Early American probate inventories / 
editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes. 
 - Boston :  Boston University,  c1989. 
 - 184 p. :  ill., mpas, plans ;  23 cm. 
 - Annual proceedings / Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ;  1987. .
 - Annual proceedings (Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife);  1987. .
<br/><br/> Papers derived from a conference held 11-12 July 1987. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: unlocking the semantic and quantitative doors / Peter Benes and Jane Montague Benes -- Matching inventory terms and period furnishings / Robert F. Trent -- The meaning of absence: household inventories in Surry County, Virginia, 1690-1715 / Anna L. Hawley -- Using tax lists to detect biases in probate inventories / Kevin M. Sweeney -- Literacy and reading in eighteenth-century Westborough, Massachusetts / Ross W. Beales, Jr. -- Dress in seventeenth-century Cambridge, Massachusetts: an inventory-based reconstruction / Patricia Trautman -- Women's property and family continuity in eighteenth-century Connecticut / Barbara McLean Ward -- Rhode Island handloom weavers: a probate perspective / Gail Fowler Mohanty -- First-period architecture in Maine and New Hampshire: the evidence of probate inventories / Richard M. Candee -- Delaware's orphans court valuations and the reconstitution of historic landscapes, 1785-1830 / Bernard L. Herman -- Sleeping arrangements in early Massachusetts: the Newbury household of Henry Lunt, hatter / Peter Benes -- The distribution of consumer goods in colonial New England: a subregional approach / Gloria L. Main. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Probate law and practice--History--United States--Congresses.<br/>Inventories--History--United States--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F1  / .D82 1987