New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory

Name: James Battersby
Date of Inventory: April 27, 1827
Appraisors: J. Wilson & Valentine McNeal

Item
Valuation in Dollars
Item
Valuation in Dollars
wearing apparel
2.00
1 lot of cups, saucers & pitchers & waiter
2.00
feather bed, bolster and pillows
16.50
1 [canter] & tumblers
2.00
5 blankets
5.00
1 pair plated candlesticks
0.60
1 quilt and 1 sheet
7.50
2 window curtains
0.25
1 bedstead sacking and curtains
8.00
10 chairs
3.75
2 pairs sheets (muslin)
2.50
24 yds of carpet
5.00
1 old quilt & sheets
0.50
1 open stove
5.00
6 pillow and bolster cases
1.00
12 old chairs
1.50
1 bureau
1.50
1 walnut table in kitchen
0.75
1 small pair brass andiron
1.00
1 nine plate stove
5.00
1 small looking glass/in front room
0.75
1 tin [kitchen]
2.00
1 beadstead and sacking
2.50
1 small looking glass
0.50
3 old bandboxes
0.25
4 pots
1.50
1 small looking glass
0.40
tea kettle, griddle, frying pan, broiler
2.00
1 featherbed and pillows
6.00
andiron, tongs, shovel & bellows
1.00
1 cattail bed
0.25
3 [iadiron] candlestick & lamp
0.50
5 blankets
5.00
lot of sundries in kitchen
3.00
1 small pair [scales]
0.40
lot of cedarware
3.50
1 lot of old bed clothes
0.40
lot of old carpet
2.00
1 hair mattress
10.00
1 safe
2.00
1 pair old bedsteads & wheel
1.00
1 horse & saw
1.00
1 [wight] chair
2.00
2 bags
0.50
1 bedquilt
1.00
bench lumber
1.75
1 lot of lumber
sow & pigs
6.00
1 walnut dining table
2.50
1 cow
18.00
1 walnut breakfast table
1.00
1 mare
40.00
1 mahogany sideboard
10.00
1 saddle & bridle
3.00
1 round tea table
1.00
1 horse cart & gear
8.00
1 large looking glass
10.00
lot of manure
4.00
8 pictures
3.00
 
3 small pictures
0.25
 
1 lot of queensware (20 pieces)
2.00

Additional Information:

 

Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens

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