New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory
Name: Ainger, Rev Thomas
Date of Inventory: October 17, 1797
Appraisors: Samuel Hollingsworth & Thomas Poole
| Item | Value in Dollars | Item | Value in Dollars |
| beaureau | 6.00 | Pode's Annotations, 2 vol | 8.00 |
| looking glass | 6.00 | Chairnock's Works 1 vol | 2.00 |
| tea table | 4.00 | large Bible | 2.00 |
| 6 windsor chairs | 4.50 | Testament | 0.75 |
| 6 windsor chairs | 4.00 | 3 small books | 1.00 |
| andirons | 10.00 | elegant copy Psalm book | 1.00 |
| shovel & tongs | 1.50 | pair gold scales & weights | 0.50 |
| tongs | 0.40 | hoop boxes | 6.00 |
| 2 waiters | 1.00 | 1 cord H wood | 7.00 |
| brush | 0.25 | 2 iron pots | 3.00 |
| bed bolser & pillows, woolen & callico cover | 20.00 | dutch oven | 1.00 |
| 2 dozen plates | 1.00 | baking iron | 1.50 |
| 2 dozen tea cups & saucers | 2.00 | frying pan | 1.00 |
| 2 china bowls | 0.40 | sundries in cellar | 8.00 |
| 7 wine 2 jelly glasses & 2 tumblers | 1.00 | various articles on [stairs] &c | 2.00 |
| decanter & dish | 1.00 | 5 hives bees | 5.00 |
| coffee pot & pitcher | 1.00 | bench & bucket | 1.00 |
| 1 tea pot, sugar bowl & cream jug | 0.50 | grindstone & hangings | 2.50 |
| pitcher, jars &c. | 0.50 | 25 pork barrels | 25.00 |
| 6 knives & forks | 0.60 | 1 saw | 0.75 |
| funnel | 0.20 | 2 board axes | 2.00 |
| 7 teaspoons 1 tea tong | 5.50 | 4 drawing & 1 rounding knife | 3.00 |
| queensware | 0.50 | [ ] | 1.00 |
| 4 tins | 0.25 | fro | 0.50 |
| 2 candle sticks & snuffers | 1.00 | 2 [cr ] | 2.00 |
| salt cellar & glasses | 0.25 | 4 indenters | 8.00 |
| 2 coffee mills & pot | 0.75 | [b ] iron | 2.00 |
| earthenware | 0.25 | 2 sets H trusshoops | 10.00 |
| mahagony dining table | 7.00 | 2 sets round ash trusshoops | 3.50 |
| walnut breakfast table | 1.50 | shaving horse & bench | 0.75 |
| trunk | 0.50 | corn | 0.50 |
| 6 rush bottomed chairs | 1.50 | cupboard | 0.25 |
| bedsteads | 4.00 | 100 ft sap pine | 8.00 |
| chest drawers | 4.00 | silver watch | 8.00 |
| painted table | 1.50 | 2058 cast hoop staves | 75.49 |
| looking glass | 0.75 | 446 cast head staves | 23.97 |
| 4 pictures | 2.00 | 800 cuttings | 10.07 |
| looking glass | 0.25 | [1000.50] cast barrel staves | 106.90 |
| arm chair | 0.75 | [800.50] cast barrel heading | 8.90 |
| pair andirons | 1.50 | 2 gross & 7 dozen rivets | 1.60 |
| bed quilt | 3.00 | 4 half finished [] | 10.67 |
| callico bedspread | 2.00 | time of apprentice boy's supposed worth (Eli Crozier) | 15.00 |
| 5 pair sheets | 10.00 | Books | |
| 14 pillow cases | 3.50 | Gill on the Testament | 14.00 |
| 12 napkins | 1.50 | Dodd's Comp Book | 1.50 |
| 3 diaper [table] clothes | 2.50 | Gills' Song of Solomon | 1.00 |
| sundries in drawer | 4.00 | Whitefield's Works | 7.50 |
| 1 candle stand & waiter | 2.00 | Concordence | 2.00 |
| pine chest | 2.00 | Baptist's Annual Register | 0.75 |
| tin scales & weights | 2.50 | Foulfold [St] Man | 1.00 |
| steel yard | 2.50 | View of Religion | 0.75 |
| warming pan | 1.00 | Edward's On Free Will | 1.50 |
| 9 pewter plates & a dish | 1.00 | Hickingwell's Works | 0.25 |
| hand brush | 0.20 | small Bible | 2.00 |
| rag carpet | 3.00 | old book | 0.50 |
| feather bed | 12.00 | Philogia Saera | 1.00 |
| chaff feather bed & bedstead & bedding | 5.00 | Watt's Logic | 0.75 |
| old chest of stamped paper | 2.00 | Blair's Sermons | 1.50 |
| sundries | 0.50 | Walker's Sermons | 0.50 |
| pair andirons | 2.00 | Hinay's Works | 0.50 |
| 5 blankets & towels | 8.00 | Gill's Sermons | 3.00 |
| saddle & saddlebag | 8.00 | Marrow of Divinity | 1.00 |
| sundry tin articles | 3.00 | Gill In Board | 2.00 |
| copy scales | 1.00 | Paradise Lost & Regained | 1.00 |
| peck measure | 0.50 | Life Col. Gardner | 0.75 |
| reel | 0.75 | Woolstonecraft's [w] | 0.50 |
| stone jarr | 0.75 | Family Instruction | 1.00 |
| 2 sacking bottoms | 2.00 | dictionary | 0.50 |
| small table | 0.25 | Treatise on Types | 0.50 |
| 4 [cas] | 0.50 | Hymn book | 0.50 |
| wearing apparel | 40.00 | various old books | 4.00 |
| spinning wheel | 2.00 | ||
| pair bedsteads | 1.00 | ||
| sundry copper tools | 12.00 |
Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens