I 6 2 HIS TOR V OF COHA SSE T. 



£ s- d. 



One horse o. lo. o. 



One cow 2. o. o. 



Six heifers 7.10. o. 



One Iron pot & hooks %$. One meal tub 3.f. Four 



Iron hoops 8j o. 19. o. 



One plow & share & coulter & half chain ... o. 15. o. 



One bolt and ring for a yoke o. 2. o. 



One old chest and other lumber o. 5. o. 



Total 84. 14. o. 



Clement Bates, Jr., was one of the grantees of Cohasset 

 real estate five years before his. death, and he drew land 

 in company with his father, James Bates, and Benjamin 

 Bates and Simon Peck. Their lot in the Second Division 

 was ntmiber seventy-seven, facing upon King Street about 

 seventy rods from the pond, the vicinity of the present 

 schoolhouse. It is the two acres of this land " with a 

 dwelling house upon said land " which probably was meant 

 by the second item in the preceding inventory ; for his other 

 Cohasset lands are noted in the next item. At that place 

 may have been the first house in Cohasset yet ascertained 

 from public records, and its value was not over two hun- 

 dred dollars. The furniture in it was almost too insignifi- 

 cant to mention. His rude bed was worthless. Table 

 and chairs deserve no appraisal, even in so careful a list 

 as included "one bolt and ring for an ox yoke," worth two 

 shillings (50 cents). 



His "meal tub," according to custom, kept what coarse 

 grist he might procure at the mill in Weymouth for his 

 bread and cakes. 



The iron pot mentioned was compelled to furnish alone 

 the cheer of a dismal fireplace ; and what a dark scerne of 

 poverty must have been lighted up by the flames that 

 cooked his evening morsel after a weary day's labor in the 

 wilderness ! 



The poor old nag that was valucil at ten shillings 



