New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory
Name: Benjamin M. Barron
Date of Inventory: June 14, 1865
Appraisors:
| Item | Value in Dollars | Item | Value in Dollars |
| 2 mantle ornaments | 0.25 | brass kettle & clothes line | 0.50 |
| 1 rug | 0.25 | a lot of carpet on 3 pairs of stairs (15 yds) | 3.75 |
| 3 waiters | 0.12 | water cooler | 1.00 |
| 3 stair rods | 0.75 | flour bucket | 0.10 |
| safe | 1.00 | table & pan & lot sundries | 1.00 |
| picture of steam boat | 1.50 | 3 maps | 0.25 |
| feather bed | 5.00 | 2 window curtains | 0.15 |
| cane seat rocking chair | 2.00 | 8 pictures | 0.40 |
| pair window shades | 1.00 | 1 [] chair & pan | 1.50 |
| stove upstairs | 2.00 | knife box & contents | 0.20 |
| rocking chair | 0.50 | 8 cotton window curtains | 2.00 |
| crash entry & stairs carpet | 0.50 | 3 muslin bureau covers | 1.50 |
| tea kettle | 0.25 | 1 lot fringe & tassels | 0.25 |
| 2 frying pans | 0.25 | 2 sheets on bed [valis] | 3.00 |
| 5 hand irons | 1.50 | 2 boxes on bureau & curtains | 1.00 |
| dinner pot | 0.25 | 7 stand covers | 1.40 |
| bucket | 0.20 | 3 pillow strips | 0.75 |
| coal shovel | 0.05 | 3 bolster strips | 1.50 |
| waiter | 0.10 | 5 linen towels | 1.00 |
| box sundries | 0.25 | 1 small sheet | 0.75 |
| tin kettle & sundries | 0.25 | 6 silver spoons | 5.00 |
| tub & sundries | 0.75 | 1 gold watch | 50.00 |
| table & cover | 0.50 | 1 piece oil cloth | 0.25 |
| 3 cushions | 0.25 | 1 shade & lot of books | 1.50 |
| 1 lot of tinware | 0.75 | 1 lot of crockeryware | 0.25 |
| bed & pillow | 7.00 | knives & forks | 0.25 |
| table | 0.25 | 1 caster & contents | 1.00 |
| 4 quilts & 2 bed blankets | 12.00 | 1 pair spectacles | 0.25 |
| looking glass | 2.00 | 30 shares stock Wilmington & New Castle Railroad | 1500.00 |
| chest | 0.50 |
Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens