An Inventory of the Estate of John Corbett Late of Bellingham

An Inventory of the Estate of John Corbett late of Bellingham in the County of Norfolk & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Physician. Deceased, appraised upon Oath by us the Subscribers, July appointed to that Service by the Hon^ble William Heath Esq^r Judge of Probate of Wills &c for the said County of Norfolk –

1. The Homestead of said deceased, situated in said Bellingham, containing Four Hundred & Six Acres with the Buildings, thereon — — — — — £982..S18..D0
2. 100 Acres of Land at Uxbridge in the County of Worcester     330..0..0
3. 60 Acres of Land at Mendon, County of Worcester called the Post Place      420..0..0
4. 86 Acres of Land in said Mendon near Moses Daniels     215..0..0
5. 19 Acres in said Mendon, on candlewood Hill, so called.     19..0..0
6. 6 Acres in said Mendon, called burnt Swamp     3..0..0
7. 177 Acres of Land in Milford in said County of Worcester called the North Purchase      531..0..0
8. 95 Acres in said Milford on Bear Hill      427..10..0
9. 34 Acres called bear meadow in s^d Milford     136..0..0
10. 128 D^o – in great Meadow, in s^d Milford     608..0..0
11.  1 Acre in Milford near O. Daniels     2..8..0
12.  Pot Ash Spot near Z. Sumner in Milford     ..18..0
13.  51 Acres of Land called mill plain in Milford     76..10..0
14. 10 Acres in said Milford, called the 10 Acre plain     15..0..0
15.  22 D^o in s^d Milford – woodland & Meadow     62..0..0
16. 22 D^o in s^d Milford near S. Penniman     77..0..0
17. 4 Acre in s^d Milford called Ellis Meadow      24..0..0
18. 17 D^o in Bellingham aforesaid called Sprague Swamp     34..0..0
19. 146 Acres of Land in Bellingham (called Pope Jone)     109..10..0
20. 12 D^o in said Bellingham – called Iron Minds     21..12..0
21. 15 D^o  in D^o – called Squash Bottom     13..10..0
22. 86 Acres D^o in s^d Bellingham (Saddle back Hill)     103..4..0
23. 1 D^o  Cedar Swamp in s^d Bellingham     1..0..0

                                 £4213..0..0

Personal Estate

8 Beds & Bedding      £13..0..0

{2 Cases of Draws 48/ Chest 3/6  D^o 2/6 Trunks 1/ 2 looking Glasses 6/ Crockery 2/ Cords, 10 Tongs & bellows1/ Reeds 4/ (Hand?) and Desk 5/6 (hose?) 1/. 12 Chairs 6/2 Wheels 4/6 Pails time Piece & Trays 4/6} 4..10..4

     Carried over     £17..10..4

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Personal Estate brought over       £17..10..4

8 Iron Pots      1..10..6

Stewpan 4 . 5/ Dish kittle & Tea Kittle 2/Skillets & (Spiders?) 2/ pan 2/8 brassKittle 2/8 Iron D^o 1/ 6 – Flats – 1/6} } 0..17..4

{Andirons 10/Ladle 2/ Steelyards 3pair 7/2 Hatchells – 2/6 – (June?) Shovel & Tongs 3/ Knives & Forks 1 /6 – Warming Pan – 3/6 -} 1-9-8

Pewter & Tin 2..3..5

{1 Cow 4£13 – D^o 3£18: D^o 3£18 – D^o 2£8  [-] Half a Cow 2£(&?) Six pence – 1 Heifer 1£18 [-] 1p^r Steers 10£  1D^o – 4£10  1 Steer 15/-} 34..0..6

4 Barrels Cyder 1£8 – 40 Bush^s Corn – 6£  Broad Ax 4/ Hammer & Hatchett 2/4 – 5 Augers 9/2 Adze & Square (3?) – Saw & Shave -2/ } 0..19..4

1 Chaise – 13£ Cart wheels & Clevis 2£8 Plough 15(?) Plough 1£ D^o 5/   Chain 2/8 D^o 1/ 6 – D^o 7/- D^o 6/ D^o 1/6  Scraper Wheel ⅙ half Bushel Measure 1/4 Hay & (Jackling?) 1£} 19..8..0

Old slay 1/6 – Old Carriage 3/ Hay Cart 10/ Sled 2/  Harrow 7/6 Grindstones 2/6 Shavels & (Forks?) 3/ Basket ⅙  (winnowing?) Mill 3/ Horsetackling (4?) Iron Bar of old Iron 1£8..6  Cartsloops?) (?) Cart Boxes 9/(?) Old Saddles 8/6} 4..14..0

Wearing apparel & Linen      3..4..4

Fire arms, Swords & Powder Horns &c      0..17..4

Mill Stones & Irons for a Grist Mill & for a Saw Mill     18..0..0

1 Silver Spoon     9..9

Phials Druggs & Medicines     2..3..4

Books & Pamphlets     3..0..0

£117..15..10

Bellingham 20^th August 1794

     Aaron Holbrook 

     Darius Holbrook          Appraisers

     Joshua (Ballard?) 

Norfolk Ss. Sept^r 2, 1794

Thru the foregoing inventory was returned by the Administrator of the estate sworn to in Court and allowed.    

     Heath Judge Prob

Saml (Haven?) Reg^r

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We have Also set off to said deceased Granddaughter Esther Frost, the wife of Amariah Frost Esq^r Lot Number two, called great Meadow and upland containing one Hundred & twenty Eight Aces, laying Partly in Milford in the said County of Worcester & partly in Holliston in the County of Middlesex – valued at Six Hundred & Eight Pounds     £608..0..0

Set to her Lot Number four called Sprague Swamp containing Seventeen Acres laying in said Bellingham valued at Thirty four Pounds    34..0..0

Set to her Lot Number Seven containing three Quarters of an Acre joining Oliver Daniels Land valued at     2..0..0

Set to her Lot Number Nine called the North Purchase Lot laing in said Milford containing one Hundred & Seventy Acres valued at five Hundred and Thirty Eight Pounds     538..0..0

Set to her Lot Number Twelve, called the Ten Acre Plain lying in said Milford valued at Twenty Pounds     20..0..0

Set to her Lot Number fourteen, called Potash Spot in said Milford near Ebenezer Sumners valued at Eighteen Shillings     ..18..0

Set to her Lot Number Sixteen, called the Post-Place in Mendon in said COunty of Worcester containing fifty Nine Acres valued at four Hundred Twenty Pounds 420..0..0

Set to her Lot Number Nineteen, called burnt swamp, in said Mendon – valued at Three Pounds containing five Acres & an Half     3..0..0

Set to her Number twenty One, called the Unbridge Land containing Ninety five acres valued at two Hundred & Nineteen Pounds 219..0..0

Set to her Lot Number Twenty four, called Land by Daniel’s in said Mendon containing Eighty Six Acres, valued at one Hundred & seventy Nine Pounds ten Shillings     179..10..0

Set to her lot Number Ten, called candlewood Hill Land laying in said Mendon containing nineteen Acres valued at fourteen Pounds two Shillings     £14..2..0

Total set to her Two Thousand & thirty Eight Pounds & Ten Shillings      £2038..10..0 

Amounting to the first Sum of Four Thousand & Seventy Seven Pounds    £4077..0..0

Dated Bellingham the Third Day of November A.D. 1794

     Aaron Holbrook

     Joshua Bullard

The subscribers signify their assent to the foregoing Division by Countersigning

Samuel Scammell

Amariah Frost

Norfolk Ss. At a Probate Court, at Dedham, in & for the county of Norfolk, the fourth day of November, A. D. 1794, The foregoing being presented to me as the division of the rel estate of John Corbett, late of Bellingham, Phisician, deceased, intestate, (&?) accept the same as such, I order it to be put on record.

     W. Heath Judge of Probate

Norfolk County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1793-1877. Online database.  AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) Transcribed by Susan Elliott, 7 March 2022.

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