Amanuensis Monday -- 1746 Personal Inventory of Huldah (Simonds) Blogget (1660-1746) Intestate Estate

This week's document is the 1746 Inventory to appraise the intestate estate of Huldah Blogget (1660-1746) of Sudbury, Massachusetts in Probate Packet 1,960 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.  

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The transcription of this personal Inventory  is:

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Wobourn March y'e 26: 1746 A tru Inventory of all the Estate that Mr's Huldah Blogget Late of Woburn Dece'ed and seized and possed of shown by the Administrators to us The Subscribers And apprized as followeth viz.                                                                                Old tenor
Imp's To a Riding Hood 4:10:0 To a blu Callamined Gound 5:10:0	£ 10 : 0 : 0
To a black silk cap gound and black pettecoat 3:0:0	3 : 0 : 0
To a green gound 1:15:0 To a striped Callomined gound 1:15:0	3 : 10 : 0
To a green large pettecoat 1:0:0 To a Red pettecoat & white pettecoat 0:10:0	1 : 10 : 0
To six old pettecoats 0:15:0 To a old Riding Hood 1:0:0	1 : 15 : 0
To two west suts and the gound 0:8:0 to five pare of stockings 0:15:0	1 : 3 : 0
To five pare of stayes 0:10:0 To a pare of shows 0:5:0	0 : 10 : 0
To a bonet 0:5:0 To six shefts 1:15:0 To eight Lasts Capps 1:5::0	6 : 5 : 0
To four old capps 0:2:0 To four tow apporns 0:8:0 To two fine apporn 0:10:0	1 : 0 : 0
To six hancaches 1:1:0 To three pare of gloves 0:10:0	1 : 11 : 0
To a silk hood and scavse and fann 2:12:0 To two pares of sleves 0:2:0	2 : 14 : 0
To four neckcloths for men 0:4:0 to two pare of breches & Jacket 1:05:0	1 : 9 : 0
To three books 1:15:0 To a pare of sheets 4:0:0 To a pare of sheets 3:10:0	9 : 5 : 0
To a pare of sheets 3:0:0 To a pare of two sheet 2:5:0	5 : 5 : 0
To a pare of tow sheets 1:7:0 To a pare of old sheets 1:0:0	2 : 7 : 0
To a pare of smale old sheets 0:10:0 To a table cloth 0:14:0	1 : 4 : 0
To four old Table Cloths 0:11:0 To eight old pillow coats 1:0:0	1 : 11 : 0
To three napkins 0:7:0 To seven towels 0:12:0 To three pieces of new cloth	1 : 9 : 0
To Cubert Cloth and walet 0:5:0 To ???? Curtens 2:15:0	3 : 0 : 0
To a feather bed and 2 bolster and two pillows 3 pillow coats under bed bedsted	1 : 16 : 0
And Cord 8:10:0 To a pare sheets 4:5:0 To a blancket 2:0:0	14 : 15 : 0
To a cover led 2:15:0 To blancket 0:15:0	3 : 10 : 0
To a short bed bedsted and Cord and Covering 4:10:0	4 : 10 : 0
House well goods To two putter dishes and putter bason 2:4:0	2 : 4 : 0
To old putter dishes and putter pott 1:15:0	1 : 16 : 0
To a brass kettle 4:15:0 To a warming pann 1:8:0	6 : 3 : 0
To a brass skelet and skelet frame 0:8:0	0 : 8 : 0
To a box jorn and heeters 0:6:0 To a potteg pott and pok hook 0:18:0	1 : 4 : 0
To the Lttle pot and hooks 0:6:0 To a dish kittle 0:9:0	0 : 15 : 0
To a frying pann 0:12:0 To a brass skemmer 0:2:0	0 : 14 : 0
To a tinn pann and tinn tun?klr 0:4:0 to earthen ware 1:0:0	1: 4 : 0
To a morter and pestle 0:5:0 To a pare of hand belles 0:8:0	0 : 13 : 0
To two old paiels and pigen 0:2:6	0 : 2 : 6
To knives and forks and chopin knife 0:5:0 To a pare of shears 0:1:6	0 : 6 : 6
To one ?????? Comb 0:3:0 To a pare of Spectakels 0:3:0	0 : 6 : 0
To a Carved Cubbert 2:0:0	2 : 0 : 0
To two trammells 1:4:0 To a parer of and jorns fire dlice and toungs 1:6:0	2 : 10 : 0
To a table and Joynt Stool 0:7:0 To nine old Cheaiers 0:14:0	1 : 1 : 0
To a meale Chest and Long Table 0:12:0	0 : 12 : 0

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To a Chest in the Low Room	0 : 5 : 0
To a barriel of sider with out the barriel	0 : 16 : 0
To an old barriel and three old tubs	0 : 10 : 0
To a Round tub to coll worte	0 : 5 : 0
To a Chese press and Cheese Rack	0 : 19 : 0
To hops four pound 0:7:0 To two meal sacks 0:10:0	0 : 17 : 0
To haarns and trasses 1:0:0 To a Saddele 0:10:0	1 : 10 : 0
To old jorn 1:3:0 To three forks 0:12:0	1 : 17 : 0
To a plow sheare and old tub 0:16:0	0 : 16 : 0
To half a bushel of Ry meal 0:7:0	0 : 7 : 0
To twelve bushels of Inden corn 6:6:0	6 : 6 : 0
To two bushels of Ry 1:8:0	1 : 8 : 0
To one bushel of malt 0:12:0	0 : 12 : 0
To one smale tub of salt pork	5 : 0 : 0
Thomas Reed            }                                                                    Samuel Wyman junr } Apprizers                                                                    James Simon             }
Middlesex ss June 16 1746                      Capt. Nathan Blogget the Administ'r perfected the                       foregoing Inventory on Oath                                                         S. Danforth J. Prob.
The charge of the apprizement as followeth viz                      To Thomas Reed                   1 : 5 : 0                      To Samuel Wyman               1 : 5 : 0                      To James Simonds                1 : 5 : 0
To drawing the Inventory     0 : 10 : 0

The source citation for this probate record is:

"Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 15 March 2020), Probate Packet 1,60 (7 pages), Huldah Blodget of Woburn, 1746; Original records in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Court Records, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  

Huldah (Simonds) Blogget died intestate on 13 March 1746.  She was the widow of Samuel Blogget (1658-1743) who had died intestate on 5 November 1743.  There was no probate of Samuel Blogget's estate, and presumably the widow was allowed to remain in the house.  When Huldah died, their son Nathan Blogget (1706-1747) was appointed administrator of Huldah's estate, and posted bond after the heirs wrote a letter testamentary to the probate court requesting his appointment.  When the court ordered Thomas Reed, Samuel Wyman and James Simonds, they produced the inventory of the personal estate on 26 March 1746.

There are several other documents in this probate packet, including the letter testamentary, bond, letter of administration, and court order naming the appraisers.

The inventory transcribed above totals £36 : 3 : 0 (pounds : shillings : pence).  It is only household items, there is no real estate inventory, sine Samuel Blodgett sold his land to his sons before his death.  I struggle to understand what some of the personal items are, and the writer of the inventory used creative spelling for most of the common items.  However, this provides an interesting example of what a household for an elderly couple in mid-century New England possessed and used, down to every sack of meal, sheet and old pot. 

Samuel Blodgett (1658-1743) and Huldah (Simonds) Blodgett (1660-1746) are my 8th great-grandparents, through their daughter Huldah Blodgett (1689-1777) who married Ebenezer Reed (1690-1767).

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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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