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People in colonial America left detailed records of what they owned — including individual tools and articles of clothing — that tell us a lot about how they lived. Image source. About the photograph
Except for the first, introductory page, this chapter is all primary sources, and primary sources of a special type: wills and probate inventories, records of what people owned when they died. We don’t have a lot of written evidence from the eighteenth century about how people lived, but we do have wills and probate inventories — and they tell us a surprising amount about how people lived and worked, how they organized their households, and how they thought about their families. By exploring these documents, you’ll be the historian and detective, drawing your own conclusions about life in the eighteenth century from scraps of evidence.
- 7.1About wills and probate inventories
- 7.2Probate inventory of Valentine Bird, 1680
- 7.3Will of Susanna Robisson, 1709
- 7.4Probate inventory of Darby O'Brian, 1725
- 7.5Will of Samuel Nicholson, 1727
- 7.6Will of William Cartright, Sr., 1733
- 7.7Probate inventory of James and Anne Pollard, Tyrrell County, 1750
- 7.8Will of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1776
- 7.9Probate inventory of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1777