Source:Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. 1674 Inventory of the Estate of Richard Taylor of Yarmouth

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Source 1674 Inventory of the Estate of Richard Taylor of Yarmouth
Author Plymouth Colony Records
Coverage
Place Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Year range 1673 - 1675
Surname Blake, Gorum, Taylor, Thacher
Subject Will/Probate records
Publication information
Type Miscellaneous
Date issued 1674
Place issued Yarmouth, MA
Volume / Film# / Pages Volume III, Part I, 96; p. 307
Citation
Plymouth Colony Records. 1674 Inventory of the Estate of Richard Taylor of Yarmouth. (Yarmouth, MA, 1674).
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Plymouth Colony Archive Projecthttp://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/P210.htmFree website

Volume III, Part I, 96; p. 307

An Invoyce of the estate of Richard Taylor of Yarmouth, late deceased, taken this 13th day of the 10th month [December] 1673 and which _____ to the court holden at Plymouth the sixth? of March 1673 [1674] on the oath of John Taylor.

Item: One hat, 5s; 2 shirts, 1s; 2 pair of drawers; 1 paire of shoes. 01-07-00

Item: a paire of boots, 1 pair of drawers not made 00-05-00

[centered] The woman’s Clothes. [Many believe this to refer to the clothes of the wife of this Richard Taylor who was a few months before found drowned off Duxbury]

Item: 1 hatt 10, 1 wastecoat, 8s; 1 Riding hood, 4s; 1 pair of bodyes [bodice?] 01-06-00

Item: a petty coate, Item another petty coate 8s; 1 more 20s; 3 waste coates 10s 00-14-00

Item: a pair of gloves, 18s a..... 2s-6d a neck handerchief 00-08-06

Item: a white apron 6s; a pair of worsted? stockings 4s

Item: a black neck cloth18d 00-11-00

Item a knife 10s 00-01-06

Item to the bed in the lower House? bed and bolsters 4L 04-00-00

Item 1 Rugg 20s and a blankett 12 curtains and vallences the bedstead and bord 36s 04-08-00

Item a shift of a woman’s 4s; to bedding in the chamber 00-04-00

Item 1 blankett 00-16-00

Item I Rugg 10sbed bolster and pillows 30s a Rugg 20s 2 blanketts 03-08-00

Item a bed and bolster 4L; 1 paire of sheets 15s 1 sheet 18s 05-13-00

Item a paire of sheets 20s; 4 more cotton sheets 12 s 01-12-00

Item 3 yards of [fabric?....] 00-13-00

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Joyned stools 01-15-00

Item a warming pan 4s a brass skillet 5s; a brass kettle 3s

Item an Iron pott 14s; another pott 12s another iron pott 8s

Item an Iron kettle, a skllett 4s a pair of pot hookes and hangers

Item 3 platters 5s 1 more 7s a skillett 5s; 1 bason? 5s; 2 porringers, 2 dram cupps; earthen ware 7s-15d; trays 1s-6d

Item a paire of sheets a snuffing Iron moothing iron a kandlestick

Item a looking glass 18s a platter and a pudding pan 2 milk pails 3

Item a box and a forme 2s a fier pan and tongs 5s a cherne and other lumber

Item a spitt? three shillings a gun and sword, powder and bullets

Item linen yearne; att; 2 spinning wheels and cards

Item several carpenters tools; 2 sickles; 2 axes

Item the cart and wheels plow, yoak, and chaires?, a pair of hookes, a crow? of iron

Item Indian corne fourscore bushels; English [corn] 20 bushels

Item 20 pounds of Flax not broken; 3 meals and corne sives? a bushell of salt

Item 2 barrells of beef and pork; 28 pounds of tallow, fatt,

Item half a furkin? of butter; half a barrel of Molasses

Item cheese and 36 bushells of turnipps

Item 6 cowes, 2 steers, two year old, 2 heffers

Item, 3 calves, 1 steer, 1 horse

Item, 22 sheep, 2 hoggs fatted, 9 swine

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Item 3 jaggs? of Hay

Item housing 12 acres of upland, 9 of meadow and about 3? acres of broken marsh and about 5 bushells of corn sowne.

Item 50 foot of board, and in cedar bolts

Item: 21 yards of cloth of 3 bushels of mault?

Item: 1 hyde, a barrel of porke the charge deducted

Item a grind stone, a third parts of a hatchell?

Item: debts due to the estate of Richard Taylor as appears by bill: thirty eight barrells and a halfe of Tarr? and in Indian Corne...

Item: due from Mr. John Blake of Boston 16s or d.

Total inventory valued at 199 pounds, 4 shillings, 11d

[Less] debts due from the estate of Richard Taylor in cash 10-02-00 and in other specie 07-19-00

An account particular given to the children their father in his life owned by the children to John Tayler, viz 3 calves, and 1 lamb to Joseph [Taylor]. To Martha [Taylor m. Joseph Bearse] one calfe To Mary [Taylor] 1 sheep, 1 pigg, 1 rugg, 1 paire of sheets, 1 blanket, 1 thousdan of boards and what more the account is privy unto.

-- John Gorum, John Thacher