New Castle County
Borough of Wilmington
Probate Inventory

Name: Robert Black
Date of Inventory: October 6, 1796
Appraisors: Joseph Warner & Philip Bonsall

Item Value in £ Item Value in £
wearing apparel 5.0.0 pitch ax 0.0.3
featherbed, bolster & pillow 8.1.3 coffee mill & coffee pot 0.5.0
featherbed, bolster & pillow 4.17.6 1/2 dozen knives & forks 0.5.0
4 pillow cases 0.1.6 sundries in closet 0.5.0
2 bed-ticks 1.10.0 bake iron & candle sticks 0.9.0
1 pair sheets 1.5.0 sixty weight of feathers 0.11.5
1 pair tow sheets 0.5.0 142 weight of rags 2.9.8
1 coverlid 0.15.0 saddle bag 1.0.0
bedstead with a cord 0.7.6 saddle & bridle 1.5.0
bedstead with a cord 0.10.0 1 big wheel 0.2.0
6 silver teaspoons 1.5.0 sundries & hammer 0.4.0
sundry tinware 0.15.0 pair steel yards 0.6.0
pine corner cupboard 1.2.6 2 casks of sundries 0.3.0
1 small trunk 0.5.0 chest & trunk 0.5.0
1 table cloth 0.4.6 chest 0.7.6
1 poplar table 0.2.4 25 yards of linen 2.9.0
1 walnut breakfast table 1.5.0 1 3/4 yards muslin 0.2.0
1 pine table 0.3.9 2 pieces muslin 0.2.0
6 rush bottom chairs 0.15.0 4 handkerchiefs 0.4.0
1 small looking glass 0.6.0 17 yards callico 1.10.0
pair bellows 0.5.0 bed quilt 1.0.0
small iron [ ] 0.4.0 pair blankets 1.5.0
walnut cradle 0.10.0 pair blankets 0.15.0
child's chair & stool 0.4.0 small wheel & reel 0.5.0
1 pair handirons 0.7.6 [frame] loom & [tackle] 1.10.0
shovel & tongs 0.6.0 2 [ ] 0.1.3
pair flat irons 0.3.9 1 wool skin 0.3.9
iron pot & hooks 0.15.0 8 weight of [ ] 0.16.0
frying pan 0.3.6 1/2 cord of wood 0.18.9
tea kettle 0.5.0 1 rope & sundry casks 0.5.0
bake oven without a lid 0.2.6 1 [cart] of geese 3.0.0
wooden ware 0.7.6 1 bay mare 22.10.0
gridiron 0.2.9 1 cow 6.0.0

 

Entry compiled & edited by Richard E. Stevens

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