An Inventory of the Estate of Capt: Iohn Gorum of yarmouth late deceased taken and apprised by Willam Crocker Barnabas Laythorpe Iohn Thacher and Iohn Miller the 29th of February 1675 and exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the 7th of March 1675 on the oathes or mistris desire Gorum widdow and Iames Gorum and Iohn Gorum Iunir: as followeth
Impr: 1 bed and the furniture belonging to it 07 04 00
Item 1 bed and what belonges to it 03 05 00
Item old beding 01 01 00
Item 1 bed and what belonges to it 03 19 00
Item his wearing Clothes 07 07 00
Item 1 blankett wlth feathers in it 00 15 00
Item 2 Chistes 00 08 00
Item 5 Cushens 00 05 00
Item to yerne Flax and Cotton woole 05 11 00
Item to Iron tooles and Cart Rope 01 00 00
Item 3 wheeles and Cards 01 02 00
Item 13 bushells and halfe or Corne 02 00 06
Item 1 bushell of wheat 00 05 00
Item an other parsell of Iron toolos in and about the mill 03 00 00
Item meate salt and the Caske the meat is in 04 00 00
Item brasse 02 10 00
Item pewter 02 00 00
Item 2 paire of stilliayards scales and waights 01 16 00
Item 4 Chaires 00 15 00
Item Iron potts kettles pothangers frying pans all Iron 02 00 00
Item 9 sheets 02 10 00
Item table Cloth and Napkins of diaper 00 15 00
Item a smale Table Cloth and 2 dosen of Napkins 01 16 00
Item 6 pillowbeers 00 17 00
Item linine of his 00 15 00
item powder and bulletts 00 05 00
Item 2 paire of sterrup Irons & Gertts 00 05 00
Item twine and paper 00 03 00
Item 2 Chestes and one box 00 18 00
Item wooden ware and seiues 00 17 00
Item old barrells 00 07 00
Item in earthen ware and other smale lumber 01 05 00
Item 2 pound of fine Cotten yerne 00 04 00
Item a feirkin of sope 00 15 00
Item a brake and Flax 00 14 08
Item bolts boards square timber and Grindstone 06 00 00
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sume 68 11 06
Item 3 horses 1 mare 04 05 00
Item 10 swine 03 15 00
Item 4 oxen 12 00 00
Item 8 Cowes 18 00 00
Item 2 steers 2 yeers old 03 00 00
Item 3 heiffers three yeer old 06 00 00
Item 18 sheep 06 00 00
Item the mills and dwelling house land and Meddow adjoyinig 150 00 00
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Item 1 Caske of Tallow 00 05 00
Item the ballences of accoumpt in the booke due 46 08 01
Item the Tann fatts the barke mill and the 2 houses the tooles < belonging to the taning> 30 00 00
Item 1 Copper 02 10 00
Item 3 Gunnes 03 06 00
Item the barrell of a blunderbusse 00 05 00
Item more Iron tooles 01 03 06
Item more Iron Iron tooles 01 03 06
Item andjrons 01 00 00
Item 2 horspistoles & holsters 01 00 00
Item old Iron 00 10 00
Item more Iron tooles 01 09 00
Item 1 brasse kittle 00 16 00
Item 4 Chaires 00 18 00
Item 1 longe Table and bedsted & Curtaines 03 00 00
Item 1 bedsted 01 00 00
Item an Iron pott kettle skillett pothookes 01 07 00
Item 1 Chest 00 08 00
Item 1 paire of tonggs & pothangers 00 06 00
Item 1 Cubbard 01 00 00
Item 13 sydes of lether 06 10 00
Item 1 bedsted 00 15 00
Item a bed bolster Couerlidd & blanketts 06 05 00
Item a bed bolster Rugg and blanketts 04 10 00
Item 1 settle 1 old Chaire 00 07 00
Item 1 [blank] att 10 00 00
Item 1 Gould Ringe 01 00 00
Item 1 Cubbert Cushen 00 15 00
Item 1 Cabbanitt 00 15 00
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337 18 07
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Item a parsell of linnine 02 05 00
Item 1 Chest and a Childs blankett 00 08 00
Item 5 sheets 02 00 00
Item 1 Chest and box 00 14 00
Item old lumber 00 05 00
Item due from Iohn Gorum Iunir for hydes hee Reciued of his father and on his accoumpt att 3d per pound 52 18 06
Item a Cart takeling and plow tacklinge & old Grindstone 03 00 00
Item a hatchell 00 10 00
Item a horse in Iohn Gorums hands 01 10 00
Item 1 smale Table 00 03 00
Item 1 Negro Man
Item more due on the booke 01 06 09
Item due by bill in Cash 16 00 00
Item in Cash 84 00 00
Item in plate and a watch 10 00 00
Item 2 Cards of Cloake buttons 00 05 00
Item the farme that is to say the dwelling house barne vpland and meddow and all land in the Comon feild 450 00 00
Item due from the Country for seruice done in the warr by Capt: Gorum about
Item a Graunt of a parsell of Land att Papasquash neck
The sume Totall is 710 04 09
By vs
William Crocker
Iohn Thacher
Barnabas Laythorpe
Iohn Miller
Plymouth Colony Wills 3:162-163
this following Relates vnto the Inventory of Capt: Gorums estate before entered; Iohn Gorum senir disbursed for the souldery vnder hia Comand as followeth
For food att Sandwich 00 07 06
For Syder att Captaine huchensons farme 00 08 06
my selfe with horse and furniture sixteen weekes
a horse for my son Ioseph a fortnight Expended vpon the souldiers att seuerall times 01 14 00
disbured [sic] for three souldiers suppers att Iames Coles 00 01 06
Iohn Whetston fifteen dayes horse bridle and saddle
Thinges omitted to be Charged in the Inventory
Item a paire of bootes a paire of shooes 2 sackes 1 sheete 2 pitchforkes 00 18 00
for Clothes left att mr Brownes
debtes omited to be substracted out of the estate of Elisha hedge 03 03 00
debts att Boston not well knowne not haueing time but by discourse with my husband 18 00 00
Plymouth Colony Wills, vol. III, p. 164
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