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Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16188, Richard Oakes of Sudbury: inventory prized 21-22 January 1757 (real estate in three pieces £168). Inventory of the lands, personal estate, goods and chattels of Mr Richard Oakes, husbandman, prized by Thos Damon, Ebenezer Felch and Joseph Beal; exhibited on oath by Susanna Hammond, executrix, 21 March 1757. No grand total appears on the sheet.
Image · dated 21 Jan 1757 · source: Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate Court, via FamilySearch.
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
An Inventory of all and Singular the Lands, Personal Estate Goods and Chattels of Mr Richard oakes late of Sudbury in the County of middlesex ... Husbandman deceas'd,
Prized by us the Subscribers Jany ye 21st 22d 1757 as followeth
Imprim: His Real Estate lying in three peices at ----------- L168-00-00
Item His apparel at ------------------------------------------ 01-04-00
Item His Hay 06-16-0 quick Stock 10-10-8 one Cow 2-17-4 ------ 20-04-00
Item His pork 5-9-4-2 Corn 3-3-5-3 Rie 0-10-8 oats 1-4-0 ------ 10-7-06-1
Item His flax 1-0-0 beans 0-6-8 patatoes 0-1-4 -------------- 01-8-00-0
Item His Cart 2-13-4 and his other Husbandry tools 03-14-2 ---- 4-7-6-0
Item His Bed and furniture 3-15-2-2 warming pan 0-16-0 -------- 4-11-2-2
Item His Looking glass 0-13-4 pewter 0-15-0 Trammel 0-2-8 ----- 1-11-0-0
[other in door moveables or houshold Goods 1-0-1-2]; [wool and worsted 0-15-2-2 old Sadle 0-0-8-0 = 0-15-10-0]; [Cider 0-8-0 two Piggs 0-13-4 = 1-1-4-0] (LIKELY, lower lines)
Apprizers: Thos Damon, Eben[ezer] Felch, Joseph Beal. "middlesex ss. march 21. 175[7] Susanna Hammond the Executrix exhibited the foregoing Inventory on oath. S. Danforth J.prob."
[Source: research-b-oakes-cases-kin-2026-10-02/TRANSCRIPTION.md sec. 2, frame 796.].
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Keep in mind: Confirmed lines as written (the last two digits of several sums are pence/farthings notations not resolved; the lower lines are Likely). Nothing in this case names Nathaniel Oak of Westborough or his family; any tie of this Richard Oakes of Sudbury to Nathaniel Oak undetermined (no tie 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.