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Inventory of Beaumont Briscoe

Inventories, Volume 2, Folio 321, Public Records Office

An Inventory and appraisement of all and Singular the goods and Chattels rights and
Creddits of Beaumont Briscoe late of Port Royall deceased [word] as followes @

                                                                                                                                        P S D

1 poond of canvis Conted att 12d p yard 0 00 00
1 hammaker 2 00 00
1 poond new rope 0 5 00
1 prospective Glasse 0 1 3
1 wicker Baskett 0 1 3
1 broken Looking Glasse 0 1 3
2 old Trunckes 0 2 6

            ~ in Low Rooms ~

1 Bed Boulster, 2 Pillowes & a bed stead & quilt & Curtaines 8 00 00
3 Cane Chaires with backs, and two without backs 5 5 00
6 ditto with F—– Bottomes 2 2 00
5 pair s______ att 2 s 5 00 00
2 paires ditto Smaller 3 00 00
1 Table Cloth and six napkins 0 8 00
5 Small Table Clothes and 27 napkins att 4d 0 9 00
1 olive Chest of Drawers 2 00 00
12 pillow covers 0 12 00
1 old Trunck 0 5 00

~ in ye Dining Roome ~

12 leather Chaires 4 00 00
1 Table 0 15 00
1 Large Looking Glass 2 00 00

~ In ye Little Roome ~

1 Small Looking Glass 0 3 9
1 Small bed boulster Curtaines bed stead & a blanket 3 10 00
3 old Tables 0 15 00
1 water Jarr and stande 0 2 6
14 oz & 12 ? wtt of silver at ? 3 13 00
1 oz & 2 d wtt of gold att 4? p oz 4 8 00
1 silver headed Caine 1 5 00

~In the Cooke Roome~

7 pewter Dishes & 1 pye plate &11 plates of ??? att 7 ½ d 2 2 6
3 old Tubbs & a parsell of earthen wares 0 7 6
7 brass Candlesticks 1 Snuf pann 1 Lanthorne & a Candlebox 1 00 00
1 Iron dripping pann 1 pr of Racks 3 Smoothing Irons forke & a pair of Bellowes 1 10 00
1 hayre Lyne 0 1 00
his wearing apparrell 10 7 00
48 barrells of oyle Supposed halfe out 24 00 00
1 water Caske 0 16 00
1 paire Copper Scales 0 15 00
2 Negroe Men 44 00 00
1 Servant Man Named John Collins 6 mos to Serve 3 00 00

~In His Roome at Roger Johnsons~

3 Small barrels of Gunn Powder qt 80 ? att 9d 3 00 00
a parcel of old Tarpalions 1 pr Can hookes 1 pr Slings att ye house upon the Wharfe 2 00 00
Subtotal 139 13 00
A Negro Man Returned from Sea 20 00 00
143 yards Canviss att 12 d 7 3 00
Total 166 16 00

In Obedience to your Hon[orable] Commande wee have inventory ed and appraised all & Singular ye
goods and Chattels of Beaumont Briscoe Late of Port Royall deceased acounding to ye best of our Skills
and Judgements as they were Showed unto us by Anne Briscoe administratrix to ye said Briscoe,
amounting ye Summe of One hundred sixty Six pounds sixteen shillings. Witness our hands and Seales this

21st of January 1685/6

                                                                                                            James Rowe

                                                                                                            Thos Hastings