This week's documents for Amanuensis Monday are the 1751 inventory and account for the estate of Nathaniel Harwood (1669-1751) of Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts:
1) The Inventory (sheet 8 of 9 in the probate packet):
The transcription of the Inventory is:
A Inventory of the Estate of mr. Nathaniel Harwood
Late of Chelmsford in the County of middlesex Deceas^d taken
by us the Subscribers Nov^m y^e 8^th 1751 as it was Shown
to us, and by us Apprized we being appointed and Sworn
for that purpose.
| Imprymus |
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| Wearing Apparel | £26:17:00 |
| Item | Books | 02:00:00 |
| Item | Best Bed and furniture | 30:00:00 |
| Item | Another Bed and furniture | 30:00:00 |
| Item | A Bed Stead and under Bed and old Quilt | 05:15:00 |
| Item | Two Coverlids £15, two Blankets £9, Curtains £ 16 | 40:00:00 |
| Item | Old Bed Stead 10/ twelve pair of Sheets £45:10:00 | 46:00:00 |
| Item | Thirteen pillow Casses £6:6:0 table Lining & towels ^£1:19:00 | 08:05:00 |
| Item | Pueter £17:10:0 knives and forks £ 1:10:0 | 19:00:00 |
| Item | Brass kittle £10:0:0 Brass and Iron Skillets 30/ | 11:10:00 |
| Item | Iron pot and Kittle £2:10:0 Skimmer and Ladle 15/3 | 03:05:00 |
| Item | A pair of hand Irons 50/ fire slice and tongs 20/ | 03:10:00 |
| Item | Trammels 25/ old Box Iron & heeters 4/ old Iron pan 3/ | 01:12:00 |
| Item | Iron Wedges and Chizel | 00:14:00 |
| Item | A Chest with Draws £3: A Square Table 20/ | 04:00:00 |
| Item | Old Chest and table 16/ a pair of Bellows 6/ | 01:02:00 |
| Item | Chairs £2:15:0 Spining wheels and Real 25/ | 04:00:00 |
| Item | Tubs and pails 34/ other wooden ware 18/ | 02:12:00 |
| Item | Old Casks 20/ woostered Combs 30/ Sceive 6/ | 02:16:00 |
| Item | Earthen ware £2:7:0 Glasses 6/6 old Cards and Shares 6/ | 02:19:06 |
| Item | Old panel and pillion | 03:00:00 |
| Item | Two cows £36 one heifer £14 | 50:00:00 |
| Item | Due upon a Bond and Notes of hand | 199:10:06 |
| Sum total in old tenor Errors Exceepted | £478:08:00 |
Middlesex Dec^r 16. 1751
Mr. Jon^a Harwood the only acting Josiah Burg }
Executor exhibeted the foregoing Eph^m Spaulding } Com^rs
Inventory on Oath. Jon^tt Minott }
S: Danforth J.prob.
The source citation for the Inventory is:
"Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, 26 November 2016), Probate packet No. 10629, Nathaniel Harwood estate, sheet 8 of 9, Inventory, estate probated 1751.
2) The Account of the executor (sheet 4 of 9 in the probate packet):
The transcription of the Account:
To the Hon^ble Samuel Danforth Judge of probate
for the County of Midd^x
An account of what Cost and Charge I have been at
as Executor to the last will and testament of my
Honered Father Nathaniel Harwood late of Chelmsford
Deceased.
| For Funerall Charges to M^r Beaton of Concord | 43:15:00 |
| For Casing 30/ for diging Grave 18/ | 02:08:00 |
For one jurney to Cambrige ro loge the will and
takeing Sitations & money paid y^e Judge & Serveing sitations |
03:10:06 |
| for one jurney to Cambrige my self & witneses to prove y^e will | 06:10:00 |
For money paid the judge & Rejester for proveing the
will and a Coppy and for power of administration |
06:00:00 |
| 62:03:06 |
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Cost as administrator for getting the apprizers
and having them Sworn | 01:10:00 |
| For money paid the Committee and Billiting | 04:10:00 |
| To the Probate office when the Inventory was exhibited | 00:10:00 |
| Framing these ????? anew | 00:10:00 |
| Examining & ???? owing | 01:10:00 |
| Registering | 00:12:00 |
| To the Executor for his Journey ???? & Trouble in admin^n | 10:00:00 |
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Middlesex Decemb^r 16. 1751 M^r Nath^l Harwood the only acting
Executor presented the foregoing Acco^t on Oath. I
having Examined the same – do Allow thereof.
S: Danforth J. prob.
The source citation for the Account is:
"Middlesex County, MA: Probate Papers, 1648-1871," digital image, American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed, 26 November 2016), Probate packet No. 10629, Nathaniel Harwood estate, , sheet 4 of 9, Account, estate probated 1751.
The estate of Nathaniel Harwood had an appraised value of £478:08:00 (pounds:shillings:pence, with 12 pence per shilling and 20 shillings per pound). The Account of the charges for probating the estate, as calculated by the executor, Nathaniel Harwood (son of Nathaniel Harwood), totaled £ 80:15:06.
According to Google Maps, it is about 28 miles from Chelmsford to Cambridge, and about 12 miles from Chelmsford to Concord, using current roads.
Nathaniel and Mary (Barron) Harwood are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter Elizabeth Harwood (1701-1739) who married Jonas Prescott (1703-1784), and through their daughter Elizabeth Prescott (1734-1812), who married Zachariah Hildreth (1728-1784).
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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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