Monday, March 29, 2021

Amanuensis Monday -- 1687 Estate Inventory of George Wheeler (1606-1687) of Concord, Massachusetts

This week's document for transcription is the 1687 Inventory of George Wheeler (1606-1687) of Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, which is in Estate File 1580 in the Suffolk County Probate Court records. 

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The transcription of this will is:

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A Just and true Inventory of the goods and Es-

tate of George Wheeler sen'r Late of Concord decea-

sed taken and appraised by us whose names are

hereunto subscribed the Sixteenth Day of August

Anno Dom'i 1687


Cloathing and bedding …...................................... £03=07=06

In Iron ware and pewter of sundry sorts …........... £02=04=03

One house and 8 acres of ^broken up^ Land and an

Orchard …............................................................. £29=00=00

6 acres of Upland in the field over the hill …....... £12=00=00

28 acres of Upland in the North Quarter ….......... £14=00=00

9 acres of Meddow in brooke meddow …............ £45=00=00

1 acre of Swamp …............................................... £01=00=00

2 acres and a halfe of Meddow at Spring Med-

dow …................................................................... £12=00=00

15 acres of Meddow in the great Meddow with

his part of the Houet …......................................... £30=00=00

14 acres Upland neare the South field ….............. £03=00=00

2 acres of Swamp in Muddy Meddow Swamp …. £09=10=00

11 acres of upland at Waldon pond …................... £02=04=00

14 acres of Upland neare the South River …........ £01=10=00

13 acres of Land neare mount Tabor and Wa-

tertowne Line ….................................................... £01=06=00

8 acres of Upland neare M'r Flints pond …........... £04=00=00

4 acres of Upland neare Fairehaven pond …......... £01=00=00

Lumber ….............................................................. £01=00=00

                                                                              £ 163=01=09

Debts due from the s'd Estate: viz. £18=8 Eliphelet Fox

                                                                    Steven ????????

                                                                    John Smedly jun'r

To John Wheeler son …...................£19=18-00

To the Estate of Thomas Wheeler .. £24=07=05

To Maergaret his maid servant …... £03=03=00

To Nathaniel Harwood …............... £00=08=03

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By his Excellency

John Wheeler Executor to John Wheeler his father

Deced Late of Concord in the County of Middlesex

appeared before me and made Oath that the

within written is a true & prfect Inventory of

all the Estate of the said Deced as hee knows

of or is now in his hands.

                         Sworn the 21'st of September 1687

                                                  Before me

??????????                                   ??????


The source citation for this probate case file is:

Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Volume: Middlesex Cases 00001-01999, Estate File #1580 (7 images), George Wheeler of Concord estate, 1687; "Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate File Papers, 1636-1899," digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014, American Ancestors  (https://www.americanancestors.org: accessed 21 March 2021); Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org from original records at Probate Registry, Cambridge, Mass. 

George Wheeler (1606-1687) married Katherine Pin (1611-1685) on 8 June 1630 in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England.  They had 8 children, the first three were born in Cranfield and the last five were born in Massachusetts:

*  William Wheeler (1631-1683), married 1659 Hannah Buss (1642-1693).
*  Thomas Wheeler (1633-1686), married 1657 Hannah Harwood (1632-1707).
*  Elizabeth Wheeler (1636-1704), married 1656 Francis Fletcher (1630-1704).
*  Sarah Wheeler (1640-1713), married 1665 Francis Dudley (1638-1702).
*  John Wheeler (1643-1713), married 1663 Sarah Larkin (1648-1725).
*  Mary Wheeler (1645-1679), married 1665 Eliphalet Fox (1644-1711).
*  Ruth Wheeler (1647-1703), married 1665 Samuel Hartwell (1645-1725).
*  Hannah Wheeler (1649-1697), married 1672 Samuel Fletcher (1652-1723).

George Wheeler (1606-1687) died 2 June 1687 in Concord, and his will, written and signed 28 January 1684/5 26 days after his wife died, was proved in Suffolk County Probate Court on 2 July 1687 by Governor Andros.  The will was transcribed last week in Amanuensis Monday -- 1684 Will of George Wheeler (1606-1687) of Concord, Massachusetts.

The inventory totals £163=01=09 and the debts due from (?) the estate total £47=16=08.  The handwriting is beautiful on the inventory but the clerk's scrawl is difficult to read and the signatures are unreadable. 

George and Katherine (Pin) Wheeler are my 8th great-grandparents, through daughter Elizabeth (Wheeler) Fletcher, John Wheeler and Hannah (Wheeler) Fletcher. 

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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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