Inventory of George Beck

Franklin County
May Term AD 1847
Pages 445-446
November 14th AD 1845. The following is an inventory and appraisement made by William Wood & John Spradling, of the personal property of George Beck, deceased, late of Franklin County, Indiana, as far as they have come to the knowledge of the administrator

1 lot of tin ware 1.00
1 lot of plates, knives & forks, & cupboard ware 3.50
1 iron kettle, bread pans & 2 smoothing irons 3.75
14 crocks & jugs 1.19
7 crocks of apple butter 3.00
1 lot of augers, axes, pincers, drawing knife & saw & square 4.00
4 buckets, 1 tub, 1 churn, patent coffee mill & seive 3.50
1 keg, part full of nails & lot of old iron 2.90
11 meal bags 2.50
1 lot of old carpeting & waggoner's bed 4.25
4 bags with beans, buckwheat, grass seed & flax seed 2.00
1 lot of towels, sheets, coverlids & curtains 8.25
1 chest & lancet 2.00
9 chairs 3.00
1 chest & the wearing apparel & books of the deceased 8.50
1 8 day brass clock & case 8.00
1 bedstead, bed & bedding 10.00
1 ten plate stove & pipe 6.00
1 corner cupboard 6.00
1 iron pot trammel & chain 0.50
2 copper kettles 10.00
3 barrels with pickless, vinegar & salt & 4 old barrels 2.65
1 keg of soap & 1 lot of onions & box 0.75
2 cradling scythes & 1 mowing scythe & 1 lot of old iron 2.00
2 hoes, 1 spade & 1 shovel 1.00
1 lot of potatoes, apples & cabbage 5.00
1 harrow, 1 log chain & 2 pair of stretchers 4.50
2 peacock ploughs, 1 wheel barrow, & 1 pr double trees & 2 shovel ploughs 12.50
1 2 horse wagon & 1 wood bed & 1 4 horse wagon 76.00
1 lot of flax, 1 pitch fork & 2 dung forks 2.50
3 barrels, 1 hogshead, 1 flax brake, 1 ½ bushel & peck measures 2.87½
3 meal bags with timothy & hemp seed 1.00
1 wind mill & rake 7.00
1 lot of harness, plough gears, saddle & bridle & 3 halters 10.50
1 gray horse 25.00
1 small gray horse (willed to Polly Beck) 30.00
1 lot of hay, supposed to be 2½ tons 13.00
1 lot of wheat in the sheaf, supposed to be 60 bushels 40.00
1 lot of oats in the sheaf, supposed to be 20 bushels 4.00
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1 lot of rye in the sheaf, supposed to be 4 bushels 2.00
1 lot of clover seed in the straw, supposed to be 5 bushels 10.00
10 head of hogs 31.00
1 red cow (willed to Polly Beck) 9.00
2 red milk cows 16.00
1 muley cow 11.00
1 bull 5.00
1 calf 2.00
24 fowls 2.00
1 clothes line & scales 1.25
6 head of sheep 5.25
6 acres of corn in the field, supposed to be 175 bushels 35.00
12 acres of wheat growing in the field 48.00
3½ old wagon tyres 6.00
an account against John Harden 5.75
an account against Jacob W. Jacobson 2.59½
cash on hand ( also 2 $2 bills on broken banks (in Lebanon, Miami, Cincinnati & White Water) 5.50
  $530.45 3/4

William Wood
John Spradling, appraisers



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