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John Knowles
March 8, 1676

Plymouth Colony Wills 3(2):6
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The Inventory of Iohn Knowles

An Inventory of the estate of Iohn Knowles deceased exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the 8th of March 1676 on the oath of Apthya Knowles widdow.

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Impr: one dwelling house and three or foure acrees of Land 02 10 00

Item a smal parsell of broken sedge and meddow 04 00 00

Item 3 Cowes 05 00 00

Item 1 yeerling and one Calf 01 05 06

Item 1 Growne swine and fiue shootes and 3 piggs 01 10 00

Item 1 mare and halfe and half a Colt 01 10 00

Item 1 Gun and 2 bibles 01 05 06

Item 5 pewter platters and 2 porringers 00 01 00

Item 1 loosse Cloth Coate and one wastcoate and three paire of briches 00 15 00

Item 4 shirts and 3 neckelotes and 1 paire of drawers 00 10 00

Item 1 bed and 1 Rugg and 1 blankett and 2 paire of sheets 06 00 06

Item 2 pillowes snd 4 pillowbeers 00 12 00

Item 3 Napkins and a smale parsell of woole 00 06 00

Item 1 Ironpott and one Iron kettle and 1 brasse skillett 00 08 00

Item 2 earthan basons and one earthen Jugg and a little earthen pott 00 01 06

Item 1 horse plow 1 old axe & 2 old hoes and a spade 00 08 00

Item 2 spining wheels and 3 half tubbs and a paile 00 06 00

Item 1 bedsteed 1 smale Chist 2 boxes and a Rundelett 00 12 00

Item 2 meale seives & one paire of tonggs 1 kneeding trough 00 04 00

Item 1 frying pan and other smale housholdments 00 07 00

Item in Corne English and Indian 04 00 00

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33 01 00

This 16th of october 1675 Apthya Knowles the relict or Iohn Knowles made her appeerance and Gaue oath to the truth of this Inventory as farras shee knew; Before mee Iohn Freeman Assistant Att the Court held att Plymouth the 8th of June 1676.

This Court doth appoint Lieftenant Ionathan Sparrow and Ionathan Banges to adminnester on the estate of Iohn Knowles aboue mensioned, and to come to a Composition with any debtors or Creditors relateing thervnto and to take and produce a true accounpt of theire adminnesration in some short time vnto the court.

[A note in the left hand margin reads as follows:] this is otherwise

ordered see orders [indecipherable] pass [indecipherable] of the Court

March 1676. [Catherine Gates, transcriber]

Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. III, part 2, f. 6.