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William Blackstone
May 8, 1675

Plymouth Colony Wills 3:173-174
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The Inventory of Willliam Blackstone

The Inventory of the lands Goods and Chattles of Mr. Willam Blackstone deceased the 26th of May Taken by Mr. Steuen Paine senir: deacon Thomas Cooper Leiftenant Peter hunt and Willam Carpenter the 8th of May 1675

[in the margin:] this estate was destroyed and Carried away with the Indians

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Imprimis his wearing apparrell shooes

stockens pillow beers and a peece of Cloth 00 15 00

Item a bedsteed & feaher bed a bolster 2 pillows 2 Ruggs and 3 old trucking Cloth blanketts 05 00 00

Item a Cow and a two yeer old steer att 05 10 00

Item 5 peeces of old pewter att 00 05 00

Item a Great brasse kettle att 01 10 00

Item a Smale brasse kettle att 00 05 00

Item Iron Potts 1 paire of Pothookes and an Iron skillett att 01 04 0

Item a pothanger and Crookes and a peece of a Chaine 00 02 00

Item 1 syth and Nibbs 00 02 06

Item a great hammer a betle Ringe and an old spade 00 05 00

Item a paire of sterup Irons and 2 pitchforkes 00 02 06

Item a peece of old fetters 00 01 6

Item a bill hooke and an old hoe att 00 02 00

Item an old Mattocke att 00 03 00

Item 2 wedges and an narrow axe 00 06 00

Item many smale peeces of Iron 00 05 00

Item 4 old augers 00 02 06

Item an old bill and 5 peeces of Iron 00 03 06

Item 2 peeces of brasse 00 01 06

Item an hand saw and a paire of Nippers a Gouge and a Chissell att 00 02 06

Item a smale hamer Gimblett Nailes file & hooke 00 04 06

Item an old paire of sheers 00 01 06

Item 4 pailes 00 03 00

It a smale warming pann and a bill hooke 00 04 06

Item an earthen pott and a Glasse bottle 00 04 09

Item a barrell of a Gun a barrell of a pistoll and two broken lockes 00 10 00

a trowell & 2 spoones 00 01 00

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Item 2 Chists and one box 00 13 00

Item 3 old trayes 19 old dishes & wooden spoones 00 05 00

Item a frying pan and 2 spoones 00 02 06

Item a sacke and a bushell of Corne 00 05 00

Item 2 Cheesfatts 00 01 00

Item a smale pigg 00 04 00

Item 4 case kniues 00 04 00

Item more peeces of old sythes 000 01 00

Item 3 bibles att 000 01 00

Item 6 English bookes in folio 002 00 00

Item 3 lattine bookes in folio 000 15 00

Item 8 of the biggest bookes in quarto 002 00 00

Item 15 smaller bookes in quarto 001 17 06

Item 14 smale bookes in quarto 000 14 00

Item 30 of the bigest bookes in eights 004 00 00

Item 25 small bookes in eight 001 05 00

Item 22 bookes in twelues 001 13 00

Item 53 smale bookes withou Couers of smale vallue 000 13 00

Item 10 paper bookes 000 05 00

Item 5 barrells 000 06 00

Item 3 horses 010 00 00

Item an old mare and 2 Coults 005 00 00

Item a debt from Mr Paine 003 000 00

Item 60 acrees of land and 2 shares of meddow in Prouidence 000 00 00

The west plaine, the south necke and land about the house 000 00 00

and orchyard amounting to 2 hundred acrees and the meddow Called Blackstones meddow; these lands not prised 000 00 00

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the totall sume 56 03 06

Steuen Paine senir

Thomas Cooper

Peter Hunt

William Carpenter

Plymouth Colony Wills, vol. III, pp. 173-174

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