Furnishings of the Families
 

 

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.]

 

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