History of Amesbury - Merrill.org

246 HISTORY OF AMESBURY.
been preserved, and is valuable, as showing to some extent the
amount of property and industrial interests. The total valuation
was ^2201, 10 s. There were two hundred and seventeen
acres of tillage land. The largest amount cultivated by any one
was seven acres, and the following are the names of the largest
farmers : Isaac Merrill, Esq., seven acres ; Ensign Orlando
Sargent, six acres ; Nathaniel Davis, five acres ; Barnabas Brad-
bury, four acres ; Barzilla Colby, four acres ; Ebenezer Farring-
ton, four and a half acres ; Benjamin Morse, four acres ; Joseph
Moody, four acres ; Samuel Sargent, four acres ; Dea. Stephen
Sargent, four acres ; Thomas Sargent, jr., four acres, and Chris-
topher Sargent, four acres.
The number of acres in orcharding was twenty-four and a
quarter, and the largest orchard was that of Isaac Merrill, Esq.,
containing one and three-quarters acres ; Ebenezer Farrington
owned the next largest orchard, of one and one-quarter acres.
Although it is probable that all owned some apple trees, yet
less than one-half had any regular orchard.
The real estate of Isaac - Merrill, Esq., was valued at ^£47,
7 s., 6d. ; Ens. Orlando Sargent, ,£36, 2 s., 6 d. ; Benjamin
Morse, ^31, 7 s., 6 d. ; Joseph Moody, ^30, 15 s. ; Thomas
Sargent, jr., ^27, 10 s, ; Ens. Josiah Sargent, ^,26, 5 s. ; Chris-
topher Sargent, £25, 5 s.; Thomas Rowell, Esq., £28, 15 s.
Barnard Hoyt, £25; Ebenezer Farrington, £26, 12 s., 6 d.
Barnabas Bradbury, £26, 15 s. ; Nathaniel Davis, £28, 5 s.
Jacob Harvey, £24; Caleb Pilsbury, £22, 7 s., 6 s.; Dea
Stephen Sargent, £24, 10 s. ; Capt. John Sawyer, £22, 5 s.
Four Negroes were owned, viz. : Isaac Merrill, Esq., two
Benjamin Morse, one ; Wells Chase, one. There were fifty-one
horses, one hundred and seventeen oxen, two hundred and
seventy-four cows owned, and £29, 15 s. at interest.
Jacob Harvey owned two mills, which were located on Cob-
blers brook, near the wheel factory. Isaac Merrill, Esq., kept
nine cows, *Ens. Orlando Sargent seven, Isaac Sargent six,
Ebenezer Farrington six, Barnard Hoyt five, and others from
one to four, and there were fifty who had no cows.
* Ensign.