INVENTORY OF PIERRE RICHARD

KAMOURASKA, QUEBEC, NEW FRANCE: 1720

From: Our French Canadian Ancestors, Vol.21, p.212

Inventory performed on 3 & 4 April 1720, the notary Abel Michon presiding; Claude Guimond, Augustin Gagne, and Sieur Jean Fournier as arbiters.

• 1 Saucepan with no handle
• 1 Small dish en corne
• 1 Old copper chandelier
• 1 Pewter half-liter
• 1 Half-pint
• 14 Good terrines
• 2 Iron flasks, etc.
• Several axes
• 1 Anvil
• Some tongs
• 1 Hammer
• Some sickles
• 1 Trap
• Some saws
• 1 Rake
• 1 Compass saw and awl
• 3 guns
• 1 Salt box
• 1 Spinning wheel and its canelle
• 1 Linen loom
• 61 pounds of thread
• 1 Equipped plow
• 1 Cart
• 1 Sleigh
• 1 Sled, etc.
• 1 Bark canoe
• 2 Winnowing baskets
• 10 Hens and 1 rooster
• 6 Geese
• 9 Pigs
• 200 Sheaves of wheat
• 197 Minots of threshed wheat
• 8 Minots of peas
• 3 Minots of oats
• 2 1/2 Minots of linseed
• 1 Horse
• 1 Mare
• 2 Pairs of oxen
• 2 Bulls
• 2 Heifers
• 2 Cows
• 7 Sheep