bands 00 12 00
Item 5 bands 00 07 06
Item 4 paire of Cuffes 00 02 00
Item 1 lased Capp 00 02 00
Item 3 Capps 00 03 00
Item 2 handkerchiffes 00 02 00
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The sume of the Apparell is 21 11 06
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Item 1 peece of Cloth wrought and fringed 00 04 00
Item halfe a yard of Red Cotton 00 01 6
Item a Remnant of Cloth 00 02 00
Item 1 paire of spectacles and a Case 00 03 00
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10 6
[62] Mr Thomas Prenc his Inventory
Books
Item a Great bible 10s 1 Psalm book 6d 00 10 06
Item Mr Ainsworths Anotations of the 5 bookes of Moses 01 10 00
Item Byfeild vpon the Collosians 00 05 00
Item Iohn Woames Exposition on the law of Moses 00 12 00
Item Weames off the Lathocker in Scotland 00 15 00
Item 1 exposition on the Reuelation 00 06 00
Item 1 booke of docter prestons unbound 00 02 00
Item mr hookers Survey of Church Dissipline 00 02 06
Item Nortons Orthydox evangelsit 00 02 00
Item Burrows Gospell Converstion 00 01 06
Item another of Gospell Worship 00 01 00
Item Mr Tillinghast Generation worke 00 03 00
Item New Englands Memoriall 00 02 00
Item a little Index and an answare to a questian 00 02 00
Item Culpeppers London dispensatory 00 02 00
Item 7 paper Sermon bookes 00 01 00
Item 1 great bible 00 08 00
Item a dispute betwixt the Lord Bishop and the Iesuite 00 04 00
Item the Key of the hebrew tongue 00 01 00
Item 1 Great old Psalme booke 00 00 06
1 great Psalme booke 00 02 06
Item 2 law bookes 00 02 00
Item 100 of Psalme bookes 07 10 00
Item William Cornwallis Essaies 00 01 06
Item 1 Psalme booke 1 booke of private Comunion 00 02 03
Item Prins workes on Canterberrys tryall 00 01 06
Item the voulcanus 00 10 06
Item 50 smale paper bookes to be distributed bound vp
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13 03 08
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Item 2 Inkhorns 00 01 00
Item 4 hundred of Nailes or therabouts 00 04 06
Item a broken bo in it powder and bullet 00 00 06
Item Blunts Law dictionary 00 15 00
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01 01 00
In the Kitchen
Item 1 Iron hanger att 00 04 00
Item 2 old Iron hangers att 00 02 06
Item a vise 3s 1 Ioyners saw 2s 1 hamer & [sickle] 6d 00 06 00
Item spoon and old Iron 00 00 06
1 shoe Iron and hamer 6d 00 01 06
Item 1 old Chest 00 02 00
Item 1 Great seiueting trough or Chest 00 05 00
Item 1 Cubberd 00 08 00
Item 1 warming pan 5s 1 great brasse kettle 1li 10s 01 15 00
Item 1 smaller Great kettle [0... 0...] 05
Item 1 great brasse skillett 00 06 00
Item 1 old brasse kettle 00 05 00
Item 1 old Copper kettle 00 12 00
Item 1 frying pan 00 01 06
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05 04 00
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more in the Kitchen
from the other syde 05 04 00
Item 1 old brasse pott 00 05 00
Item 1 Iron pott 10s 1 broken Iron pott 6s 00 16 00
Item 2 paire of pothookes 2s 6d 1 brasse skillet and fram 2s 6d 00 05 00
Item 2 brasse skimers 00 01 06
Item 1 smale Iron skillett 00 02 06
Item 1 old Iron pott 00 03 00
Item 1 belmettle pudeing pan and brasse Couers 00 05 00
Item 1 Iron kettle 00 08 00
Item 1 smoothing box and 2 heaters 00 02 00
Item 1 old brasse morter and pestell 00 02 06
Item 1 great Flagon 00 16 00
Item 1 lesser Flaggon 10s 1 lesser Flaggon without a lidd 5s 00 15 00
Item 1 salt seller 1s 1 old pewter tankard 1s one brasse Candlesticke 2s 00 04 00
Item 4 Candlestickes 1 at 4s 2 att 6s and the least 2s 00 12 00
Item 3 pewter platters Deep 18s 1 smaller New Platter 5s
1 pewter bason 5s 1 of the same 4s 00 09 00
Item 1 pewter bason & yure 00 12 00
Item 1 great pewter platter 00 12 00
Item 1 Cracked platter 7s and 2 platters 16s 01 03 00
Item 3 platters att 15s 2 smaller 6s one att 4s 01 05 00
Item 3 smale platters att 5s 4 plates 9s halfe a dozen of braod sawcers 5s 1 butter
dish and three plates 00 07 06
Item 3 pye plates att 9s 1 plate 2s 00 11 00
Item 3 smale basons 5s 2 oldporringers 1 old plate 00 06 06
Item 1 bed pan 5s 2 latten driping pans 8d 00 05 08
Item 1 latten Tunell and one sticke stone 00 01 06
Item 2 old Chamberpotts 3s 00 03 00
Item 1 Chamberpott 00 03 00
Item 1 stone platter 00 01 00
Item 1 Dozen of trenchers 00 00 06
Item 2 kemnells 00 03 00
Item 1 Indian tray 1s 6d 2 longe trayes 1s 6d 00 03 00
Item 2 longe trays and 1 Cracked one 00 01 00
Item 4 smale trays and a strainer 00 01 04
Item 1 spitt 4s 1 little tray 4d; 3 pailes 4s 00 03 04
Item 1 paile 6d 1 Cheese presse 3s 00 03 06
Item 1 Tubb 2s 1 Tubb 4s 6d one sturgion kegg 6d 00 04 00
Item 1 brewing tubb 4s 2 barrell 3s 2 milk panes 1s 00 08 00
Item 4 butter potts 1 earthen pan 00 01 08
Item 1 Chern 8s 1 Chaire 16d 00 09 04 ___________
sume 020 02 04
[64] Mr Prence his Inventory
In the Chamber
It 1 Deske 00 01 06
Item I sampler 00 01 06
Item 1 Close bedsteed & settle and Cord 01 10 00
Item 1 open bedsteed and Cord 01 00 00
Item 1 great old trunke 8s 1 smale trunke 6s 00 14 00
Item 1 great Flate Box 6s 1 striped Curtaine and a peece of green Fringed vallence 00 10 00
Item 1 old striped suite of Curtaines and vallence 00 12 00
Item 1 paire of old holland sheets 10s 1 paire of Dowlis sheets 10s 1 paire of Dowlis sheets 15s 01 15 00
Item 1 paire of homspon sheets 01 00 00
Item 1 paire of hom spon sheets 01 00 00
Item 1 paire of Cotten and linnine sheets 00 15 00
Item 1 paire of the same sheets 01 00 00
Item 1 paire of homade sheets 00 15 00
Item 1 paire of fine pillow bears 00 12 00
Item 1 paire of smaller pillow beares 00 06 00
Item 1 paire of pillow beares 00 05 00
Item 1 longe plaine Table Cloth 00 16 00
1 longe Diaper Table Cloth 01 00 00
Item 1 short Table Cloth 00 05 00
Item 3 little Table Clothes 00 06 00
ltem 3 large towel]s 00 12 00
1 Dozen of Napkins 00 18 00
Item 2 towells 4s I Towell 6d 00 04 06
Item 9 holland ledworke Napkins 18s and 4 old Napkins 6s 01 04 00
Item 1 fine holland Lased Cubbord Cloth 01 00 00
Item 1 lased damaske Cubberd Cloth 01 00 00
Item 1 peece of an old sheet 00 01 06
Item 1 blankett 00 10 00
Item 1 green Rugg 01 00 00
Item 2 pillowes 00 06 00
Item 1 yellow Rugg 01 00 00
Item 1 blankett 00 10 00
Item 1 paire of woolen Cards and some old ones 00 03 00
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24 14 00
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In the Chamber over the Kitchen
Item 1 bridle and saddle 01 05 00
Item 1 pillion; Cloth and bridle 00 12 00
Item 1 old Coverlidd 5s 1 blankett l5s 1
peece of bankeett 1s 01 16 00
Item 1 feather bolster 12s 1 smale
bolster 4s shilling 00 16 00
Item 1 old bedd and bedsteed and Courd 01 05 00
Item 3 Iron hoopes; 1 Coller and tracyes one Cart Rope 2 Corn seives 00 16 00
Item 1 old Chest 3s 1 pecke measure 1s 1
spining wheel 4s 1 new Canvase bagg 6s; six bagges 8s 01 02 00
Item 13 old Cask 00 13 00
In the old Celle1 2 beer barrells & 4 Rundeletts 8s __________
sume 07 18 00
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In the Celler
2 beer barrells & 4 Rundleletts 8s
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Without Dores
Item 2 axes 1 spade 00 06 00
Item 1 paire of fetters 00 03 00
Item 3 wedges 2s 3 hoes 4s 1 frow 2s 00 09 00
ltem 1 mattocke 1s [6s] hatchett 1s 00 02 06
Item 2 old shovell 1 betle ringe 1 ladle 00 01 6
Item 1 Grindstone and winch 00 08 00
Item 1 Cart and wheeles boxes 4 pins 1 shakle and bolt 01 10 00
Item 1 plow and plowjrons 10s 1 Chaine 2 peece of a Chaine 01 00 00
Item 1 dungforke 2 forkes 1 rake 00 03 00
Item 2 yoakes with hookes ringes and staples 00 04 00
Item 1 halfe Dozen of piggs 00 18 00
Item 4 hogges 02 00 00
Item 1 Cowhyde 00 10 00
Item 8 sheep with theire woole and 2 lambes 03 03 00
Item 10 17 00
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Item 4 yards and an halfe of Galloom 00 01 06
Item 1 fann of feathers 00 01 00
Item 1 paire of linnine Cuffes 00 00 06
Item 2 graters 00 00 02
Item 2 meale seives 00 01 09
Item 1 still 01 00 00
Item halfe of a longe spindle for a mill 00 05 00
Item 1 old bedstead in peeces
Item 3 Dozen of hookes and eyes 00 00 09
Item a little blacke silke and silver fringe 00 02 00
Item 1 smale Rundlett 00 01 06
Item 1 old brush 00 00 06
Item 1 midwifes booke 00 01 06
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01 16 02
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Cattle
Item 4 oxen 16 00 00
Item 1 young bull 01 15 00
Item 1 yearling 01 00 00
Item 1 horse 02 00 00
Item 2 Mares 1 Colt 1 2 yeare old horse in Plymouth 05 10 00
Item 8 horses and Mares Runing att or neare Eastham; 08 00 00
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34 05 00
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Goods
Item 1 blacke wrought wastcoate 00 12 00
Item 1 lased neckcloth 00 10 00
Item 2 plaine neckelothes 00 05 00
Item 1 holland Apron with a seaming 00 10 00
Item 1 apron with 2 seamings 00 05 00
Item 2 lased Dressings 00 05 00
Item 2 lased [Quoives] 00 02 00
Item 1 lased Neccloth 00 01 00
Item 2 bibbs 00 01 00
Item 1 paire of Gloves 00 02 00
Item one Neckcloth 00 01 00
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02 1 4 00
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[66] Mr Thomas prence his Inventory
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Item 1 bed and 2 bolsters bedsted and Cord a suite of Curtaines and vallence 2 pillowes 2 paire of pillowbeers 1 Coverlid 2 blanketts 2 paire of sheets 16 15 00
Item 1 Court Cubbert 1 green wrought Cloth 1 wrought Cushen 05 05 00
Item 4 silver spoones 01 16 00
Item 1 Gray horse and three Cowes 1 Calfe 12 00 00
Item 44 smale bookes 02 00 00
Item 1 bed and bolster 02 10 00
Item 1 silver wine Cupp and 1 silver Dram Cupp 01 07 06
Item 1 silver Tankard att 05 00 0
Item 1 silver beerbowle 02 18 0
Item 1 siler salt seller 04 00 00
Item 1 silver beere bowle 03 11 06
Item 1 bed and bolster att 04 01 0
Item 1 bed and bolster att 05 00 00
Item 2 heiffers and one Calfe 5 00 00
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72 13 00
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Item 1 paire of sheets
Item 9 napkins
Item 1 smale peece of linnine
Item 1 Damaske Table Cloth
Item 1 Cubbert Cloth
Item 1 Napkin 1 blankett
Item 1 smale Iron kettle
Item 1 Towell 3 Napkins
Item 1 pewter tankard 04 04 00
Item 3 paire of smale siluer buttons
Item 1 paire of siluer shooe buckles
Item 1 little siluer Insument 00 16 0
Goods mistris Mary Prence had before Marriage
Item 1 Trunke with seuerall sorts of lineen 06 00 01
Item 5 Cushens 1 pillian Cloth 00 15 0
Item 1 Troopers saddle 01 10 0
Item 1 bed two bolsters 1 rugg 04 00 00
Item 1 bedsted 2 featherbeds and bolsters 1 paire of blanketts 2 suites of Curtaines and vallence and Curtaine rodds and Coards 15 00 00
Item 4 Chaires 15s
Item 1 Chest 1 Case 1 box 00 17 00
Item 2 spitts 1 Iron peale 2 fier shovells 1 paire of Tonggs 1 Iron driping pan 1 paire of Rackes 1 paire of pothangers 2 paire of pothookes 02 07 0
Item 1 brasse Chaffing Dish morter and 2 Candlestickes 00 15 00
Item 1 bason & yore 00 12 00
Item 7 pewter platters 01 10 0
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[67] Mr Prences his Inventory
Item 1 bason 2 porrengers 1 Candlesticke 1 salt Celler 1 Caudle Cupp 2 smale dishes 1 sawcer 00 12 06
Item 1 beer bowle and 2 potts 00 07 00
Item 1 stone platter and 2 silver spoones 1 silver Cupp 1 silver Dram Cupp 01 07 06
Item 2 brasse kettles 1 brasse pott 03 10 00
Item 1 warming pan 2 brasse skilletts and frames 00 15 00
Item 1 smoothing Iron 00 01 00
Item 1 stone Iugg and six galley potts 1 pewter bottle 00 06 06
Item 1 Case and some Glasse bottles 1 earthen Cupp 00 03 06
Item 3 wine Glasses 00 01 00
Item 1 pewter funell 00 01 00
Item 1 Dozen of trenchers 1 Iacke 01 01 00
Item 1 pewter Chamber pott 00 04 00
Item 1 paire of wooden scales & 2 ledden waightes 00 02 00
Item 2 ruggs 3li 1 Gridjron 5s 1 paire of sissers 6d 03 05 06
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46 16 06
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Item in mony 15 08 02
Debts Due to the estate
Item from Samuell Freeman by two bills 020 00 00
Item from Iohn Bryant 1 hundred of b[e]lts 02 00 00
Item from Leiftenant Iohn Freeman for the 1/8 parte of Ketch 06 16 03
Item for a sayne in Leift. Freemans hand 01 17 06
Item from Willam Griffeth as by bill 10 10 00
Item from hugh Steuerd of Eastham 01 00 00
Item payed to the Treasurer of the Collonie in prte of a house and land bought of the Country 050 00 00
Item payed for the building one parte of a barne that is on the said land 08 10 00
Item payed for the building of one stacke of brick Chemnies 10 01 00
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116 04 09
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The whole sume of the severall prticulares of the Estate errours excepted; Amounts to 422 10 07
Debts owing from the estate 54 09 06
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Debts owing to be payed out of the estate
Item To mr Thomas Clarke 02 13 11
Item To John Clarke 01 05 00
Item to Left Freeman 17 00 00
Item To mr John Cotten 00 13 00
Item To Ioseph howland 01 10 00
Item To Willam Crow 02 01 00
Item To Iabeze howland 00 14 08
Item To Thomas Lucas 00 06 08
Item To Gorge Bonum 00 06 06
Item To the widdow Sturtivant 00 10 03
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Item To Iohn Wood the weavor 00 10 00
Item To Gyles Rickard senir 00 01 6
Item To serjeant Willam harlow 00 04 00
Item To Benjamine Church 01 11 00
Item To Isacke Barker 00 07 00
ltem To Ionathan Shaw 00 05 00
Item To Willam Clark 01 00 00
Item To his promise or Ingagement To the Scoole 03 00 00
Item To the widdow dunham 00 02 06
Item To ffrancis douce of Boston 01 00 00
Item To mr John Winslow of Boston about 02 10 00
Item To mr Nathaniel Bacon 01 00 00
Item To the Deacons of Plymouth 00 15 00
Item To Mr Thomas hinckley 00 02 06
Item To Captaine Thomas Clarke 01 04 07
Item To mr Dauis the Apothycary 00 19 05
Item To Capt. Fuller 01 00 00
To mr Iohn hull 01 18 06
Item To Jonathan Sparrow 01 00 06
To Docter Cooke 1 00 00
Item To Samuell Fuller 00 10 00
Item To John dunham 00 03 00
Item To serjeant Tinkham 01 00 00
Item To Nathaniel Thomas 00 12 00
Item To Edward Gray 00 05 00
Item To Clothing of the Govrnors servant 02 04 08
Item payed forth on some funerall expences 03 05 00
Item To Thomas Clarke which was payed To Benjamine Nye for halfe a Mill stone 01 06 00
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54 09 06
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Wee are Informed of these severall prsells and Tracts of lands belonging to the Testator;
Item one hundred acrees of land lying in the Towne of Middleberry att or neare Winnapaukett pond and the brooke Goeing from it
Item one share of Meddow lying in a Certaine tract of Meddow Called the Majors meddow that lyeth upon Namassakett River, betwixt the pond and the waire
Item one hundred acrees of land lying on the Northerly syde of Teticutt River
Item a Considerable Tract of land that lyeth on the easterlysyde of Namassakett Riuer between Winnapauckett pond and a Tract of Land Called the Majors purchase,
Item eight acrees of land on the westerly syde of Namassakett River
Item a graunt of ten or twelue acrees of Land and a smale parsell of Meddow att Ioness Riuer meddow in the Townshipp of Plymouth
Item about ten acrees of Land lying on the southsyde of a Cart way that Goeth to Lakenham; Called Prence Bottome, in Plymouth
Item the one halfe of fifty or sixty acrees of Land and three acrees of Meddow between him and Major Winslow in Middleberry
Item 20 acres of land and three acres of Meddow att Tonsett in the Township of Eastham;
Item 8 acrees of land lying on Pochey Iland in the aforsaid Eastham
Item one fourth parte of w Mill at Satuckett and lands ajoyning to it
Finishd and signed the fift day of May 1673
Thomas Cushman
Ephriam X Tinkham
William Crow
mistris Mary Prence made oath to this Inventory Iune the fift 1673 before Iosias Winslow Gour: