New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory
Name: John Anderson
Date of Inventory: February 21, 1795
Appraisors: John Jones & John Hayes
| Item | Value in £ | Item | Value in £ |
| his wearing apparel & trunk | 15.0.0 | 282 lb. shot | 9.8.0 |
| bed & bedding | 7.10.0 | 55 lb. [madder] | 4.2.6 |
| mahogany bureau | 4.0.0 | 70 lb. coffee | 4.19.2 |
| 6 windsor chairs | 1.6.0 | 10 lb. indigo | 4.10.0 |
| bed & bedding in small room | 5.0.0 | 4 lb. rice | 4.10.0 |
| looking glass & dressing table | 1.2.0 | 2 bushels salt | 0.9.0 |
| china, queen & glassware in closet | 2.5.0 | 6 loaves sugar | 5.2.8 |
| pair fire shovel, tongs & irons | 1.2.0 | 23 lb. [allum] | 1.10.0 |
| cupboard | 1.10.0 | 45 lb. raisins | 7.5.0 |
| small stand & japanned waiter | 0.15.0 | 30 gallons rum | 11.0.6 |
| Property in partnership with John Fleming | 4 gallons apple brandy | 1.0.2 | |
| bed & bedding | 5.0.0 | 107 lb. candy | 6.14.0 |
| large 10 plate stove with pipe | 6.10.0 | sundries of glass & earthenware | 0.15.0 |
| kitchen table & 2 chairs | 0.15.0 | 2 chests | 2.0.0 |
| small bed & bedding | 1.0.0 | scales, weights, [c..] & measures | 0.5.6 |
| sundry kitchen furniture | 3.5.0 | snuff & bowls []key | 0.11.3 |
| 6 blankets & coverlids | 3.15.0 | 2 dozen knives, forks & spoons | 0.13.12 |
| walnut desk | 3.0.0 | 20 lb. lead | 0.8.4 |
| eight day clock | 10.0.0 | desk, gun & wire stove | 1.8.9 |
| walnut dining table | 1.10.0 | 6 quarter casks & 1 part 200 gallons | 80.0.0 |
| mahogany breakfast table | 0.15.0 | 20 gallons Lisbon wine | 7.10.0 |
| walnut tea table | 0.7.6 | 5 gallons French brandy | 1.10.0 |
| sundry books | 3.0.0 | sundry empty casks & boxes | 4.10.0 |
| 13 cases of geneva | 21.2.0 | tinpump & reem wrapping paper | 0.12.0 |
| 1 case [ ] | 0.5.0 | water wheel shaft & pull wheel | 15.0.0 |
| 20 empty cases | 3.15.0 | apparatus of barley mill | 20.0.0 |
| 60 lb. Souchong tea | 16.10.0 | barley chest | 9.10.0 |
| 8 lb. Bohea tea | 1.2.0 | barley kiln | 3.0.0 |
| 2 lb. gunpowder | 0.2.6 | apparatus of fulling mill | 6.0.0 |
| 42 lb. chocolate | 2.12.6 | grindstone | 6.5.1 |
| 32 lb. black pepper | 4.19.0 | 6 windsor chairs | 1.2.6 |
Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens