New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory

Name: James Adams, Sr
Date of Inventory:January 11, 1793

Item Valuation in £ Item Valuation in £
wearing apparel 11-0-0 93 Edwards on Free Will 17-8-9
eight day clock 12-0-0 28 Listen of Fancy 5-5-0
walnut breakfast table 1-10-0 55 Bates on Man's Redemptions 10-6-3
dining table 0-15-0 64 Four old slate by Boston 12-0-0
6 mahagony chairs 4-10-0 1 Crisp's Sermons 0-3-9
6 winsor chairs 1-4-0 7 school Bibles 1-8-0
2 oval looking glasses 4-10-0 2 pocket Bibles 0-12-0
7 pictures 0-14-0 13 School Master's Assistants 1-12-6
1 looking glass 1-0-0 7 American Accountant 0-17-6
5 pictures 0-10-0 74 Psalm books of different kinds 7-8-0
6 rush bottom chairs 0-12-0 20 Family Prayers 1-13-4
2 pictures King & Queen of France 0-7-6 41 Doarley's Crops Tables 6-3-0
4 old chairs 0-4-0 3 Thompson's Seasons 0-7-6
2 old tables 0-4-0 8 Vicar of Wakefield 1-0-0
2 old waiters 0-0-9 10 Willison on the Sabbath 1-0-0
1 writing desk 1-0-0 10 Willsion Afflicated Mans Companion 0-16-8
7 pewter plates 0-5-0 1 Domestice Medicine 0-6-0
1 pewter basin & 2 larger dishes 0-11-3 1 American Museum 0-6-0
1 cullender, candle mold & sundries 0-7-6 1 Knox's Essay 0-5-0
1 bake oven, iron kettle & iron pot 1-2-6 1 Atkinson's Navigator 0-5-0
1 griddle, iron toaster, 2 bake irons & little pot 0-40-0 1 Hervey's Meditations 0-4-0
3 teapots, 3 queensware platers &
2 pewter plates		 0-5-0 1 Messiah 0-3-0
shovel & tongs & 1 pair andirons 0-6-6 1 Cook's Voyage 0-3-9
6 queensware plates & 1/2 dozen knives & forks 0-5-0 1 Olney's Hymns 0-8-0
1 pair [] irons, old pot & tub 0-6-0 3 copy plates 0-2-6
1 earthen crock, pan & dish 0-1-0 2 receipt books 0-2-0
1 stand, shovel & tongs & andirons 1-3-4 1 printed blank notebook 0-2-6
1 tea table 0-8-0 7 Hughes' Hymns 0-5-8
sundry china & deftware in [beufet] 1-15-0 2 books bills of lading 0-7-6
1 open stove 0-3-0 54 Chapman books 1-16-0
1 cream jug, sugar tongs & 4 spoons 2-5-0 5 Russell's Sermons 0-3-4
1 small looking glass 0-3-9 40 Economy of Human Life 1-6-8
1 table 0-12-0 119 primmers 1-4-9
6 walnut chairs 3-0-0 19 Testaments 1-8-5
2 window curtains 0-6-0 54 2/12 dozen Woolmans Primmers 3-17-8
6 rush bottom chairs 0-18-0 21 Schoolmasters Assistants 2-2-0
1 case of drawers 4-0-0 12 Dilworth's Spelling Books - bound 6-2-2
1 bedstead & bedding 8-0-0 167 Testaments - bound 13-18-4
1 bedstead & bedding 9-0-0 149 Chesterfield in pamphlets 6-9-2
3 sheets 2-5-0 73 Lives of Poets in pamphlets 1-6-6
1 table cloth 0-11-3 323 New American Primmers 3-7-3
1 table cloth 0-5-7 20 Aporisms pamphlets 0-3-0
1 window curtain 0-7-0 5 Anderson On Singing Psalms 0-4-0
1 close stool 1-10-0 72 Plain Planter in pamphlet 0-12-0
1 small stand, 1 pair sheet &c 0-18-6 3 Oliphant's Sacrement & Catechism 0-1-6
1 cupboard 0-15-0 143 Economy of Human Life - bound 0-7-0
1 bed & bedding 3-0-0 233 Economy of Human Life - bound 6-15-6
1 old carpet 0-2-0 127 Testaments - bound 11-6-7
1 tub & sundries 0-5-0 100 Family Prayers in sheets 4-3-0
2 pudding pans 0-3-0 8 Spin Teaching  
1 grindstone 0-1-6 65 Faith & Prayer 2-0-0
1 warming pan 0-5-0 73 Plays, Tragedies &c 0-12-2
1 stove (6 plate) & pipe 2-5-0 73 John Faustus 0-6-2
1 hogshead 0-5-0 25 copies Common Sense 0-4-2
1 big wheel & reel 0-12-6 15 copies Onamia 0-7-6
1 old [couch] 0-10-0 47 Brief Attempts by Finley 0-1-14
2 old portmanteaus & 2 pair saddle bags 0-7-6 7 Geography 0-0-7
1 printers press 18-0-0 3 Girl of Spirit 0-0-4
1 bank 0-7-6 18 Vision &c 0-1-6
1 trough, 1 case & board 1-7-6 10 Spirits Teaching 0-0-10
13 1/2 pair canes 7-11-10 61 Descriptions of Virtuous Women 0-2-6
3 double frames 1-13-9 10 Baptism of Believers 0-2-6
2 single frames 0-11-3 sundry pamphlets 0-3-9
1 [imposeing] stone & frame 1-0-0 156 B pamphlets 0-13-0
4 chairs 3-10-0 70 Family Assistants 13-0-0
1 small chair 0-4-6 417 Shorter Catechisms  
1 bookbinders cutting press 0-10-0 26 Important Care of Consumers  
1 bookbinders cutting plow 0-4-6 157 Children's Catechisms  
7 # ink 1-17-6 15 [] Chesterfield  
6 galleys 0-6-0 46 [] Economy  
2 composing sticks 0-15-0 30 Lives of []  
1 pair large shears 0-2-6 61 Young []  
1 pair bookbinder shears 0-7-6 22 Quaker [] 0-3-8
1 old bench 0-0-6 108 [Orata..] [] 0-18-0
12 poles 0-4-0 56 [] 0-14-0
1 scots printing press 10-0-0 54 [] 0-13-6
3 galleys 0-3-0 64 [] of Baptism 0-10-8
2 composing sticks 0-15-0 [] Washington History 0-1-6
1 [foli] chair 0-7-6 [] Search After Happiness 0-2-0
2 demi chairs 1-15-0 [] Passionate Lovers 0-3-4
4 pair cans 2-5-0 1000 copys Love's Sermons 100-0-0
1 double frame 0-11-3 300 Testaments - folded & [] 15-0-0
2 fonts of type pica & long [primmer] 15-0-0 1 old chest 0-3-9
1 font english &c. 20-0-0 17 tons flax 4-10-0
1 font brevior &c. 70-0-0 1 horse 0-5-0
43 types of pica & long [primmer] 160-0-0 beef & [] 0-17-6
43 reams demi printing paper 26-17-6 heap dung 1-5-0
16 reams wrapping paper 3-4-0 sundry family books 10-10-7
16 1/2 dozen sheep skins 10-11-3 [] 2-12-1
6 reams ballots 3-0-0 [...tionary] 0-15-0
3600 Testaments in sheets 165-0-0 [...scales] 0-3-9
143 Patillo's sermons - bound 17-17-6 bookbinder letters 0-12-0
14 Gentleman's Monitor 2-12-6 William McCorkle - an apprentice 20-0-0
15 Edwards against Taylor 2-5-0 Isaac Lockerman - an apprentice 15-0-0
    Alexander Kilpatrick - an apprentice 5-0-0
    Mary Kilpatrick - apprentice girl 1-0-0

Additional Information:

  • House (lot & outhouses) bounded NE by High Street and NW by King
  • also house on High Street occupied by Mrs French opposite Upper Market NW side
  • 2 acres marsh meadow
  • in Brandywine marsh - lot btw Capt Steadham & Jonah Steadman on north lane

    • Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens

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