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Inventory of Sir Henry Morgan

Vol. 3. Fol. 259-261
Sir Henry Morgan, Port Royal
Signed/Sealed February 19, 1689


Sir Henry Morgan late of this Island Knt decd as they shall be shown unto them by Dame Mary Elizabeth Morgan his Relic and Executrix thereof the said Nathaniel Toww and robert Goodler (?) offices of them are to make a true returne unto our Governor of our said Island unto their own offices of their hands and seales together with this present Power annered so that the said inventory and apraysement may be recorded in the Secrys office of this our island witness Sir Francis Watson Knt President of the Council and Governor of our said Island of Jamaica and the Territories thereon depending and Cansellor of the same the Thirtieth day of October 1688.
Hickman, Secry
F. Watson

According to the Power to me by the within written writt given I did on the within named Peter Heywood and John Moone Esps administor the oath to them that by the said writt is dis_______ witness my hand and shall this Eleaventh day of February in the fifth year of his Majties reign.
Robt Heedler


An Inventory and Appraisment of the Goods and Chattels Rights and Creditts of the Honble Sir Henry Morgan Knt as shewn unto us this 19th February 1689

wrought plate 196 pnd at 5s2d p pnd
one silver watch
Two gold rings wth ord stones
Two plaine gold rings
2 pr white buttons & 3 pr shoo buckells
a sett of gold buckells and buttons sett wth stones
some Emerauld dropps and a lump of pomander
one ounce of small p ashe
one ounce & 18 ______ wrought gold
nine small Coker nutts tippt with silver
a parcell of glasses
A parcell of china tea cupps and Earthen waire
a parcell of agatt hafted and other old knives
Two brass horozontal dyall & small compass
three dozen of woven chaine chaires
sixteene old chaires
a pcoll old tables
one silke mohaire suite of curtins lynd wth Persian with bedd coverlidd &c
four feather bedds wth boulsters
forteene Hamakoes
a musketo nett
one flock bedd &c
six purple bayes gowns
five looking glasses
Two Inlaid Scriptores
one plaine scriptore
One Inlaid chest Drawers table stand &c
One cedar chest drawers
One dressing box cabinet & c
One hundred twenty three bound books
a prcell of old charts mapps & c
a prcell of sermons playes and phampletts
a prcell of sheets and pillow boors
a prcell of Diaper Table cloths and napkins
a prcell of damask ditto
a prcell of Ozenbrigg napkins
a pcell of damask diapers & Oz towells
six side board cloathes
six old cushions
Three remnts of Holland
Several remnts of course linen
Thre yds & ½ of Cambrich
Sir Henry’s wareing linnen
Two silk night gowns
Three Old Beaver hatts
Two pr of laced gloves
A Barbers & tweezer cases & Instruments
Two prospect glasses & other old things
a prcell of Chests Trunks and a Press
a velvet saddle & c
a wast belt
twenty seaven gunns & 19 cartoush boxes
three pr pistolls and three swords
five powder horns & two lances
nine pictures
a clock
foure sconces
a pr of old tables wth a box of troy weights
three close stooles and panns
one cold still
a pair of And Irons
a Jack 5 Iron Potts 5 spitts two frying panns & cookeroom utensills
a parcell of tinn ware
five brass kettles and other brass and copper ware belonging to the cookeroom
36 __ oz of Pewter
a pcoll of beeze wax
A pair of stillyards
Twenty five pounds of candles
a parcell of soape
a parcell of spices
a parcell of fruite
Half a barrell of flower
A Dantswirk case of bottles wth a parcell of bottles & jarrs
a Cassadar Iron
a Casting nett
a parcell of basketts & brushes
a prcell of wooden ware
three doz & 3 pr shoos
eleaven barrells of beefe
a parcell of salt
a parcell of old Carpenters tooles
fourty four negroe men at 20£
fourty two negro women at 17£
thirteen negro boys at 8
twenty negro girls at 7
To Indians at 17
eleven white servants from one to seven years time to serve
Thirty five working steers at 7£
foure Bulls and 4 Bulkings
Twenty one cows and 6 yearlings
five hefers
twenty mules
eight horses
a mare fillee and horse colt
a parcell of hoggs
a prcell of goates
a parrel of dunghill fowls turkeys 5 Ducks & geese
a gang of dogg
sixty five thousand weight of mustavado sugar at 2s6d p £
six hundred and forty Gall. Rumm
One thousand Gall. Molasses
One thousand wooden potts
Two rumm butts two pipes & 2 Iron bound Puncheons
Two mills six wth cases gudgeon stopps & c
Two spare gudgeons
six spare brasses
Eight capooses & 6 stopps
Two Iron crowes and 6 splitting wedges
Six Copper string
One new copper
foure ladles and eight skimmers
Two Potting basons
Six lamps and two scrapers
a receiver and six wooden coolers
three stills wormes & tubbs hung
Eight Dripps
six Barricoes
a parcell of nailes
a parcell of plantation tooles
eight yoakes fixed with chaines
a paire of steadd wheels
a paire of plaine wheeles
a hempen rope & 2 single blockes
foure old coppors
a parcell of old copper old iron tooles & severall other old things about
the house & Sir Henry’s Plantation
a parcell of Horses and mares running at Coleburry and Ivys savannasDebts due to the estate are
Imp from Coll. Geo Woodham a bond of Three Hundred Pounds
From the Executer of his Grace the Duke of Albermarle
From Mr. Thomas Pinatbrase
From Sir Richard Doreham
From Mr. Thomas Byndleys

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Peter Heywood
John Moone