I. John Thaxter’s Inventories of Household Furnishings, 14 May – 16 October 1782

I. John Thaxter’s Inventories of Household Furnishings

Inventory

A true copy of the Inventory made by Mr. John Thaxter

14 may 1782
16 octr. 1782

12 chafing Dishes
30 Bocale Goblets1—2 broken
4 salt sellers, Ghrystal
22 English Wine Glasses flat—10 Wanting
9 Dozen and 2 Wine Glasses small—14 gone
4. Décanters
11. dito flat
23 Wine glasses bought by mad: dumas
19 Rhenish Glasses.
12 small Décanters bought by mad: Dumas
2 Castors.
12 Liqueur Glasses böt by Mad: Dumas.
1 Lantern.
5 Beer Glasses.

this received in good order

(was signed) Lotter.2

8 yellow metal candlesticks
4 Weights of Copper
3 little Bells.
12 Water plates.
1 pair scales.
3 Wash Basons, Queéns, Ware
6 Blue spitting pots.

Queéns Ware.

3 Doz. and 9. Queéns Ware soop Plates—9 Wanting
8 Doz. et 3. dito flat plates—12 Wanting
6. Great round Dishes.
3. dito round Dishes.
8. dito.
2. dito oval
3. dito round and Deep—1. broken
2 dito round &c.
1 Turen and its Plate.
4 paniers avec leurs assiettes [baskets with their plates] for strawberrys
5 butter boats—2. Wanting
2. Three cornered plates
3. sous coup [saucers]
2. fait a coeur [heart shaped]
4. cal.
14. little dessert plates—1 wanting
2. Trouels. [fish knives]

this Articles received in good order

(Was signed) Lotter.

1 faire soupe.
3 Doz. et 9. small Bowls—5. Wanting
5 Doz. Plates for the Bowls—6. wanting
5 Bowls for chocolate
13 Sugar Pots.
4 Doz. and 8. large cups.
5. Doz. saucers and 2.
3. Doz. and 8 ordinary Tea cups—11. Wanting
4. Doz. and 4. Saucers.—2. Wanting
10 Tea pots—3 little broken
5 mugs
6 cream Pots
2 Larger Sorts Pots a créme
9. pieds aux oeufs—Egg Pots
8 pepper Pots
5 Salt Sellers.
4. mustard pots
1 coffee pot—broken
2 Sallad Plates.

received this above Articles in good Order

(Was Signed) Lotter.

Porcelaine Blue service

4 Great Dishes deep
4 dito flat.—1 broken
8 dito flat.
7 Small.
8 Small dito
4 Dégoutieres [strainers]
4. Turens with their tops
47. Soop plates
9. Doz. and 8 plates flat—5 Wanting
23 little flat plates
22 little deep plates
12 Sallad plates.
8 butter boats
8. Salt Sellers.

the full content of this received in good order

(Was Signed) F. Lotter.

Porcelaine de saxe

1 Tea pot and its saucer
1 tea canister
1 cream pot With its Saucer
1 Bowl with its Saucer
1 Sugar pot With its Saucer
6 coffee cups.
12 tea cups
12 Saucers.

another Set of porcelaine

1 tea pot
1 cream pot
2 sugar pots
12 tea cups
12 saucers
12 coffee cups
12 saucers
1 Bowl with its saucer
1 tea pot
1 cream pot
1 bowl
12 cups
12 saucers.
1 Punch Bowl.

this I have received in good order

(was signed) Lotter.

Blue porcelaine

1 tea pot with its Saucer
1 tea canister
1 Bowl with its saucer
1 sugar pot with its dito
11 cups one broken.
8 saucers.

this Articles received in good order.

2 oval affairs for Wine glasses
2 round dito for Tea
6 plattes for Bottles
17. dito for Wine glasses
16 Blac

this 5 articles received in good order

(was signed) Lotter

Bought by Madam Dumas.

3 Grand compots—chrystal [3 large crystal fruit-bowls]
6 dito avec leurs couveriles [6 ditto with their lids]
4 dito Sans couverts [4 ditto without lids]
2 Pots de moutarde avec Leurs cuilleres [2 mustard pots with their spoons]

received this Articles in a good order

(Was Signed) F: Lotter.

Mr. A.

1 Feather Bed

Mr. T.

3 Feather Beds
2 Feather Beds—chamber opposite
1 little chamber
1 good Feather
2 for Servants.
10

Mr. A.

1 matrass
3 little chamber
m. T.
2
6.

Bolsters.

1—chamber
3 little chamber
mr. T.
2
mr. A.
1
2 Servants
9

pillows

8 little chamber
2 mr. T.
1 mr. A.
4 servants.
15

Strawbeds

mr. A.
2.
2. m. T.
4. servants
8.

Blankets.

1 mr. a.
5 little chamber
1 little chamber
3 mr.—T.
4 jacob and john
2 girls.
16.

Coverlids

1 chamber
1 mr. A.
2 mr. T. chamber
1 little chamber
1 girls
6.

Alle the Beddings received
as in the Lÿst mentioned

(Was Signed) F: Lotter.

52 Draps [52 sheets]
13 nappes fines [13 fine tablecloths]
5 nappes pour la cuisine [5 tablecloths for the kitchen]
53 <~~nappes~~> serviettes fines dito 3 more [53 fine napkins ditto 3 more]
11 Essuimains [11 towels]
3 petits dito [3 small ditto]
19 toits de lits [19 canopies]
4 tablier pour Les Domestiques [4 aprons for the servants]
34 grosse Serviettes, [34 large napkins] (ceci nest pas sur Linventaire de mr. J. Thaxter) [This is not on Mr. J. Thaxter’s inventory].
7 Russen sloopen [Russian pillow-cases]
6 white waiscoats and 3 pair of breeches.

received all Well
(was signed) F: Lotter.

FC in an unknown hand (Adams Papers) This document consists of fourteen numbered pages and was done sometime after 24 June 1784. It is a compendium of four inventories of the household goods of the U.S. legation at The Hague that were taken by John Thaxter and Marie Dumas between 14 May 1782 and 24 June 1784, the originals of which have not been found. John Thaxter’s inventories are dated 14 May and 16 Oct. 1782 and appear on pages 1 through 6 of the FC. Since they cannot be definitively distinguished from each other, they are printed here as one document. Marie Dumas’ inventories of 22 and 24 June 1784 (Nos. II and III, below) appear, respectively, on pages 7 through 12 and 13 and 14 of the FC. Where Thaxter uses a French or Dutch term to describe an item and it can be identified, a translation has been provided in brackets.

1. In this and other entries where it is indicated that items are broken or missing, the first portion was likely part of the original 14 May inventory, with the remainder resulting from Thaxter’s review on 16 October.

2. Lotter’s name, usually F. Lotter, appears throughout the inventories. He is otherwise unidentified but was presumably related to Christian Lotter who served as JA’s steward at The Hague from 1784 or earlier (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, and others, Cambridge, 1963–?. description ends , 6:197).

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Title: I. John Thaxter’s Inventories of Household Furnishings, 14 May – 16 October 1782
Author: Thaxter, John
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 14 May 1782 – 16 October 1782

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Cite as: “I. John Thaxter’s Inventories of Household Furnishings, 14 May – 16 October 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-13-02-0019-0002. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 13, May–October 1782, ed. Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Margaret A. Hogan, Jessie May Rodrique, Mary T. Claffey, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006, pp. 26–31.]

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