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Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16171, Edward Oakes of Cambridge: inventory of the estate of Mr Edward Oakes, Cambridge, 30 January 1691/2. A small tilted sheet: bedding and linen, brass, pewter, books, a musket and carbine, a lot of about 25 acres at New Cambridge, a lot of 20 acres toward Concord, iron ware; prizers Nath: Robins and Benj: Dana; total written 27-2-8.
Image · dated 30 Jan 1691/2 · source: Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate Court, via FamilySearch.
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
[Inventory of the Estate of Mr Edward Oakes Late of Cambridge Deceased] (heading read in strips: "Cambridge - Jan 30 - 169 1/2") LIKELY (heading words), date CONFIRMED
£ s d
Imprim: Beding & Linning ---------------------------------- 04-00-00
Brass 19s Powter 18s Bookes 5s Tubbs &c 3s [?casting/fasting] 02-15-00
1 Muskett & 1 Calbine --- 22 -------------------------------- 01-02-00
one Lott of 2[5/8] acres at New Cambridge -------------------- 18-05-00 (digits overwritten)
one Lott of 20 acres Toward Concord -------------------------- 03-00-00
Iron ware 25 ------------------------------------------------ 01-00-00
[struck: 24-02-08] / 27 - 2 - 8
Prizers: Nath: Robins Benj: Dana
[Source: research-b-oakes-cases-kin-2026-10-02/TRANSCRIPTION.md sec. 1, frame 607.].
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Keep in mind: Date and figures Confirmed as written; the heading words are Likely. The lines as read add to 30-2-0, not to the written 27-2-8 (the New Cambridge figure is overwritten); not harmonised. No heirs, widow, administrator or bondsmen are named. Nothing in this case names Nathaniel Oak of Westborough or his family; NOT KIN (a separate Cambridge/Medford/Malden/Sudbury Oakes group); it is shown here as a probate record of the surname, linked to its own research source and not to a person in the tree.