Amanuensis Monday -- 1731 Estate Inventory of Joseph Clark (1664-1731) of Medfield, Mass.

This week's document for transcription is the 1731 Estate Inventory of the estate of Joseph Clark (1664-1731) of Medfield, Massachusetts, in Probate Packet 6,138 in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts probate court records:

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The transcription of this Inventory is:

An Inventory of the Estates goods Chattels & houses & lands of Cap't Joseph Clark late of Medfield Deceaced as it was apprized by the Subscribers here unto Medfield September y'e 2'd 1731 viz. As followeth
	£	s	d
To books arms paper money Bonds & silver money	143	16	0
To Several Suts of Cloathing with a Cane	25	0	0
To Several Beds and bedding belonging to them	35	10	0
To Brass and puter Earthen and glass bottels	11	10	0
To iron pots fire pan tongs hagues hand irons & tow comb	5	17	0
To Sheets table Cloaths & knapkins	17	12	0
To sacks wool flax and hemp	11	14	11
To spinings wheels Chests Chairs tubs killers trayes Barrels Dishes Spoons Cheese press and other wooden wear	3    12	0      0	0   0
To Indian Corn and wry & malt & flax	58	08	2
To sadels Cart Rope Cart wheels yoke irons & plows	13	15	0
To sithes sickels saws hamers & Carpender tools bar iron axes hows Chains horse tacklin harrow teeth & other old iron	14	1	0
Stock of Chattel
To one yoke of oxen and five Cows	55	0	0
To horses young Chattel Sheep and Swine	53	10	0
To a small work house neare the Dwelling house	8	0	0
To the Dwelling house with y'e Conveniencys of it	90	0	0
To a malt house with y'e privilidges belonging to it	60	0	0
To y'e Barn yard with y'e privilidges belonging to it	30	0	0
To a Corn mill with y'e mill pond & privilidges belonging to it	100	0	0
To all y'e land orchard & medow land & plow land & pasture land lying on the East side of y'e highway by y'e house	66	0	0
To three acres of plow land lying on the northwest side of the highway that goith to the house	36	0	0
To twenty one acres of medow land lying by Stop River	270	0	0
To an orchard on y'e south side of the highway that goeth by the house	30	0	0
To a persal of plow land and pasture land on the south side of the high way that goeth by y'e house	90	0	0
To a persal of pasture land lying neare the Barn Called y'e neck	168	0	0
To a persal of woodland & medow land Containing Eighty Acres lying in the Bounds of Walpole by Joshua Fishers shoub med	88	0	0
To twenty seven acres of wood land lying in the Bounds of Walpole	60	0	0
To Eighteen acres of Devident land neare Rock medow	34	0	0
To ten acres & half of wood land on the south side of Stop River	21	0	0
To all the land lying in the Bounds of Wren- tham upland & medow land belonging to this Estate that came to our knowlidg	70	0	0
To the land in the Black Swamp Devident	43	0	0
To the land in new Medfield all his rights there	75	0	0
To the land in y'e Contry goar all his rights there	75	0	0
To Six acres of medow land & upland neare Dea. George Barbur in the north part of y'e Town	110	0	0
To Eleven acres of land part upland & part Swamp Lying in y'e plat of Land Called y'e neck the widow claiming the one half of it as her right	56	0	0
To a sartain house & half an acre of Land it stands on in the north part of the Town	40	0	0
To a percal medow and upland in the north part of the Town Called the green with Land joyning to it	120	0	0
To two acres of medow in Center medow	40	0	0
To eleven acres at Crambery pond	33	0	0
To Eight acres three roods in two percals near pine hill being part upland and part swamp	25	0	0
To five acres of land in the north part of y'e town in two persals part upland and part swamp	36	0	0
To land in Revertion not yet laid out	2	10	0
	2434	07	1
Samuel Smith Ebenezer Mason John Eles

[Note: I had some problems getting the numbers in the correct row in Blogger.  Please consult the images]

The source citation for this probate case file is:

Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Packet #6,138 (48 images), Joseph Clark of Medfield, administration granted 1731; "Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1636-1893," indexed database and digital images, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (https://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 22 July 2020); from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org.

Joseph Clark (1664-1731) died intestate on 13 July 1731 in Medfield.   He married (1) Mary Wight (1667-1705) in 1686, and they had seven children between 1687 and 1703.  Joseph married (2) widow Abigail (Turner) Smith in 1707 in Boston, and they had one child.  

This probate packet contains 48 pages, including the letter of administration, an inventory, an account, and a division of the real and personal estate of Joseph Clark, along with 16 pages of the estate of his son, Joseph Clark (who also died in 1731), and the estate of Joseph's widow, Abigail, who died in 1750.  The inventory totaled 2,434 pounds, 7 shillings and 1 pence, of which the real estate totaled 1968 pounds, 10 shillings. 

Joseph and Mary (Wight) Clark are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter Hephsibah Clark (1699-1791) who married Timothy Hamant (1699-1774) in 1727.

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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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