Inventory of Nicholas BROWNE (1655); Kent County, Maryland Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Andrea K. Haga ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** A note of goodes ffound in Mr Brounes house the 27th of July 1655 and appreysed by twoe sworne aprisers George Croutch & Nickolas Pickard Tob & Caske Impr Two ould Ruggs, one ould flock bed, two peare of ould sheetes, one boulster fflocke, one bage of ffethers, and a pillowe 250 Item a Copper kettell, two small Iron potts, & one wth a legge out, & a fryinge pan, a bucket 200 Item a parsell of great nalles, and other ould nailes a pear of Hinges, & other ould Iron 150 Item three plowe Cheanes, a Cowter, and a shire, with a wyn shakkell 250 Item two ould axes, two ould howes, one ould spad, a a pike-axe 080 Item one Iron pestill, one small stilliardes one peuter miugell one porrenger, fiue brocken peuter spoones 100 Item one small gugge, an ould hamer an ould Auger, an ould hand saw & an ould Reape hoocke 030 Item an Ould Chest, with locke and key, on yd 1/2 of Lockoru, one new p of shooes, one small parsell of Colloured threed & other ould Trumpery, with a broken loockeinge glasse 130 Item two barrels of Corne 100 Item on ould longe table 120 Item one dutch gune, on short Calliuber gune, 10 shott 310 ____________ 1720 Testes George Crouch Niccholas Peckard An Inuentory of the Plantations chattels & hoggs belonginge to the estate of Mr Nicolas Broune deceassed taken the 28th of August 1656 Impmis Two plantations lyinge in the north west Creecke, vppon the Isle of Kent, the one two hundred ackers of Land Item three Cowes two Heifers tow Cow Calues three Bull Calues in the Custodie of Jno Erickson Item one Cow, one yearlinge heiffer, on bull Calfe, in the Custodie of Jno Smith Item on Cow on yearlinge heiffer in teh Custodie of Henery Clay Item on Bull about two yeare ould vssing with Mr Morgans Cattell Item Two heiffers at Mr Hinsons, On Cow & a Calfe at Mr Hinsons Item Nine Sowes, one ould boare taken vp by John Erickson who is the haue the one halfe of teh Incrase, of the said sowes, for his Care in takinge vp, of what Chattell hee he canne, beelonginge to the estate, and for the keeping & loockinge after the hoggs A note of the Increasse of the sowers Impri~ Thirteen shotes about eaight moneths ould wheareof Tenne sow shotes, three barrow shotes Item Twenty on shotes, wheareof fourteen barrow shotes Seauen sowe shotes about two or three moneths ould/ Item ffourteen suckinge piggs A not what hoggs beelonginge to Mr Brounes Estate was kild & dispossed of the last winter Impri~ To Mr Harrwood two younge sowes & a barrow towards the payment of debt due to him by spessialty & Recouered by Order of Court Item Two barrowes killed in the woodes by Mr Morgan sould For 300 Item One barrow sould to John Erickson for 200 Item One barrow & one sow to Capt Vaughan 350 A note of what tobacco Mr Morgan receued the last yeare, be- longinge to the estate of Mr Broune Tob & Caske Impri~ of Mathew Read due by bill 1960 Item of the two Swethes that dyed 0404 A note of what bills wee ffound of Mr Nicolas Brounes the 24th off July 1655 A note vnder Thomas Keynes hand of what bills hee hath of Mr Brounes due at Chekekoan Tob & Caske Item John Deares Bill 0900 ffranchis Lumber & Wm Joanes by Bill 1220 John Cowrsy Bill 0350 Thomas Pett Bill 0190 ffranchis Brookes Bill 0360 John Deares Bill 0200 John Deares Bill 0130 William Joanes Bill 0180 John smiths Bill 0670 William Heades Bill 0637 John Jacob note for a Mayer George Crouch Bill 0400 Owin Jeames Bill 0400 Thomas Keynes Bill for two tunne 1/2 Caske Edward Claxton Bill 0633 Edward Claxton Bill 0450 Thomas Hill Bill 0260 Andrew Hanson and Valerus Leo 0650 James Horner Bill 0323 Henery East Bill 0300 John Jacobs note for foure hhd Toba~ A note of small debts due vppon the Isle of Kent A note of mistris Mary Brent 0100 William Wilkeson Indenture Mathew Reades Bill 2200 A Bill of Sall from ffrancis Bruxe to Mr Browne, for one brown Cow Called fattbacke, & a heiffer of a yeare & a halfe ould or theare abouts and one heiffer that vsses to goe with Mr Wards Cattell This day was prsented to the Court of fforesaid accoumpts of Mr Nicholas Browns estat by Capt Rob Vaughan and Henery Morgan, their despossitions ffollow You Capt Robert Vaughan & Mr Henery Morgan; shall heare in the prsence of God, truly swear, that this Acct, that you heare prsent vnto this Court, is a true and Just Acct, of all the estate of Mr Nic~ Browne deceassed, to the best of yor knowledges, And tht at any tyme heare- after, any more of the estate shall come to yor knowledges, that you shall make it knowen, vnto this Court, & add it to yor afforesaid Inuentory, A that you pay only the Just debts, of the decedent; And allso, tht you take spetiall Care, tht the sd estat, bee secured, and prserued, vntil lawfull Claime, bee made by or from, the executor, accordinge to the will of the decesed; And furthermor that at the next Orphans Court, on this Island, you or sume other, authorised by you, doe make yor appeareance, and giue in a true accoumpt, of the affore sd estat, how it is either Incressed, or decreassed; Soe help you God. This aboue writen, beeinge distinctly Read, to Capt Rob Vaughan and Mr Henery Morgan; They haue tooke their Othes, in the prsents of the Court, that the afforesaid accoumpt, is a true and Jusst Accoumpt and also, to make good the Charge;