New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory
Name: Capt. John T. Anderson
Date of Inventory: February 2, 1853
Appraisors: Robert L. Harris & John M. Turner
| Item | Value in Dollars | Item | Value in Dollars |
| Room #1 | B. Room | ||
| In money - gold | 240.00 | 1 breakfast table with oil cloth | 1.50 |
| In money - notes | 35.00 | 1 settee with cushion | 3.00 |
| 1 small coal stove | 4.00 | 1 rush bottom chair & 1 small arm chair | 0.62 |
| 1 bureau - mahagony | 4.00 | 1 small looking glass & 2 picture frames | 8.71 |
| 1 high post bedstead, bed & covering | 20.00 | 3 small waiters & 1 pair glass lamps | 1.00 |
| 2 wash stands, 1 small wash bowl & pitcher | 2.50 | six cut glass tumblers | 0.37 |
| 1 rocking arm chair & 6 cain bottom chairs | 6.50 | 1 cooking stove & fixtures | 7.00 |
| 6 windsor & 2 rocking chairs | 3.00 | 1 dish & 7 plates - dinner | 0.75 |
| 1 looking glass & 2 picture frames | 1.12 | 1 dozen breakfast plates | 0.75 |
| Room #2 | 1 castor & 2 teapots | 6.21 | |
| 1 lowposted bedstead, bed & covering | 13.00 | 10 cups & saucers & 3 sugar bowls | 8.71 |
| 1 trunnell bedstead, bed & covering | 5.00 | 1 pitcher & 1 bowl | 0.31 |
| 10 yd carpet | 1.20 | 2 glass plates & 2 soup dishes | 0.37 |
| 15 yd cotton entry carpet & 11 stair rods | 1.44 | 1/2 dozen small & 1/2 dozen large knives & forks | 1.12 |
| Parlor | 1 pair sauce dishes & 1 meat dish | 0.25 | |
| carpet in grain - 12 yd | 6.00 | 1 pair flat irons, 1 coffee mill | 0.75 |
| 1 sofa - mahagony | 12.00 | 2 sugar boxes, 2 jugs | 0.25 |
| 1 center table & cover with glass ornaments | 5.00 | 1 rag carpet - 12 yds | 1.80 |
| 1 large looking glass | 1.50 | 3 wash tubs | 1.50 |
| 1 clock - mahagony, brass works | 2.00 | 1 small wood stove | 2.00 |
| 1 pair green blinds | 3.00 | 1 small pine table | 0.20 |
| 2 books - historical | 1.00 | 6 earthen jars, 1 flour basket | 0.62 |
| 1 lard pot & 2 small baskets | 0.50 | ||
| 1 wash basin & lot of tinware | 1.00 | ||
| 1 cast iron furnace | 0.50 | ||
| 1 dutch oven & 2 coal scuttles | 0.50 |
Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens