Richard Hawes Inventory of Estate








INVENTORY
of the Estate of
RICHARD HAWES

27 January 1656/57



£ - s - d
Imprimis – His wearing apparell01.10.00
It. In ye fire roome 1 grt joyned chest12.00
It. An old chaire & 3 or 4 meane stooles02.00
One Pr of Andirons06.08
2 smalle pot hangers, a spit & friing pan07.06
1 lamp 2 smoothing irons03.00
1 iron pott, & Pr pot hookes05.00
1 brasse pott, 10/ -2 small skellets, 6/16.00
2 old brasse kettles08.06
1 small brasse candlestick, 1/6 & pewter of severall sorts of ye
value of 20/6

01.02.00
1 paile & dishes & spoones04.00
earthern pans or cups, 1/ - books, 3/04.00
2 muskets, 2 swords, 1 paire of Bandeliers01.10.00
1 sithe & old axe; old haims & other iron implements10.00
In the inner Roome one old flock bed, 6/- 1 coverlid 20/ -, 3 fether
pillows, 6/ -, 1 fether bolster, 8/-

02.00.00
a paire pillow cotes & other linnen12.00
one chest & a boxe06.00
one wheele05.00
In the cellar 1 Beare barrell, one poudering Trough05.00
in flesh salted to the value of01.10.00
in the chamber one fether bed, bolster & blankets02.00.00
some hemp, 10/- a keeler, 2/- some Indian corne, 25/- 01.17.00
corne in the barne to the value of04.00.00
ye halfe of 3 weather lambes15.00
for hay, 40/-02.00.00
2 old oxen at £909.00.00
2 young oxen at £909.00.00
one cow03.15.00
3 swine at 12/ - apiece01.16.00
one mare14.00.00
ye house, barne, home lot & plot before the house35.00.00
a neck of land about 6 acres09.00.00
medow in ye calves pasture about 6 acres12.00.00
Land by Tolemans05.00.00
land by fresh marsh upland & medow about 18 acres20.00.00
land in the (12) divisions06.00.00
chart, plow & husbandry implements02.00.00
in small debts01.12.00
Some Totall is£151.12.08


Debts to be paid out of the estate as followeth:
22 individuals, various amounts – the largest to Wm. Billing, £22
£48.18.09

“Att a County Court held at Boston 29th of Aprill 1662. The Court being informed by Major Atherton and Capt. Clap as friends to the deceased Richard Hawes of Dorchester took some care about the estate, binding and placing out ye children, the Major being since dead, Capt. Clap tendering to give Obadiah Hawes sonne to the late Richard Hawes, on account thereof, on request of sd Obadiah, the Court judgeth it meet to grant Administration to the Estate of the late Richard Hawes to Obadiah Hawes, his sonne, in behalfe of himselfe and the rest of his Brothers and Sisters so as he give security according to lawe”. Obadiah Hawes deposed same day.








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