| The inventory of the goods of
Samuel Eaton, deceased 1684 |
| Samuel Eaton died
intestate* |
*leaving no will
|
Note: inventories are valued in
pounds (L), shillings (s) and pence (d). There were 12 pence
(or pennies) to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound.
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"An inventory of the estate of
Samuell Eaton of Middlbery Late Deceased exhibited to the Court held
att Plymouth the 29th of October 1684.
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| Item |
3 Cowes |
06 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
a two yeer old
heiffer |
01 |
10 |
00 |
| Item |
a yeer old heiffer |
01 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
a yeer old heiffer |
01 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
2 Colts |
01 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
a Mare |
01 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
a Mare |
02 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
a horse |
01 |
10 |
00 |
| Item |
swine |
02 |
20 |
00 |
| Item |
a parte in a
Grindstone |
00 |
3 |
00 |
| Item |
a Cart and wheels
and a yoke |
01 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
plow takeling axes
& hoes a spade 2 sickles |
01 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
wheat and rye and
fflax and Tobacco |
02 |
03 |
00 |
| Item |
Indian Corn upon the
Ground |
05 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
a Cannoo |
00 |
05 |
00 |
| Item |
Cotton woole and
sheeps woole |
01 |
04 |
00 |
| Item |
Clothes and Armes |
03 |
11 |
00 |
| Item |
beding |
03 |
00 |
00 |
| Item |
bookes |
00 |
08 |
00 |
| Item |
potts & tramell
and tonges a bridle & a saddle |
00 |
02 |
00 |
| Item |
old lumber |
00 |
10 |
00 |
| Item |
house and land
Graunted by the Towne of Middlbery prised att |
07 |
00 |
00 |
|
the whole is |
37 |
11 |
00 |
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prised by
us
John Allin
Nathaniel Warren
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L |
s |
d |
|
The debts Due from
the estate to marchant lake of Boston |
04 |
00 |
00 |
|
for worke of his
sonnes |
02 |
10 |
00 |
|
smale Debts |
02 |
10 |
00 |
|
| for
the settleing of the estate of Samuell Eaton of Middlebery
Deceased this Courts orders that the eldest shall have the house
and Land that was Graunted to the said Eaton by the Town of
Middleberry after his Mothers Decease; the Daughter provided for
by her Grand father; and to have ten shillings at Marriage or when
she is of age the which first happens; and the Children of the
first wife to have the sume of twenty shillings a peece & such
of them as are Dead the sume to be payed amonge theire Children
and twenty shillings for the two youngest Children each to have
their prte att age or Marriage which shall first happen; and the
widdow to have the remaindr for her releiffe" |
| Mayflower
Descendant, Vol. 2, p. 172-173. |
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| For biographical
information about Samuel Eaton, click HERE |
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