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Jacob Cooke, Sr.
December 18, 1675

Plymouth Colony Wills 3(2):2-4
#P248

The Inventory of Iacob Cooke Senior

An Inventory of the Estate of Iacob Cooke senr of the Towne of New Plymouth deceased taken and apprised the 18th day of december 1675, by mr Thomas Cushman Leiftenant Ios[...MS torn...] and serjeant Ephraim Tinkham; and exhibited to the Court of his Matie [...MS torn ...] (aforesaid the 8 of March Anno: domine 1575, (76) on the oath of [...MS torn...]

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Impr: 1 yoake of oxen

Item 4 cowes

Item 2 steers of 3 yeers and advantage

Item 1 heiffer of 2 yeers and vantage

Item the halfe of a Cow 20s and the hal[...MS torn...]

Item halfe of a heiffer 12s & halfe of [...MS torn...]

Item 1 yeerlyng heiffer

Item 3 Calues

Item a mare and Colt or else [...MS torn...] vallued att

Item 1 mare 15s and a yonge horse [...MS torn...]

Item 59 sheep and lambes att, six pou[...MS torn...]

Item 7 sowes att 6s apeece and 4 pigs [...MS torn...]

Takeing without dores

Item 1 winch for a grindstone

Item 1 cart and wheeles with theire Iron worke with [...MS torn...]

Item 1 Copp yeoke and one slinge yoake with theire [...MS torn...]

Item 1 plow share with a coulter and bee

Item 1 Cart Rope and halter

Item 1 draft Cheine 5s 1 logg Cheine in 2 peeces [...MS torn...]

Item a paire of hinges

Item 1 auger and hand saw

Item 1 dunge forke & 2 pitch [...MS torn...]

Item 2 hoe, 1 spade 1 axe

Item 1 hooke and 9 [eye?]; and [...MS torn...]

Item 1 hoop and a paire of pince [...MS torn...]

Item 1 old Cow bell and old Iron [...MS torn...]

Item 1 Gouge 6d and one [...MS torn...]

[written in left hand margin]

Item 1 stocke of bees 8s - 1 agur 9d = 8s=9d

05 12 03

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Item 1 tramell 4s 1 tramell 3s 1 [hamer?] 1s 00 08 00

Item 1 Iron kettle 9s 1 Iron pott and pothookes 10s 00 19 00

Item 1 Iron pott 8s with the pothookes to it 00 08 00

Item 1 Great brasse kettle 12s 1 ditto lesser kettle 7s 00 19 00

Item 2 brasse kettles and 1 old peece of brasse 00 02 00

Item 1 fier slice 00 01 06

Item 1 pewter platte 6s one pewter platter 5s 6d 00 11 06

Item 1 ditto 4s 1 ditto 3s 1 ditto 3s 00 10 00

Item 1 Cracked pewter dish 2s 1 qvart pott 3s 00 05 00

Item 1 pint pott 2s 1 pint pott 1 beaker 1 dram Cupp 00 03 00

Item halfe a dozen of spoones 3s halfe a dozen of spoones 2s 6d 00 05 05

Item 1 frying pan and one peece of a gridiron 1 old peece of a pewter bason 00 03 00

Item 1 bread Grater 1 shill 2 milk pan 8d 00 01 08

Item 1 longe fowling peece 01 10 00

Item 1 short Muskett 00 16 00

Item 1 Carbine 10s 1 Rapier 12s 01 02 00

Item 1 bake shouel 8s 1 spitt 3s 6d 00 11 06

Item 1 smoothing box and heators 00 03 00

Item 1 loome 15s and the one halfe of 5 paire of Geers 15s 01 10 00

Item 2 pound of bulletts 2 hornes with powder 00 04 00

Item 1 Great Iron wedge 1s 6d 4 pailes 4s 00 05 06

Item 24 pound of woolen yearne 01 16 00

Item 12 pound of woolon yerne and 1 pound of Cotten yearne 01 04 00

Item 4 pound of [Fear?] yearne 00 10 00

Item 3 Chaires 4s one Cradle 1s 6d 00 05 06

Item 1 houer Glasse 9d 1 paire of sheep sheers 15d 00 02 00

Item 1 bible 4s 1 Psalme book 1s 6d 4 old books 2s 00 07 06

Item 1 Carbe bridle 3s 1 saddl 10s 1 pannell 8s 01 01 00

Item 1 sickle 1s 1 hamer 1s 00 02 00

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16 01 02

In the bed Chamber

Impr: 1 bed and a bolster 03 00 00

Item 1 Green Rugg and one White blankett 01 00 00

Item 4 paire of sheets att 16s apaire 03 04 00

Item 3 old Chests & a box 00 06 06

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07 10 06

In the vper Chamber or loft

Item 1 bed and bolster 02 15 00

Item 1 blankett 8s 1 Green Rugg 5s 00 13 00

[...MS torn...] Rugge 5s 1 blankett 6s 00 11 00

[...MS torn...] 02 15 00

[...MS torn...] bolster 1 pillow 5s 02 16 00

[...MS torn...] abouts of sheeps wool 13s 6d 00 17 06

[...MS torn...] 00 03 06

[...MS torn...] 5s 00 08 00

[...MS torn...] 3s 00 06 06

[...MS torn...]lowes 6s 00 07 06

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11 13 00

[...MS torn...]

[...MS torn...] seive 3s 6d 00 07 06

[...MS torn...]rrell 2s 6d 1 tubb 6d 00 04 06

[...MS torn...]mas lettices 0 0 07 06

[...MS torn...] 00 03 00

[...MS torn...]ook att 9d per pound is 00 07 06

[...MS torn...] 00 02 00

[...MS torn...] 00 04 00

[...MS torn...] 10s 4 yard Cotton 9s 4d 00 12 04

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02 15 04

[...MS torn...]

[...MS torn...] 01 00 00

[...MS torn...] 00 12 00

[...MS torn...] one paire of

dro[indecipherable] 15s 01 05 00

[...MS torn...] 00 04 06

[...MS torn...] 00 08 00

[...MS torn...] 00 11 06

[...MS torn...] 00 04 00

[...MS torn...] 02 13 06

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06 18 06

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Item 1 pewter Chamber pott 00 03 00

Item 1 brake 3s 1 paire of Cards 1s 00 04 00

Item 1 Iron Sqvare 00 01 06

Item sererall particulars expended 00 08 00

Item the one third of 2 [weathers?] 01 00 06

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debts owing to the estate

Item from Caleb Cooke 01 05 00

From Francis [dout?] 00 08 00

From Samuell dunham son of Iohn dunham 00 03 00

From Iohn dotey 00 07 00

From Nathaniell Wood allies Attwood 00 03 00

From Iohn Bradford 00 03 00

From Iacob Cook 00 06 00

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The sum of the estate is 104 16 03

debts owing by the testator

Item To Willam Harlow 01 00 00

Do Thomas Lettice 00 04 00

Do Samuel [Iemidy?] 00 04 00

Do Ioseph Wadsworth 00 06 00

Do Captaine Matthew Fuller 01 00 00

Do dotter Daniell Fuller [indecipherable--probably 00 06 06]

Do the estate of Ester Cook deceased 02 12 04

Do Edward Gray 02 05 00

Do the estate of Willam Shurtliff deceased 00 10 08

Do George Watson 01 00 00

Do Iohn Thompson 01 03 01

Do Gorge [Bomun?] 00 05 00

Do Ioseph howland 00 03 06

Do Robertt Finney 00 03 06

Do Funeral Charges 02 06 06

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debts owing 13 10 01

The Estates debts deducted 091 00 02

Wee are Informed that the Testator died posessed of these lands as followeth.

Impr: 1 dwelling house with the out houses belonging therevnto standing and [...MS torn...] vpon his two lotts off land that lyeth on the soath syde of the smelt brook [...MS torn...] the Towne of Plymouth with the additions thervnto belonging.

Alsoe 4 fift partes of a parsell of lands and meddow, that were Injoyed by his deere father Francis Cook, lying and being in Rockey nooke; in the said towne of P[...MS torn...] Sixty acres of Land lying at Woonponsett pond.

Forty fiue acrees of vpland lying att Winnelucksett Neare Richard Wright [...MS torn...]

Fifty acres of vpland lying att or neare the [...MS torn...]

Three acres of salt Marsh Meddow lying att Pyney point [...MS torn...]

Thirty acrees of Meddow more or lesse in three lotts ly[...MS torn...]

Twelve Acrees of meddow lying att Wimatuxett; by the [...MS torn...]

Six acrees of Meddow with a smale parsell of vpland [...MS torn...] meddow lying at Wimatuksett.

Thirty Acrees of vpland lying on the North [...MS torn...] neare a place Called the woolfe trapp.

This Inventory was Attested [...MS torn...] Elizabeth Cook this 2 cond [appoars to have been altered to an 8...MS torn...] in open Court as Attests [...MS torn...]

Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. III, part 2, f. 2-4.

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1. N.B. The corner of the MS is torn so no values appear. I have put brackets and dots only where the descriptions are incomplete. Where no valuos appear, the MS is damaged. [Catherine Gates]