An Inventory of the Real and Personal Estate of an Insolvent Debtor, 1774
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A List and Invantory of the Estate Reail and Personal of John Johnson Insolvent Debtor - To 1 Bead and Beading 2 iron Pots 1 iron Trammel To 5 puter plates 1 puter Bason 1 puter Teapot and 6 spoons To 1 Copper Tea Kittle 2 Earthen Platters 6 Tea Cups and sassors 1 Churn 2 Chests 1 Dressor 1 Barrel feathers 2 Beadsteds 6 Chairs 1 Table 1 wooling wheal & 1 flax wheale James Cambell Dr. by note of hand £ 9-0-0 a power of attorney against James pattent 2-0-0 Mr. Fulton Dr. 1-2-0
Dr. To Thos. Hunt £30-0-0 To Daniel Rapelje 18-0-0 To Capt. Dickson 06-0-0 Mr. Forbes 02-0-0 To Nathan Fish 01-2-0 To Capt. Rapelje 04-0-0 To Johanus anowle(?) 02-0-0 To Jacob Tirwilliker 02-10-0 To Mr. Stonehouse 04-0-0 To Robert Boyd 05-0-0 To Cadr. Colden 10-0-0 To Jeremiah Remson(?) 06-0-0 To Christopher Remson(?) 17-0-0 To Doctor Cook 06-0-0 To John Bellknapp 00-5-0 To Thos. Nickols 00-15:0 To ammous Jones 02-0-0 To Hendrick NewCark 01-2-0 £117:14:0
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Note:
This record is part of a Petition and Inventory of an insolvent debtor who, with the help of an attorney, is pleaing for relief from his creditors in the Court of Common Pleas. He makes this plea from the Ulster County Goal. The top of the list shows his assets and the bottom shows his liabilities. Among his possessions are listed a "wooling wheal" and "flax wheale".
"After 1760, some colonists began to advocate home textile manufacturing as a symbol of protest against British trade policies. Patriots encouraged households to produce more homespun cloth as a sign of loyalty to the cause."
From Janet Wells Greene et al., From Forge to Fast Food: A History of Child Labor in New York State, Volume I: Colonial Times through the Civil War (Troy, NY: Council for Citizenship Education, Russell Sage College, for the New York Labor Legacy Project, 1995).