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On the strength
the Settlement Patent each family received from
the Settlement Rent Office: one cow or 18
Guilders, one bed (statt), one straw sack, one
rug, 6 sacks, one backing (molter?), one axe,
one wide pick, one ditch shovel (spade), one
manure (pitch) fork, one spinning wheel, one
flour sieve, one bread kiln (Schießer) (backing
kiln), one water tub, one milk bucket, and one
butter tub.
Only the farmers
received in addition: Four horses or 88
Guilders, one short bridle, one long bridle
(field bridle), four halters, eight draft (Zug)
ropes, two harness ropes (wagon ropes for sheaf
and hay carrying), a wagon without metal
fittings, a plow together with accessories, a
bow (thorn bow?), a hatchet, a pole pick, a
throw shovel, a wooden fork (for hay), a scythe
with whetstone, two sickles, a (Tengel?)
harness, two drills, a cutting knife (a wagon
maker's working tool), a hand saw and a wagon
rope. Beyond that each farmer kept one quarter
to one half of a session with winter and summer
fruit cultivated field with the wheat belonging
to them. The seeds had to be sowed back in.
[Beschka
Homeland Book by Peter Lang,
translated by Brad Schwebler.] |