Ebenezer Handy Is A Tease

But Alexander McGachen — he’s the real deal.

Stephen Gill, appraised November 1735:

• 2 old Books

Mr. Henry Moore, appraised April 1736:

• a pcell of old Bookes

Mrs. Frances Wilson, appraised April 1736:

• a Small pcell of Books

Arthur Whitely, appraised May 1736:

• a pcell of old Books

Jonathan Garnett, appraised May 1735:

• 1 old Bible

Mr. William Waltham, appraised April 1736:

• one Large Bible
• one Do. Small
• the whole Dutey of man
• 7 Books
• one old Book called the Secratarys guide

Now this looks like a useful book — especially if one wants to write ‘in the most elegant and refined style now made use of.’  (Or perhaps not, if one wants to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition.)

Mr. Alexander McGachen, appraised April 1733:

[in a section headed “Books”]

• 1 Senecas Morralls
• 1 Lock on human understanding
• Life of King William 3d
• Reflections on Walls History of Infant Baptism

by John Gale . . . and of course I can’t help but wonder if there’s a connection to the Gales in Somerset County – although I doubt it.

• Abridgemt. of the Dictionary
• The Compleat Clerk
• French and English Bible
• Plurality of worlds

Intriguing – Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, which Wikipedia describes as ‘a popular science book . . . considered to be one of the first major works of the Age of Enlightenment.’

•  Devent [Devout, surely?] Christians Companion
• 2 Small psalm Books
• Paradise Regained
• Practical Sabitarian
• Marriners Jewell

The full title of this one is a mouthful: The mariners jewel; or, A pocket companion for the ingenious Being of more general use for officers, seamen, carpenters, boatswains, pursers and stewards, then any thing yet published. Containing an alphabetical dictionary of all the naval terms; a general pay table; with a table of boatswain stores for each rank of shop; the proportion of prizes, with many other useful things both decimal and vulgarly demonstrated from a manuscript of Sir John Narbrough’s and methodiz’d by James Lightbody, P.M.

• Exposition of Hoseas Prophesey
• Marriners Compass Rectified
• The Celestiall Husbandry

My first searches turned up an entry in a bibliography of theological literature for “Jackson, W. The Celestial Husbandry.”  So far, so good.  But when I google “Jackson Celestial Husbandry’ the first hit I get is ‘What Chameleon Should I Get?’ (Episode 99 of the Chameleon Breeder Podcast, just so you know.)  I think I’ll put this one aside for now.

• The Lords Days Entertainemt.
• Eseas on peace at home

Yes, that should be essays: Essays Upon Peace at Home and War Abroad, but Charles Davenant.

Richard Nicholson, appraised February 1736

• one Large Bible
• 1 Small Bible
• 1 Testamt. wth prayer & psalms
• 1 Large and 6 Small Books
• 1 small Book

Edward Chapman, appraised January 1731:

• one old Book
• 7 old Books

William Bozman, appraised February 1736:

• 4 old Books
• one old bible
• 1 Common prayer Book
• 1 psalter

Captain William Fassitt, appraised sometime before May 1736:

• 1 Large Bible
• one old Do.
• 3 old Books
• 1 Condt Generalis

Luckily I’ve seen this one before, so I don’t have to go hunting – but why do you suppose the appraisers listed this title but none of the others?

• 2 small Books

Timothy Rhodes, appraised May 1736:

• 2 Bibles
• 5 Small Books

John White, appraised March 1736:

• a pcell of Books

Thomas Addams, appraised April 1736:

• one Book

John Outten, Senior, appraised April 1736:

• Seven new bibles
• old Books

Ebenezer Handy, appraised February 1736:

• one Large Bible
• Two prayer Books
• 1 Salter
• 19 bound books English
• 6 unbound Books
• 28 Do. French and Lattin

So frustrating . . . although it probably would have taken me days to identify even a few French and Latin titles.

 

Just A Handful

And only one that is really of interest . . . or maybe two.

George Britt, appraised March 1736:

• a pcell of Books

Robert King, appraised sometime before May 1736:

• a pcell of old Books
• the whole Dutey of man

John Rathell, appraised April 1736:

• Some Books

Hugh Sherwood, appraised November 1735:

• an old Bible
• Testament
• whole Duty of Man
• 3 prayer Books
• one Dictionary
• a pcell of old Books both Divinity History and the art of Navigation

Enmon Williams, appraised April 1736:

• pcell of old Books

Elizabeth Lamas [Lomas, Leeme], appraised April 1736:

[Presumably the widow of John Lemee (or at least that’s the spelling in his will); in my Somerset files I have this family name as Lamee.]

• 3 old Books

Edmund Shields, appraised December 1735:

• a pcell of Books

Mrs. Ann Price, appraised December 1735:

• one pcell of Books

James Towers, appraised sometime in 1735:

• one Bible

Mrs. Ann Marshall, appraised January 1736:

• 1 Large Common prayer Book

Mr. Amos Woodward, appraised July 1735:

• 1 old Bible
• a pcell Books

Obviously it’s Hugh Sherwood’s library that has items of interest, but it is actually Amos Woodward that surprises me.  How could a man with an estate worth more than £2500 have only a bible and some books worth just . . . oh, wait.  The bible is only four shillings, so nothing remarkable, and I just assumed that the parcel of books, like most parcels of books, was maybe a few shillings — Robert King’s parcel, for example, was deemed to be worth just two and a half shillings . . . but then, his parcel was old.  And perhaps fairly small.  Amos Woodward’s must have been relatively new and/or large, as it was appraised at £10.  Just a drop in the bucket, yet noteworthy.  Plus the books are listed in the first part of the inventory, toward the end of the pages and pages and pages of fabric and tools and miscellaneous household goods in rather large quantities, but before the room by room enumeration of items that we may presume were Amos’s personal possessions, as opposed to imported goods intended for sale.  It follows then that the parcel of books may have been titles that Marylanders would want to purchase.  If only we knew what they were!

[I should point out that the ‘old Bible’ was also listed among the (probable) store goods, below the ’26 lb Epsom Salts’ and ‘9 lb Shoemakers thread’ but above the ‘5½ [yards] worsted Damask.’  I don’t think individuals who were buying on credit had to swear an oath that they would faithfully pay in the future.  Was there some flaw in this particular bible that left it languishing on the shelf?]

Where Would I Be Without Henry and William Ennalls?

Well, I would still have Mr. John Chandler — but otherwise this would be a very sorry list of books indeed.

Captain Robert Givan, appraised December 1735:

• 1 old Bible
• 8 Other old Books

Wm. Govins [Givan], appraised December 1735:

• 4 old books

William Alexander, appraised November 1735:

• a parcel of old Books

Joseph Bountain, appraised February 1736:

• a parcell of old Books

Peter Harwood, Junior, Talbot County appraised December 1735

• 1 Bible and Testament
• a pcell of old Books

Mr. John Bald, appraised sometime before March 1736:

• 1 old Book

William Mitchel, appraised February 1736:

• parcell of old Books

William King, appraised November 1735:

• a prcell of old Reeding Books

Francis Lane, appraised June 1735:

• one old bible

Colonel Henry Ennalls, appraised February 1736:

• a Large Bible
• 3 Small Do.
• 7 Books of Divinity
• a pcell of old Law Books

Mr. William Nutter, appraised November 1735:

• a pcell of old Books

Mr. John Mcmory, appraised November 1735:

• a psell of old Books

William Ennalls, appraised April 1733:

• an old History of Sir Walter Rawleigh very old and much Torn 0,5,0 [According to The Guardian, one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time — but just barely.]

James Read, appraised March 1736:

• a pcell of old Books

William Stephens, appraised December 1735:

• 2 old Books

James McCabe, appraised January 1736:

• Some old Books

Charles Allen, appraised April 1735:

• a pcell old Bookes

George Grove, Junior, appraised November 1735:

• 4 old Books

Francis Gardner, appraised April 1736:

• a pcell of Books

Mr. John Chandler, appraised February 1736:

• 1 middleing & 1 very Indifferent bibles for goodness as also for Size
• 1 middleing fol. of Tillotsons Sermons
• the whole Duty of man
• 2 Indifferent & 1 very old Common pray Books
• 5 very Sorry old Books

I’m not sure if I’ve linked information about John Tillotson yet — but I believe his sermons turn up with some regularity.

His gravemarker does justice the Archbishop’s impressive jowls (also visible in the portrait on the Wikipedia page) — and note the sleeping children!  [For more about cemetery images of sleeping children be sure to read Elisabeth Roark’s article in the most recent issue of the Maryland Historical Magazine (that is, if you have not already read it more times than you care to remember).]

A Brief Detour to 1720

I have to begin with a significant break from protocol. The ‘books that show up in inventories’ that I’ve been reporting here have, as you know from your careful reading thereof, all emerged from inventories for the 1730s.  But in the course of investigating the property of William White over at Maryland Inventories, I read through the inventory of William Whittington (1650-1720), William White’s guardian (and perhaps grandfather, but more on that later).  Amidst this lengthy list of Whittington’s possessions replete with interesting items I found the added bonus of a detailed library. Too good to pass up, so here it is:

Col. William Whittington, appraised April 1720:

• Flavels works 2 vols. folo.

  John Flavel, (c. 1627-1691)

• Brayon ye. Church Cathchism
• Gatakers Sermons [Thomas Gataker (1574-1654) apparently does not rate much of a Wikipedia page, but you can augment it with a catalog of his work on the Post-Reformation Digital Library]
• Perkins’s works
• Cotgraves French Dixry. [A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611)]
• Rogers’ works
• Hutchinson on Job
• Collins Defence of Andrews
• Luther upon Pauls Epi^s^tles
• Eltons works
• Williams’s 2 Vol:
• Pagets works
• Goughs’ Advice
• Delalhambres works
• 1 Psalm book
• English Dixry.
• Cultus Evangelicus [or, A brief discourse concerning the spirituality and simplicity of New-Testament worship (1667) — and you can be the first person to review this item on Amazon]
• old Book Rates
• Simsons Works
• An old Sermon book
• Reformation of manners
• a Treatise about the Sacramts. & the passion of ^the* mind
• 1^st. Cooks Institutes
• 3 Vol: Crokes Reports [it’s an ‘r’, but obviously it should be an ‘o’]

• Shephards abridgment 3 Vol:
• orphans Legacey
• 1 Small Bible 8vo.

~ We now return to our regularly scheduled inventory volume. ~

Daniel Redman, appraised November 1735:

• 1 Common Prayer Book

Captain Theodorus Bear, appraised March 1735:

• 5 old Mathematicall Books
• 1 Divinity Book
• prayer book
• Some old Mathematicall Books [these math books have a different value — and appear later in the inventory — than the 5 old books above]

Mr. William Wetherley appraised June 1735:

• [a] Book

William White, appraised July 1735:

• 2 old bibles
• 2 other old books

Daniel Hull, appraised July 1735:

• 3 old Books

Captain William Fassett, appraised sometime before September 1735:

• 4 Bibles wth. no psalms
• 1 Do. Larger plain
• Do. Gilt
• Do. plain

Peter Shehe, appraised April 1735:

• old Books

John Holland, appraised June 1735:

• 1 Bible and some Other Books

Jonas Smith, appraised August 1735:

• 1 Bible and some other Books

Mr. John Wallace, appraised July 1735:

• 1 Small Book

Mr. Henry Ward, appraised April 1735:

• parsell of Books

Mr. Francis Mauldin, appraised sometime before September 1735:

• 1 old Bodey of Laws of Maryland
• a paresll of old Books

Captain Archibald Edmondstone, appraised August 1735 (Additional Inventory):

• 2 old Books

Henry Wright, appraised May 1735:

• 4 old Books

John Fisher, appraised sometime before August 1735:

• 1 Bible
• 1 old Do.
• one small Book

Edward Wright, appraised sometime before August 1735:

• 1 old prayer Book
• 1 whole Duty of man
• 1 old Bible

John Sullivan, appraised August 1735:

• parsell of old Books

John Worley, appraised sometime before September 1735:

• 1 small Book
• 4 small Books

John Roberts, appraised March 1735:

• a parsell old Books

William Austin, appraised August 1735:

• a parcell old Books

James Simms, appraised September 1735:

• a Bible and prayer Book
• old Books

John Brook, appraised May 1735:

• a parcel of old Books

Joseph Wilkinson, appraised October 1735:

[under a section headed “Bookes” (in fact, the first category in the inventory)]

• 1 Large Bible
• 14 Marriners Bookes
• 2 Common prayer Do.
• 3 English Dictionarys
• 1 Cookes Dictionary [it really looks like a ‘k’, but perhaps The English Schoole-Master by Edmund Coote?]
• 20 old Small Bookes

John Piles, appraised October 1735:

• a parcell of old Books

Mary Kidder, appraised September 1735:

• 6 Small Books

William Walden, appraised sometime before November 1735:

• one Large Bible
• 14 old Books

John Manning, appraised sometime before November 1735:

• 9 old Books

Alexander Hall, appraised sometime before November 1735:

• a parcell Books

Abraham Addams, appraised August 1735:

• one old Bible

Benjamin Walton, appraised September 1735:

• one old Bible

Hugh Wilson, appraised June 1735:

• 12 old Books

John Lynch, appraised September 1735:

• one old Bible
• one Salter
• 4 old Books

Adam Spence, appraised January 1735:

• a prcell of Books

William Hath, appraised August 1735:

• 1 old Bible
• one old Salter
• Some Books

Thomas Addams, appraised sometime before November 1735:

• a prcell of old books

John Gibben, appraised sometime before November 1735:

• Some old Books

John Whips, appraised August 1735:

• a prcell ^old^ Books [evidently the descriptive ‘old’ was deemed important enough to add]

Thomas Holland, appraised November 1735:

• one old Bible
• another old Book

Cornelius Clements, appraised sometime before October 1735:

• 2 old Books

Carter Clerk, appraised November 1735:

• one Arithmetick Book

Mrs. Sarah Howard, appraised May 1735:

• a parcell of Books

Captain Tamberlin Davis, appraised July 1735:

• 8 Volumes of the Spectater [The Spectator!  Flashbacks to 10th grade English — Mr. Thomason would be proud.]
• 16 Small old ordinary Books

John Camperson, appraised October 1735:

• 1 Bible
• 2 prayers books
• Date of man [The Whole Duty of Man, surely, but I can’t see any way to make that ‘a’ into a ‘u’]
• 9 old Books

Joseph Bisco, appraised October 1735:

• a parcell of Books

Mr. Thomas Tolly, appraised September 1735:

[the books in Mr. Tolly’s inventory are largely illegible because the microfilm has a double image; this is my best guess pending a good look at the original text]

• old Bible
• Catisman Books [catechism, perhaps?]]
• Clarks guide
• [there may be an additional title]

Mr. Ralph Smith, appraised June 1732:

• 2 Books

Francis Hayward, Senior, appraised October 1735:

• 3 old Books

 

Mostly Boring Books

Lots of old books and a considerable number of Bibles, but not much else ~

 

Henry Barber, appraised July 1734:

• a Bible
• one prayer Book

 

Nichs. Waterman, appraised November 1734:

• an old Book

 

John Beale, Esqr., appraised August 1734:

• parcell old Books
• Body of Laws

 

Richard Moore, appraised sometime before March 1735:

• sundry Books not yet appraised

 

Joseph White, appraised April 1734:

• a parcell old Books

 

Margrett Attwell, appraised August 1734:

• one old Bible

 

Nathaniel Fairbrother, appraised August 1734:

• some old Books

 

William Clark, appraised August 1734:

• 1 old book

 

Revd. Mr. Joseph Colbatch, appraised February 1735:

• a parcell of Books amounting unto £12,12,10 [!!]
• 1 Book stand

 

Joseph Ireland, appraised March 1730:

• a parsell of old Books

 

Nathaniel Wright, Junior, appraised April 1735:

• a parcell of old Books

 

Robert Leavett, appraised sometime before August 1735:

• 1 new Bible
• 21 Books [titles — why can’t we have titles?]

 

John Darnall, appraised May 1735:

• a small parcell of Books

 

John Gwinn, appraised sometime before August 1735:

• 1 Large Bible
• one Small Do.
• a pcell old books

 

Ignatius Luckett, appraised May 1735:

• 1 Large Bible
• 1 Small Do.
• 8 old small Books

 

Richard Hodgson, appraised sometime before August 1735:

• 1 Bible and Testamt.
• old Books

 

Thomas Sedwick, appraised July 1735:

• a parcell of old Books

 

William Worrill, appraised August 1734:

• a parcell of old Books

 

William Fish, appraised April 1735:

• a parcell of Books

 

John Talbart, appraised August 1735:

• 1 Large Bible
• 3 old Books
• 2 old Pocket Books

 

Captain Charles Nutter, appraised July 1735:

• 1 Large Church bible
• Daltons Justice of ye peace
• a parsell of old Books

 

John Carter, appraised May 1735:

• 1 old Bible
• some other Books

 

Charles Robson, appraised August 1735:

• a parsell of old Bookes

 

John Staples, appraised August 1735:

• one Common Prayer Book

 

Wm. Fountain, appraised June 1735:

• Small Libry of Books

 

Francis Tolley, appraised March 1734:

• 1 parcell old Books

 

James Powell, appraised February 1735:

• 1 Book of Architecture and Case of Instruments
• 2 old Books

 

Thomas Eubank, appraised November 1734:

• 2 Bibles
• a parsell of old Books
• 2 Bound Books

 

James Lynch, appraised sometime before July 1735:

• a parcell of old books
• one old pocket Booke

 

Thomas. Smallwood, Senior, appraised May 1735:

• a parcell of old books

 

Mr. Absalom Thorne, appraised sometime before September 1735:

• 10 old small books
• one Large bible
• 1 pockett Booke
• a parcell of old books

 

George Mason, Gent., appraised sometime before August 1735:

• a parcell of Books

 

Mr. Gerard Fowke, appraised October 1735:

• 10 small old books
• 1 Large Sermon booke
• 1 Large Bible
• 13 small books
• 1 old Large Bible
• 1 Large Book for acctts.
• 2 small books

 

William Maria Farthing, appraised June 1735:

• a parcell of old books

 

Philip Tippit, appraised May 1735:

• Books [so helpful!]

 

John Pomroy, Junior, appraised July 1735:

• 1 Bible
• one old Testamt.

 

Mr. Thomas Waughop, appraised July 1735:

• a parcell of ould Books

 

Hello Again, Again

Again, again because I said ‘Hello Again’ over on Maryland Inventories, and all my excuses for the year-long silence can be found there.

And now for the (considerable) backlog of books ~

Edward Eubanks, appraised November 1734:

• 1 prayer Book

Mr. William Brogden, appraised January 1735:

[under a section headed “Books”]

• 1 Tesamt. & 2 psalters
• 2 Groans protestant Church [I thought the author would be somebody Groan, but no — I think it is probably Sion in Distress: or, the Groans of the Protestant Church by Benjamin Keach, published in 1681 (at least, I think the author is Benjamin Keach; that’s the information in Google Books, but neither Wikipedia nor this site includes Groans among his writings)]
• 5 Spelling Books
• 1 Common prayer book
• 1 primer
• 5 horn books
• 2 books of Arithmetick

Samuel Queen, appraised June 1734:

• old books

Mr. William Piper, appraised July 1734:

• 1 Large Bible
• 3 Volumes of ye. Explans. of the Bible
• Coles Dictionare [An English Dictionary: Explaining the Difficult Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Phylosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and Other Arts and Sciences by Elisha Coles]
• 1 Large prayer Booke
• whole Duty of man
• Weaks Preparations [could be A Weeks Preparation Toward a Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper or The Second Part of the Weeks Preparation for the Sacrament . . . or both]
• 19 old books

Robert Gorsuch, appraised August 1733:

• 1 prayer Book

Mathew Gardener, appraised December 1734:

• parcell of old books

Mr. Francis Marbury, appraised March 1735:

• 2 Bibles
• 2 Sermon Books
• Baker Chronicles very old [A Chronicle of the Kings of England by Sir Richard Baker]

Mr. Richard Smith, appraised February 1734:

* an additional inventory  and an account of goods mortgaged by Grace Howard to Richard Smith *

• Sundry Books in the County house

Colonel John Fendall, appraised February 1735:

• the whole body of Laws
• 1 Middleing Bible
• 1 of Stilletsonson Sermon book in fol. [likely a transcription error, as the inventory for John’s wife Elizabeth lists this title as “Tilletson Sermon in fol.”]
• a parcell of Books

Patrick Connelly, appraised sometime before April 1735:

• a parcell of books

Jonathan Holliday, appraised June 1733:

• old books

John Smallwood, appraised May 1735:

• parcell of old books

John Rhodes, appraised November 1734:

• a parcell of old books

John Beauchamp, appraised January 1735:

• one old bible

Hope Taylor, appraised sometime before March 1735:

• 1 old bible

Mr. John Mills, appraised March 1735:

• a parcell of Books used

Elizabeth Davis, appraised March 1735:

• a bible
• a Psalm book
• The History of Sr. Thos. Moore

Thomas Inlose, appraised sometime before May 1735:

• a parcell of old books

William Jones, appraised March 1735:

• 4 old Books

John Merritt, appraised January 1735:

• a Pray Booke and whole Duty of Man

Mr. William Boone, appraised April 1734:

• 1 Large Bible

Workman Harris, appraised May 1735:

• 3 old Books

John Howell, appraised March 1735:

• 1 Book

Richard Groome, appraised November 1734:

• a parcell of old books

Mr. James Earle, appraised January 1735:

• a parcell of Law Books
• a parcell of old Latten do.
• 1 Small book wth. pensill
• a parcell of Books

Mr. Hugh Spedding, appraised sometime before June 1735

• 1 Bible and a parcell of old Books

Doctor William Hodshon, appraised February 1735:

• 1 Large fol. Bible
• 1 very old Do.
• 1 Large Dictionary
• Daltons Justice of Peace
• 4 Books of Phisick and Chirurgery
• 52 old books [but only valued at £1.75]

Madam Elizabeth Fendall, appraised sometime before May 1735:

• 1 Large Bible
• Tilletson Sermon in fol.
• 4 Small books

William Annis, appraised sometime before May 1735:

• 2 old books
• 1 old primer

John Cooper, appraised March 1735:

• 4 old Books

James Peele, appraised March 1735:

• 2 old books

James Maddox, appraised May 1735:

• 3 new Books
• 10 old Do.

John Dodson, senior, appraised sometime before June 1735:

• 1 Bible
• 1 Common prayer Book
• 5 old books

George Ray, appraised sometime before June 1735:

• 2 Large writeing Books
• 1 old Bible and prayer Book

Elizabeth Harris, appraised May 1735:

• 5 old Torn books

Mr. Jonathan Baker, appraised June 1735:

• 4 Common Prayer Books
• One Book
• [also 2 Quire Paper]

John Hill, appraised February 1735:

• 4 old Books

Oswald Dash, appraised March 1735:

• 2 old books

Thomas Scott, appraised May 1735:

• the Acts of Assembly
• Some old Books

Elizabeth Willis, appraised August 1734:

• 1 Large Bible and Other Books of Devotion

Richard Lyon, appraised May 1735:

• 1 Church Bible
• one Spelling book
• 1 Salter

David Evins, appraised May 1735:

• a parcell of old Books

Mr. John Pottinger, appraised April 1735:

• 1 Large Bible
• one Do. Small
• a parcell old Books

Richard Bell, appraised May 1735:

• A parcell of old and abused Law Books
• 1 Volume of the Statute of Queen Ann
• Virginia Laws
• Godolphins Legacy [The Orphans Legacy by John Godolphin]
• 3 Volumes of Hughs Grand Abridgemt. [A Grand Abridgment of the Common and Statute Law of England by William Hughes, published 1660-1663]
• Compleat Attherney and Sollicetor
• Fitz Herbert natura Brevium [La Novelle Natura Brevium by Anthony Fitzherbert (the Internet is inconsistent about nouvelle v. novelle — often opting for ‘new’ instead; some entries also favor Fitz-Herbert]
• Compleat Attry.
• 2 Volumes of the abridgemt. of the Statutes of Wm. & Mary
• Browns Vade mecum [this one?]
• Hailes Pleas of the Crown old Edition [Historia Placitorum Coronæ (The History of the Pleas of the Crown) by Sir Matthew Hale]
• Brownleys Declaration
• The Clerks Tutor in Chancery [here it is]
• Tryal 1 pr. pair old Edition [?]
• Law of Ejectmts.
• 2d 3d & 4^th Institutes
• [also 12 Quire Writeing Paper, 1 Wainscott Desck, and a Stand for Books]

William Bowland, appraised June 1735:

• 1 old bible and Testamt.

John Gibbins, junior, appraised June 1735:

• 1 Testamt.

Samuel Handy, appraised June 1735:

• 1 Large Church Bible
• 1 Common Prayer Book
• 1 Small Bible
• 1 Pocket Do.
• 1 old Testamt.
• one Prayer Book
• Sermon Book
• one Common Prayer Do.

Captain Thomas Humphris, appraised May 1735:

• 1 Bible

Reverend Mr. William Stewart, appraised June 1735:

• 21 Folios of Divinity
• 66 Qrtos. on Sevll. Subjects Small
• 30 Octavos & Duodicimos

Thomas Hutchins, appraised April 1732:

• a parcell of old paper Books
• 24 old printed Books

Thomas Hatchman, appraised May 1735:

• a parcell of old Books
• ye acts of assembly bound

John Mainly, appraised May 1735:

• 8 old Books

Gibbert Drenin [Gilbert Drining], appraised sometime before June 1735:

• To Books 0.8.0
• To Paper 0.2.4

Colonel Benjamin Pearce, appraised August 1734:

• 16 Books Different Sorts

Reverend Walter Hackett, appraised June 1735:

* this fellow actually lived in Delaware, so the inventory only included this one item as his property in Cecil County *

• To 1 Small Book being a Continuation of Echards Roman History [“From the Removal of the Imperial Seat by Constantine the Great, to the Total Failure of the Western Empire . . . sounds uplifting — and you can acquire your own copy here.]

John Ma^ccintire, appraised sometime before June 1735:

• 1 Book

Colonel Ephraim Augustus Herman, appriased June 1735:

• Large Bible
• a parcell of old English and Dutch Books
• an old Bible [listed in the middle of the livestock]

Mr. John Evans, appraised January 1734:

[aka the mother lode]

• a Bible Large Quarto
• the whole Dutey of man
• a Treatise on Sarment and Divine art of Prayer [The second title is easy: The Divine Art of Prayer, first published in 1691.  But the first . . . sermon or sacrament?  Ah, sacrament is far more likely.  Two candidates: A Treatise of the Sacrament of Confirmation, printed in 1629 . . . or A Treatise of the Institution, Right Administration and Receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper, already in its third edition by 1677.  How to choose?]
• the Leadies Library and Religion of Gentiles [Surely two separate titles; the first edition of The Ladies Library, Written by a Lady was published in 1714; I presume the second title is The Ancient Religion of the Gentiles by Edward Herbert, published in 1705]
• the Independent whigg [possibly issues of the paper, but more likely a collection of work by Thomas Gordon and his cronies]
• no Cross no Crown by Mr. Penn [Mr. William Penn, that is: No Cross, No Crown]
• Senecca Moralls
• Daltons Justice of the Peace [more properly, The Country Justice]
• Nellsons Do. [this 1704 volume, I suspect: The Office and Authority of a Justice of Peace by William Nelson]
• the Duty and Authority Do. [I wish the entry were a touch more specific, but I think what we have here might be Conductor Generalis, or The Office, Dute and Authority of Justices of the Peace, first published in 1722.]
• a parcell of old Books
• an English Dictionary

Now I’m exhausted — and I thought I was going to knock this post out between hiking and lunch!