"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
The subject today is an inventory in the Probate Court records of Sussex County, New Jersey, for the estate of John Able of Byram, who died in 1831:
The transcription of this record is:
[page 15]
[left margin] John Able dec^d
A true and perfect Inventory of all and
Singular the goods and
Chattels rights and credits monies and
effects of John Able
late of the Township of Byram in the
County of Sussex deceased
appraised by us whose names are
hereunto subscribed this
17th day of March A D 1831.
Wearing Apparel $10,00 Cash $3.00 13.00
1 Gun $4.00 1 pinch back French Watch $3.00 7.00
1 Silver Watch at Newton 5.00
1 pair oxen sold to Lewis Munson 10.00
1 Cast Iron pot 50 cts 1 Pan 25 cts 1
Griddle at Wm. Lb to $1.00 1.75
1 Feather bed 1 Coverled & 1 Cot
bedsted 6.00
1 Bedsted 50cts 1 old Chest 12 cts 1
Chopping ax $1.50 2.12
12 ??? Wool at Joseph Smiths @ 3/ per
?? 4.50
3 Skips Beer $6.00 1 Cradle &
Scythe & grass Scythe & Snethe $2.00 8.00
1 Earthen Jug & 1 Tray 12-1/2 1
drawing knife & table 1 pr Steelyards $2 2.12-1/2
Debt due from Samuel Heaven 10.00
accepted order drawn by Lewis Munson on
Chedester 13.00
a balance due from Benj^n Hettno as
appears by
Settlement signed 13th Feby
1831 20.22
Christopher Hagerty Note principal
$6.60 Int on above 1 /8 mo 65 cts 7.25
Wm Ables Note dated 21st
July 1826 for $11.59 Int on do $3.15 14.74
a Balance due from Saml Wells Jr as
appears }
by a Settlement Signed 25th
Feby 1830 } 35.18
A Balance due from Ephraim C. Gray as
appears }
by Settlement signed 16 August 1830 } 7.79
Doubtful
Account signed against Deake & Coe 10.87
do Thomas
Heaton 14.90
Note against George Crimm 8.00
Order on Peter Jennings 3.37
Supposed Balance on G. Bartletts order 2.84
John Roudaperata account $12.00 John
Rhodes $5.00 18.00
Desperate 275.66
Charles Tappins Note dated 18th
June 1829 4.50
Elias Hinds do 24th
July 1824 1.75
Patrick McBride 25th April
2827 25.22
Wm
C. Lewis } $ 307.11
Daniel Jackson } appraisers
[page 16]
Sussex County Ss William C. Lewis one
of the appraisers of the
within Inventory being duly sworn
according to Law did depose
and say that the goods and Chattels
rights and Credits in the
said Inventory set down and Specified
were by him apprised
according to their just and true
respective rates and values
after the best of his judgment and
understanding and that
Daniel Jackson the other appraiser
whose name is thereunto
Subscribed was present and in all
things Consented to the
doing thereof and that they appraised
all things that were
brought to their view for appraisement.
Sworn & Subscribed before me
}
the 17th day of March 1831
} Wm C. Lewis
?? Teasdale Surrogate }
Sussex County Ss. John Le Port the
adm^r of John Able dec^d
being duly sworn according to Law did
depose and say that
the Within Writing contains a true and
perfect inventory of
all and Singular the goods and Chattels
rights and Credits of
said dec^d that have come to his
possession acknowledge or to
the possession of any other person or
persons for his use.
Sworn & Subscribed before me }
the 17th day of March 1831
} John Le Port
?? Teasdale Surrogate }
The source citation for this document is:
"New Jersey, Probate Records, 1678-1980," digital images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ accessed 19 February 2013), Sussex > Inventories 1819-1840 vol D-F > pages 15-16 (image 591 of 840) John Able inventory.
This Inventory image is also available on FHL Microfilm US/CAN 960535. The digital image for the page is at https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-29846-5255-7?cc=2018330&wc=MQT7-QZS:338012601,339837901.
There was minimal household stuff listed, perhaps they were very poor or had sold more of their personal property. Apparently, there was no real property in the inventory.
I found it interesting that some of the debts owed to the estate were listed as "Doubtful" and "Desparate." I don't know what sort of occupation that John Able engaged in - it was probably farming, but with so many outstanding debts it might have been a trade or store of some sort.
I believe that this John Able is my third great-grandfather John Able (1780-1831), who married Anna Row in 1804, and had five children, including my second great-grandfather, Daniel Auble (1817-1894).
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