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1 stone platter, 1 stone jug, 1 earthern teapot, 3 china cups and saucers, 2 one quart basins, 2 punch bowls.
Kitchen Utensils—2 frying pans, cullender, 1 chafing-dish, 2 pewter porringers, 2 tea kettles, 4 iron pots, 1 brass kettle, 2 quart pots, 2 two-quart pots, 3 pints, 2 tin kettles, 2 metal teapots, 1 pail, pair dogs [fire irons], 1 shovel and tongs, 1 tea-chest, 1 coffee mill, 2 pairs steel yards, 1 beam scale, 2 sets weights.
Cutlery, etc—1¼ doz. case knives and forks, 1½ dozen spoons, 1 large spoon, 6 silver tea spoons.
There was in addition to the above a limited supply of bedding. The total value of household articles the property of the Company was only £33.17.5 and it is doubtful whether the private property of Simonds and White would have added very greatly to the common stock. The few articles of furniture included in the list embraced of course only the articles sent down from Newburyport. The more common articles necessary for a civilized existence, bedsteads, tables, kitchen furniture, etc., were manufactured on the spot with the carpenter's axe, adze, hammer and saw. The situation even at this time was evidently some improvement on what it had been, for Mr. Simonds had written to Hazen & Jarvis in May, 1765, "I am obliged to you for sending some furniture, for truly none was ever more barely furnished than we were before. Gentility is out of the question."
At the time the inventory was made in 1767, the goods in the store at the Point were valued at £613. They were of the sort required for supplying the white settlers as well as the Indian trade. There was quite a variety of articles among the goods intended for the white inhabitants but the many deficiencies are sufficient to indicate the simplicity of living then in vogue. The Indian goods included provisions, powder and shot, blankets and other "necessaries," and in addition such articles as silver crosses, round silver broaches, silver laced hats, gilt trunks, Highland