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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[image 7 of 7]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
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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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