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<font size=3>In a 1747 Boston estate inventory, there is (in a
semi-cursive script):<br><br>
Stable; 1 Chair & Harness<br>
2 Saddles 4 Bridles & Housen [as near as I can make out this last
word]<br>
1 Cow ... 1 White Horse<br>
2 Red ditto & 1 Mare<br><br>
What might "Housen" be? (Singular or plural, although I
doubt it's a Germanic plural of "house"!) The capital H
looks very much like the one in Harness; the final "n" I could
be convinced otherwise about.<br><br>
Joel</font></body>
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