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Table 6
Chest 5
Ink horn 6 Sealing wax 6
40 sheep 12
16 sheep 3
Wheat in the straws 2 2
Rye in the straw 1 8
Oats 1 10
Peas 3 10
Indian Corn 4 10
Winter Corn 13
Flax, undressed 1 10
19 loads of Hay 11 10
Mault 1 13 4
Hops 14 8
40 lbs. Tallow 1
Casks an Cyder 13 3
A cask of Rum 8 3 2
White sugar 2 6
More sugar 9
*8 bushels of Salt 2 4
Buttons 15
4 1/2 doz buttons 2 3
and much more. The complete Inventory
was printed on pp. 261, 262, 263 and
264, in the "Maltby-Maltbie Family,"
pub. 1916.
Total amount of Inventory, # 1058-7-10.
Samuell Maltby, Exr., sworne
according to law.
Nathanll Harrison
Thomas Shepard apprisers."
* The "eight bushels of salt" is interesting, as Rev. John (4) Maltby, Wm. (3), Wm. (2), Wm. (1), b. 1727, New Haven, was the second Presbyterian Minister at Bermuda, W. I. in 1750. Many of his congregation were in the habit of migrating every year to Turks Islands for the salt raking business there. About 1764 their rights were being assailed by the Bahamas Government.
Aged witnesses were called to testify to the fact that Bermudians might be said to be the first discoverors of the islands, and that as far back as 1678, they had been making annual visits to them for the purpose of salt raking.
Reb. John Maltby appears among those witnesses. It would seem probable that he knew an ancestor had been engaged in this quest for salt.
After the death of William Maltby there was some litigation over the estate as shown by a New Haven Probate Record, viz:---