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Probate Inventory from the Will of George Jackman

The Inventory was written 7th April 1749

George Jackman, yeoman of Grafton, was born in 1683 and died in 1749. The creators of the inventory, and presumably the executors, were Robert Elkins and Joseph Aishridg [written as it appears on the document]. William Jackman also witnessed it.

Wearing apparel and money in Poos [Purse?] £5/10/0
One cottage or tenament £14/0/0
In the chambers three beds and bedsteads and all furniture belonging £5/7/6
One chest, one coffer and other lumber £0/6/0
Three tables £0/16/0
Four chairs £0/4/6
For the Putor [Pewter] £0/6/9
A brass kittels [kettle; as in an open cooking pot or pan] £2/1/6
For barrels and tubs and other lumber £1/11/0
For box pan and irons fire pan and tongs, bar and skellot[?] £0/12/6
For trenchers and trenchers rack [a trencher is a flat plate, usually of wood] £0/4/0
For bacon in the salt £4/10/0
For pigs £0/18/0
For carves £4/2/6
For three horses and harness £8/10/0
For a wagon and a cart £7/10/0
For a plough and harrow £2/7/6
For two hundred of faggots and hard wood £2/5/0
For a hog trough and a horse trough £0/10/6
For ploughing and sead [seed] in Grafton Field and Burbage Field £12/2/0
For ploughing of 14 acres of land £2/16/0
For ploughing sead [seed] and work £0/6/6
For sheep hay and hurdles £3/0/0
For barley £6/16/0
For oats in the straw £6/0/0
For wheat in the straw £6/0/0
For a van and all tackling £0/16/0
For threshed pease [peas] and sacks £2/8/0
  £101/17/9

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