At a Court of Probate holden by the honorable Jonathan Remington Esq. Judge of Probate of Wills & within t for the county of Middlesex on the thirty first day of October AD ~743
The Instrument hereunto Annexed purporting the last will & Testament of Robert Breford late of Reading in the same County weaver decsd was presented for probate then present Mesr's Willm Upton & Ebenezer Dammon witnesses thereto subscribed who made oath that they saw the said Testator Sign Seal & heard him declare the said Instrument to be his last will & Testament & that they with Timothy Parker Subscribed their names together as witnesses to the Execution thereof in the presence of the said Testator & that he was then to the best of their Judgment of sound & disposing mind And the said Instrument is by the said Judge proved Approved & Allowed as the last will & testament of the said dec'd & Administration thereof in all matters the same concerning & of his estate is committed unto the said dec'4 widow the executrix therein named faithfully to execute the said will & to Administer the said estate According thereunto; who accepted of her said (First), & Exhibited an Inventory of said Dec'd Estate & She shall Under a full True a Account of her said Administration when thereunto required
By Order of the Said Judge
An Inventory taken by Ebenezer Damman, Jacob Sawyer Nurse of the Estate of Robart Breford of Reading of Late October the Twenty Eighth Bay, 1743
| Item to his Homestead it being by Estimation fourteen Acres with the buildings and Every Appurtenances belonging thereto | 55.10.0 |
| Item to two acres of Meadow lying in a Meadow called bare Meadow | 6. 0.0 |
| Item to Apparrell Purse and Books | 5.10.0 |
| 5. 8. 3 | |
| Item to Stock Cattle & Swine | 20.10.0 |
| Item to Plow Hoes Axes Sythes Tack Ang with all Husbandry Tools of any Use with his gun | 5.15.3 |
| The whole of the said apprisement is in the old Tenor according to the deceased in his will (98 pounds, 13 shillings and sixpence) | 98.13.6 |
Susanna Breford the Executrix Exhibited the foregoing inventory on Oath sworn before mee S. Danforth, J. Paz & Regr.