Dr. William Baker

New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory

Name: Dr. William Baker
Date of Inventory: August 15, 1838
Appraisors: Jacob Alrichs & Jonas Pusey

Item	Value in Dollars	Item	Value in Dollars
Parlor on 1st floor		Cellar
lounge & pillow	20.00	6 wash tubs	2.75
sofa	20.00	3 pickling tubs	2.00
piano & stool	150.00	step ladder, safe & coal [ ]	2.50
10 cane seat chairs	10.00	churn, horse, wood saw & horse	0.75
2 window blinds with cornice & hangings	6.00	ice box & 3 cases 1 dozen bottles	0.50
2 mantle mirrors	40.00	4 stone jars & 2 earthenware jars	0.50
6 pictures with frames	12.00	Stable
carpet matting	8.00	grindstone & frame	0.50
stair carpet including entry & rods	5.00	wheelbarrow	2.00
2 Chambers on 2nd floor		spade, fork, rake & bucket	1.00
40 yds. carpet	20.00	old harness, saddle & bridle	1.00
mantle mirror	15.00	cutting box	1.00
[pier] settee	7.00	1 horse	75.00
pair window blinds - front room	4.00	gig & harness	50.00
pair window blinds - back room	1.00	sulky & harness	60.00
breakfast table	8.00	sleigh	4.00
pair card tables	5.00	Office
pair [astrl] lamps & shades	12.00	Nile's Weekly Register - 50 vols	25.00
8 pictures with frames	8.00	American Journal of Medical Science -11 vol	3.00
silver plate - 216.75 oz	235.42	Maurer's Quarterly Review - 11 vol	2.00
pair plated fruit baskets	10.00	North American Quarterly Magazine - 3 vol	0.25
plated caster	1.50	Gregory's Dictionary of Arts & Science - 4 vol	5.00
dinner set - Canton chinaware	18.00	Abridgment of the Gardener's Dictionary - 1 vol	0.25
tea set - Canton chinaware	18.00	Swinton's Travels - 1 vol	0.25
tea set - common	2.00	Bell on [Vensein] - 1 vol	0.50
waiter	1.00	American Dispensitory - 2 copies	0.50
wash stand & chamber set	5.00	Ellis' Medical Formula	0.25
bureau	8.00	Darwin's [Phytelogia] - 1 vol	0.50
dressing glass	5.00	Darwin's Zoonemia - 2 vol	0.75
bedstead & sacking	5.00	Richarand's Physiology - 1 vol	0.50
bed curtains	9.00	Carver's Travels - 1 vol	0.25
bed & bedding	12.00	Wistar's Anatomy - 2 vol	0.50
10 rush bottom chairs	5.00	Pinkerton's Geography - 2 vol	0.50
large rocking chair	1.00	Furguson's Astronomy - 2 copies	0.50
mantel ornaments	1.00	Gibson's Surveying - 2 copies	0.50
stair carpet & rods	3.00	History of China by Winterbottom - 1 vol	0.25
Front room 3rd floor		Johnson's Lives of the Poets - 2 vol	0.50
bedstead & sacking	4.00	Cedar's Delphinia - 1 vol	0.20
bed & bedding	15.00	Ovid's Delphinia - 1 vol	0.20
mirror	4.00	Passages in the Life of Adam Blair - 1 vol	0.20
bureau	8.00	Moore's Navigation - 1 vol	0.20
dressing glass	4.00	Medical dictionary - 1 vol	0.25
wash stand & chamber set	4.00	Bailey's Dictionary - 1 vol	0.50
6 chairs	3.00	Burton's Journal - 3 vol	0.75
20 yds. carpet	10.00	World Displayed - 1 vol	20.00
Back room 3rd floor		System of Nature - 2 vol	0.20
20 yds. carpet	4.00	Addison's Trial - 1 vol	0.10
bedstead & sacking	4.00	Philander on Chess - 1 vol	0.10
bed & bedding	12.00	Avenia - 1 vol	0.10
2 looking glasses	3.50	Lewis' Algebra - 1 vol	0.10
6 chairs	4.00	American Geographic Dictionary - 1 vol	0.10
wash stand & chamber set	3.00	History of Mexico - 1 vol	0.10
Upper story		Freguson's Lectures - 1 vol	0.20
stair carpet, rods & upper story carpet	2.00	Elements of Phisyology - 1 vol	0.40
set bed curtains - dark chintz	1.50	James Burns - 2 vol	0.50
set bed curtains - light chintz	2.50	Rush's Works - 2 vol	1.00
4 bed quilts	4.00	Dorsey's Surgery - 2 vol	0.80
Marsailles quilt	2.50	Correspondent - 6 vol	0.50
8 blankets	8.00	Barton's Cullen - 2 vol	0.50
12 pair linen sheets	20.00	Cullen's Practice - 1 vol	0.20
40 yds. imperial carpet	30.00	Burns on Uterus - 1 vol	0.10
7 yds. Venetian carpet	3.50	Baily's Morbia Anatomy	0.20
4 trunks	4.00	Bere on Ulcers - 1 vol	0.20
3 trunks	0.75	White's Surgery - 1 vol	0.20
dressing stand & set	0.50	Dedault's Surgery - 1 vol	0.20
6 chairs	1.50	Idler - 2 vol	0.10
cot bedstead & sacking	1.50	Brook & Gazetteer	0.10
low post bedstead & sacking	1.50	Philosophy of Human Nature	0.10
chamber chair	0.50	Medical Society - 3 odd vol	0.30
[ ]	0.50	Johnson's Influence of Civic	0.10
fire fender	1.00	Bureau	0.10
lumber in loft	1.50	Philadelphia Medical Journal - 7 vol	0.70
clothes horse	0.50	Spurzeimon Insanity - 1 vol	0.25
12 tin pans	1.50	Nicholson's Chemistry - 1 vol	0.20
2 copper coal scuttles	2.50	German Grammar	0.50
2 iron coal scuttles	3.00	Plantagenet	0.50
shovel, tongs & 2 pokers	1.00	Mullady's Ireland - 1 vol	0.25
scales & weights	0.25	[Lineari] - 1 vol	0.50
Chamber over breakfast room		Ryland on Diseases of the Chest - 1 vol	0.25
bedstead & sacking	1.00	Fyfe's Anatomy - 7 vol	0.20
truckel bed & sacking	1.00	Universal Gazateer	0.25
bed & bedding	10.00	Encylopedia - 21 vol	15.75
carpet	1.50	Cooper's Surgery - 2 vol	2.00
wash stand, basin & ewer	0.75	Dean's Midwifery	1.00
table	0.25	Horner's Special Anatomy - 2 vol	1.00
6 pair muslin sheets - old	1.50	Harris's Chemistry - 1 vol	0.50
4 pair muslin sheets - new	4.00	Smith on Fever	0.25
4 old cotton comfortables	2.00	Brousa's on Physiology - 1 vol	0.50
Breakfast room		Brousa's on Insanity	0.20
side board	10.00	Cleapman's Materia Medica - 2 vol	0.50
mirror	1.00	Spurzeim's Anatomy of the Brain - 1 vol	0.25
window blinds	1.00	Eberly's Practice - 2 vol	1.00
carpet matting	0.50	Gibson's Surgery - 2 vol	0.75
2 glass pitchers with stands	2.00	Good's Story of Medicine - 5 vol	0.75
2 glass plates with stands	1.00	Ainsworth's Dictionary - 1 vol	0.20
1 pair salts	0.50	Buck's Theological Dictionary - 1 vol	0.50
[celery] glass	0.25	English & German Doctors - 7 vol	0.50
5 decanters	1.00	Classical Dictionary - 1 vol	0.50
1/2 dozen tumblers	0.50	Bishate on Pathology - 1 vol	0.20
2 dozen wine glasses	1.50	Taylor's [Diogesis] - 1 vol	0.20
1 set Britanniaware - 5 pieces	2.50	Henry's Chemistry - 1 vol	0.40
3 pairs glass lamps	0.50	Cavallo's Philosophy - 2 vol	1.00
Kitchen		Anatomical Plates	0.25
1 set Liverpoolware - 70 pieces	10.00	Smith's Art of Drawing - 4 vol	0.25
4 stone jugs	0.50	misc. works - 30 small vol	2.00
table	1.00	box of amputating instruments	2.00
[Wisterbrock] stove & apparatus	2.00	box [ ] instruments	1.50
box, 1/2 dozen knives & forks & carving knife/fork	2.00	set obstetric instruments	2.00
3 common pitchers	0.50	thermometer	0.25
2 waiters - 1 large & 1 small	0.25	box of segars	0.50
1 Britianna castor	0.25	bust of Chapman	0.25
glass lantern	0.25	3 small maps	0.20
4 pots, 2 bake ovens & 2 skillets	1.25	bookcase	4.00
2 tin ovens & frying pan	1.00	bookcase	2.00
sheet iron [ ]	2.00	2 tables	1.00
bath tub	5.00	6 arm chairs	1.50
4 wooden buckets	0.50	looking glass	0.25
3 coal furnaces	0.75	pair window blinds	1.00
5 flat irons	0.75	4 coal stoves with pipes	16.00
table & dough trough	1.00	cash in bank	71.75
clotheshorse, shovel & tongs	0.50
brass kettle	2.00
2 dozen kitchen tins	1.50
9 yds. matting	1.50
3 stew pans & tea kettle	1.00
2 dripping pans & 2 coffee mills	0.50
fish kettle, bell metal kettle & old waiter	1.00

Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens

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