Monday, May 28, 2018

Amanuensis Monday - Inventory of William White (1708-1780) of Dartmouth, Mass.

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is from the Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Packet records for William White of Dartmouth, Massachusetts:

a) Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Packet 18,021, image 4 (of 11):




b) Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Packet 18,021, image 5 (of 11):

c) Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Packet 18,021, image 6 (of 11):



d) Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Packet 18,021, image 2 (of 11):




The transcription of this inventory is:
[image 4 of 11]

                      Inventory

A True & Just Inventory of all & Singular the Estate Goods
Rights & Chattles Shewn to us That William White Late of Dartm-
outh in the County of Bristol Deceas^d di^d Seaz^d of; We the Subscribers
Having Duety Appris^d the Same in Lawfull Silver Money at the
Rate of Six Shillings & Eight Pence per Troy Ounce, as
Followeth:


£      S      D
Imprimis Day Apparrell
One Great Coat Jersey 36/0 one Strait Bodied Broad        
Cloth Coat Blue with Plait Buttens & one Do Tacoat also  
with Plate Buttons £6-0/0 one old Serge Coat & Tacoat      
with a Pair of fustian Britches al Trim^d with Plate           
Buttons 60/0 One Linnen Tacoat Pair britches Do 20/0    
one old Beaver Hat with one Castor Do 40/0 one Silk 
Hankerchief 9/0 one Linnen Do 8/0 two old Linnen    
Sheets 15/0 two Pair Worsted Stockings 12/0 three Pair 
of yarn Do 9/0 one Pair of Worsted Gloves & a Pair of  
yarn Mittens 6/0 one Pair of Shoes 4/6 one Pair of    
Silver Shoe Buckles 18/0    











  17 – 12 – 6





Item Hard Cash £377 – 00 – 8-3/4

377 – 00 -- 8-3/4
Item Promisary Notes on the following Persons for hard cash 
viz./ on David Stafford 14/4 On Nathaniel Potter 
£ 10 – 10/0 on Christopher White 7/10 



  27 – 12 –  2
To Wrought Plate: One Tankard £15 – 0/0 One Cupp 48/0 Six  
Large Spoons 72/0 Six Small Do 24/0  

  22 –  4 –   0
To Wrought Puter three Large Platters 28/0 one Small Do 6/0  
four Large Plates 10/0 Six Small Do 24/0 Seven Porringers 27/0
three Basons 19/0 7^#7^oz old Puter 12/0 with one Copper Tea
Kittle 18/0              



    6 – 14 – 0
To Books One Large Bible 6/0 one Hodders Arithmetick 0/6

    6 –   6
To one fether Bed two Pillows one Bolster w^t 57# £8 – 11/0 
under Bed Bedstead & Cord 30/0 two Pillow Cases one  
Bolster Do 10/0 two old Sheets 10/0 one yarn Coverled 36/0


   12 – 17 – 0
______________
                                         (Turn Over) 464 –    6 – 10-3/4

[image 5 of 11]

                                   (Inventory) Brought forward

£ 464 – 6 – 10-3/4
To One other feather Bed with a Bolster & Its Case 60/0 underbed
& Bedsteed 12/0 two old Linnen Sheets 6/0 one yarn Coverlid 36/0 



      5 – 14
To One other feather Bed one Bolster two Pillows with their 
Cases wt^d 62# £10-0/0 underbed Bedsteed & Cord 30/0 two 
Sheets 8/0 one Tow Coverlid 24/0 one Set of Linnen Curtains with
Vallance Head Cloth & Teaster with Iron Rods 45/0   



    15 –   7
To One Coutch frame & Bed 30/0

      1 – 10
To Spair Bedding one Linnen Sheet No1 30/0 No2 13/0 No3 12/0 No4 
10/0 No5 1/6 four Pillow Cases 24/0 four Do 18/0 one Striped Do 3/0 
four flannell Sheets 80/0 two Striped Kersey Blankets 44/0 
one White Do 30/0 two full^d Do 27/0      


    14 – 12 –   6
To Six yards of Worsted Cloth 30/0 three Linnen Table Cloths 36/0 
Seven Diaper Towels 39/0 Six Kersey Do 21/0 to 5-1/2 yards of New
Tow Cloth 22/0 one Forming Cloth 3/0 Some Linnin yarn 7/6
two ovel Tables 39/0 one Square Do 6/0 one Joint Stool & one  
Tea Table 6/0 one Case with three Square bottles 4/6 twelve 
Canister Back^d Chairs 72/0 Six old Do 24/0 two Great Chairs 18/0 





     16 –   8 –  0
To One Candle Stand 2/0 and Low Case of Drawers 24/0 one foot 
wheels 6/0 one Cheese tubb 6/0 four Chinea Cups & four Sawjers 
four Crack^d Drinking Glasses three Crack^d Caffe bowls 3/0   
fourteen Drinking Glasses one Glass Creempot 15/0 twelve Delph 
Plates 8/0 one Delph Punch Bowl 1/6 one old Crack^d Do 0/6 one
 Earthan Do 1/0 old Earthan ware 3/0 one Puter tea Pott 4/0 Sugar 
Pott Cream Do 1/6 one Heigh Case of Drawers 60/0 one old Da?? 6/0







       8 – 11 –   6
To one Large Cupboard 30/0 three Powdering tubs 30/0 one Samp
Morter & Stone Pessell 9/0 one Large Looking Glass £4-10/0 
one old warming Pan 6/0 six old Heators 10/0 two Trays 6/0 one
Piggen two sugar boxes 1/0 three Cheese Molds 6/9 one Tin  
Callinder one Tin funnell one Peper Box gretter one tin  
Coffe Pott 6/0 two Earthan Milk Pans 5/0 three old Poles 3/0 





      10 –  5 –   9
To Two Ceder Rundlets 4/0 one old Churn 2/0 six old tubs one old 
Tray 12/0 one old Candle Box 2/0 one Pair of Cheese Tangs 1/0 one 
frying Pan 9/0 one Large Iron Pott 6/0 one Large Iron Skittle 
12/0 one Small Do 6/0 one Little Do 4/0 one small Pott 3/0 two 
Bellowses 1/6 one GridIron 3/0 one Iron Bucket 1/6 one flat 
Iron 2/0 one Pair of old fire Tongs 4/6   




        4 –  1 –   6




______________
                                         (Turn over) £540 – 17 – 3-3/4

[image 6 of 11]

                                  ( Inventory ) Brought forward

£540 – 17 – 3-3/4
To one pair of HandIrons 24/0 Six Table knives & Eight 
forks 18/0 one Brass Skimmer 1/0 one Pair Small Hillards 
6/0 one Double Hetchell 36/0 one Slip Candle Stand & one
Iron Candle Stick 3/6 one Pocket knife 1/0 one Box Iron 3/0
one Pair of Spectacles 3/0 and Walking ^Cane^ 12/0





      5 – 7 – 1
To One fire Lock Gun 6/0 four Small Basketts 6/0 one 
old Saddle 12/0 the Half of one other Do 18/0 one tin   
Deed Case 2/0 ???? Scales & Wates 6/6 Silver Sleave 
Buttons 0/9 one old Meal Chest 2/0 one old Iron Spit 1/6  
three Hogsheds 13/0 four old Casks 8/0  





      3 – 15 – 9
Item To Blacksmith tools One Anvil £6 – 0/0 one Larg Vice
48/0 one hand Do 4/0 one Stake 6/0 two Sledges 20/0
three Hammers 6/0 one Beak horn 24/0 one Pair of 
Bellows 48/0 four Pair of Tongs 12/0 other old Tools
for Smithing 36/0





     16 –   4
Item Farming Utentials One Grinding Stone with
Iron Crank 6/0 one Iron bar & half Do 30/0 one
Cop Ring & Staple 6/0 one ox Cart & Wheels with a 
Clevis & Pin £6 – 0/0 one Slough with a shire & 
Clevis & Pins 12/0 two Draft Chains 18/0 one Narrow
ax 2/0 one Do for Morticing 2/0 one Beetle with
Rings & Wedges 4/6 the Half of our Hay Rope 1/6 one
Set of horse Traces 10/0 Seven Harrow teeth 6/0 one 
Hay fork 3/0







       11 –   2
Item To Carpenters tools one Broad ax 4/0 one Hand  
Saw 2/0 one Iron Square 7/0 four Augers 12/0 one
Drawing knife 2/0 one Jointer two Plains 4/6 three  
Chizzells two Gouges 6/0 one Addze & Hatchit 4/0
                          


        2 –   1 –   1
To Some old Coopers tools 6/0 Som Joiners Implements 6/0 

        0 –   6 –   6
Item To his Live stock one Pide Cow £8 – 8/0 one Black Cow
£8 – 8/0 one Brindle Cow £7 – 16/0 one Red Cow £7 – 16/0
the one half of one Riding Beast £9 – 10/0 one Pair of 
Red oxen £27 – 0/0 one other ox £17 – 14/0 one two year
Steer £5 -0/0 four Calves £8 – 0/0 four Hoggs £15 – 0/0 three
Piggs 40/0 one three year old Steer £9 – 0/0 two year
old Do £5 – 0/0 




    130 – 12






_____________
                                                   ( Turn over )   £710 –   6 – 4-3/4

[image 3 of 11]

                                   ( Inventory ) Brought forward

    710 –   6 – 4-3/4
To One year old Heffer £3 – 12/0 one Do £3 – 0/0 the Half 
of a year old Bull £1 – 10/0 one two year old Mare £9 – 0/0 one
three year old Steer £10 – 0/0 the one Half of a two year   
old Heffer £3 – 0/0 the Half a year old Do £1 – 16/0 twenty 
Seven Sheep 10 – 16/0   




       42 – 14


____________
       753 – 00 – 4-3/4


To Paper Money in Continental Bills

       10 – 16 –  0
In Sword in Hand Bills        29 – 08 –  0

    £ 40 –   4 –  0
                Perfected by us the Subscribers
                 this 30^th Day of the 9th mo Called
                                    September AD 1780

                                    Benjamin Brownell
                                    Peleg White
                                   Thos. Shearman




The source citation for this document is:

Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Case file 28021 - William White 1780; "Bristol County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899," digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (http://www.americanancestors.org : accessed 17 May 2018).

The will of William White was transcribed in 
Amanuensis Monday - Will of William White (1708-1780) of Dartmouth, Mass. (posted 21 May 2018). In his will, William White bequeathed all of his real estate to his only son, Jonathan White.

The estate inventory is very long but defines all of the personal estate of William White.  The estate items are grouped by their function.  Some of the individual items have a value like "£17 - 8/0" which would mean 17 pounds, 8 shillings, 0 pence.  Others have a value  of "8/0" which means 8 shillings and 0 pence.  The groups are totaled in the right-hand column, and then summed on each page, and carried forward to the next page.  The personal estate in this inventory totaled £793 - 4 - 4.

William White (1708-1780) was the son of William White (1683-1777) and Elizabeth Cadman (1685-1768).  He married Abigail Thurston (1700-1770) in 1729, and they had five children.  Daughter Sarah White died before William wrote his will.  The will provides for the remaining four children.  Son Jonathan White is given the wearing apparel and all of the real estate, but has to pay the debts, charges, and the legacies given to his three sisters - Hannah Kirby, Elisabeth Peckham and Abigail White.  


William White is my 6th great-grandfather, through his only son, Jonathan White (1732-1804) of Westport, Massachusetts, who married Abigail Wing (1734-1806) in 1756.

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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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