May 20, 1674
Plymouth Colony Wills 3:106-108
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The Inventory of John Dicksey
Swansey In New Plymouth Collonie 1673
A true and perfect Inventory of the Goods Chattles and estate of Mr Iohn Dicksey of Swansey [formerly?] marriner whoe deceased att Boston in September last being [estimated?] and apprised by vs whose Names are heerafter anexed
Imprm: his purse and wearing apparrell,
The app[arre]ll 23li 10s Cash
212 11s 2d: 236 01 02
Item in the hall Chamber 1 bed and furniture 18 00 00
Item 1 presse Cupburd 06 [0.] 00
Item 2 Chists and one trunke 30s and one Chist more 20s 02 10 00
Item 1 little Round table 01 00 00
Item 8 Cushens 02 00 00
Item 3 turned Chaires 00 09 06
Item 2 looking Glaces 00 05 00
[In the margin:] more
Item in the kitchen Chamber 1 bed and furniture 08 10 00
Item in the porch Chamber 1 bed and furniture 1 Chaire and furniture 08 05 00
Item more in the Garretts 1 sea bed and furniture 01 05 00
Item 30lb of feathers 25s and 2 Cow hydes taned 25 02 10 [00]
Item 1 trundle bed and beding 05 15 00
Item in the hall 73 ounces of plate att 6s per ounce is 22 01 00
Item 2 Gold Ringes 01 10 00
Item 1 high bed and 1 trundle bed with theire furniture 020 00 00
Item 1 Table and six Ioyned stooles 006 00 00
Item 6 lether Chaires 02 08 00
Item 1 Cubberd and one Round Table with theire Clothes 04 00 00
Item a parsell of bookes 01 16 00
Item 2 Cases 2 boxes 1 Globe 1 looking Glasse & 1 Cushen 01 10 00
Item 1 warming pan 1 paire of Andjrons 1 paire of doggs 1 fiershouell & tonges and Iron [backe?] 04 00 00
Item more as for pewter 16 00 00
[In the margin:] in the kitchen
Item brasse vessells 07 05 00
Item Iron vessells 07 11 00
Item earthen ware 01 02 00
Item 1 paire of Stilliyards 00 16 00
Item 1 Table and Chaires and stooles and Cushens 02 17 00
Item 3 Guns 1 sword and belt 04 04 00
Item 1 paire of bellowes 1 howre glace 1 lanthorne and lamp 00 06 00
Item wooden ware 1 spining wheels and Cards and other smale thinges 01 08 00
Item 1 Cradle bed and pillow 00 08 00
Item more in the seller nine barrells of porke 18 00 00
Item 1 barrell of Mallases 01 10 00
Item 1 barrell of Rum 02 15 00
Item 6 hogsheds of salt 04 04 00
Item 74 pounds of beauer att 6s per pound is 22 04 00
Item more seuerall sorts of linnine as 3 paire of holland sheets 04 10 00
Item 6 paire of Canvas sheets 06 00 00
Item 10 holland pillow bears 02 10 00
Item 2 dozen of Napkins 02 08 00
Item 5 Table Clothes 01 00 00
Item 4 bolsters att 5s each, 3 pillow beares att 2s 6d each is 01 07 06
Item 2 Cubbert Clothes 00 14 00
Item 1 Negro Mayde servant Named Malle 24 00 00
[In the margin:] 43 14 08
In Goods
viz: 12 yards of broad Cloth att sixteen shillings per yard 09 12 00
Item 7 yards and a halfe of Red ditto att 10s per yard 03 15 00
Item 8 yarsd and an halfe of trucking Cloth 03 05 09
Item 7 yards of Carsey att 7s per yard 02 09 00
Item 3 yards and a halfe of penistone att 3s 6d per yard 00 12 03
5 yards of Carsey att 5s [1/2] per yard 01 7 6
Item 2 yards of Cotton 00 06 00
Item 15 yards and a halfe of serge att 4s 6d a yard 03 09 9
Item 6 yards of Canvas 00 10 00
Item 7 yards of blew linine att 20d per yard 00 11 8
Item 5 yards and 1/2 of dowlis att 2s 6d per yard 00 13 9
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Item 3 yard and an halfe of fine holland 00 12 00
Item 2 yards and three quarters of slecye ditto 00 09 06
Item 5 yards of ditto 00 17 06
Item stiching and sowing silke 00 15 00
Item a paire of silke stockens 18s 2 paire of woosted 8s 01 06 00
Item 2 paire of Gray woosted stockens 00 12 00
Item 22 horne Combes 00 14 08
Item 2 pockett Watches 01 00 00
Item 2 Remnants of silke Ribband 01 00 00
Item 2 mens hatts 02 00 00
Item 6 weemens hatts 04 16 00
Item 4 hatts more 00 10 00
Item 2 hatts more each 6d 00 01 00
Item 7 yards of sale Canvas 00 17 06
Item 1 blankett 00 05 00
Item 1 hundred pound of shott and 2 hundred pound of poweder 01 14 00
Item 2 hundred waight of Sugar and 12lb of Genger 01 16 00
Item 5 Grosse of Tobacco pipes 00 17 06
Item 3 mooseskins and 20 lb of woole 02 10 00
Item 3 paire of weomens shooes and 1 paire of mens 00 08 00
Item 1 parsell of Goods sent by Samuell Woodberry 16 00 00
Item 3 buckes skins 00 17 00
Item 11 does skins 01 02 00
Item 2 horses 1 mare and Colt 03 10 00
Item 5 hoggs and 5 piggs 06 00 00
Item 1 peece of serge four pond and fiue shillings, 1 peece of stuffe 7li: 11 05 00
Item 12 yards of serge Flannell att 4s per yard 02 08 00
[In the margin:] Without dores
Item 3 Cowes 06 00 00
Item 1 Cart 1 plow 1 grindstone & Coller and trasse 02 00 00
Item in three eight parts of the Sloope Swane; 050 00 00
Item the house and Ground 250 00 00
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sume is 829 17 00
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Item thinges omitted which are now Come to hand
Item 1 barrell of oyle 20s and 20 bushells of Corne 50s 03 10 00
Item 1 bagg of hopps and barrells and other things as lumber 01 10 00
Item 2 axes and 2 hoes 00 09 00
Item 5 yards of [linn]ine Cloth 00 05 00
Item 3 seiues 00 04 06
Item 1 Cooner and Grop[inell?] 01 15 00
Item 1 00 02 00
Item 1 barrell of beefe halfe a barrell of Porke 1 hyde & some tallo 02 10 00
Item 1 brasse kettle 02 00 00
Item 1 Couerled 00 [14?] 00
Witnes
Iohn Butterworth
Gedion Allen,
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debts s[tand?]ing out wherof Many are desparate; and out of the Collonie
Item Edmond hall 00 17 08
Item Mr Iohn Browne of Salem 02 03 00
Item Thomas Michell of Rhode Iland 00 02 06
Item Anothonye Loe 00 14 10
Item Nathaniel dentom on longe Iland 03 13 04
Item Mr East of milfoard 05 09 00
Item Federicke Phillips of N yorke 01 00 00
Item Iohn Predon 01 02 08
Item Isacke Wood berry 02 07 00
Item Richard Cornwell 07 04 00
Item Iohn Saffin 04 16 06
Item Samuell Morgan 49 15 03
Item William haueland 04 05 00
Item Ephraim Booth 01 02 00
Item Nathaniel: Michell 00 14 00
Item Richard Cornwell 01 01 00
Item Iohn Titus 00 08 00
Item Abijah Carpenter 00 08 00
Iohn Carpenter [.. ..] 00
Item Thomas dyment 08 08 08
Item Mr Iames 07 01 01
Item Iohn Knowles 01 12 03
Item Goodman Moring 02 05 00
Item Iohn Garland 01 08 00
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sune [sic] 108 06 4
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Item Isbourne Wakeman 26 02 06
Item Daniell Sillavant 01 11 09
Item Iehew Bourne 05 12 01
Item Isacke Bedlow 17 13 08
Item Nicholas Bayard 25 04 11
more due upon bill
Item henery Glouers 12 00 00
Item Gorge Clears bill 35 00 00
Item daniell holmes his bill 02 00 00
Item docter Templary his bill 03 10 00
Item Iohn Brownes bill 00 10 00
Item Iohnathan and Iohn Silliqus bill 07 04 00
Item Cornelious his bill 04 04 8
Item Iohn Manors bill 31 17 06
Item to debts att Swansey 54 07 09
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The sum totall of the debts is 344 19 11
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This Inventory was delivered on the twentieth day of May, in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred seauenty and foure by Elizabeth dicksey sole executrix of the last will and Testament of Iohn dikesey; deceased upon the personall oath of her the said Elizabeth diksey that the same is a full and true Inventory to the best of her knowlidge and Remembrance;
In the presence of mee Iames Browne Assistant
Plymouth Colony Wills, vol. III, pp. 106-108
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