Title: Estate Administrators and Inventory of Estate of Caleb Todd 1770
Contributor: B.J. Rivers Peters
Note: For the benefit of my family, Caleb is one of BJ's maternal 5th great grandfathers. He was the great grandfather of Dr. George B. Todd who is seen in the banner above.

Know all men by these presents, that we Esther Todd as Principal and Stephen Todd, Jr. (this Caleb's brother), both of Wallingford in the County of said (Harbor?) and Colony of Connecticut ... stand firmly bound and obliged unto John Hubbard, Esq; Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of New-Haven, in the Penal Sum Four Hundred Pounds Lawful Money of the said Colony: To the which Payment well and truly to be made, and done, we the said Esther Todd and Stephen Todd do bind Ourselves, and each of us, our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, and each and every of them, for, and in the Whole, firmly by these Presents; signed with our Hands, and sealed with our Seals: Dated at New-Haven, the 5th Day of February in the 10th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD of Great-Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Annoque Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy.

The Condition of this Obligation as such, That if the above bounden Esther Todd, Administratrix of all and singluar the Goods, /chattles, Credits, and Estate of Mr. Caleb Todd late of sd (said) town deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory ... do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry of the said Court of Probate at, or before the first Monday of March next ensuing: ... and furthermore, Do make, or cause to be made, a true and just Account of her said Administration, at, or before the first Monday of February which will be A.D. 1771... . The the bottom of the entire text we find the words "Done in Court" and the signatures of Esther Todd, Stephen Todd and the clerk.

An Inventory of Caleb Todds Estate

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.

Item(s)	Value
the house & barn prisd eight acres of land round	80 - 0 - 0
the house and barn	90 - 0 - 0
ten acres & a quarter & 18 rods of land	93 - 9 - 0
six pound right of land in (harnintown?)	6  - 0 - 0
I'm a little puzzled because where it seems a sum of the values noted was to be stated here, the numbers don't seem to add up.	169 . 9 .0
2 acres & a half of wheet supposed to yeald 15 bushels per acre	6.0.0
2 acres of ______ supposed to yeald 8 bushes per acre	1.12.0
9 acres & a half of rye supposed to yeald 27 bushels	2.0.6
2 oxen	9-15-0
2 cows	7-0-0
two calves	2-5-0
one hors(e)	4-0-0
one hors(e)	2-15-0
sixteen sheep (L?)4 (L for lambs?)	9-0-0
one swine	0-00-10
one grate (great) coat	1-0-0
one old ditto (coat)	0-9-0
one strait lodge coat	0-15-0
one ditto	0-12-0
one vest	0-6-0
one ditto (vest)	0-5-0
one ditto (vest)	0-1-6
a pare of leather breeches	0-9-6
two ditto__ (breeches)	0-9-6
black ditto (breeches)
one hat	0-8-0
three shirts	0-6-0
a pare of buckals (pair of buckles)	0-13-0
a pare of boots	0-18-0
a pare of shoos	0-(4?)-6
nine pare of stockings	0-12-0
six yards of drest cloth	4-3-0
two beds & bolsters & pillows	4-0-0
bedsted furniture	0-12-0
curtains	0-19-0
_eed quilt	0-15-0
twelve pare of sheets	_9-5-0
	202.4.6?
three table cloths	00-10-0
six pare of pillow coats	0-8-0
six towels	0-9-0
2 _edsted and under____	0-15-0
8 couerlids? (coverlets?)	2-12-6
a case of draws (case of drawers?)	2-5-0
a chest of draws (drawers?)	0-12-0
a plain chest	0-5-0
a round table	0-15-0
2 square dittos (tables)	0-19-6
one great cher (chair?)	0-6-0
dittos (chairs?)	2-9-5
a glass (?)	1-15-0
curtains & pan	1-0-0
six platters	0-18-9
twelve plates	0-12-0
three basons?	0-7-9
three cups	0-7-0
a puter (pewter) looking glass	0-3-0
tinware	0-9-0
a brass cittle (kettle?)	1-10-0
a iron pot(?)	0-5-0
2 iron kittels (kettles?)	0-6-0
a tea cittel (kettles?)	0-6-0
a pare of stalyards?	0-8-0
a hatchet	0-10-0
a pare of handirons (andirons?)	0-19-0
tongues and pea_ (tongs?)	0-5-0
2 _______ & boxiron	0-11-0
a frying pan	0-19-0
a cart	1-10-0
a sled & plow	0-11-0
a chain & shovel	0-19-6
a yoke & iron	0-5-6
_____ gear	0-8-0
saw and axe	0-7-6
____ gears	0-4-0
a _____ & cradle	0-9-0
a ______ & a_ger	0-5-0
six knives & forks	0-2-0
iron wedges	0-2-0
a pitch fork	0-1-0
a broad ho(e)	0-3-6
a iron crowbar	0-8-7
a steal (steel?) trap	0-5-0
a _____ _______	0-16-0
20 pounds of iron	0-3-6
half a corn ____ & half a bushel	0-5-0
a case of bottels	0-19-0
2 wheals	0-16-0
a _eat	0-2-6
	29.18.7
5 bags	0-6-6
2 candlesticks	0-1-3
a saddle	1-0-3
a bridle & halter	0-2-6
10 bushel of oats	0-12-6
half a barrel of pork	1-10-0
one hogshead	0-6-0
three barrels	0-6-6
one ditto	0-2-6
one gallon bottel	0-2-6
c_____ & pail & ce____	0-6-6
3 corn baskets	0-3-9
the twelfth part of a sawmill & half a saw	3-10-0
March ye 29th day 1770 ye inventory of ye estate of Caleb Todd Late of Wolingsford Deceased made by us freeholders being sworn thereto Josiah Rogers of Branford Meriman Munson of Wallingford (signature of),/i>Esther Todd sworn in court. (Esther's signature was followed by the signature of the court clerk
There does appear a fourth column on the page which I address here. The majority of the text notation is illegible to me, but appears to deal with land which had been sold since Caleb's death, but before this inventory of his estate was written. There are four amounts listed with them being 4.12._; 8.10.6; 29.18.7 & 62.6.4. The total of those four amounts is noted as being 105.7.5. That sub-total was added to the amount from the first column of 169.9.0 and gave a total for land sales = 276.16.5

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