Massachusetts
The following exemptions of personal property are allowed: 1st. The necessary wearing apparel of the debtor and his wife and children, and household necessaries to a limited amount. 2d. Other household furniture necessary for him and his family, not exceeding three hundred dollars in value. 3d. The Bibles, school-books, and library used by him or his family, not exceeding fifty dollars in value. 4th. One cow, six sheep, one swine, and two tons of hay. 5th. The tools, implements, and fixtures necessary for carrying on his trade or business, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value. 6th. Materials and stock for carrying on his trade or business, and intended to be used or wrought therein, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value. 7th. The provisions necessary for the use of the family, not exceeding fifty dollars in value. 8th. One pew occupied by him or his family in a house of public worship; but this does not prevent the sale of a pew for the non-payment of a tax legally laid thereon. 9th. The boat, fishing tackle, and nets of fishermen, actually used by them in the prosecution of their business, to the value of one hundred dollars. 10th. The uniform of an officer or soldier in the militia, and the arms and accoutrements required by law to be kept by him. 11th. Rights of burial and tombs while in use as repositories for the dead. 12th. One sewing-machine, not exceeding one hundred dollars in value in actual use by the debtor or by his family. 13th. Shares in co-operative associations formed under the Revised Laws, ch. 110, not exceeding in value twenty dollars in the aggregate.
Every householder having a family is entitled to an estate or homestead to the value of eight hundred dollars exempt from levy on execution, if proper steps have been taken, by deed recorded in the registry of deed of the county where it is situated, to declare it a homestead.