daughters, Sarah, Abigail, and Mehitible £5 each and the house they Uve 

 in. My daughter, Sarah Edwards, £\0 and a silver chafing dish. My 

 daughter Martha Stone all my lands in the County of York, Cape Porpoise, 

 and Wells, and my silver salver, and her son Thomas £5 and a silver por- 

 ringer. My daughter Elizabeth Brooks ^10 and a silver tea pot. My 

 daughter Mary Savage ^40 and to her son Thomas one silver porringer. 

 To the children of my daughter Jerusha, deceased, Martha Clark Lepear and 

 Sally Lepear each of them, £50, and a pair of salt shovels, and a pepper box, 

 silver. All the rest of my estate to my two sons, David Stoddard Greenough, 

 and Wm. Greenough. The late Shute Shrimpton Yeoman, Esq., left an 

 estate to my late spouse Sarah, and to her children, in the Island of Antigua. 

 In case my son David should have a legal possession of same, and Wm. no 

 part, in that case I give my son David <£lOO and sundry pieces as per schedule 

 amount to £63.1 1.3. All the rest of my estate to my son, William Greenough. 



Of particular interest with relation to Greenough's business in 

 instruments is the following advertisement that appeared on 

 May 11, 1742, in The Boston Gazette: 



To be sold by Capt. Cyprian Southack at his House near the Orange Tree 

 and at Mr. Tho. Greenough's Mathematical Instrument Maker near the 

 Draw Bridge, said Southack's Char[t]s of the Coast from Sandy Point of 

 New York to Canso. 



Invaluable for this study are Thomas Greenough's manuscript 

 accounts that have survived in the collections of the Massachusetts 

 Historical Society. The following itemized entries are selected 

 from Greenough's business accounts over a period of two decades 

 to provide data on the prices current in the second half of the 18th 

 century for new instruments and for repairing others: 



In Account with Thomas James Gruchy: 



1754, April 27: 1 Compass for the Schooner Sea Flour £0.8.0. 



1758, Nov. 28: 1 Spyglass £1.13.8. 



1759, Jan. 25: Mending 3 Compasses for the Schooner 



Susanna £0.6.0. 



In Account with Nathaniel Bethune: 



1760, August: A gauging rod £0.6.0. 



Mending a telescope £0.3.0. 



In Account with Captain McAndrew Mirick of Nantucket: 



1772, March 21 : For 2 compasses, 1 leaded £0.16.8. 



In Account with Captain Roberson Crockett: 



1773, April: For mending 2 Compasses £0.6.2. 



For mending 1 Hanging Compass £0.3.2. 



In Account with Captain Reworth of the Brig Fortune: 



1774, March 30: For mending 2 compasses & Glasses £0.7.0. 



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