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Martha Nelson

7 March 1683/1684

Plymouth Colony Wills 4(2):74

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Inventory of Martha Nelson

Iohn Nelson made oath to this Inventory of Martha Nelsons estate Late deceased; att the Court holden att Plymouth the 7th of March 1683/1684

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Imprimis houseing and upland 50 00 00

Item 4 acrees of Meddow lying att the New meddow neare the south medow 04 00 00

Item 1 acree of Meddow lying att dotyes Meddow soe called; 01 05 00

Item 1 acree of Meddow lying upon the Norwest side of Ceader swamp 01 00 00

Item 4 acrees of meddow more or lesse up Iones riuer 01 10 00

Item 2 Cowes 4 pound 1 heiffer 1 pound 10s 2 Calues one pound 06 15 00

Item 13 sheep 3li 1 Mare 10s-2 piggs 8s 03 18 00

Item 1 bed and bolster 2 pillowes 1 blankett 1 Rugge 04 10 00

Item 1 smale fflocke bed, Rug 10s 1 paire of sheets 20s 01 10 00

Item 1 paire [crossed out: peece] of sheets 15-one paire of sheets 00 07 00

Item 1 sheet and 3 Napkins 2 towells 10s 2 pillow beares 1 Napkin 00 15 00

Item 2 Remnants of New linnin cloth; head Linine 11s 01 01 06

Item starch p[-]per needles pins white thread 01 01 06

wearing clothes

Item a Necke handkerchife 12s 2 shite aprons 5s 00 17 00

Item 1 Green Apron 4s 1 paire of gloues 1 shilling 00 05 00

Item 3 blew Aprons 3 Neckclothes 1s-6d- 2 shifts 00 16 06

Item 1 black silke handkerchiff 1 blacke Capp 00 03 06

Item 1 hatt 02 13 00

Item 1 bible 1 Psalm booke 11s 2 pewter platter 10s 01 01 00

Item 1 bason 3s-6d 1 salt celler 2s- 1 smale bason 2 shillings 00 07 06

Item 1 smale platter 2s 1 quart pott 4s 1 smale platter 18d 00 07 06

Item 2 porengers 2s [6d] porrenger 6 spoones 2s 00 06 06

Item 1 Candlestick 1 Cupp 1s-6d 1 pottle pott 3s 00 04 06

Item 1 Chamber pott 2 smale earthen dishes 1-6d 00 05 06

Item 2 platters 1 bason 1s-6d: 3 glasse bottles 00 05 10

Item 1 houre Glasse 12 pe[--] 1 Iron kettle 16s-1 Iron pott 6s 01 03 00

Item 1 Iron pott 5s 1 Iron kettle 5s- 1 Iron spitt 5s 00 15 00

Item 1 Iron axe 1 shilling 6d 1 Iron hoe 3s 1 spade 2s 00 06 06

Item 1 trammell pothookes and other smale hookes 00 04 06

Item 1 smoothing Iron 2s 1 frying pan 3s 00 05 00

Item 1 paire of tonges & fier shouell 2s 1 paire of sheep sheer 12d 00 03 00

Item 1 spook shaue 12d 1 brasse kettle 5s 1 Copper kettle 3- 00 09 00

Item 1 brasse kettle 2 brasse pannes a little kettell and a Scumer 00 06 06

Item 1 Coper 8s 1 spice morter & a pestle 7s 00 15 00

Item 1 warming pan 7s an earthen pan 00 07 06

Item butter 4s an earthen pan sixpence hoggs fatt 12d 00 05 06

Item porke 11s 1 gallon of mallasses 1s- 4d ayle 18 pence 00 14 00

Item Roo[t]s and other Lumber in the Celler 00 05 00

Item 3 paire of horse hopl[-]es 2 shillings 6d wheat 9s Rye 4s 00 15 06

Item Indian Corn 25 shillings 1 great wheele 2 two shilling a little wheele 5s 01 12 00

Item 2 paire of Cards 6d: 1 paire of bellowes 1 shillings 1s-6d 00 04 00

Item 1 Chern a smale Cheesfatt 2s wooden Trayes and dishes and trencers 00 08 03

Item old Caske and such lumber 6s-a sifting trough 18d 00 07 06

Item 1 washing tubb 18 pence 1 Chist 3 shillings 1 box 2s-6d 00 07 00

Item a Cettle 12 Charys 2s a bag sixpence 00 03 06

Item 7 pound & an halfe of woolen yarne a pound of woole 7s-04 10 pounds a quarter of Cotten woole att eighteen pence a pound 00 13 00

Item 3 [----rs] of Cotten yearne 2s; 4 peeces of Ledd 12d 00 03 00

Item 4 peece of brasse 18 pence 1 Iron Racke 12d 1 payer of Scales 6 pence; 00 03 06

Item 2 baggs 15 pence a looking Glasse 6d hay hook and fflax 25 pound 00 01 06

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98 00 08

Item 2 seiues

This Inventory was taken and apprised by us whose Names are underwritten this 7 day of March 1683/1684

Iohn Doten

Iohn Rickard

debts due from the estate by Mr Crow 01 06 02

To Thomas ffaunce 01 00 00

To Gorge watson 00 10 00

To [sejeant] harlow 00 02 06

To Isacke Cushman 00 02 00

To Iames Cole 00 04 00

To Ephraim Cole 00 03 00

Plymouth Colony Wills, Vol. IV, Part II, folio 74.