Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 503
apartments, and was unfinished. The small bedroom on the
lower floor seems to have been connected with the kitchen, not
with the parlor.
His other personal property consisted of "Cartwheels, with
plow and ax, tackling, howes and shovel, £5,6,00
Pitch forks, sythes, 3 augure, and other tools, horse fetters, 1,4,0
Horses, mares, sheep and swine, 21,02.0
2 oxen, 15 cows, and 23 young cattle—all, 64,15,00
18 jags of hay, a grindstone a lime, a peck, 4,15,00
Boards and Bolts, 00 10 00
A drawing-knife, spit, aud other small things, Oo',lo',02
Debts due the estate, U,10,00
100,14
As boards and bolts are connected in the same line, I infer
that sawing boards by hand had not been discontinued in 1684.
He had little grain on hand, but a large stock of cattle, indicating
that in the latter part of his life the raising of stock was his principal
business. Forty head of cattle were apprised at only
£64,15—$215.83, or ^n average of only 15,37 each, showing that
during the forty-five years since the settlement of the town, cattle
had depreciated about 76 per cent, in value.
His personal estate amounted to £271,13,09
and his real estate,
"In housing, lands and meadows," 909,00,00
Total, £1,180,13,09
His will is dated two years before his death. It is signed
with his mark, A. A., not conclusive evidence that he was unable
to write, for many good scholars have so signed their wills, but
the fact leads me to doubt the accuracy of a remark made in the
former part of this article, "that he learned to write after he was
a married man." The provisions of the will are very clearly expressed,
and it contains much historical information, and will repay
the labor of a careful perusal. "The Hallett Mill" is not
named in his wiU or inventory, showing that if he ever was an
owner in it, he was not at the time of his death.
fFrom Plymouth Eec. p. 194.]
WILL OF ANDREW HALLETT.
To ^11 Christian people to whome these presents shall come : Know
yee that I, Andrew Hallett of Yarmouth, in ye Colony of New Plymouth,
being weake in body by reason of sore pains and aches, yet
blessed be God at this time present I have my reason and understanding
fresh and timely, I doe make this my last will and testament as follow- •
eth: First, I doe bequeath my soule to God that gave it unto me, and
my body to ye dust from whence it was formed by a desent and comely
Buriall, and for that portion of Temporall blessings that God hath been
pleased to posess me of, I do will and bequeath as folio weth : First, I doe
will and bequeath to my loving wife one-third part of all my whole estate
of moveables both within my house and also one-third part of all
my cattell that I have not disposed of for ye comfort of her life and