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Finding
Finding: estate wealth concentrated in livestock and the working farm
John Gurney's working wealth at death was in husbandry, not his named tailoring trade: livestock alone (horse £9 10s + yoke of oxen £12 10s + swine £6 + young cattle £6) accounted for about £34 of the £55 14s 6d estate, and with plough-gear, cart equipment, and stored wheat and Indian corn the farm economy comes to roughly three-quarters of the whole appraisal.
Why this conclusion
- Required by Finding Occupation: a tailor by trade, a husbandman by economyThe livestock-and-husbandry profile of the estate (the material-life husbandry finding) is the farming economy that overtook the trade in practice.
- Supported by Evidence 1663 probate inventory: itemized movable estate (£55 14s 6d)The itemized appraisal values (horse, oxen, swine, young cattle, plough-gear, grain) are the direct arithmetic basis for the livestock/husbandry-dominant profile.
Topic file location: Colonial material life
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000034 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.