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John Howland

3 March 1672/1673

Plymouth Colony Wills 3(1):49-54

Mayflower Descendant 2(1900):70-77

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[p.51] A trew Inventory of all the goods Cattles and Chattles and Lands of Mr John howland lately Deceased taken and aprised by Elder Thomas Cushman Serjeant Tinkham and Willam Crow the third of March Anno Dom 1672 and exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the fift of March 1672/73 on the oathe of mrs Elizabeth howland widdow as followeth

In the outward or fier Rome L s d

Impr I muskett 1 long Gun 1 Cutlas 1 belt, att 02 10 00

Item 1 Chimney Iron barr 2 paire of pot hangers 00 09 00

Item 1 fier shovell 1 paire of tonges 1 paire of Cob irons 00 07 00

Item 1 frying pan 1 smoothing box and Irons 00 05 06

Item 1 adds 2 axes 1 mortising axe 1 hoe 00 11 06

Item 3 augers 1 pikaxe 00 05 00

Item 1 hammer 1 paire of Pincers 1 Drawing knife 1 spliting kniffe 00 02 00

Item 2 Cow bells 1 old Chaine, and Divers peeces of old Iron Aules & a box 00 05 00

Item 2 presshookes 1 paire of sheep sheers 2 sickles 00 04 00

Item 1 pruning Instrument 1 peece of steele 00 02 00

Item 2 staples 1 peec of a Chaine 00 01 06

Item 2 staples 4 peeces of a chaine 00 01 06

Item 1 Dagger three knives 2 paire of sissers 1

paire of stilliyards 00 06 00

Item 1 padlock 1 thwart saw 3 wedges 1 ploughshare 00 10 00

Item 3 Iron potts 1 paire of pothookes 1 Iron kettle 01 06 00

Item 2 brasse kittles 1 warming pan 01 15 00

Item 1 skimer 1 ladle 1 sawsse pan 1 brasse skillet 00 04 06

Item 6 pewter platters 3 bason 3 smale pewter thinges 01 07 00

Item a quart pot 1 candlesticke 1 beer bowle 00 05 00

Item 3 porringers 1 Dram cupp 1 Tunell 00 03 00

Item 2 salt sellers 2 chamber potts 7 spoones 00 10 00

Item 1 Iron candlesticke 1 latten pott 1 Ironsockettd 00 02 00

Item 1 shove Iron 2 washers 2 old sickles and old Iron 00 02 00

Item 4 earthen potts 1 pan and 1 Jugg and earthen ware 00 02 00

Item 1 hatchell 00 05 00

Item 1 great bible and Annotations on the 5 bookes

of Moses 01 00 00

Item mr Tindalls workes mr Wilsons workes 7 more bookes 01 00 00

Item 3 wheeles 1 cherne 1 straning Dish 00 13 00

Item 3 cheesfatts 11 trayes 1 kimnell 00 05 06

Item 3 pailes six tubbs 1 ladle 1 cheese ladder 00 14 06

Item trenchers Roleing pins and some smale things 00 02 00

Item 3 Chaires stooles old barrells 3 Cushens 00 07 00

Items 3 beer vessells 00 04 00

16 06 00

[p.52] In the Inward Rome or bedchamber

his wearing appaarell

Item 3 hatts 00 16 00

Item 3 great coates 02 00 00

Item 1 suite of cloth 03 00 00

Item 1 serge suite 01 10 00

Item 1 homespon suite and wastcoate 00 15 00

Item 1 suite 00 12 00

Item old clothes 00 06 00

Item 2 red wastcoates 01 05 00

Item 6 paire of Stockens 01 00 00

Item 1 Jackett and one paire of Mittens 00 13 06

Item 1 holland shirt 00 12 00

Item 4 shirts 00 18 00

Item 4 holland capps 4 Dowlis capps and 4 other capps 00 10 00

Item 2 silke Neckclothes 00 07 06

Item 1 paire of bootes 2 paire of shooes 01 00 00

15 11 00

In the said Rome

Item 4 remnants of clothe 00 19 00

Item 2 yards of serge 00 10 00

Item 3 yards 1/2 of carsey 01 15 00

Item 4 Dozen of buttons 1/2 10 skines of silke 3 yards of Manchester 00 04 00

Item 17 yards of fflax and cotton cloth att 02 11 00

Item 1 peece of fine Dowlis 00 08 06

Item 1 remnant of licye woolsey 00 08 00

Item about 16 yards of several remnants of homade Cloth vallued att 03 10 00

10 05 06

In the aforsaid Inward Roome

Item 1 pound of woolen yerne 00 03 00

Item 1 paire of sheets 01 05 00

Item 2 paire of sheets 01 10 00

Item 1 paire of sheets 1 halfe sheet 01 05 00

Item 1 paire of sheets att 00 10 00

Item 1 paire of holland pillowbeers 00 08 09

Item 2 paire of pillowbeers 00 15 00

Item 3 pillowbeers 00 06 00

Item 1 Table cloth and 7 napkins 00 13 00

Item 10 towells 00 07 00

Item 4 smale Table clothes 00 04 00

Item 2 smale pillowbeers 00 01 6

Item 1 Table and 2 formes 00 10 0

Item 1 cobbert and a framed chaire 00 08 0

Item 4 chest and 1 settle 01 00 00

Item 1 bedsted and box and coard 00 12 0

Item 1 seifting trough and 2 seives 00 04 0

Item 1 glass 2 glass bottles 2 earthen potts 00 03 0

Item 1 wineglasse gallipotts and spectacles 00 02 0

Item 2 paire of coards one bed cord 1 fishing line 00 05 06

Item some hobnailes & twelvepeny nailes 00 02 00

Item 5 peeces of Dresed lether one peece of taned lether 00 06 00

Item a smale prcell of hemp and hopps 00 02 00

Item 3 or 4 basketts 1 brush 1 file 00 01 00

[p. 53] Item Cotton woole about a Dozen pound 00 12 00

Item 3 old caske 00 02 00

Item 1 feather bed and bolster 3 great & 2 smale pillowes 05 00 00

Item 5 blanketts 03 15 00

Item 1 rugg and one blankett 01 15 00

Item 1 blankett att 00 15 00

Item in reddy mony 01 19 00

Item a smale prcell of powder shott and bulletts 00 03 00

Item 1 Inkhorn 00 00 06

24 14 03

In the uper Roome or Chamber

Item 1 feather bed bolster and pillow 04 00 00

Item 2 blanketts and a Rugg 01 05 00

Item 1 woole or fflocke bed 2 feather bolsters and a pillow 02 00 00

Item 2 blanketts 00 15 00

Item 1 bedstead cord and box 00 10 00

Item 1 prcell of sheep woole about fifteen pound 00 15 00

Item a prcell of feathers about 15 or 16 pound 00 15 00

Item a cupple of old hogsheds and an old candlesticke 00 02 00

Item 20 bushells or therabouts of Indian corne 03 00 00

Item 4 bushells of Mault or therabouts 00 16 00

Item 4 bushells of Rye or therabouts 00 14 00

Item 6 bushells of wheat or therabouts 01 07 00

Item 2 bushells and an halfe or barly or therabouts 00 10 00

Item 2 ffliches of bacon and 1 third of a barrell of porke 02 00 00

Item 1 halfe of a barrell of beeff and 2 empty barrells 00 15 00

Item 15 pound of Tallow and Candles 00 07 06

Item 34 pound of butter and lard 00 17 00

Item 14 pound of sugare 00 03 00

Item 1 halfe hogshed 00 03 00

Item 1 pad 1 pillian 1 bridle 1 sheepskin 00 05 00

Item 6 pound of Tobacco 1 pecke of beans 00 04 00

Item 1 grindstone and handles 1 ffan 00 09 00

Item 8 baggs 15s old Iron 1 shilling 00 16 00

22 14 06

Cattle

Item 2 mares and one colt 03 00 00

Item 4 oxen 4 cowes 24 00 00

Item 2 heiffers and 3 steers of three years old 12 10 00

Item 2 two yeare old heiffers 2 yearling calves 03 10 00

Item 13 swine 04 15 00

Item 45 sheep young and old 15 00 00

Item the one halfe of a paire of Iron bound wheeles and cart and 12 bolts 2 shakles 02 02 06

Item 1 paire of hookes and a staple 00 01 06

Item 1 bullockes hyde 00 14 00

Item a cannooe 00 05 00

00 05 00

65 18 00

{p.54} Debts Due to the Testator

ffrom John Branch of Marshfeild att 2 several pay-ments the sume of 08 00 00

Edward Gray 1 barrell of salt 00 12 00

Item a Debt Due from a frind 00 10 00

09 02 00

Brought from the other side 155 09 03

Sume 164 11 03

Debts owing by the Testator

To Elder Thomas Cushman 00 15 00

To Thomas Cushman Junir 00 05 00

To John Clarke 00 10 06

To Edward Gray 00 08 03

To William Crow 00 02 00

To John Gorum 01 12 00

To two or three smale Debts about 00 02 00

ffunerall Charges 03 08 00

Debts Deducted 07 02 02

The totale of the estate prissed 157 08 08

Wee find that the Testator Died posessed of these severall parcells of Land following;

Impr his Dwelling house with the outhousing uplands and meddow belonging therunt lying att Rockey nooke in the Towne of New Plymouth

Item a prcell of meddow att Jonses river meddow

Item the one halfe of a house and a prcell of meddow and upland belonging therunto lying and being att Colchester in the aforsaid Townshipp;

Item a prcell of meddow and upland belonging therunto; lying neare Joness river bridge in the Towne of Duxburrow

Item one house and 2 shares of a tract of land and meddow that lyeth in the Towne of Middleberry that was purchaced by Captaine Thomas Southward of and from the Indian Sachem Josias Wampatucke

Item 2 Shares of a tract of Land Called the Majors Purchase lying neare Namassakett ponds

pr nos Thomas Cushman senr

Ephraim Tinkam senir

William Crow