Amanuensis Monday - Probate Records for Estate of John Garnsey (1648-1722) of Rehoboth, Mass. - Part 2

This week's documents for Amanuensis Monday are from the Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Court records for John Garnsey (1648-1722) of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (presented in date order):

a)  Probate Packet 10414 (image 5 of 22):

b)  Probate Packet 10414 (image 6 of 22):

The transcription of this Inventory is:

A true inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattels,

Rights and Credets of Mr. John Garnsey Carpenter, Late of

Rehoboth deceased. Taken this 20^th Day of april 1722

by William Salisbury, Francis Willson and John Thomson as to haveth

                                                                                                                       £     s    d

Imprimis To his wearing apparrel	05--04--00
Item to his Books	01--03--00
Item to province Bills	04--04--06
Item to one Pocker book	00--01--06
Item to one silver spoon	00--13--00
Item to two ounces of silver money and six pence	00--16--06
Item to some penneys	00--01--10
Item to one feather bed and bolster	05—00--00
Item to one feather bed furniture bedsted and Cord	08—00--00
Item to one flock bed bolster blanket and coverlid	01—17--00
Item to one Coverlid and blanket 2-0-0 one bedsted and Covs 0-10-0	02—10--00
Item to five sheets and some small Linnen	01--12--06
Item to two new bed Cords onw five shillings the other three shillings	00—08--00
Item to one Wainscot Chest and drawers	00—18--00
Item to one Chest and drawers 0-11-0 to one Letter Chest 0-8-0	00—19--00
Item to eleven yards of new cloath at 4^s pr yard	02—04--00
Item to one Cubburd 0-6-0 one old meal trough 0-4-0	00—10--00
Item to two old Tables	00—03--06
Item to peuter vessels	02—10--03
Item to one brass kittle	01—03--00
Item to one Warming pan	00—13--00
Item to one brass Skillet	00—05--00
Item to two Iron Trammels	00—10--00
Item yo one Iron pot and pot hooks 0-16-0 one Iron pot 0-7-0	01—03--00
Item to one pair of Tongs and one frying pan	00—08--00
Item to three glass bottels one stone Jugg and one Iron Candlestik	00—04--03
Item to houshold Utensils of wood, a trays bowls and dishes} morter and Cann }	00--12--00
Item to one pail and one piggin – 0-2-6 five Chairs 0-12-0	00—14--06
Item to beer barre Tunnel and Cheern	00—04--00
Item to Carpenter Tools and one sickel	01—07--00
Item to one pair of Cans and one Sive	00—04--00
Item to salt pork	01—15--00
Item to one Gun 1-5-0 two Swords 0-9-0	01—14--00
Item to Iron hoops bones and bolts and some other old Iron	00—18--00
Item to one Sundial 0-1-0 one Syth 0-5-0	00—06--00
Item to nine3 pounds of flax	00—09--00
Item to two pounds of Cotton yarn	00—11--00
Item yo some woolen yarn	00—08--08
Item to Linnen yarn	00—05--10
Item to two meat tubs and two bags	00—09--00
Item to one plow, Cops and hors traces	00—11--00
	53—11--10

Item to thirteen pounds of Tobacko 0-4-4 three pounds of hops 2	00—06--04
Item to powder, flints, knapsack and powder horn	00—04--00
Item to one old bedsted and one small bag	00—05--06
Item to beetle two wedges and one small hoe	00--03--00
Item to three pitchforks	03—00--00
Item to one horse	03—00--00
Item to four swine	02—04--00
Item to three cows	12—10--00
Item to one small cow	03—05--00
Item to thirteen bushels of Indian corn	02—12--00
Item to three bushels or rie	00—15--00
Item to nine bushels of ground malt	02—05--00
{due from Samuel Hix 01—12—00       }
{due from John Horton 01—01—00       }
Item to his Credets      {due from John Garnsey 01--00--00         }	04—09--03
{due from Ebenezer Garnsey 00—05--06 }
{due from Joseph Garnsey 00—05--00    }
{due from James Bowen 00—05--09       }
Item to all the Housing and Land (Seths house excepted)	90—00--00
To one third part of a Corn mill	20—00--00
Total	195--13--11

Given under our hands the day above said                           William Salisburry }

                                                                                                Francis + Willson } prisers

                                                                                                        his mark        }

                                                                                              John Thomson        }

Bristoll Ss May 7^th 1722

Then before y^e Honoble Paine Esqr Judge of Probate of

Wills and Granting Letters of Administration within y^e County

of Bristol came Seth Garnsey & James Bowen Administrators

to y^e estate of John Garnsey late of Rehoboth deceased –

Intestate and made oath the Inventory above Written Contains

the whole of That Estate the said deceased dyed seized of and is

Come to their hands and Knowledge and when they Know of more

they will Reveal it that it may be of Record wherewith.

Bristoll Ss: May 9^th 1722 Juratt Coram Nath^ll Paine

The source citation for this probate estate packet is:

Bristol County [Mass.] Register of Probate, Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Records, 1690-1881, Estate File 10414 (22 images), John Garnsey of Rehoboth, 1722; digital images, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org); citing original records at Probate Registry, Taunton, Mass.

John Garnsey (1648-1722) resided in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts when he died on 31 March 1722.  He married three times - with his first wife Elizabeth (1652-1714) he had 13 children; with his second wife, Judith Ormsbee (1673-1715) he had one child; with his third wife, Sarah (Miller) Titus (1655-1742) he had no children. 

John Garnsey died intestate - leaving no will to probate, so the Probate Court went through the administration process of appointing an administrator, the administrators took an inventory, submitted an account, and distributed the estate to the heirs at law.  There are 22 images in the probate packet for John Garnsey of Rehoboth on the American Ancestors website.  

In Part 1, the widow and eldest son petitioned the court to relieve them of administratrix/or responsibility, and the Court appointed Seth Garnsey and James Bowen as administrators.

In this Part 2, the three appraisers have produced an Inventory of the estate totaling £110 in real estate and £85-13-11 in personal estate.

There will be several more posts for this intestate estate in Bristol county, Massachusetts.

John and Elizabeth (--?--) Garnsey are my 8th great-grandparents, through their eldest child, Mehitable Garnsey (1673-1742) who married John Horton (1672-1752) in about 1689, and resided in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

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NOTE:  Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent  TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday."  John offers this definition for "amanuensis:" 

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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