New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory

Name: Nathan Bane
Date of Inventory: March 12, 1817
Appraisors: Isaac H. Starr & William Seal

Item Value in Dollars Item Value in Dollars
Front room downstairs   In the kitchen  
best suit wearing apparel 25.50 stove & pipe 20.00
other wearing apparel 12.50 4 chairs 1.00
old silver watch 6.00 toaster 0.50
desk 8.00 brush 0.50
card table 7.00 basket 0.37
breakfast table 4.00 candlesticks & snuffers 0.75
corner cupboard with contents 17.50 basket 0.50
6 windsor chairs 5.00 pewter 4.00
looking glass 2.50 tea kettle 0.50
6 tableclothes & 3 towels 6.00 bake iron 0.50
handirons, shovel & tongs 3.00 iron kettle 1.00
bellows & rocking chair 0.87 dutch oven 1.00
casket 4.00 teaware 1.00
Front room upstairs   2 small pots & skillet 1.00
bed, head & bottom 3.00 bell metal kettle 1.50
bed bolster & pillows 12.50 iron pot, potrack, chopping knife & dripping pan 1.00
cloth on the bed 8.50 sundry old casks 0.30
In passage at head of stairs   shovel, spade & fork 1.00
high post bedstead & sacking bottom 10.00 [box] tub &c 0.50
blue bedstead 2.00 steel yards & toaster 0.50
chest 2.00 knives & forks, steel, small chopping knife 1.00
six bed quilts 6.50 In the cellar  
blankets 1.50 2 saws & 1 horse 1.50
Back room upstairs   rake & hoe 0.50
trunk 3.00 wheel & reel 1.00
basket of old sheets &c 2.00 hatchet 1.00
bureau 8.00 empty casks 1.00
six sheets 4.00 dough trough & tray 0.75
18 pillow & bolster cases 4.00 frying pan 0.50
6 flaxen sheets 6.00 earthenware, tubs &c 1.00
bedstead & sacking bottom 11.00 scraps of leather & shoe makers tools 2.00
bed bolster & pillows 12.50 carpet 0.50
2 sheets, 2 blankets, 2 quilts & 1 coverlet 9.00 bag 0.50
looking glass 1.50    
coverlet on floor 1.00    
umbrella 1.50    
large rocking chair 1.50    

 

Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens

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