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Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16189, Thomas Oakes of Cambridge: inventory, first sheet (24 December 1658; printed total 264-16-04). 'An Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Oakes deceased', Cambridge in New England: dwelling house, barn and 3.5 acres, a farm of 150 acres at Billerica, meadow at Alewife, plough land, stock, grain, clothing including a trooper's coat, sword and a five-lock musket, bedding and household goods.
Image · dated 24 Dec 1658 (24th 10th month 1658) · source: Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate Court, via FamilySearch.
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
Cambridge in New England the 24 of the 10 mo 1658. An Inventory of the Estate of Thomas Oakes deceased (columns L-s-d)
| 1 | Imprimis his dwelling house and barne and out houses and Orchard and three acres and a half of land adjoyning to it and towne lots belonging thear to | 72-00-00 |
| 2 | It a farme of 150 acres at Bilrica (LIKELY on "150" and "Bilrica" = Billerica) | 10-00-00 |
| 3 | It 4 acres of meddow more or les at Alewife meddow | 10-00-00 |
| 4 | It a fourth part of Mr Wiltons farme | 08-00-00 |
| 5 | It 3 acres of plow land in the west field | 08-00-00 |
| 6 | It 20 acres in the neck of land | 40-00-00 |
| 7 | It 2 ould oxen 12l and 2 young oxen 10l | 22-00-00 |
| 8 | It 2 steeres 12l 3 cowes and a heafer 12l | 24-00-00 |
| 9 | It one young horse | 02-15-00 |
| 10 | It 2 [?sowes?] 2l and 4 swine 3l 5s | 05-05-00 |
| 11 | It on Ewe and one Ewe lambe | 02-05-00 |
| 12 | It one weather sheepe 2 yeare old, one weather sheep a year old | 01-05-00 |
| 13 | It a cart and wheeles 1l 14s a paire of old wheeles 15s | 02-09-00 |
| 14 | It 3 yookes and 2 chaines [?1?]l 10s and one plow 10s | 02-00-00 |
| 15 | It Rie in the straw 2l 10s It barly in the straw 1l | 03-10-00 |
| 16 | It wheate in the straw 4l peace in the straw 5l | 09-00-00 |
| 17 | It Indian Corne 8l hay 6l | 14-00-00 |
| 18 | It a stuffe suite and Coate [?1?]l 10s a cloth suite 10s | 02-00-00 |
| 19 | It a cloth cloake [?1?]l 15s a troopers coate [?1?]l 10s | 03-05-00 |
| 20 | It one ould suite 6s a blake hat a gray hat 12s | 00-18-00 |
| 21 | It bootes and shooes a paire of stockins a paire of spurs | 00-15-00 |
| 22 | It a sword and belt 16s a five lock muskit [?1?]l | 01-16-00 (printed; see note) |
| 23 | It paire of bandileers 2s a pitke 5s | 00-07-00 |
| 24 | It butts skine 13s a green roast toate and 2 hurts 12s (LIKELY) | 01-05-00 |
| 25 | It 2 paire of sheetes 24s ... (second pair, LIKELY) | 02-00-00 |
| 26 | It one paire of sheetes 16s 5 pillowe beeres 15s | 01-11-00 |
| 27 | It one table cloth and 6 napkins | 00-16-00 |
| 28 | It bands and handkerchifs and caps | 00-04-00 |
| 29 | It a feather bed 2 bolsters and 3 pillowes | 05-10-00 |
| 30 | It 3 coverlits and 2 blankits | 02-00-00 |
| 31 | It a bedsted and curtaines and vallans | 01-00-00 |
| 32 | It a flock bed 12s a warming pan 7s a chest 4s | 01-03-00 |
| 33 | It a long table and forme | 00-18-00 |
| 34 | It a small trunk and a box 4s a paire of [?bobbins?] 5s | 00-09-00 |
| 35 | It a tramill and a gridiron | 00-02-04 |
| 36 | It a cubard table and a great chest | 02-00-00 |
| 37 | It a small table and 6 chaires | 00-08-00 |
[Source: research-b-oakes-1658-1681-2026-10-02/TRANSCRIPTION.md sec. 1, frame 800.].
How it is shown: Complete frame; no crop, no retouch, no search highlight.
Keep in mind: Printed total Confirmed (my addition of the 37 lines gives exactly 264-16-04); item wording Likely or weaker on several lines. Nothing in this case names Nathaniel Oak of Westborough or his family; no child named in the will and no tie of Thomas Oakes to Nathaniel Oak shown; 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.