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1 Hinckley Papers, Mass. Hist. Coll. vol. v, p. 11, 4th series.
2 See chapter on Middleboro in the Revolution.
3 This term comes from the famous train bands of Cromwell's army.
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LOCAL MILITIA
1717-1812]
quart. In 1781, after the stirring events of the Revolution, the local militia of Massachusetts was reorganized. There were in this enrollment, in Middleboro, in 1782, 566 persons liable to perform this duty, of whom 421 were in the train bands and 145 in the alarm list. (There were probably over one hun- dred more, but the list of one company is lost.) In 1786 a new uniform of white faced with scarlet was adopted for the state.
So important was the military organization of the town that in the year 1717 a training-green was provided near the grounds of the First Church, and for more than a century the Training Day was one of the holidays, and the citizens generally came from all parts of the town to witness the drilling and manœu- vring of these companies. This parade ground was given to the town by James Soule, who conveyed about two acres of this land "to the proper use, benefit and behoof of the mili- tary company of Middleboro forever successively."1 With the decline of the military spirit before the middle of the last century, the parades were held in other parts of the town, and were not as largely attended as formerly. One of them was at Muttock, in the field bordering upon the pond and Nemasket Street, adjoining the shovel shop ; another, in Warrentown, on grounds opposite the residence of the late James Bump, and another at the Rock.
After the close of the War of 1812 more attention seems to have been paid to the uniform and equipments of the local mili- tia. Each company usually had a fife, drums, and sometimes clarinets and bugles. It consisted of commissioned officers, petty officers, musicians, privates, with some six or more in peculiar uniforms, called pioneers, who preceded the musicians as the company marched through the streets. At the time of their parade, it was often the amusement of the boys and spec- tators to erect barricades along the highways or at the gates through which the company was supposed to pass from differ- ent parts of the town, and then witness with delight the mas- terly exertions of the pioneers in clearing a way for the troops to enter the training-grounds for their military evolutions.
1 See chapter containing account of The Green.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO
[1710
One of the most interesting days of the year was the annual muster of the regiment or brigade, which sometimes was held on the level tract of land in Lakeville, not far from the school- house in the Upper Four Corners, and usually lasted one or two days. These annual musters drew together many from the surrounding towns, for the parades, drills, and reviews attracted much attention, and the music from the bands was always entertaining. The grounds were carefully guarded by sentries, and it was impossible to come within the military lines without a pass from the commanding officer. It required not a little tact and many men to keep mischievous intruders from the camp grounds. Upon the outskirts were booths for refresh- ments and various shows in tents, which never failed to interest the assembled multitude. Confectionery was then rare, and was sold in small quantities at large prices, but sugar ginger- bread was the staple article, and was eagerly purchased.
The following is a bill of the expense at "the Militia Mus- ter," 1783, of Colonel John Nelson : -
202 gallons rum at 2s 8d per gallon 2-14-8
29 Dinners at Is 8d each 2-18-4
23 Bottles Wine at 2s 5d " 2-15-7
12 Bowls of Punch at 3s 4d "
2- 3-4
17 Mugs of Punch at Is 6d «
I- 5-6
Bowl of Punch
0- 0-9
II-8-3
The earliest record of the first military company of Middle- boro,1 taken January 19, 1710-II, is as follows :
Captain, Jacob Tomson. Corp. Thomas Darling Samuel Pratt, drummer
Sergt. Jeremiah Thomas
" Samuel Eddy
James Soule
Seth Howland
Abiel Wood
Samuel Barrows
John Miller
Corp. Samuel Eaton
John Soul
John Tinckom®
Elmer Bennet
John Alden
1 From Eddy Note-Book.
1710]
LOCAL MILITIA
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Josiah Connant
Ebenezer Vaughan
Henery Wood
Shubael Tomson John Wood
Joseph Bumpus
Ebenezer Tinkham, Jr.
Nathaniel Thomas
Ephraim Wood
Nathan Howland
Jeremiah Tinkcom
Jonathan Cob
Elisha Vaughan
Elnathan Wood
Jonathan Morse
Thomas Raymond
John Raymond
Nathaniel Southworth
Jonathan Thomas
Samuel Tinkcom
John Barden
David Wood
Stephen Barden Abraham Barden
Josiah Thomas
Joseph Barden
Nathaniel Barden
Samuel Warren
James Raymond
James Bumpus
Thomas Tomson, Sr.
Jabez Vaughan
Rodolphus Elms
John Tomson
Thomas Tomson, Jr.
William Hascol Samuel Wood
Isaac Renolds
George Vaughan
Ebenezer Cob
William Reed
Joseph Thomas
Ebenezer Fuller
Joseph Vaughan
Isaac Howland
Jeremiah Thomas, Jr.
Jonathan Smith
John Wood
James Smith
Experience Bent
Ephraim Tomson
Benjamin Eddy
William Thomas
Edward Southworth
Benjamin Barden
Joseph Bennett
Samuel Cob
Shubael Tinkham
Aaron Simmons
Edward Hacket
William Barden
Jonathan Fuller John Vaughan
Samuel Sampson
Ebenezer Hall
Joseph Cob
Josiah Hascol
Peter Tomson
Ebenezer Redding
Isaac Billington
Isaac Tinkcom
Abiel Wood, Jr.
The captains of this First Company 1 were : -
Jacob Tompson, - to 1716. Joseph Vaughan, March, 1716, to -. Peter Bennett.
1 These lists are from the History of Plymouth County.
John Fuller
John Cob
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO [1762-1818
Ebenezer Sproutt, 1762 to 177 -.
Nathaniel Wood,1 1776 to July 1, 1781.
William Shaw, July 1, 1781, to -.
The captains of the Second Company were: -
Ichabod Southworth, 1727 to 17 -.
Nathaniel Southworth, 17- to 17 -.
Ebenezer Morton, 17- to 1754.
Nathaniel Smith, July 23, 1754, to 1762.
Gideon Southworth, October 27, 1762, to 1772.
Robert Sproat, June 12, 1772, to 1774.
Nathaniel Smith, October 10, 1774, to September 19, 1775.
Nehemiah Allen, May 9, 1776, to 1778.
John Barrows, April 8, 1778, to 1780.
Abner Bourne, June 2, 1780, to July 1, 1781.
Ezra Harlow, July 1, 1781, to 1790. George Vaughan, April 12, 1790, to 1793.
Peter Hoar, June 6, 1793, to January 4, 1797.
Jabez Thomas, January 25, 1797, to 1799. John Morton, May 7, 1799, to 1802. Sylvanus Tillson, May 4, 1802, to 1805. Nathaniel Cole, May 7, 1805, to 1809.
Abner Barrows, Jr., July 27, 1809, to 1811.
Ephraim Ward, March 18, 1811, to 1814.
Peter H. Peirce, February 18, 1814, to 1816.
Orrin Tinkham, September 10, 1816, to 1817.
Enoch Haskins, April 14, 1817, to February 25, 1818.
This company was disbanded by order of the governor, February 25, 1818.
The captains of the Third Company were : -
Joseph Tinkham, 175- to 17 -.
William Tupper, 1776 to July 1, 1781.
Nathaniel Wilder, July.I, 1781, to 17 -.
Nathaniel Wilder, Jr., April 6, 1802, to 1817.
The captains of the Fourth Company 2 were : -
Joseph Leonard, 17- to William Canedy, 177- to September 19, 1775.
1 At the breaking out of the Revolution the four companies of local militia were reorganized, and Nathaniel Wood was the commander of the first company to respond to the Lexington alarm.
2 The men in this company were from the part of the town now Lakeville.
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LOCAL MILITIA
1776-1830]
Job Peirce, May 9, 1776, to 1778. Henry Peirce, 1778 to 1787. James Peirce, July 17, 1787, to 179 -. Abanoam Hinds, August 15, 1796, to 1802. Elkanah Peirce, May 4, 1802, to 1806. Elisha Briggs, September 29, 1806, to 1811. Sylvanus Parris, March 20, 1811, to 1815. Ethan Peirce, June 6, 1815, to 182 -. Apollos Reed, 182- to 1827. John Strobridge, May 19, 1827, to 1829.
Samuel Hoar, June 6, 1829, to 1831. Silas P. Ashley, August 15, 1831, to 18 -. 1
The captain of the Fifth Company was : - Perez Churchill, 1776 to July 1, 1781.
The captains of the Sixth Company were : - James Shaw, July I, 1781, to 1784. John Miller, June 3, 1784.
The captains of the Seventh Company were : - Amos Washburn, 177- to 1781.
Abraham Shaw, July 1, 1781, to 1787. John Smith, July 17, 1787, to 1794. Ebenezer Briggs, Jr., August 4, 1794, to 1801. Elias Sampson, August 31, 1801, to 1807.
Daniel Smith, May 5, 1807, to 1810. Ebenezer Pickens, September 21, 1810, to 1814. David Sherman, May 2, 1814, to 1820.
Abiel M. Sampson, October 17, 1820, to 1827.
Richard B. Foster, April 28, 1827, to 1828.
Horatio G. Clark, July 19, 1828, to January 28, 1829. James Pickens, May 29, 1829, to May 30, 1830.
The captain of the Eighth Company was : - David Vaughan, July 1, 1781.
There was a company of cavalry, consisting of men from Middleboro, Rochester, and Wareham. The captains of this company were : -
William Bourne, May 22, 1797, to September 12, 1803. Thomas Bennet, 1804 to April 10, 1807.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO [1813-58 Seth Southworth, August 2, 1813, to 1815. Nehemiah Leonard, June 3, 1818, to 1823.
In 1818 the second company of militia was disbanded, and two companies of light infantry were organized in Middle- boro, the captains of which were : -
Isaac Stevens, April 3, 1818, to 1823.
Sylvanus Barrows, September 9, 1823, to 1827.
Job Peirce, April 24, 1827, to 1829.
Rufus Alden, June 8, 1829, to 1830.
Josiah Tinkham, April 28, 1830, to 1833.
Abiel Wood, May 7, 1833, to 1835.
Morton Freeman, April 2, 1835, to 1840.
Jacob T. Barrows, April 30, 1841, to 1842.
Amasa J. Thompson, May 12, 1842, to 1844. Daniel Atwood, 1844 to July 10, 1844.
Andrew J. Pickens, August 3, 1844, to 1846.
Dexter Phillips, March 20, 1846, to 1847.
Arad Bryant,. February 20, 1847, to 1849.
Albert Thomas, May 20, 1849, to 1851.
Joseph Sampson, Jr., 1851 to November 28, 1851.
The other company of light infantry was formed a little later, of which the following persons were captains : -
Jonathan Cobb, June 16, 1818, to 1824.
Darius Miller, May 19, 1824, to September 12, 1828.
Jacob Thomas, - to 1830.
Lothrop S. Thomas, April 24, 1830, to 1834.
Levi Morse, September 27, 1834, to 1837.
Sylvester F. Cobb, September 20, 1837, to 1842.
Ichabod F. Atwood, July 26, 1842, to 1847.
George Ward, March 12, 1847, to May 4, 1850. Stephen Thomas, May 29, 1850, to April 3, 1852. Lothrop Thomas, May 26, 1852, to 1853.
Thomas Weston, July 6, 1853, to July 12, 1856.
Robert M. Thomas, August 2, 1856, to August 6, 1857.
Sylvanus Barrows, September 5, 1857, to September 25, 1858.
This company was disbanded September 25, 1858.
The captains of the train bands and alarm lists and the numbers in each company were as follows : -
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1741]
FIRST COMPANY William Shaw, Train Band, 68. -, Alarm List, 13.
SECOND COMPANY Ezra Harlow, Train Band, 68. Abner Bourne, Alarm List, 39.
THIRD COMPANY
Nathaniel Wilder, Train Band, 71. Lemuel Wood, Alarm List, 32.
FOURTH COMPANY
Henry Peirce, Train Band, 45. Alarm List, 8.
SIXTH COMPANY
James Shaw, Train Band, 66. -, Alarm List, 17.
SEVENTH COMPANY
Abraham Shaw, Train Band, 53. Amos Washburn, Alarm List, 20.
EIGHTH COMPANY
David Vaughan, Train Band, 50. Josiah Carver, Alarm List, 16.
The following is a list of officers residing in Middleboro who attained in the service of the local militia a higher rank than that of captain from 1741 :-
GENERAL OFFICERS
Abiel Washburn, brigadier-general, September 4, 1816, to 1824.
Ephraim Ward, brigadier-general, January 27, 1825, to 1831.
Darius Miller, brigadier-general, July 20, 1831, to 1833. Eliab Ward, brigadier-general, April 8, 1850, to 1855.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO [1741-1853
FIELD OFFICERS
FIRST REGIMENT OF INFANTRY
Elkanah Leonard, major, 1741 to 1745.
Ebenezer Sproutt, major, 17- to 1776.
Benjamin Drew, Jr., February 14, 1835, to April 24, 1840.
THIRD REGIMENT OF LIGHT INFANTRY
Eliab Ward, colonel, July 10, 1844, to April 8, 1850.
Elnathan W. Wilbur, colonel, May 4, 1850, to 1853. Stephen Thomas, colonel, March 12, 1853, to 1858.
Lothrop Thomas, lieutenant-colonel, August 23, 1834, to 1836.
Eliab Ward, lieutenant-colonel, September 15, 1843, to July 10, 1844.
Daniel Atwood, lieutenant-colonel, September, 1845, to 1850.
Ebenezer W. Peirce, lieutenant-colonel, April 3, 1852, to November 7, 1855.
Thomas Weston, lieutenant-colonel, July 12, 1856, to 1858. Daniel Atwood, major, July 10, 1844, to 1845.
Joseph Sampson, Jr., major, 1845 to 1849.
Elnathan W. Wilbur, major, 1849 to May 4, 1850.
George Ward, major, May 4, 1850, to 1851.
Ebenezer W. Peirce, major, August 2, 1851, to April 3, 1852. Stephen Thomas, major, April 3, 1852, to March 12, 1853.
FOURTH REGIMENT OF INFANTRY
Ebenezer Sproutt, colonel, February, 1776, to 1781.
John Nelson, colonel, July 1, 1781, to 1787.
Edward Sparrow, colonel, October 29, 1793, to April 1, 1796. Abiel Washburn, colonel, July 22, 1800, to September 4, 1816. Ephraim Ward, colonel, April 25, 1817, to January 27, 1825. Benjamin P. Wood, colonel, September 7, 1826, to 1829. Darius Miller, colonel, August 31, 1829, to July 20, 1831.
Thomas Weston, Jr., colonel, 1832 to 1834.
Edward G. Perkins, colonel, February 4, 1837, to 1839.
Nathan King, colonel, February 7, 1839, to April 14, 1840. William Tupper, lieutenant-colonel, July 1, 1781, to 1784.
Edward Sparrow, lieutenant-colonel, July 17, 1787, to Octo- ber 29, 1793.
Abiel Washburn, lieutenant-colonel, January 4, 1797, to July 22, 1800.
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1776-1840]
Ephraim Ward, lieutenant-colonel, 181-to April 25, 1817.
Peter H. Peirce, lieutenant-colonel, April 25, 1817, to 1823.
Benjamin P. Wood, lieutenant-colonel, October 10, 1823, to September 7, 1826.
Southworth Ellis, Jr., lieutenant-colonel, September 7, 1826, to 1829.
Thomas Weston, Jr., lieutenant-colonel, August 31, 1829, to 1832.
Oliver Eaton, lieutenant-colonel, 1832 to 1834.
Edward G. Perkins, lieutenant-colonel, May 1834, to Feb- ruary 4, 1837.
Nathan King, lieutenant-colonel, February 4, 1837, to Feb- ruary 8, 1839.
Peter Hoar, senior major, July 22, 1800, to 1807.
Jacob Cushman, senior major, November 27, 1807, to 1809.
Levi Peirce, senior major, 1812 to 1816.
John Nelson, major, May 9, 1776, to July 1, 1781.
Edward Sparrow, major, July 1, 1781, to July 17, 1787.
Abiel Washburn, major, May 1, 1794, to January 4, 1797.
Peter Hoar, major, January 4, 1797, to July 22, 1800.
Levi Peirce, major, June 8, 1809, to 1812.
Ephraim Ward, major, 1814 to 1816.
Peter H. Peirce, major, 1816 to April 25, 1817.
Branch Harlow, major, April 25, 1817, to 1823.
Philo Washburn, major, September 7, 1826, to 1828.
Darius Miller, major, September 12, 1828, to August 31, 1829.
Oliver Eaton, major, August 31, 1829, to 1832.
Isaac Fuller, major, February 8, 1839, to April 24, 1840.
BATTALION OF CAVALRY
William Bourne, major, September 12, 1803, to 1807.
Thomas Bennett, major, April 28, 1807, to November, 181I.
Harry Jackson, major, January 29, 1823, to death, in 1823.
BATTALION OF ARTILLERY
William Thomas, major, August 23, 1834, to 1836.
Since the middle of the last century there have been many changes in the militia law of the commonwealth and the inter- est in that service seems gradually to have declined, so that at the present time there is no military organization in town.
THE KITCHEN FIREPLACE
CHAPTER XIII
T
SOCIAL CUSTOMS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
HE people of Middleboro, like all of the colonists, were taught to employ every moment of their time. Children knew the value of everything in the house ; they knew how each article was made and its use. It was the natural outgrowth of their life that they should be thrifty and economical ; they had come to a new country, where much, if not everything, had to be made by hand. With the wealth of primeval forest, it is not to be wondered at that many a farmer's boy worked long and hard to obtain a jack-knife, and then what marvels he could make! Daniel Webster said that these Yankee jack-knives were the direct forerunners of the cotton-gin and thousands of noble American inventions. We have spoken of the trenchers used in early times, cut out of wood ; sleds also were of home manufacture, the runners made from saplings bent at the root. Most of the farm imple- ments were of wood,1 - ploughs, shovels, yokes for the oxen,
1 "The importance of locating near a spring of never-failing water, instead of attempting to dig wells, is apparent when we consider that shovels and spades in those times were made of wood instead of iron ; wooden shovels were used by the
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cart-wheels, scythes, and flails. The making of these occupied the spare time of the men. No wonder the people devel- oped skill as well as sturdy, independent characters. They were their own masters,1 dependent on no one; their lives were a training for the test of independence which came in 1775.
The frames of the dwelling-houses and barns of this period were of oak timber hewn with broadaxes, the sills, posts, and beams being often from nine to ten inches in diameter, fastened by tenons fitted into a mortised cavity and held in their place by oak pins. The raising of the frames of these build- ings was attended by a large number of friends, whose services were required to lift the heavy timbers into their proper posi- tion. It was customary for the owner of a building to furnish an ample supply of New England rum for the refreshment of his guests.2 There are a few of these houses still standing in different parts of the town, and the massive oak frames have kept them in the same position as when first built.
third and fourth generations from John Tomson. When Ebenezer, a grandson of his, had a wooden shovel pointed or shod with iron, it was considered a very great improvement, and was borrowed by the neighbors far and near. The ancient practice of building dwelling-houses near springs and running water accounts for the very crooked roads in many localities of the old colony." Descendants of John Thomson, p. 23.
1 " It is interesting to observe how little the character of the gentleman and gentlewoman in our New England people is affected by the pursuit, for genera- tions, of humble occupations, which in other countries are deemed degrading. Our ancestors, during nearly two centuries of poverty which followed the first settlement, turned their hands to the humblest ways of getting a livelihood, be- came shoemakers, or blacksmiths, or tailors, or did the hardest and most menial and rudest work of the farm, shovelled gravel or chopped wood, without any of the effect on their character which would be likely to be felt from the permanent pursuit of such an occupation in England or Germany. It was like a fishing party or a hunt- ing party in the woods. When the necessity was over, and the man or the boy in any generation got a college education, or was called to take part in public affairs, he rose at once and easily to the demands of an exalted station." Autobiography of Seventy Years, by George F. Hoar, vol. i, p. 41.
2 At the raising of the house of Colonel John Nelson, about 1800, " A man stood on his head upon the roof-tree or ridge-pole, rum was drunk by the barrell by the best people, the better the people, the more the rum. With its painted inside walls this fine old house is still occupied by his descendants." Nelson Gene- alogy.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO
For a few years after the close of King Philip's War, dwell- ing-houses were sometimes covered with two-inch oak plank to render them bullet-proof against attack. The windows were small and placed high up in the wall, so that the family would not be exposed to the shots of any hostile Indian. The roofs and walls of these houses were covered with shingles, pre- pared by sawing logs about fourteen or sixteen inches long, which were split with a long iron knife into pieces about half an inch in thickness, and then shaved upon a bench, which every farmer had, to hold the shingles in their place. The shingles so prepared from the original growth of pine and cedar were very durable ; some which were put on the old Morton house at the time it was built retained their place when it was taken down, although they were not much thicker than paper.
The kitchen was such an important part of the house that it deserves special mention. The huge fireplaces 1 were often built with seats on the sides. The back bar of green wood was fixed across the chimney, several feet from the floor. On this hung the many pots and kettles needed. Later, this back bar, or "luge-pole," gave place to one more practical of iron, and a hundred years after the first settlement, cranes were in use everywhere. Over the fireplace frequently hung rows of dried apples and pumpkins. The large brick ovens were at one side of the fireplace, and had a smoke " uptake " into the chimney. The door was of iron. Once a week a great fire of dry wood, or "ovenwood," was kindled in the oven and kept burning for several hours until the bricks were thoroughly heated. The coal and ashes were then carefully swept out, the chimney
1 " In the coldest weather the heat did not come out a great way from the hearth, and the whole family gathered close about the fire to keep warm. It was regarded as a great breach of good manners to go between any person and the fire. The fireplace was the centre of the household, and was regarded as the type and symbol of the home. The boys all understood the force of the line : -
' Strike for your altars and your fires !'
" I wonder if any of my readers nowadays would be stirred by an appeal to strike for his furnace or his air-tight stove." Autobiography of Seventy Years, by George F. Hoar, vol. i, p. 46.
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draught closed, and the oven filled with brown bread, pies, etc. In earliest days, the bread was baked on leaves gathered by the children. Later, Dutch ovens were used ; these were ket- tles on legs and with a curved cover, which were placed on the hot ashes and then covered with ashes.
By the oven hung a long-handled shovel, called a "peel " or " slice," which was used to put dough on the leaves, and, when the bread was baked, to remove it. A "peel" was always given to a bride as a good-luck present. Thanksgiving week, the oven was kept hot in preparation for the greatest day of the year. Christmas day was too closely associated with the frivolity of the Old World to be observed as it is at present.
At first pails were of wood or brass without bails ; tin was not used, but utensils were made of latten-ware, a kind of brass ; pots, kettles, gridirons, and skillets (made later in the blast furnaces of the town) had legs, as. it was necessary to have these raised above the ashes. The first fork brought to America was in 1633 for Governor Winthrop. It was in a leather case with a knife and bodkin. " Probably not one of the Pilgrims ever saw a fork used at table."1 The spoons were of pewter, and every family of importance owned a spoon mould, in which these could be made from the worn-out plat- ters and porringers. The large platters for holding the meat and vegetables were of pewter, - very little silver was to be seen at first. Later, handsome silver was found in the houses of the wealthy. Cups without handles were used till the early part of the last century.2
1 Goodwin, Pilgrim Republic, p. 589.
2 From these old inventories we learn some of the articles in use : -
September : the 5. 1695.
this is a tru inventary of the Estate of mr Samuell fuller Teacher of the church of Middlebury Lately deaseased prised by us whose names are under written
his wearin cloathing woollen and linnen . 09-00-00 his books .
04-00-00
to beds with bedin 07-00-00
puter with table linnen
01-04-00 a still 01-00-00
the brase to kittells and a spise mortler 00-14-00
A. iron pot and kittell and mortler 00-16-00
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLEBORO
The kitchen served as dining and sitting room, usually be- ing the only comfortable room in the house. The bedrooms
tramells tongs and pot hooks 00-08-00
chests and trays and dishes and chairs 00-15-00
tubs and pails 00-08-00 Earthen ware and glases 00-02-00
runlets and barells and a churn 00-07-00
a siften trof and a frien pan
00-04-00
a loom and taklin . 01-05-00
hors taklin 00-18-00
taklin for a teem and old iron
00-12-00
a pare of oxen
05-00-00
3 Cowes
04 -- 10-00
3 heifer
03-10-00
2 calves
00-12-00
swine
01-15-00
a hors and a mare
03-00-00
3 swarm of bees
00-08-00
at middlebury his dwellin hous and 20 Akers of Land and A full share of his six and twenty mens purshas only twenty-five Akers and twelf Akers of Land near John haskels and a parsell of Land commly called the sixteen shillin purshas and A hous and Land plimouth
more to books and a bibell
00-15-00
tow pare of scalles .
three wheells and a pare of cards
00-10-00
A pot and a Spoon
00-07-00 A gun .
00-08-00
toue yarn
00-02-00
The widdows Bed not apprised
JOSEPTH VAUGHAN SAMUELL WOOD
Mrs. Elizabeth ffuller Relict & widdow of mr Sam1 ffuller above named made oath in plimouth September 25: 1695 that ye above written is a true Inventory of ye goods chattels Rights & credits of ye sd Deceased so far as she knoweth & that if more shall come to her knowledge she will make it known
Before me WM. BRADFORD Esqr &c. Attest. SAMI. SPRAGUE Register
Recorded in Plymouth County Probate Office, vol. i, p. 223.
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