This week's document for transcription is the 1685 Inventory in the Estate File of George Barbur (1617-1685) of Medfield, Massachusetts, in Probate Packet 1,404 in the Suffolk County, Massachusetts probate court records.
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The transcription of this inventory is:
An Inventory of the Estate of Cap't Georg Barbur of Meadfield, M???
made by y'e subscribers hereunto subscribing April 23 1685.
Impr's To His wearing Cloathes, Books, & Arms, &c 11 – 14 – 06
To one feather bed & bolster, 2 pillows, one Rug, bedsted & bedcord 08 – 00 – 00
To one feather bed, 2 bolsters, one Rug &other beding, & bedsted 06 – 10 – 00
To one flock bed & bolster, 2 pillows & other beding bedsted & bedcord 03 – 00 – 00
To sheets, pillow bed, & Table linin 06 – 03 – 06
To Brass, pewter, & iron in y'e house 13 – 02 – 06
To one bedsted with curtains & vallens, one chest, Table, chair, & forme 05 – 03 – 00
To one great Table, cupboard, chair table, great chairs, forme, & stools 04 – 10 – 00
To one great Table, one smale Table, 2 great chairs, 4 smaler chairs 01 – 05 – 00
To Provisiions, and several utensiels in y'e house, & Lumber 04 – 03 – 00
To The cart & plough, bridles & sadle, a pair of fastters,
tackling for y'e team, carpenters & husbandry tools 09 – 11 – 06
To The dwelling house, barn, shop, & home Lot on both sides y'e way 100 – 00 – 00
To Broad meadow 30#, Bridgstreet medow 25# 055 – 00 – 00
To Further broad medow 24# A parcel of Land by y'e great bridge #16 040 – 00 – 00
To South plain 22# planting field 15# 037 – 00 – 00
To pine hill & pine Valley 3# a parcel of swampie medow 1# 004 – 00 – 00
To The wood Lot on y'e north p't of y'e Town 10# Stop River ???? Lot 3# 013 – 00 – 00
To the pine swamp 12# & a woodlot in Dedham 10# 022 – 00 – 00
To one hors, 2 oxen, & 5 cows 023 – 10 – 00
To Eight swine old & young 2# 10s & to other Estate ???? 006 – 10 – 00
To Rights in y'e new mills & Lands Appertaining thereto
and to Rights in the cyder mill 020 – 10 – 00
To Estate in moveables to be returned to y'e Relict widow of y'e decd 015 – 05 – 00
To Credits 17# to 2# money reduced to common pay 3# 020 – 00 – 00
425 – 18 – 08
To Debts 20#, to 18#12s money reduced to common pay 27#18s
Debts Tot 47.18
The Debts subducted from y'e total of y'e Estat y'e Estate remaine 368 – 00 – 08
More Debts 6 pound mony
At a County Court for Suffolke Subscribed by us
holden at Boston by Adjournment Thomas Thurston
11'th May 1685 Samuell Morse
John Hardeng
Samuel Barbur admitt'd Adm'r made oath
that this is a just and true Inventory of
the Estate of his late Father Cap'n George Barbur dece'd so far as hath
to is knowledge, and that when he knows of more he will
cause it to be added Attest'd Is'a Addington Clre.
The source citation for this probate case file is:
Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Packet #1,404 (6 images), George Barbur of Medfield, 1685; "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 25 June 2020); from records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org.
George Barbur (1617-1685) married Elizabeth Clarke (1620-1683) in 1642 in Dedham, Massachusetts. They had nine children:
* Elizabeth Barber (1641-1642)
* Mary Barber (1643-1643)
* Mary Barber (1644-1700, married 1666 Jonathan Morse (1643-1727)
* Samuel Barber (1647-1736), married 1676 Sarah Millens (1654-1721)
* John Barber (1649-1688), married 1674 Abigail Babcock (1656-1693)
* Elizabeth Barber (1651-1714), married 1669 Daniel Morse (1641-1702)
* Hannah Barber (1654-1705), married 1686 Ebenezer Babcock (1662-1716)
* Zechariah Barber (1656-1705), married 1683 Abiell Ellice (1662-1716)
* Abigail Barber (1659-????), married 1691 Samuel Thorne (1655-????).
George Barbur died intestate on 13 April 1685 in Medfield, and the Inventory on his estate was taken on 23 April 1685. On 15 May 1685, bond was given in the amount of 300 pounds by Samuel Barbur, Jonathan Bridgham and Joseph Bridgham, and the Court appointed Samuel Barbur as administrator of the estate of his father, George Barbur. The Court ordered the administrator to administer the estate and provide an account in one year. There are no papers in this estate file that list the heirs, the distribution or the account of this estate.
George and Elizabeth (Clarke) are my 8th great-grandparents, through their son Zechariah Barber (1656-1705) who married Abiell Ellice (1662-1716) in 1683 in Medfield.
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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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