Inventory of the Hendrick De CAMP Estate (1771); Middlesex Co., NJ ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nj/njfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nina Mack An Inventory and Apprisement of divised goods and chattles, rights and estate which belonged unto Hendrick De Camp late of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex and Eastern Division of the Province of New Jersey deceased at the time of his death. Taken and approved in the presence of William Smith and John De Camp executor of the Last Will and Testament of the said Hendrick De Camp, whose names are here unto subscribed apprisers of said estate, this tenth day of the seventh month commonly called July Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy One 1771 pound, shilling, pence Imprimis to all the wearing apparrel 5, 0, 0 One feather bed with a set of furniture 5, 0, 0 One ditto, bedstead, bolster and pillows 3, 0, 0 6 blankets and one rugg 3, 10, 0 One chest with iron clasps 0, 17, 0 One ditto with a drawer 0, 3, 6 A great wheel and reel 0, 8, 0 A little wheel 0, 12, 0 A pare of hand irons and tongs 0, 12, 0 7 pictures and looking glass 1, 0, 0 2 old coverlids 0, 2, 4 1 whitewood chest 0, 6, 0 6 low back sitting chairs 0, 7, 0 A coffee pott, tea pott, and canister 0, 5, 0 A pare of sheep shears, a qut. pott, lrg. box & candlesticks 0, 5, 0 A bedstead, old coverlid, under bed and pc sole leather 1, 4, 0 A cast with 18 1/2 ... @ 1/9 of lb 1, 12, 4 1/2 Four bushels indian corn in ears 0, 9, 0 4 old casks, 5 bee hives, one old case, one vinegar cast 0, 8, 8 3 sheep skins and a piece of skin 0, 4, 0 A bunch of candles 0, 2, 0 Small bagg of timothy seed 0, 3, 0 An old gum table 0, 1, 2 Part of a cake of tallow 0, 2, 0 2 old axes, one broad axe, hoe and hammer 0, 7, 0 1 large iron kettle 0, 16, 0 2 small ditto ditto 0, 4, 0 large iron pott, small ditto 0, 6, 6 A frying pan and fish fork 0, 2, 0 One iron trammel and part of an iron chain 0, 5, 0 A belle and 4 iron wedges, and old broad axe 0, 9, 0 Draw knife, hand saw, old auger, gouch, old iron square, and spike gimblet 0, 5, 0 One adds and chizle 0, 2, 0 Large clavis, small ditto with @ of chain 0, 3, 6 A pare of wool cards & a skin hide 0, 2, 0 3 wooden shovels 0, 1, 6 3 pare of horse geers with collars & clavises and a pare of leading lines with bridles 0, 16, 0 A spade, old hatchet, and swifts 0, 7, 0 A pare smoothing irons 0, 3, 0 3 stone potts of different sizes 0, 5, 6 Tea pott, tea kettle, mustard pott, and candle stick 0, 6, 0 2 keelers, 2 pails, a churn and tray 0, 9, 0 One old half bushel mennure, and one half ditto ditto 0, 3, 0 2 wooden bowls, one lingum vitia morter-grapes 0, 1, 6 2 knives, 4 forks, 5 tablespoons, 1 small ditto 0, 2, 0 1 pewter platter, 3 basons, 4 plaits 0, 12, 0 A pare dressers and a small cupboard 0, 4, 0 A basket, bedstead, old cask, and an old chest 0, 6, 0 Also one other chest and a barrel with fish in 0, 9, 8 7 old casts 0, 8, 0 A wash tubb, one old ditto and one old barrel 0, 5, 4 3 pitch forks, 2 rakes 0, 6, 6 Dutch plough, harrow and corn harrow 1, 17, 6 2 black sleds 0, 7, 0 scythe and tackling 0, 8, 8 2 hoggs wt 370 @ 3/4 5, 0, 2 A mans saddle & bridle 0, 8, 8 Black roan mare and colt 8, 0, 0 Black mare 6, 0, 0 Black roan 3 year old mare 8, 10, 0 A brown milker cow 4, 10, 0 A speckled new milker cow 6, 0, 0 A farrow cow 5, 0, 0 One ditto brown ditto 4, 15, 0 About an acre of wheat 1, 10, 0 3 hieffer calves of a year old each @ 40/ 6, 0, 0 A field of rey about 5 acres 5, 0, 0 A two year old hieffer 3, 0, 0 21 sheep @ 7/ 7, 7, 0 A barrack of fresh hay 7, 9, 5 45 bushels buckwheat 4, 10, 0 4 1/2 barrels cyder at the press 1, 16, 0 salt grass 1, 6, 0 36 bushels oats 3, 12, 0 All the paster let to Marmaduke Hunt 5, 0, 0 160 bushels indian corn 34, 13, 4 cash from Abraham Bloodgood as CP judgement 2, 19, 3 The above and foregoing pages is a true inventory and apprisment of said moveable estate 0, 31, 8 to sundry small articles omitted in the above 0, 3, 0 as witness our hands total 168 pounds, 5 shilling, 1/2 pence William Marsh Mulford Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This inventory was copied and translated to the best of my ability. Please take into consideration that the original was over two hundred years old when I copied it. It would not have been possible without a dictionary, magnifing glass and patience 12 pence = 1 shilling 20 shilling = 1 pound coverlid = bedspread trammel = shackle gimblet = gimlet adds = adz clevis = shackle swift = cylinder