"Will of widow Elizabeth Hardy proved 1: 10: 1654 by Mr. Edm. Batter and Nathaniell Pickman; but the will was defective for want of executors. Court appointed her son, Joseph Hardy, and Roger Haskall, administrators. Inventory brought in. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 3, leaf 82.
Inventory of the estate of widow Elizabeth Hardie of Salem, deceased, taken 11: 9: 1654, by William Dodge and William _____: A certain purchase of house and land late in the possession of Mr. Garvase Gafford, 40li.; a dwelling house in the towne with 2 acres of land thereunto belonging, 40li.; a ten acre lott in the south field, 10li.; a Joynd bedsteed, 1li. 10s.; a wenescot Chest & a sea chest, 1li.; table wth frame & a forme, 1li. 6s.; 4 pewter platters, 1 drinking bole & 1 Candlestick, 12s.; 1 ould warming pan, 5s.; 2 Iron pots & 2 payr of pot hookes, 1li. 5s.; 1 Cheyney bason, 1s. 8d.; 4 pewter dishes, a salt and a bole, 12s.; 1 brass malter, 5s.; 1 musket & 2 swords, all rustie, 12s.; 2 Cuissons, 6s.; 1 Carpett Cloth, 8s.; 3 Cheares, 10s.; 1 pillow beere, 3s.; 1 Cheese press, 3s.; 2 hakes and 2 hookes, 5s.; 2 hand Irons, 1 spitt & 1 ould gridiron, 10s.; 2 litle tables, 1 form and a setle, 10s.; 1 grindlestone, 4s.; 12 bushells of Indian Corne, 1li. 12s.; 2 Iron spads, 3s.; 1 Corne sive, 1s.; 1 ould bed Coverin, 1 blanket and 1 winowing sheete, 12s.; 1 litle brass pot, 2 skellets, 11s.; 2 bushells of wheate, 10s.; 8 Ewe sheepe, 12li.; 1 Ram lamb, 1 weder lambe, 1li.; 1 Calfe, 1li.; 4 Cowes, 1 steere, 21li. 13s. 4d.; 1 Feather bed, 1 pillow, 2 blankets, 1 Rugg, 4li. 10s.; 2 yards 1-2 Coten & wooll mixt Cloth & 2 Cuissons, 16s.; 1 sett of Cortaines & vallance, 1li.; 1 Cloke, 1 peticote, 1 wascote & 1 hood, 3li. 10s.; 3 sheets, 18s.; 2 pillow beeres, 10s.; 1 table Cloth, 1 Napkin, 4 handkerch, 13s. 6d.; 2 Cappes, 1 Cros-cloth, 1 linen apron, 11s.; total, 151li. 9s. 2d.; debts, 10li. 9s. 2d. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 2, leaf 149."
