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From: "David & Chris Chirokas" <>
Subject: [MaBarnstable] 1844 account listing, David Howes of Dennis
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:02:13 -0400

Hi Everyone: I found this account listing in my gggg grandfather David
HOWES' probate file and since it names lots of Dennis locals, I thought I'd
post it to the list in case it mentions anyone else's ancestors.

David HOWES was born Chatham about July 1768 (Thomas 4, 3, Joseph 2, Thomas
1 Howes), he m. Rebecah BAKER at Dennis in 1788 and they raised their family
in Dennisport, where David died 5 February 1843. David and Rebecah had 10
children, including David born 1789, who kept the detailed accounting as
part of his duties as administrator of his father's estate. I descend from
David and Rebecah's daughter Abagail who m. Hiram KELLEY.

I have kept the mispellings and capitalization as written; any additions for
clarification are in parentheses.
Chris Chirokas


David Howes' probate records, case No. 1752, Barnstable Co. probate court.

Account of David Howes, administrator of the estate of his father David
Howes, dated Harwich 15 April 1844 (transcribed by Chris Chirokas)

David Howes' probate records, case No. 1752, Barnstable Co. probate court.

Account of David Howes, administrator of the estate of his father David
Howes, dated Harwich 15 April 1844

Paid at Barnstable for indenters[?] for Hope Howes 9.25*
Paid foster rogers reading apointments to Hope Howes .12
Paid Nehemiah Baker runing Line in Dennis woodlot .75
Paid seth Eldredg for potatoes father Bought of Him .97
Paid samuel chase Bill for Hay father Had whin Living 1.50
Paid Nehemiah Baker Dividing wood Land & medow with PSHA [initials hard to
read] 1.00
Paid Job chase Bill of flowers father Had 3.00
To David Howes when settled with father 1841 - .75
Paid Peter Baker for Beaf & cloth father Had when Living 1.53
Paid Posteg [postage] for administratix Letters .12
Paid John Paison Bill for funeral charges 9.30
Paid James Merchant Bill for work for father when Living 5.14
Paid Nathan Killey Bill father owing when Living .88
Paid Benjamin thatcher for iron work for father 2.74
Paid William ansil for iron work when Living .53
Paid John Paison for one pad Lock .20
Paid william Hendrick makeing coffin 5.61
Paid Postig [postage] for Hopes gardian Letters .06
Paid for maiking road for mother .10
Paid w. ansil mending pitchfork .12 1/2
Paid Hemon wixson Bill for Road follins Island medow .83
Paid for paper .06
Paid for dead [deed] & recording three 1.33
Paid allixander Prat Bill Docktering father 6.39
Paid Benjamin Howland Bill for work for father 1.96
Paid James Pence [or Perce] Bill for His Boy working for father 6.42
Paid Doct Dog Bill atending mother when sick 3.32
Paid Done Killey Bill prising propertey 1.87
Paid Doct alfred swift Bill for Docketering father 2.65
Paid for Dead [deed] of Holes mash [marsh] when Divided .25
paid Ester Howes Bill for attending mother when sick 8.75*****
Paid sears Howes Bill father owing Him when Living 11.18**
paid Nehemiah Howes Bill 2.19**
Paid Isaiah Howes Bill father owing Him 1.69**
Paid tax on road in Harwich .37
Paid for Dead [deed] of anthonis mash [marsh] when Divided .33
Paid for Boat Hire after hay this sumer .25
Paid Ebenezer Killey Bill .48***
Paid tax in Dennis for the year 1844 4.06
Paid two pair Graive stones for DH & R Howes 29.15******
Paid Esqr V. Nickerson Bill Prising propertey Last spring 4.00
Paid Expenses to cort (court) December .50
Paid for washing & reaping 2.00
Paid Hiram Baker for work in the medowes & pinkins 1.61****
Paid foster rogers for road ____[looks like crast] follins Island meadow .42
[Total] 126.23

[Page 2 of account]

Draying three Loads Hay when soald .30
Paid Nathan underwood for taxes in Harwich year 1842 3.00
Paid Thomas allin for tax in Harwich for the year 1843 2.09
Paid Vinny Killey Bille father owing .20***
Paid for postig [postage] Letter to Barnstable .06
Postig for warant of a Division this fall .12
Paid for paper when Dividing propertey .10
Paid Joseph Baker for shair road of Follins Island medow .24
Paid Isaiah Baker for ______ (looks like menhaden] father Had when Living
1.00
Paid for boards nails and Draying Boards for Grave yard 3.52
Paid Job Wixson for work on cart when father Living .50
Paid Expenses on Howes [house] for glass & paints & cleaning 1.00
Paid for use of chaine compus Dividing propertey .25
Paid for paper for Boundaries of the propertey when Divided .12 1/2
Paid miller whelden Bill father owing when Living .50
Paid Esq Jonathan Nickerson Bill dividing propertey 9.00
Paid Doane Killey Bill Dividing propertey 4.50
Paid Job Killey Bill Dividing propertey 2.45
David Howes Bill against father when Living 4.27
[Total this page] 33.22

clothin & uther Expinses for Hope Howes i consent of the ____2.96
Det [debt] broat [brought] over from the other Leaf $126.23
administrators feas and Laber on the propertey year past 30.00
Shuble Howes owing for one Half of the Barn whitch i sold him 15.00**
Parshal (partial) estate of David Howes deceased prised at 321.75
$514.16
Balance 7.09
[Total] $521.25

Account of David Howes 2 admininstrator of the Estate of David Howes late of
Dennis in the County of Barnstable deceased said Accountant charges himself
as on the third page of this paper and prays allowance of the payments and
charges stated in the first and second pages of this sheet.

[Page 3, money received by the estate]

By cash receaved and soald parshal Estate

By cash father Left when Dide (died) 3.70
By one cow soald Barnabus Baker 12.00
By cash receaved for plowing & cartin .87
one pair Oxson (oxen) soald Joseph Baker 54.00
By cash Thomas Howes owed father 1.00**
1/2 tun Hay soald Elisha Howland 4.50
By cash paid By shuble Howes owing father 5.74**
By 1/2 tun Hay soald 4.00
By medow Hired to phineas wixson in 1843 8.32
by 1200 Hay soald Esqr T. (or J) Nickerson 5.40
By 383 lb Hay soald e conet[?] 6
By 600 lb peat[?] Hay soald 2.70
By 1/2 tun Hay soald T. (or J) Nickerson Jr. 4.00
By 100 lb Hay soald ros Ellis .40
Hay & stacks soald asia (Asa) Killey 1.62
By medow Hired Homis[?] umphrey 4.00
By cash paid in By the Heirs Equally a Like 9.20
By cash receaved of Joseph Killey for Howes [house] rent 10.00***
By cash paid in By the Heirs 27.30
Barn soald Shuble Howes 30.00**
[subtotal] 190.11
By soald cleared of Expense 9.39
Los on Loomes, oxen, cow & Barn 34.00
Divided in ten shairs Equally as cood (could) 287.75
[Total] $521.25

(Signed by) David Howes 2

*Probably his daughter Hope born 1810. She wasn't a minor, but seems she may
have been impaired in some way. She is buried at Swan Lake Cemetery in
Dennisport and never married.
**Son of David and Rebecah Howes.
***Married to one of David's granddaughters, daughter of his late son Ezra
Howes
****Likely David and Rebecah's son-in-law Hiram Baker who married their
daughter Rebecca.
*****Granddaughter of David and Rebecah; daughter of Ezra Howes.
******They are buried, as are many of their family, at Swan Lake Cemetery in
Dennisport.

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