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Middlesex County, Massachusetts, probate case 16189, Thomas Oakes of Cambridge: inventory, second sheet, appraisers' signatures and Elizabeth Oakes's oath (28 December 1658). Second sheet (household goods and tools, total 10-00-08), 'This Estate was prised by Deacon Stone and Richard Jackson', and the oath of Elizabeth Oakes the relict and executrix before the County Court at Charlestowne.
Image · dated 28 Dec 1658 (28th 10th month 1658) · source: Middlesex County (Massachusetts) Probate Court, via FamilySearch.
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
It 6 cushins 5s a [?coule?] and a [?Troate?] [?woolen?] 5s ............ 00:11:00
It small wooden vessels 5s a Churne 4s 2 bowels 2s .................... 00:10:00
It a Spitt 2s 6d a Tramill a fire pan and tonges and [?peels?] ......... 00:06:06
It one Iron pot and 2 payer of pot hookes ............................. 00:10:00
It a payer of bellowes 2s 8d pewter platers 2 saucers 2s ............... 01:02:08
It 3 skillits a stuner a great kettill and a chafindish ................ 01:10:00 [?]
It 4 porringers and 3 pewter potts ..................................... 00:08:00 [?]
It a salt seller a chamber pot 3s and earthen ware 2s .................. 00:05:00 [?]
It 2 beere vessels 2s a powdering tub 3s and bookes 2s [?] ............. [?]
It a snapsak 2s a [?woulter?] and 2 [?shaves?] and 3 [?] ............... 01:04:00 [?]
It a driping pan 3s 7 spits 14d 2 hooves 2 old [?] ..................... 00:07:06
It a [?] kept 2s 6d 2 payer of bootill tings 5s ........................ 00:05:00
It a tub 2s a hand saw whistels and augers 4s .......................... 00:13:00 [?]
It 4 wedgis and an old ax 6s 2 [?pillos?] 7s ........................... 00:08:00
It 3 pitch forkes 3s one old [?] 2s 6d a spining wheele ................ 00:07:00 [?]
It a ring forke and halfe a turnstone .................................. 00:00:08 [?]
This Estate was prised by Deacon Stone and [struck: Ric] Richard Jackson [LIKELY: first name before Jackson overwritten]
p me Richard Jackson [overwritten]
Gregory Stone
The Estate of Thomas ^Oakes debtor ........... [struck/overwritten] 14 : 10 : 04 [LIKELY on 14]
The Estate of Thomas Oakes Creditour .......... 03 : 18 : 00
Elizabeth Oakes the relict of Thomas Oakes deceased &
Executrix, appearing before the County Court held at Charl-
estowne 28th 10 mo 58. & sworne, doe say that this above & with in
written containeth a true Inventory of all the estate whereof her husband
died seized, and that if any more do appear shee will discover the same
so as to be added hereunto.
Thomas Danf. R[ecorder]
Entred . 28 10[th] mo . 58 . Th. D[anf]. R[ecorder]
[Source: research-b-oakes-1658-1681-2026-10-02/TRANSCRIPTION.md sec. 1, frame 801.].
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Keep in mind: Outline Confirmed; item wording Likely. 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.