John Alden Inventory
JOHN ALDEN'S INVENTORY AND THE SETTLEMENT OF HIS ESTATE
Transcribed from the original records,
BY GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN.
Mayflower Descendant Vol 3:10
John Alden died at Duxbury on the twelfth of September, 1687, leaving no will, and the thirty-first of October the inventory of his estate was taken by his son Jonathan, who was appointed administrator on the eighth of November. John Alden had deeded certain parcels of land to his children during his lifetime, and since the inventory mentions no real estate it must all have been distributed before his death. This accounts for the smallness of the estate, only £49 17s. 6d.
The records here transcribed are found in the Plymouth County Probate Records, Volume 1, pages 10 and 16.
[p. 10] The Eigth day of November 1687 Administration was Granted unto Leiutt Jonathan Alden to Administer upon the Estate of his father Mr John Alden late of Duxbury deceased
An Inventory taken of the Estate of the late deceased Mr John Alden october 31 day 1687
| INVENTORY |
£ s d
|
| Neate Cattell sheep Swine & one
horse |
13 |
| one Table one forme one Carpit one Cubert
& coubert Cloth |
|
| 2 Chaires |
5 . . |
| bedsteds Chests & boxes |
15 |
| Andirons pot hookes and hangers . . . |
8 6 |
| pots Tongs one quort kettle . . |
10 |
| by brass ware . . |
I: 11. |
| by 1 ads 1s 6d & saws |
7s . . . 8 . 6 |
| by Augurs and Chisells . . . |
5 . . |
| by wedges 5s to Coupers tooles |
l£ 2s . 17 . . |
| one Carpenters Joynters . . . |
1 .6 |
| Cart boults Cleavie Exseta . . |
13 . . |
| driping pan & gridirons . . . |
5 . . |
| by puter ware 1 pound 12s by old Iron |
3s . 1 15 . . |
| by 2 old guns . . |
11 |
| by Table linen & other linen . . |
1 . 12 . |
| To beding .. . |
5 : 12 |
| One Spitt Is 6d & baggs |
2s .. . 3 . 6 |
| one mortising axe . . . |
1 . . |
| marking Iron a Case of trenchers with other
things . . . . |
7 . |
| hamen and winch exse . . . |
2 . 6 |
| by one goume and a bitt of linnin Cloth . . . |
7 . . |
| by one horse bridle and Saddle liberary and
Cash and weareing Clothes |
18 .9 |
| by other old lumber . |
5 |
Before Nathaniel Thomas Esqr Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas the 8th day of November 1687 Leiut Jonathan Alden made oath that this is a true Inventory of the Estate of his father Mr John "Alden deceased soe farr as he knoweth & when he knoweth more he will discover the same
Nathll Thomas Cler.
[p. 16] Wee whose names are Subscribed being prsonally Interested in the then Estate of John Alden senior of Duxbury Esqr lately deceased doe hereby acknowlege our selves to have Received Each of us our full Personall proportions thereof from Jonathan Alden Administrator & thereof Doe by these prsents for our selves our heires &c Exonerate acquitt & Discharge fully the said Jonathan Alden his heires &c for Ever of & from all Rights dues demands whatsoever Relateing to the aforesd Estate In Witness Whereof we have hereunto Subscribed & sealed this thirteenth day of June Ano Dom 1688. Jacobi 2di 4to
Elexander Standish (Seal)
John Alden (Seal)
in ye Right of my wife Joseph Alden (Seal)
Sarah deceased
David Alden (Seal)
John Bass (Seal)
Prisilla Alden (Seal)
in ye Right of my wife William Paybody (Seal)
Ruth deceased
Mary Alden (Seal)
Thomas Dillano (Seal)
