Inventory
Summary derived from Dorset History Centre; Reference: Ad/D/I/1727; Event Record Number: 29
Below is the Inventory of the goods and chattels of Robert Kember YeomanA freeholder or substantial tenant farmer, ranking above a husbandman but below the gentry. Yeomen held enough land to live... In full., Son of Robert Kember the Elder and late of Stalbridge Weston, seen and appraised by Robert Chaffey and John Hobbs on 6th September 1727.
Robert is one of the better off residents in Weston and with oxen and the plough tackle, well set up to farm his land (and perhaps rent these to others), although no debts are listed. No other inventories here list that many oxen.
There is a burial record in the Stalbridge registers for a Robert Kimber 26 August 1727.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Wearing apparel | £5 0s 0d |
| In the Hall: twelve pewter dishes; two brass pans; three brass pots; one iron pot, three kettles two skillets; one warming pan, and a chaffing dish and other small things. | £3 0s 0d |
| In the Chamber: one feather Bed and two flock beds with what belongs to them, One chest, two coffers, one box, one trunk | £6 0s 0d |
| In the Buttery: eight barrels, two tubs; two trendles; one silt | £1 10s 0d |
| Wheat, barley, peas and hay | £15 10s 0d |
| Ten sheep, twelve lambs. | £7 0s 0d |
| One Mare and a colt | £4 0s 0d |
| One cow and two calves | £5 0s 0d |
| Six oxen and two steers. | £34 0s 0d |
| Plow tackling | £9 0s 0d |
| All lumber and goods not mentioned. | £0 5s 0d |
| Total | £90 5s 0d |