Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay ColonyDow, George Francis
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Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Dow, George Francis
Massachusetts -- Social life and customs -- To 1775
1/2 mill at exeter & halfe of the prvilidge of mill & land, 40li.
HOUSEHOLD STUFF & IS IN THE CELLAR UNDER YE HALL:
1 Iron Trivett & Tramell, 1 barr & 2 Cobbe Irons, 1 fire shovell,
1 Ketle, 2 brass pans, 1 Copper Kettle, 1 brass skillett, 1
flagon, 20 old dishes, 1 Iron pott, 1 spitt, 1 pr. bellowes,
skimer, 3li. 19s. 6d.
IN THE HALL:
1 pr. Iron Andirons, 1 pr. tonges, 11s. 6d. more;
one Cubord, 15s.;
1 Tabell & carpett, 2s., 4 leather, 2 other chairs, 1li. 5s.,
1 setle, 4 stooles, a cushion, 14s., 1 clock, 2li., 7li. 5s. 6d.
IN THE LITTLE ROOM:
1 Bedsteed & curtaine, one bed, one boulster, 1 rugg, 3 blanketts,
1 pr. sheets, 4 table cloath, 8 naptkins, 1 pewter dish & one
bason, one salt, 2 brass candlestickes, 1 ladle, 1 warming pan,
fire pan, 20s., 1 basket, 1 chaire, 1 cushion, 7li. 4s.
IN THE OTHER LITTLE ROOME:
One bedsteed, curtaines, fether bed, 3 blanketts, 1 coverled,
2 bolsters, 3 pillowes, a trundle bedsteed, a fether bed, pr.
of sheets, coverled, bolster, Tables & chaires, 8 Cushions,
1 Joint stoole, 3 pewter dishes, 1 salt, 1 Brass skillett,
1 skimmer, 1 pan, 1 seive, 1 Bible, 11li. 7s. 6d.
One silver Candlestick, 1 Tankard, one beere boale, 2 wine cupps,
one dram cupp, 6 spoones, 17li.;
1 brass scillett, 1 pewter dish & bason, 2 brass Candlesticks, Joynt
stooles, one Tramell, 1 Ketle, 1 sive, shovell, 1 back, 2 Cob
Irons & dripping pan, 1li. 15s.
IN THE CLOSETT:
13 pewter platters, 2 py plates, 6 smale plates, 5 saucers, 1
pewter & 2 brass candlesticks, 1 urin botle & 1 bed pan, 12
earthern dishes, 2 pudden pans, 5li. 10s. 6d.
IN THE HALL CHAMBER:
One bedsteed, Curtaines & vallens of red searge, 1 fether bed,
2 bolsters, 2 pillowes, 3 blanketts, 1 tapestry Cuverled, 10li.;
2 Cubberts, 2 Cubbert cloathes, 1 table, 4 red stooles, 2 red cloath
chaires with fringe, 3 leather chaires, 2li. 15s.;
1 great chaire, 7 pichers, 10s., one pr. brass Andirons, one back,
3s., 8li. 5s.;
6 cushions & 1 pc. of carpeting & old vallens at 1li. 4s.;
one Trunk, 8s.;
one chest, 8s., 2li.
WITHIN THE TRUNK & CHEST & IN THE HALL CHAMBER:
7 pr. sheetes, 4 diapr. table cloathes, 2 plaine, 9 pillow beers,
4 Cubbert cloathes, 2 napkins, 1 tapestry coverled, 2 darnick
carpetts, 2 pr. sheets, 7 damask naptkins, 2 short diaper table
cloathes, 3 pillow beers, 26 diaper naptkins, 14 plaine naptkins,
one red rugg, 21li. 18s.
IN THE GARRETT:
One Rugg, three blanketts, one flock bed, 1 Coverlett, one bolster,
one blankett, 3li. 7s.;
money, 123li. 14s.;
IN VESSELS, 200li.;
total, 4,239li. 11s. 5d.
DUE TO THE ESTATE:
In debts accotd. as certaine, 1,500li.;
as doubtfull, 700li.;
stand in the book yett acttd. of as utterly lost & desperatt, 836li.
6s. 2d.
DEBTS due from the estate, 1500li.
--_Essex County Quarterly Court Records_, Vol. II, pp. 271-274.
APPENDIX G
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