Title: Distritution of Estate of Caleb Todd to his widow, Esther.
Date: 3 Jun 1771
Contributor: B.J. Rivers Peters
Note: For the benefit of my family, Caleb, the descedent, is one of BJ's maternal 5th great grandfathers. He was husband to his wife, Esther, our fifth great grandmother, to whom the following part of his estate was distributed in 1771.

Distribution of Caleb Todd's Estate
His Widow Esther's Portion

To understand the currency valuation noted you should understand that 2.10.06 = 2 pounds, 10 shillings, 6 pence. I copied much of the original spelling as seen in the hand written inventory list.

Seen on another page are the words, "the distribution of ye estate of Calab Todd late of Wolingsford disceased as set out by us ye subscribers appointed by ye honorable cort of probats for ye District of Newhaven."

Item(s)	Value
In movablels to ye widow one bead bedsted had sheat tester, curtains & valants (valance?)	0-14-0
bed quilt	0-15-0
one pair of sheats	0-15-0
one Dito	0-7-6
one Dito	0-6-0
one Dito	0-6-0
one Dito	0-12-6
three woling Ditos	0-13-0
Best coverlid (coverlet?)	0-13-0
two Ditos	0-4-6
3 pilow cots	0-4-6
1 Bras cittel (brass kettle?)	1-10-0
1 iron pot	0-1-6
1 iron cittel (kettle?)	0-1-6
1 frying pan	0-4-0
1 tee cittel	0-6-0
1 (tramil?)	0-3-6
1 boxiron and heters	0-4-0
	11-1-6
unto ye widow Dutch wheal one grate Do	0-10-0
Clock Real	0-2-6
6 plates	0-6-0
3 platters	0-9-4
3 basons	0-4-3
5 porigers	0-3-6
tinware	0-2-0
one tee pot	0-2-0
one quart pot	0-1-6
1 point Do (ditto)	0-1-6
1 puter pewter chamber pot	6-3-0
1 sqaure tabel	0-5-0
1 case of draws chest of drawers?	2-5-0
1 plain Grait (great?) chair	0-2-0
3 Crown Chairs	0-12-0
3 Black Ditos chairs	0-9-0
3 white Do Chairs	0-1-6
1 Loocking glas (mirror?)	1-15-0
worming pan	0-8-0
Pair of handirons	0-15-0
Tongs and Peal	0-5-0
1 Hetchal (Definition of HATCHEL alteration of earlier hetchel, from Middle English hechelen, from hechele, noun. A comb for separating flax fibers)	0-10-0
1 (pr? pair?) stilyards (a simple balance for weighing foodstuffs, etc)	0-8-0
2 Candle Sticks	0-1-3
1 narrow axe	0-2-6
1 saw	1-10-0
1 sadlle (saddle?)	1-0-0
1 Bridle	0-1-_
1 Hogshad (Hogshead? A large barrel or cask which holds 63 gal.)	0-6-0
1 Churn (butter churn?)	0-3-0
1 Keiler (perhaps a small or shallow tub)	0-2-0
1 pail	0-1-6
Grain in Value____________________________________	0-9-0
Sum Total Moveables	24-19-4

To view the large version of the hand written distributed items from Caleb Todd's estate to his widow, Esther, click on the graphics of the pages above.

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