August 30, 1671
Plymouth Colony Wills 3:32-36
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John Barnes 1671
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A trew Inventory of the estate of Mr Iohn Barnes lateley deceased taken and apprised by vs whose names are vnderwritten this 30th Day of August Anno Domine 1671
[In the the margin:] his apparell li s d
Impr: a Paropus Coate 00 15 00
Item a sad cullered Carsye suite 01 15 00
Item a sarge hair Cullered suite 01 15 00
Item a broadcloth Coate 01 00 00
Item a Broadcloth suite and a troopers Coate
all of them worne 01 10 00
Item a Gray serge Coate 01 00 00
Item a Great Ruffed Cloth Coate 01 05 00
Item 2 old troopers Coates and an old paire of Briches 01 05 00
Item 3 Red wastcoates 00 18 00
Item 4 paire of Drawers 00 18 00
Item a night vper Garment and a tufted holland wastcoate 00 07 00
Item 3 old Dubletts 00 12 00
Item 3 paire of wosted Stockens 00 10 00
Item 6 paire of Stokens one of them holland 00 10 00
Item a blacke Demycaster of the new fashion and one
old satten Capp 00 12 00
Item 2 Cullered hatts 00 06 00
Item 4 old hatts 00 04 00
Item 2 new Cullered hatts 00 10 00
Item 1 hatt more 00 02 06
Item 5 black silker hatbands 00 03 06
Item 2 paire of Cotten gloues and 2 paire of lether
Gloues fringed 00 03 00
Item 1 Remnant of sad Cullered Cloth in bitts;
and one paire of spatterlashes 00 05 00
Item 1 paire of mittens and a paire of black Garters 00 01 00
Item 2 dowlis shirts almost New 00 16 00
Item 2 shirts more 00 16 00
Item 2 shirts more 00 16 00
Item halfe a Dozen of bands and band stringes & an
old wrought Capp 00 12 00
Item a Silke neckcloth
[In the margin:] his Cash
Item 10 s sent into the Bay by Gorge Watson and by
him Returned 00 10 00
Iten in Cash more which we find extant 05 08 07
Item a sett of silver buttons and a siluer thimble 00 08 00
Item 7 whole silver spoones and 2 broken ones 03 04 00
Item a silver bason 03 00 00
Item a silver beer bowle 03 00 00
Item a silver Dram Cupp and 2 other smale peeces of
broken silver 00 10 00
Item smale parsell of Gould and silverlase 00 03 00
Item a knott of silver buttons 00 03 00
Item 2 bibles 1 English and another Indian 01 00 00
Item 1 old Psalme booke snd 2 other old bookes 00 01 06
[In the margin:] his Cattle
Item 3 Cowes 07 10 00
Item 2 two yeare old steers 03 10 00
Item a Calfe 00 10 00
Item 29 sheep 09 00 00
Item 4 mares and a Coult att present appeering 13 00 00
[In the margin:] his Armor
Item 2 Guns; 1 of them a brasse muskett and an older
Great Gun 03 00 00
Item 1 matchcock and another little old Gun 1 Carbine 01 08 00
Item 1 pistall 00 06 00
one Sword and belt 00 08 00
Item 2 old Daggers and a paire of bandaleers 00 05 00
Item a smale psell of powder 3 powder hornes a Cartrich
a smale powder barrell bulletts and shott about a
Dozen pound 00 06 00
Item 3 paire of shooes 00 08 00
Item a paire of boots 00 10 00
[In the margin:] Brasse in the kitchen
Item 2 brasse pans 01 10 00
Item 2 Great brasse kettles 04 00 00
Item 2 brasse kettells 00 12 00
Item 2 brasse kettles 01 10 00
Item 4 brasse Skilletts and an old one 00 15 00
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Item 1 warming pan 00 06 00
Item a Chaffing Dish 00 05 00
Item a brasse ladle 1 Candlesticke & a bottom of a
warming pan 00 05 00
Item a Copper pestell 1 morter and other old belmettle
pestell and morter 01 00 00
Item a brasse skimer and a little peece of a brasse lampe
& a peece of a brasse ladle 00 03 00
[In the Margin:] pewter in the kitchen
Item 12 pewter platters 2 of them bigger then the other 03 00 00
Item 2 great platters 00 12 00
Item 7 pewter plates and smale Dishes 00 17 06
Item 5 basons and a pewter Dish 00 14 00
Item 2 fflagons and 2 pint potts 01 00 00
Item 9 porrengers 00 09 00
Item 3 pint potts a halfe pint pott a quarter of a pint
and a halfe quarter 00 12 00
Item a Caudlecupp 2 Candlestickes 2 smale sawsers and
a salt Celler 00 08 06
Item a sett with pewter and an old peece of
pewter 00 02 06
Item 2 old quart potts and a wrought salt celler
2 great old basons 2 lesser old bassons 00 14 00
Item 4 other pewter platters another sawcer and another
little old bason 01 00 00
Item 2 tinnnn kettles and a Dripping pan & 2 other old
thinges with an apple roster 00 05 00
[In the margin:] Iron
Item 2 Iron potts 1 other little Iron pott with theire
pothookes 01 10 00
Item 5 pothangers 00 15 00
Item 2 spitts 2 paire of tonggs 2 fier shouells 00 13 00
Item a paire of Andjrons 00 10 00
Item a paire of Andjrons faced with brasse 00 18 00
Item a paire of smale andjrons 00 04 00
Item 3 Iron wedges 4 augers a wrybitt a handsaw an
adds a billhook 2 sythes a Drawing knife 3 axes
without helves a bidstwimble 2 Chissells 01 10 00
Item a thwart saw 2 axes a Coopers adds 1 Iron ffoot an old
box of thinges to mend shoes; as aules & 2 axes more 2 gouges
2 hoes a hammer a Drawing knife 2 Cowbells 3 spades 1 shouell
01 15 00
Item a smoothing Iron and heaters 00 02 00
Item 2 looking Glasses and an houre Glasse 00 08 00
[In the margin:] the Parlour
Item a pound of thrid a kniffe and kniting needles a
bage of pepper a pound and an halfe of thrid more and
other smale thinges in it 00 10 00
Item 2 yards of blew linnine 00 03 00
Item 3 little remnants of Red Cotton 00 03 00
Item 2 yards of homspoon cloth 00 05 00
Item pins with a hanke of thrid a locke and lasses and a
box 00 04 00
Item woolen yarne and a baskett in which it is 00 05 00
Item another box with Cloke buttons in it with thrid
and lase with 2 papers of hookes and eyes ard a prsell
of fine thrid a smale prsell of buttons a prsell of green
silke lase with blacke ribband 1 old hatband and a prsell
of Manchester and a prsell of tape 00 03 06
Item 2 hankes of silke and 40 skines of silke 00 03 10
Item a box with some smale housholdments 00 02 06
Item a nother little box with Implements 00 03 00
Item in the Parlour another little box with some smale
thinges in it 00 01 06
Item another box with a smale box in it with a Galley
pot and a little linnine Cloth 00 07 00
Item another little box with a locke and key to it and a
bag of wampon 00 10 00
Item a Compass Diall 00 12 00
Item another box three square in which a silver seale a
silver Ring a Case with tooth pickes a paire of spectacles
with a prcell of ribband in a box in which it is a Case with
knives and a skin 00 11 00
[In the margin:] in the Parlour
Item 2 trunkes 00 08 00
Item 5 sheets 3 hommades and 1 holland and Dowlis 02 10 00
Item 2 Tableclothes 00 15 00
Item 2 pillow beers 00 10 00
Item halfe a Dozen of Napkins 00 06 00
Item another Damaske Napkin 00 01 00
Item a settle in the Prlour 00 08 00
Item a paire of stilliyards with scales and a bagg
of waigths 01 00 00
Item 5 little Glasses 9 little Galley potts 00 01 00
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Item Tobacco Pipes staves and other lumber 00 03 00
[In the Margin: In the leanto
Item a Chest 00 08 00
Item in it halfe a Dozen of Napkins 00 06 00
Item 2 pillow bears 00 09 00
Item a tablecloth 00 05 00
Item 2 towell and a Chemny cloth 00 05 00
Item a table Cloth and halfe a Dozen of Napkins 00 10 00
Item a paire of sheets a Canvas one and a Course holland
one 01 02 00
Item another Tablecloth and halfe a Dozen of Napkins 01 06 0
Item a smale neckcloth 01 06 00
Item a feather bed and bolster a rugg a paire of sheets
2 pillowes and 2 pillow bears on them 13 00 00
Item the Curtaine and vallence 00 03 00
Item 7 ephayges or pictures 00 07 0
Item 2 Iron backes for Chemmyes 00 10 00
Item a Chest with severall earthen potts with Divers
smale thinges in them 00 05 00
Item 2 leather Chaires 00 16 00
Item 2 other Chaires 00 12 00
Item 2 Joyne stooles 00 05 00
Item __ Cushens 00 14 00
Item a Table and Carpett 01 11 00
[In the Margin:] the Chamber over the Parlour
Item a paire of shooes of the 12 s 00 15 00
Item 12 yards of Cloth 01 10 00
Item 4 yards of blew trading Cloth 01 02 00
Item a green blankett 00 15 00
Item a blankett of Cape cloth 01 00 00
Item 4 yards of sacking 00 04 00
Item a beare skine and buckskin 00 12 00
Item 1 box and Cards and other thinges 00 05 00
Item 1 old Chest with hobnsile6 and other thinges 01 04 00
Item more in nailes 01 00 00
Item 2 paire of bellowes 00 03 00
Item a prsell of sheeps woole 04 03 06
Item Cotton Woole 00 04 06
Item a saddle and pannell and another old saddle 01 10 00
Item a box of Drawers with ffishhokes and sparrow bills 00 05 00
Item lines and ledds 00 05 00
Item a pillian saddle 00 10 00
Item a peece of lether 00 05 00
Item a fflaskett and a bitt of sayle Cloth 00 05 00
Item a little Case box with a little box in it with ____
Comoditie in it 00 02 00
Item a new Pothangers 1 old syth and an Iron Crow 00 01 00
Item hoppes in a bagg and 2 blanketts 00 15 00
Item a little hanger for a sword a paire of sheep sheers
and seaven Indian blanketts 00 07 00
[In the margin:] in the celler
Item a Chest with Candles and a Galley pott in it 01 00 00
Item 2 firkens of tallow and another old Caske with
tallow and another old Caske with tallow in it 02 00 00
Item a little thinge with Ginger in it 00 02 00
Item 4 little old box cases with six bottles 00 06 00
Item 3 old Caske 00 04 00
Item another Glasse Case with 9 bottles in it 00 04 00
Item a firkin with hogsfatt and an earthen pott 00 10 00
Item 2 earthen potts with butter 00 05 00
Item 2 halfe hogsheads 00 05 00
Item 3 tubbs and 3 smale old Caske 00 05 00
Item 6 earthen vessells with an earthen bason 00 05 00
Item a Cherne and 4 smale rundleletts 00 05 00
Item 5 kimnells and 6 trayes 00 10 00
Item 1 bowle 1 tunnell Dish 2 Cheesfatts 1 tray 00 05 00
Item 2 Dozen of trenchers 00 02 00
Item one Iron Driping pan and a Gridjron 00 05 00
Item 2 pitchers 2 earthen potts 1 Cheesladder one roleing
pin 00 01 06
Item 5 pailes a wooden ladle and a spining wheele --
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Item a frying pan and two old Caske 00 04 00
Item a great sifting trough 4 seives and one old one 00 12 00
[In the margin:] in the middle Rome
It: 4 table napkins a table cloth and a towell 00 06 00
Item a quire of paper 00 00 06
Item 11 Cheeses 00 10 00
Item Corne in the Ground 02 00 00
[In the Margin:] in the Chamber over the outer Rome
Item a feather bed 2 bolsters a pillow 2 blanketts 1
Rugg 1 paire of sheets and a Curtaine rod and
Curtaine 10 00 00
Item another feather bed and bolster and rugg 03 00 00
Item an old pillow 00 02 00
Item a bagg 00 02 00
Item a halfe pipe about 5 bushells of Indian Corne 0O 16 00
Item a hogshed of feathers and a barrell of feathers 02 10 00
Item another halfe pipe and 3 old barrells 00 08 00
Item a hogshed a barrell a halfe bushell and a Cart
saddle 00 05 00
Item a meale trough a sieve a bagg and a bushell of Indian Corne
in it 3 sackes and rye in them about 5 bushells and an
halfe 01 06 00
Item a baskett and woole and three hives 1 old Coller
1 old Lanthorn and other old lunber 00 10 00
Item a share a Coulter a spade a plane a pickaxe a
wrybitt a smothing plaine and old Iron 00 12 00
Item a forme and a Chaire Table 00 10 00
[In the margin:] in the little Rome att the South
end of the house
Item 2 venice Glasses [sic] 3 other glasses 1 stone Jugg
3 earthen potts another white Gally pott a Drinking
pott a pewter tunnell a little white bottle and
a white Drinking Cupp and other old earthen ware 00 07 00
Item a feather bed two bolster6 2 pillowes 2 blanketts a
Couerlidd and a paire of sheets a Curtaine rodd
Curtaines and vallence 00 10 00 00
Item a Courser pillow beare with sheet and some
other linnine in it 01 10 00
Item an old Chest with some old thinges in it 00 05 00
Item 7 napkins a little Table Cloth 2 towells 00 11 00
Item another Canvase shirt a paire of Drawers and two Capps
00 08 00
Item a paire of Cotton sheets 00 15 00
another paire of Cotton sheets 01 10 00
Item a Table Cloth and a towell and a Cape and
a pillower 00 10 00
Item a trundle bedstead with a featherbed a bolster
3 blanketts and a little Rugg 05 10 00
Item a window Curtaine and about 3 pound of woolen
yarne 00 03 00
Item a pillian 00 10 00
Item a blankett 00 10 00
[In the margin:] with out Dores in the ___
Item 2 milke pans 9 earthen potts a Grindstone a
sundiall 3 hoes 00 14 00
Item a Gerdle a sheet and a table cloth 01 14 00
In the back house
Item 1 Iron pott 2 tubbs 1 paile 1 old hogshed 2 old barrell and
a halfe bushe 01 00 00
Item without Dores a paire of wheeles 01 00 00
[In the margin:] in the Slaughter house
Item 1 old shouell 2 pitchforkes 1 Dungforke 1 old
Coller and haines 1 wheelbary and an old winow sheet
a Ladder a prsell of barley 00 12 00
Item a pitchforke and some spikes 00 00 06
Item 14 boards 01 00 00
Item a tubb 2 boards a wooden shouell 00 05 00
Item a barrell and an halfe of salt 01 00 00
[In the margin:] in the _____ house
Item 9 empty barrells 3 of them Tarre barrells and 2
hogsheds 01 10 00
Item a quarter Caske with Ginger in it 01 00 00
Item a Caske with lime in it 00 05 00
Item a bagg with Cotton woole in it 01 00 00
Item a peece of an old Grapmell hemp and oares 1 old
rope 3 old Caske a bushell a bushell of oats and
halfe a bushell of Indian 00 06 00
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Item 42 yards of Cotton & woolen Cloth 06 06 [...]
Item a Dozen of hoes [...]
Item 7 li in English money mensioned by mistrs Barnes
before shee tooke her oath to this Inventory 07 00 [...]
Item a broken ringe with a [...] of which a [...]
since made likewise owned by mistris Barncs before shee
took oath [...]
Item a Brake to brak flax [...]
Aprised by vs
Nathaniel Morton
Iohn Morton
Gyles Richard senir
Samuell dunham;
Mistris Ione Barnes gaue this Inventory in vnto the
Court vpon her oath; vnto the Court held att Plymouth the
29th of October 1671)
Plymouth Colony Wills, vol. III, pp. 32-36
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