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Inventory of Thomas Piper

Vol. 1. Fol. 190
Thomas Piper, Port Royal (see also his will)
Entered November 20, 1677


A true and perfect Inventory of the goods & Chattles Rights & Creditts of Thomas Piper deceased taken & appraised the 15th Day of November 1677 by us whose names are under Written Vizt:

In Gold Mony
In silver mony of pottosi (?) & Mexico coyne
In pillar mony more
In pillar mony more.
254½ oz. of plate at 5s. ye oz
15/16 of an ounce of gold at
217 pound of pewter old at 7½ p
one close stoole & pan at
65 pound old bras at 7½ pd
3 Iron potts old at
2 jacks at
2 Iron dripping pans at
1 bras & 3 Iron old frying pans at
1 old pr tongs 1 gridiron 2 Andirons
Cole (?) Iron
3 sad irons & 1 box Iron 2 heaters at
3 Iron trivots at
3 spitts old
2 tin puding pans a woodn pieplate 1 pr old belows 1 Iron chafin
dish 6 old knives at
3 doz. empty glas bottles & about ¾ of a bus: of salt
1 fowling pc at
7 pound of lead wts & a pr bras scales at
a pcell of old Carpenters tooles
5 tables in passage roome at
1 old Chest & a box
20 leather chaires at 5s. pr
6 joint stooles at
2 large tables & carpet at
1 feather bed bolster 3 pillowes 1 blanket & quilt old wth bedsted curtains & vallens
1 feather bed bolster 1 bedsted very old
1 looking glass at
1 grindstone
A pcell of old ropes & blocks in ye yard at
5 ducks & 14 hens & cocks at 15d pr
1 water cask & 4 washing 2 trays
1 large looking glas at
1 do ordinary
3 globes glasses & 2 pr of glas cruses (?)
6000 pins and ½ a pound brown thred & pc & remnt of holland tape
pc of opne (?) tape & brade at
1 pound nutmege & about 3 black & wt pepper & a small pcell
of cloves & mace
a small nest of drawers for spice
ye child 3 old black hoods a neck scarfe a laced Susans scarfe 3 old masks
& a small box at cloths
1 childs wt sarconett hood & 2 sute (?) hd knotts
& ____
3 ells wt sarconett at
3 pentado frocks 10s. 2 gowns 2 peticoat and pr of stayes 40s.
5 shifts 1 frock 2 petticoate
severall pr of small linen of ye child at
8 pr of childs old stockins at
2½ doz of new napkins ozenbrig at
9 new ozenbrig towells at
22 old diapr napkins at
24 very old ozenbrigs do
12 do at
3 doz: new diapr napkins & 2 tablecloths of 4 yd long each
& 1 towell
8 old table cloths
7 pr & an od sheet at
15 pr small & large pillowbers at
12 towells severall sorts
2 old cubbard cloths at
8 shirts of Thomas Pipers owne
6 pr holland drawers & sliders at
10 neckcloths & 8 ordinary handcherchfs
2 pr of mans silke hose at
4 pr old ozenbrig thred hose
4 camlet coate lind wth silke
18 laced Quaines (?) at
17 handcherchfs & a pr sleeves at
severall small linens & 2 remnts ribons
6 old blew aprons at
4 pr old thred hose at
2 pr silke ditto
10 woomans shifts at
6 wastcoats & 1 holl: petticoate 4 pr 28
6 woomans aprons at
A serge mantle & 3 blankets 2 pincushions
40 childs clouts (?) 2 mantles at
1 East India pillowber
a prcll of small childs linens at
2 new sutes child bed linen
1 wom. stuff gown & petticoat wastcoat (?)
1 peticoate & a mantle at
A new gown 3 petticoates a riding hood at
A sute of curtins vallens & 3 cushins
1 chest of drawers at
A counterpane & pc callico
1 pc of white callico at
A bed bolster 2 pillowes a blanket and counterpane sute curtn
vallens & bedsted
12 napkins at
2 small tables
8 old napkins at
1 trunck & 3 chests at
2 cases for liquor & small trunck at
2 cases of old knives at
1 pr of woomans shoos at
1 hatt & case at
3 old hamocks & 2 old pillows at
8 old bookes at
A wicker baskett & 2 powdr hornes at
15 hides newly in ye fat & 19½ hides tand is 34½ hides at 11s. pr
49 sheeps skins at 12d. pr
4 calves skins & goates skin at
Leather of other peoples in ye tan fatts 77½ hides newly into
ye fats at 2s. pr
46 hides tand & almost tand a 6s. pr
A pcell of refuge leather of J. Wilmott in ye fats being abo:
18 hides & pc at 2s. pr
A pcell of tan fats at
A Canoo at
the lease of the house he lived & died in being for 7 yeares to come
5 dogs
4 Negro men at 20 pound p head is
1 old negro woman for 5 years service atDebts sperate & Desperate Viz:
Michaell Wheeler p Bill
Clemons Richardson p Bond
Edward Bates Bond for
John Bathurst for Wm Pursly & share (?) for Ballance of Amt
John Willmott p Booke
Geret Landerson p Booke
John Waite
Bowden Clawsen
Thomas Hooby for Bate
Andrew Reed p Booke
John Parrott leaft to paye
John Griffith p Booke
Edward Green leaft to paye
William Wilkinson for a calve skin
Andrew Sangley for hare (?) (160£. 2s.)

for all sumes his

40 00 00
64 10 06
22 00 00
03 17 00
63 12 06
03 10 00
06 15 07½
00 04 00
02 00 07½
02 00 00
01 08 00
00 15 00
01 00 00
00 06 00
00 06 00
00 05 00
00 07 00
00 04 0000 10 00
00 07 06
01 10 00
00 04 00
00 05 00
01 00 00
00 06 00
05 00 00
00 10 00
02 00 00

05 00 00
02 10 00
00 03 00
00 04 00
01 00 00
01 03 09
00 08 00
01 06 00
00 05 00
00 05 00
00 05 00
00 04 00

00 07 00
00 02 06

00 10 00

00 06 00

01 00 00
02 10 00
00 12 00
01 00 00
00 05 00
01 00 00
00 10 00
00 10 00
00 06 00
00 09 00

03 05 00
01 00 00
02 18 00
01 00 00
00 09 00
02 06 00
03 10 00
01 00 00
01 10 00
00 10 00
00 03 00
01 05 00
01 05 00
01 14 00
00 05 00
00 02 00
00 05 00
00 07 06
02 10 06
01 08 06
00 10 00
00 12 00
02 00 00
00 02 06
01 00 00
03 00 00
01 00 00
01 00 00
01 15 00
05 00 00
03 00 00
00 15 00
00 08 06

07 00 00
00 09 00
01 00 00
00 02 00
01 15 00
01 03 00
00 04 00
00 02 06
01 05 00
00 15 00
00 05 00
00 02 06
18 19 06
02 09 00
00 10 00

07 15 00
13 16 00

00 16 00
04 00 00
02 15 00
95 00 00
02 00 00
80 00 00
06 00 00

540 06 00

22 10 00
46 00 00
40 00 00
07 13 03
02 13 00
21 07 06
03 04 00
00 10 00
02 09 00
08 07 03
00 10 00
02 15 00
00 13 00
00 07 06
01 02 06

£700 08 00

By virtue of a warrant of appraisement to us directed from his Exncy John Lord Vaughan Wee have according to the best of our Judgmts & Consciances Inventoryed & appraised all & singular ye goods, Chattles of Thomas Piper deceased as they were showne unto us by Wm Shettlewood and Rowley Titchborne his Executors, which sd Inventory Amounts to the summe of Seaven hundred pounds & Eight shillings as Wittnefse our hands and seales this Twentieth Day of November One thousand six hundred seaventy & seaven

William Pusey
Roger Atlee