“1727 Dec. 30. Inventory of the personal estate, £2515.8, incl. “pictors,” old plate £8.9. 10 1/2, a silver tankard £9.12.6, a parcall of books £1.8, goold buttons £1, a silver ‘snush’ box and old silver 9s.2p., a ream of fine paper £1.5, 12 quires of coarse do. 12s., 63 lbs. of steel £1.1, 75 lbs. of whale bone £ 11, 380 lbs. of nails £12.13.4, 160 lbs. of lead £2, 29 Testaments £2.3.6, 19 psalters 15s., II psalm books 11s., 28 primers 7s., 9 histories 10s., a parcel of history books £1.10, bills, bonds and book debts £1830.-9; made by Jacob Ware and Samuel Hedge.”

Reference Data:

Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, First Series, Vol. 23, by New Jersey Historical Society, 1901, page 303