Nina Postupack, County Clerk

Exhibit - Duty and Disaster

An Inventory of the Real and Personal Estate of an Insolvent Debtor, 1774


Transcription:

A List and Invantory of the Estate Reail and Personal of John Johnson Insolvent Debtor _______

To 1 Bead and Beading 2 iron Pots 1 iron Trammel
To 5 puter plates 1 puter Bason 1 puter Teapot and 6 spoons
To 1 Copper Tea Kittle 2 Earthen Platters 6 Tea Cups
and sassors 1 Churn 2 Chests 1 Dressor 1 Barrel feathers
2 Beadsteds 6 Chairs 1 Table
1 wooling wheal & 1 flax wheale______________
James Cambell Dr. by note of hand_____ £ 9-0-0
a power of attorney against James pattent_ 2-0-0
Mr. Fulton Dr.____________________ 1-2-0

Dr. To Thos. Hunt___________
To Daniel Rapelje____________
To Capt. Dickson____________
Mr. Forbes_________________
To Nathan Fish_____________
To Capt. Rapelje_____________
To Johanus anowle(?)_________
To Jacob Tirwilliker__________
To Mr. Stonehouse___________
To Robert Boyd_____________
To Cadr. Colden_____________
To Jeremiah Remson(?) _______
To Christopher Remson(?)_____
To Doctor Cook_____________
To John Bellknapp___________
To Thos. Nickols____________
To ammous Jones___________
To Hendrick NewCark________ 		£30-0-0
18-0-0
06-0-0
02-0-0
01-2-0
04-0-0
02-0-0
02-10-0
04-0-0
05-0-0
10-0-0
06-0-0
17-0-0
06-0-0
00-5-0
00-15:0
02-0-0
01-2-0

£117:14:0

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Note: This record is part of a Petition and Inventory of an insolvent debtor who, with the help of an attorney, is pleaing for relief from his creditors in the Court of Common Pleas. He makes this plea from the Ulster County Goal. The top of the list shows his assets and the bottom shows his liabilities. Among his possessions are listed a "wooling wheal" and "flax wheale".

"After 1760, some colonists began to advocate home textile manufacturing as a symbol of protest against British trade policies. Patriots encouraged households to produce more homespun cloth as a sign of loyalty to the cause."

From Janet Wells Greene et al., From Forge to Fast Food: A History of Child Labor in New York State, Volume I: Colonial Times through the Civil War (Troy, NY: Council for Citizenship Education, Russell Sage College, for the New York Labor Legacy Project, 1995).

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