Historic Probate Inventories online

USA

CT Silas Deane. 1792
CT Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776
DE Wilmington Probate Inventories
DE Thomas Springer. New Castle County. 1804
IN 19th Century SE Indiana transcribed probate Inventories. Dearborn, Franklin & Ripley Counties. UMW
IO Nicholas Lake. 1874
MA Plymouth Colony. Selected Probate Inventories
MA Old Sturbridge Village. Probate inventories for Mass. shoemakers. 1830-39
MA Essex County Probate Inventories
MA Ester Williams. 1800 inventory of her kitchen
MA Ebenezer Wells. 1784
MA Selected inventories from Salem, Beverly 1641-1750
MD Annapolis. Richard Evans 1723. 1733
NJ William Trent house. Trenton. 1726
VA York County Probate Inventories. 1671-1787 Colonial Williamsburg
VA Room by room inventories. Listing of rooms only. 17th,18,19thcentury UMW
VA Samuel Dishman 1727 and glossary
VA/MD Gunston Hall Plantation Room Use Study
VA/MD GMU search

UK

Newcastle University. search by item in 2902 records
Ipswich Probate Inventories 1583-1631
Appleby. Tudor Inventories from Appleby, 1530-1601
Rich and Poor in Tudor Times. What can inventories tell us? transcripts and glossary
Sir Henry Unton inventories. glossary
Raphe Maddock, Chester, England, Baker, 1604-5
Daniells' Tudor House Inventory
Halifax, Yorkshire. Robert Broadley 1661, John Ryall 1682
Appleby. Transcripts of Early 18th Century Appleby Farming Inventories
Angvil. Great Britain
Angmering Village. West Sussex. England - Inventories under history

Jamaica

Jamaica. Port Royal Probate Inventories 1674-1716

Articles

Gunston Hall. Article on Food Service
Glossary of unusual words found in wills etc...16th & 17th century England
Glossary of archaic terms...Scotland
How to read probate records
University of Mary Washington. Probate records
How inventories were used to recreate the interiors of Plas Mawr
The Plymouth Colony analysis of probate inventories - picture of contents of typical house.
What was in your ancestor's estate?
Probate Inventories: Voices from the Past.
Probate Inventories: A Window to Your Ancestor’s World
Frequency of Possession and Number of Colonial Beverage Goods in two time periods based on 390 probate inventories
Wealth, Household Expenditure, and Consumer Goods in Preindustrial England and America, 1550-1800
Newcastle University. UK Consumer Behaviour and Material culture, 1660-1760.

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