New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory
Name: Robert G. Ashton
Date of Inventory: September 11, 1837
Appraisors: James Thomas & Jacob W. Garretson
| Item | Value in Dollars | Item | Value in Dollars |
| walnut breakfast table | 4.50 | Contents of Shop | |
| pine breakfast table | 3.00 | burnishing table & tools | 5.00 |
| 6 chairs | 4.50 | 1 press & die | 75.00 |
| mahagony looking glass | 2.00 | 1 lathe | 15.00 |
| 1 lot carpeting | 6.00 | 6 hammers & 3 blocks | 7.00 |
| pair brass candlesticks | 0.75 | lot tongs, pair shears & anvil | 2.00 |
| straw matting | 0.50 | 18 common tablespoons | 0.60 |
| lot queensware | 5.00 | 3 cast iron dies | 0.50 |
| mahagony bureau | 9.00 | 5 punches | 3.00 |
| 1 common stand | 1.00 | set bellows | 8.00 |
| wash bowl & pitcher | 0.50 | poker & tongs | 0.25 |
| pictures | 0.75 | staining tub | 0.25 |
| cattail bed, bedsteads & sacking | 7.00 | 2 anvils | 2.00 |
| lot books | 4.00 | 2 [] skillets & wine plates | 1.75 |
| shaving utensils & clothes brush | 1.50 | set old tools | 0.37 |
| wearing apparel incl. 3 coats | 10.00 | lot bench tools | 6.00 |
| 1 field bedstead, sacking and bed | 25.00 | 4 files | 1.50 |
| 6 quilts | 7.00 | scale portion & scale beam chain | 1.00 |
| 9 sheets | 5.50 | set of crucibles | 0.50 |
| 11 yds straw matting | 2.00 | barrel of sweepings | 5.00 |
| 4 chairs | 2.50 | 1 sheet of brass & sundries | 4.25 |
| 3 pair pillow cases | 1.50 | 18 beazers | 2.80 |
| 1 cradle | 2.00 | lot wine | 1.25 |
| 1 chest & piece of oil cloth | 1.00 | lamp, 2 blowers, 17 spoons | 1.50 |
| 1 small chest | 0.87 | 1 watch | 1.00 |
| 1 basket | 0.12 | 14 thimbels | 0.28 |
| 1 cook stove | 8.00 | 1 shop bench | 2.00 |
| 2 tubs & washboard | 1.50 | 1 [] cast [bizzling] silver | 9.80 |
| 1 dripping pan & gridiron | 1.50 | 6 butter knives | 4.80 |
| 2 pots & tea kettle | 1.25 | 2 silver combs | 3.60 |
| 4 flatt irons | 1.25 | 1 dozen silver teaspoons | 10.00 |
| 4 common chairs | 1.75 | 3 pins & clasps | 3.00 |
| skillet, coffee mill & [belhouses] | 1.25 | 3 pencils & watch chains | 1.00 |
| 1 pair shovel, tong & andirons | 2.00 | scheathes & hooks | 6.50 |
| 1 market basket & lot earthenware | 1.25 | 4 lockets | 2.00 |
| 1 bench & dough tray | 1.00 | 9 finished hooks | 1.50 |
| blocking brushes & loom | 0.75 | 1 lot gold | 0.53 |
| lot spoons, knives & forks | 2.50 | 9 dwt & 3 gram 18 ct gold | 6.30 |
| 2 oil lamps, 3 lamps, ironstand &c | 1.00 | 4 oz 12 gram wastage taken out of silver | 6.52 |
| brushes, wash basin, tin cups | 0.50 | ||
| lot in kitchen cupboard | 2.00 | ||
| safe | 2.00 | ||
| barrel soap & lot of dishes | 2.50 | ||
| 2 table clothes | 1.25 | ||
| 1 pair boots & 1 pair shoes | 3.00 |
Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens