apprizement

I Suppose it will sell for more than the apprizement, and as I hope you will return early in the spring, that will be as soon as any thing can be done about it.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 11 November 1783 1993

I sat a silent hearer upon all but one Subject which was the apprizement of this House.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 December 1798 1798

There is an apprizement of the Stock which must be made and he allowd for a quarter part of their increased value.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 March 1797 1797

By law they ought to take but one apprizement by neighbors in the country; by abuse, they make a second apprizement at the court gate; and when the subjects 'cattle come up many miles, lean and out of plight by reason of their travel, then they prize them anew at an abated price.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. David Hume 1743

Resolved, That the prayer of the aforesaid petition be so far granted, that the aforesaid articles, amounting as per a schedule and apprizement received from the Clerk of the Committee of Sequestration, to ninety-two Pounds seventeen Shillings, be granted to the said Samuel Adams, Esq., in full compensation for his services as Clerk of the House of Representatives for the year

Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663