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