THE "HOT MESS" PROBATE FILE OF NATHANIEL STOW JR PT5

Continuing the examination of my 7x great grandfather Nathaniel Stow, Jr.: images 8, 9, and 10 are
Thomas Stow's accounting of his activities as Administrator of the estate. It has entries for items that had been left off the estate inventory, debts paid, and things purchased for the family. The purchases
include new clothes for youngest brother Timothy,as well as molasses (several times) and sugar. Among the things subtracted are three swine that had been eaten. 

Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)Case21772 p.8

Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)Case21772 p.9

Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)Case21772 p.10

This is the easier part of probate files, straightforward lists (if they are legible) that give us information on how our ancestors lived.

To be continued.