On the Chocolate Trail

Estate Inventories – Non-Jewish


Estate Inventories: Non-Jewish

Date

Name

Quantity of Chocolate and Chocolate Objects

Comment 

Source 

Page

16-Feb-1730

John Brooke

1 Chocolate pot 

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

1

16-Dec-1745

John Ballard

61 lb Coco Nuts @ 12d;2 Chocolate pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

3

19-Aug-1749

Thomas Powells

1 Tin Chocolate pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

1

19-Jan-1750

James Shields

4 China Chocolate Cups, 1 Chocolate Pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

1

18-Mar-1750

James Wray

56 lb. Chocolate Nutts 56/

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

3

18-Jun-1750

William Nelson

1 Chocolate Pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

1

16-Sep-1751

Edmund Smith

Chocolate Pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

2

16-Jul-1753

Charles Seabrooke

10 lb Cocoa Nuts

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

3

20-May-1754

George Wells

2 Copper Chocolate Pots

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

3

18-Aug-1755

Kenneth McKenzie

Chocolate Pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

1

21-Mar-1757

Thomas Crease

1 Chocolate Pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

1

20-Feb-1758

Ellyson Armistead

Chocolate Pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

1

17-Jul-1758

Anthony Routh

 5 1/2 lb Chocolate 2/3

 

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

 

16-Nov-1761

William Hunter

Chocolate Pots

Ravenscroft Archaeological Project

5-May-1762

Solomon Fussell, Philadelphia

1 Chocolate potts 

Phipps, Frances. Colonial Kitchens:  Their furnishings and Their Gardens.

(New York: Hawthorn Books) 1972.

85

21-Jun-1762

Thomas Reynolds, Captain

Chocolate Pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library 

18-Jul-1763

James Mills

4 End Chocolate [torn]; 2 End. Chocolate Cups

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

21-Oct-1765

William Prentis

2 old Chocolate Cups

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

2

16-Jun-1766

Joseph Royle

1 Chocolate Pott

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

4

15-Feb-1768

John Coke

1 Chocolate Pot; 8 Chocolate Cups 30/

 

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

2

18-Jul-1768

George Wilkinson

Chocolate (and Mustard)

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

2-Feb-1771

Anthony Hay

1 Copper Chocolate Pot 30/.2

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

4

20-Jul-1772

Francis Fauquier

2 Chocolate pots, 3 lbs Chocolate 

York County Records

2,3

20-Jul-1772

James Mitchell

Chocolate Pots 

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

4

17-Aug-1772

Thomas Hornsby

Chocolate Pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

3

19-Jul-1773

William Prentis

24 (lbs?)Chocolate 18

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

2

20-Dec-1773

Robert Sheilds

20 Chocolate Cups 8/, 1 Chocolate pot 4/

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

2

19-Jan-1778

Matthew Davenport

1 Copper Chocolate Pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

16-Feb-1778

Mary Cooley

Chocolate 18/

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

2

17-Aug-1778

Richard Sclater

1 Chocolate Mugg

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

2

9-Apr-1779

Lawrence Smith

a Chocolate Mug

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

2

21-Jun-1779

John Camm

1 Chocolate pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

21-Jun-1779

Alexander Purdie

1 Chocolate pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

5

17-Jan-1780

Anne Burwell

Chocolate cups £20

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

17-Jan-1780

Elizabeth Camm

Chocolate pot

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

17-Jan-1780

Richard Charlton

3 lb. Chocolate £18

Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library

2

16-Nov-1780

William Fitzhugh

a silver chocolate pot

bequeaths his “son Thomas a silver chocolate pot I brought out of England”

Heckscher, Morrison H., and Leslie Greene Bowman. American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament. Exhibition Catalogue. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art) 1992.

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On the Chocolate Trail

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