New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory
Name: John Black
Date of Inventory: October 2, 1812
Appraisors:
| Item |
Value in Dollars
|
Item |
Value in Dollars
|
| wearing apparel | 4.00 |
1 old bedstead & bottom | 0.75 |
| 1 walnut bureau | 10.00 |
1 bedstead & bedding | 10.00 |
| 2 pine tables | 3.00 |
1 lott of bed cloaths | 1.00 |
| 1 mahagony candle stand | 1.25 |
2 trunks | 2.00 |
| 5 chairs | 4.75 |
1 brass candlestick | 0.25 |
| 1 pair andirons, shovel, tongs | 5.00 |
1 flax machine | 4.00 |
| 1 old carpet | 2.00 |
4 dozen unfinished shuttles | 5.00 |
| 1 small looking glass & 1 picture with gilt frame | 3.25 |
1 lott of flax | 2.00 |
| 1 six spindle cotton machine | 10.00 |
1 pair of drawing [rolers] | 2.00 |
| 1 pair kitchen andirons | 0.75 |
1 lott of tools | 6.00 |
| 1 coffee mill & sugar caskets | 3.00 |
2 setty taper taps | 3.00 |
| 1 tea kettle, frying pan & griddle, 3 small pots | 3.00 |
1 handsaw | 0.75 |
| 2 sets of window curtains | 3.00 |
1 lot of handles | 2.00 |
| 1 pair flat irons | 0.50 |
1 large grindstone | 8.00 |
| 2 coffee pots & 1 butter kettle | 0.75 |
2 turning lathes | 25.00 |
| 1 lott of kitchenware | 1.00 |
1 iron vice | 4.00 |
| 1 tub & pail & 4 barrels | 1.50 |
1 lott of sundries, bobbing &c. | 2.00 |
| 1 lott of china & queensware | 3.00 |
1 lott round iron | 3.00 |
| 2 small & 1 large waiter | 2.00 |
1 lott plant & scantling | 2.00 |
| 1 lott of [roving] jacks & 3 unfinished frames | 5.50 |
1 old stove | 3.00 |
| 1 lott of weavers bobbing | 6.00 |
1/2 part of a patch of [cors] | 0.50 |
| 1 lott of books | 6.00 |
Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens