. History of Robert Chaffin and his descendants, and of the other Chaffins in America . grant belonging to the town of Concord in theN. W. part of that town. This part was soon called Robert cleared the land, cultivated his farm and raised hisfamily. Shortly after his death, late in 1744, his oldest son, John,was appointed administrator of the estate. In the settlement,besides what went to the widow, each child was awarded £6, 8s,l-5d. Reference has been made to the inventory of the estate. It in-cluded even the most trivial objects, such as a little puter andbrass. Some of the
. History of Robert Chaffin and his descendants, and of the other Chaffins in America . grant belonging to the town of Concord in theN. W. part of that town. This part was soon called Robert cleared the land, cultivated his farm and raised hisfamily. Shortly after his death, late in 1744, his oldest son, John,was appointed administrator of the estate. In the settlement,besides what went to the widow, each child was awarded £6, 8s,l-5d. Reference has been made to the inventory of the estate. It in-cluded even the most trivial objects, such as a little puter andbrass. Some of these items are given here for the sake of theinteresting spelling. Wearing apperil, bed and beding, tablelinning, iorn ware one pot and kittle, eartharn ware and othersmall Housel vessels, a tabel and chars, sider barels, iorn crows,one yoak and one draft chane, a syder press, a grinston, yearnin the Hous, an old beam (barn), Rie in the beam, one Hors, twoswine, one acor of orcherding, six acors plow land, one steare, twoyearlands, seven bearls of Syder, besides many other (Eljaffttt m ^ FIRST GENERATION D But alas ! in 174<6, not verj long after the appraisal of the estate,the house caught fire and was consumed, with a considerable partof the housed Goods ; and the appraisers, Peter Reed, JohnPowers and Abram Patch issued a statement regarding this mis-fortune in which they say, We find that it amounts to fifty-seven pound six shilling it is to be understood that the charity ofthe people have considered there lose that there is now lost£57, 6s, 0, old tenor. What is meant by the charity of thepeople have considered there lose, etc, is, to say the least, am-biguous. Children of Robert and Abigail: 2 i. John, b. March 5, 1720; d. March 5, 1771. ii. Mary, b. Dec. 7, 1721; d. Aug. 23, 1758; m. abt. 1746David Keyes, son of Moses Jr. and Susanna (Strat-ton) of Concord, Mass. Children born in Acton: , b. Oct. 29, 171-7. 2. Mary, b. June 8, 1749;d. Aug. 17, 1758.
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