Franklin County
November Term AD 1861
Pages 625-628
An inventory of the personal estate of Matthias Bensing deceased taken by John B. Backhouse administrator and appraised by Williams Woods and Adam Berg.
| No. | Description of Property | Valuation |
| 1 | Money on hand | 500.00 |
| 2 | note the paper Henry Metzler with Philip Stadt surety dated April 4th 1857 & due March 1st 1860 | 106.00 |
| 3 | note on Metzler, same date same amount | 106.00 |
| 4 | note on Metzler for $60.11 dated April 1st 1858 due Jan'y 1st 1859 | 60.11 |
| 5 | note on John H. Konig dated August 28th 1858 & due 1 year after date & calls for $121 | 00.00 |
| 6 | An account against Francis Knecht | .50 |
| 7 | An account against Catharine Misner | 6.71 |
| 8 | stand table & cloth | .50 |
| 9 | bureau & cloth | 2.00 |
| 10 | 1 small box containing pincers & other shoe tools | .30 |
| 11 | brace, 3 bits, file | .50 |
| 12 | bedstead, bed, bedding, 10 spreads | 25.00x |
| 13 | Bedstead & bedding | .25 |
| 14 | 6 cane bottom chairs | 4.00x |
| 15 | 34 yds carpeting | 3.00x |
| 16 | breakfast table | 1.25 |
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| 17 | 2 rocking chairs | .30 |
| 18 | 1 picture | .20 |
| 19 | 2 matchboxes | .03 |
| 20 | lot of woolen yarn | .80x |
| 21 | willow basket | .20x |
| 22 | 3 sacks | .50x |
| 23 | 2 whips | .50 |
| 24 | seive & brush | .15x |
| 25 | looking glass & lantern | .20 |
| 26 | 1 clock | 1.50 |
| 27 | 6 split bottom chairs | 1.50 |
| 28 | 4 winser chairs | .50 |
| 29 | 9 sacks more | .50 |
| 30 | 1 kitchen table | .50 |
| 31 | 2 new sacks | .50x |
| 32 | 1 roll of new linen | 1.25x |
| 33 | cooking stove & apparatus | 10.00 |
| 34 | 1 milk churn | .20 |
| 35 | grid iron, cake pan & oil can | .50 |
| 36 | spring balance and steel yard | .50 |
| 37 | coffer burner, iron stool | .50 |
| 38 | 1 smoothing iron | .10 |
| 39 | 2 jugs, coffee pot, fosset | .25 |
| 40 | tea kettle & stewpot | .35 |
| 41 | tea canister, strainer, bucket | .50 |
| 42 | 4 pie pans -tin | .10 |
| 43 | dishpan, teapot, candle molds | .30 |
| 44 | 2 tin cups, cake cutter, funnel | .10 |
| 45 | 3 ladles | .10 |
| 46 | 1 lamp | .05x |
| 47 | screw drive | .15 |
| 48 | coffee mill | .10x |
| 49 | 2 candle sticks, snuffer | .10 |
| 50 | lot cupboard ware | 3.00 |
| 51 | 1 cupboard | 8.00x |
| 52 | fire shovel & tongs | .25x |
| 53 | 2 pots & bails, frying pan | .75 |
| 54 | 1 small brass kettle | .50x |
| 55 | 1 crane & 5 hooks | .75 |
| 56 | gimblet, 2 brooms, piece of line | .15 |
| 57 | double spinning wheel | 1.00x |
| 58 | 2 old spinning wheel, reel | .25 |
| 59 | saddle bags | .25 |
| 60 | 2 hatchels | 1.00 |
| 61 | lot of white beans | 6.00 |
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| 62 | 2 more new sacks | .50 |
| 63 | 2 sets barn door hinges | 2.00x |
| 64 | 1 old chest | .25 |
| 65 | lot of wheat | 325.00 |
| 66 | wheat riddle, lantern, oil can, bottle | .75 |
| 67 | loom & apparatus | 1.00 |
| 68 | 1 man saddle | 4.00 |
| 69 | ten plate stove & pipe | 1.50 |
| 70 | 2 bu? boxes, old chest | .25 |
| 71 | another old kitchen table | .25 |
| 72 | cross cut saw, 2 corn cutters | .50 |
| 73 | 2 sheep skins | .20 |
| 74 | 12 or 15 old barrels | .50 |
| 75 | 2 large kettles, 1 large pot | 2.00 |
| 76 | wheel barrow | 1.00 |
| 77 | washtub, 2 buckets, large crock | .50 |
| 78 | 2 woodsaws & skillet | .60 |
| 79 | buggy harness, flynets, 2 sheep skins | 8.00 |
| 80 | wagon cover & bows | 10.00 |
| 81 | 7 plows, 1 plow shank | 10.00 |
| 82 | 2 andirons | .25 |
| 83 | 2 harrows & cultivator | 7.00 |
| 84 | lot of horse harness | 2.00 |
| 85 | lot of old iron | 1.50 |
| 86 | 8 singletrees,1 doubletree | 1.50 |
| 87 | 3 augers, 2 chisels | .50x |
| 88 | log chain, 2 iron wedges | 1.75 |
| 89 | 1 drawing knife, square | .30 |
| 90 | 2 hoes, foot adze, spade | 1.00 |
| 91 | 2 dung forks, 3 pitch forks | 1.00 |
| 92 | grindstone, gum, hatchel | .10 |
| 93 | lot of plank & scantling | 2.00 |
| 94 | 3 axes | .75 |
| 95 | old thrashing machine | 5.00 |
| 96 | cutting box | 5.00x |
| 97 | fanning mill | 4.00 |
| 98 | 3 granerys or boxes | 2.50 |
| 99 | 2 rakes, 2 shovels, half bushel | 1.00 |
| 100 | hay bed & 3 gums | 2.00 |
| 101 | 6 head of cattle | 58.00 |
| 102 | 1 bay mare colt | 30.00 |
| 103 | 1 old bay mare | 5.00 |
| 104 | another bay mare | 90.00 |
| 105 | 2 ox yokes | .20 |
| 106 | lot of clapboards | 1.00 |
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| 107 | 4 head of hogs | 12.00x |
| 108 | 4 head of hogs | 8.00 |
| 109 | large meat trough | .50 |
| 110 | dimajohn | .10x |
| 111 | half barrel & keg | .50 |
| 112 | lot of chickens | 7.00x |
| 113 | some 20 acres wheat in the field | 80.00 |
| 114 | 3 baskets | .20 |
| 115 | 3 scythes, briarhook, 2 snaths tar bucket & keg | 1.00 |
| 116 | 2 sythes & neck yoke | 1.25 |
| 117 | 5 pieces chain, 3 plane handles, singletree | .75 |
| 118 | lot of shingles | 1.00 |
| 119 | umbrella, clothes brush, 2 pair scissors | .50x |
| 120 | 5 table cloths | 1.00x |
| 121 | Japan tin box & pocketbook | .50x |
| 122 | 2 halters & flour skoop | .55 |
| 123 | 5 window curtains | .25x |
| 124 | lot of 2 inch boards | .75 |
| 125 | hammer, hatchet, and bell | .60 |
| total | $1570.45 |
April 5th 1860
William Wood
Adam Berg, appraisers.
I Margaret Bensing widow of Mathias Bensing deceased hereby acknowledge the receipt of the sum $75.15 as charged to me in the above inventory.
Margaret Bensing
x = widow's selection $75.15