Amanuensis Monday -- 1785 Inventory for Moses Smith Non Compos of Walpole, Massachusetts

 This week's document for transcription is the  1785 Inventory for the estate of Moses Smith  Non Compos in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

*  Suffolk [Massachusetts] Probate Records 1785; pages 332-333, image 183 of 400:

*  Suffolk [Massachusetts]. Probate Records 1785; pages 334-335, image 184 of 400:

The transcription of this document is (based on the FamilySearch Full-Text Search, with corrections as required, including line breaks, and with handwritten text in italics):

[page 333, starting halfway down the right-hand page]

In the right-hand margin:

Smith, Moses's

Inventory

18423

In the main part of the text:

A true Inventory of all and Singular the Goods Chattels & Credits 

of Moses Smith of Walpole Yeoman Non Compos prized at Walpole 

the twenty fifth Day of May A.D. 1785 by Ephraim Chenery William 

Bacon & Beriah Braston as followeth viz't:

 1st Womens wearing apparell................................................ L. 11, 19, --

2'dly  Armour and Books  ......................................................             7,  6 

3'dly The Beds furniture woolen & Linnen Ware .................      17,   6,  6

4'thly the Pewter Ware .............................................................     2,   7,  6 

5'th  Brass Ware ........................................................................     1, 16,  6

6'th  Glass & Earthen Ware .....................................................       1,   7,  5

7'th Iron Ware ...........................................................................       2, 18, 6 

8'th  Wooden ware .....................................................................     5, 16,  6 

9'th Horse Furniture .................................................................      2, 18. --

10'th Husbandry Tools and tackling ........................................     13, 18, --

11'th Provissions and Flax .........................................................   13,   4, --

12'th Live Stock ..........................................................................  59, 15, --

[page 334]

13'thly The Lands and Buildings ................................................ L 500, --, --

Mom'o 1 Treasurers Note L 5 , 14                          Ephraim Chenery  }    

             1 Loan Certificate 448#  43/90                  William Bacon        } Appraisers

Specie in the Guardians Hands  L262,  6                 Beriah Braston     }

Suffolk Ss .  Timothy Hammond Guardian presented the aforegoing 

and made Oath that it contains a true & perfect Inventory of the 

Estate of Moses Smith ^late^ of Walpole a Non Compos so far as has 

come to his hands or knowledge and that if more hereafter appears 

he will cause it to be added and render an account thereof when 

required .                                                             O. Wendell Jud. Prob.

 Medfield June 7'th 

1785 .                                     Exam'd    W'm Cooper Reg'r

The source citation for this estate inventory is:

"Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States records," Inventory of Moses Smith as Non-Compos, 7 June 1785;  imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YT-999N-L?view=fullText : accessed June 26, 2025), Image Group Number: 007703708, "Suffolk Probate Records 1785," pages 333-334, images 183-184 of 400, Inventory of Moses Smith as Non-Compos, 7 June 1785 ; original records in Massachusetts. Department of Archives.

This is an image of a Derivative Source record (because it is a court clerk's record of the inventory with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names of the parties and witnesses, and the dates of the inventory appraisement.  The signatures of the witnesses and the bondsmen are in the hands of the court clerk.

Moses Smith (1732-1806) was born 2 April 1732 in Medfield, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Henry and Ruth (Barber) Smith.  He married Patience Hamant (1735-1780), the daughter of Timothy and Hephzibah (Clark) Hamant, on 23 September 1762 in Medfield.  They had five children, including Moses Smith Jr. (1764-1828), one of the bondsmen.  

The assigned Guardian of Moses Smith is Timothy Hamond (or Hamant, 1736-1813), also the son of Timothy and Hephzibah (Clark) Hamant and the brother of the second wife of Moses Smith.  Other probate papers provide the inventory of the estate of Moses Smith in 1785.

Moses and Patience (Hamant) Smith are my 5th great-grandparents, through their son Aaron Smith (1765-1841) who married Mercy Plimpton in 1795.

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Read other transcriptions of records of my relatives and ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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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