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Finding
Finding: a sparse but sufficient household
John Gurney's household goods were modest and few — his own apparel, boots and hat (£4 5s) his single most valuable possession, plus bedding (£2 12s), a little pewter and brass (14s 6d), one cupboard (8s), a chair and frame goods, barrels and trays (16s 6d), and an ordinary household musket (12s), with no plate, glass, books, or surplus furniture — a working colonial home furnished to sufficiency and no further.
Why this conclusion
- Supported by Evidence 1663 probate inventory: itemized movable estate (£55 14s 6d)The itemized household goods (apparel, bedding, small pewter/brass, one cupboard, chair/frame, barrels, trays, musket) are the direct basis for the sparse-household reading.
Topic file location: Colonial material life
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000035 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.