Franklin County Inventories
Page 27-28  March Term AD 1848
    Appraisement bill of the personal property of Jonathan
Fruits, deceased, late of Franklin County and State of Indiana,
taken by Judah Hinkley, administrator, and appraised by James
Merrill and Stephen Craig this 20th day of April AD 1847 as fol-
lows:

1 big wheel                                       .50x
1 ditto                                          1.00
1 little wheel                                    .75x
1 meat tub                                        .50x
1 old auger & moll                                .25x
1 old handsaw                                     .31
1 pr streachers                                   .30
1 notch clevis                                    .25
1 mattock                                         .30
1 old plow                                        .25
1 pr streachers                                   .30x
2 still tubs                                     1.00
1 .5bu measure                                    .25x
2 sheep skins on a flail                          .37
2 set of gears & lines                           4.00x
1 saddle                                         4.00
1 lot of hay @ 3.50/ton                         12.25
44.5bu oats @ 20cts                              8.50
1 lot barley                                     4.50
1 lot of corn @ 20cts                           70.00
1 dun mare                                      65.00x
1 old bay horse                                  5.00x
1 spotted face cow                              10.00
1 old red cow                                    8.00x
1 white faced heifer                             5.00
20 head of sheep w/lambs                        15.00
1 wood bed and bolster                           1.25
1 wagon                                         30.00

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6 head of hogs                                  15.50x
4 hogs in the pen                               16.00x
1 sow & 8 pigs                                   7.00x
1 side saddle                                    3.00
1 drawing knife                                   .30x
1 lot of turkeys                                 4.75
3 swarms bees                                    4.50
double tree & single trees                       1.00x
1 cradle and sythe                                .50
1 hoe                                             .25x
½ field of wheat in ground                      12.00
1 lot of feathers                                4.00
1 mantle clock                                   1.50x
1 bureau                                         3.00x
1 bed, bedsted & bedding                        33.00
1 bed,bedstead & clothing                       35.00
6 chairs                                         2.00x
1 bed, bedstead & clothing                       8.00
1 table & tinware                                2.00x
1 fire shovel                                     .20x
1 pr dog irons                                    .75x
1 lot of ironware                                2.00x
1 big kettle                                     1.00x
2 iron wedges                                     .37
1 calf                                           1.50
cash on hand                                    56.25
1 note on Samuel Patterson                       7.56
1 big wheel                                       .50x
1 reel                                            .75x
1 little wheel                                   1.00
2 old sythes & 2 corn cutters                     .37½
1 froe                                            .37½x
1 loom                                            .50x
2 clevises                                        .18
irons for a well bucket                           .15
1 small plow                                     4.50
1 harrow                                         3.50
1 straw knife & old irons                         .30
1 lot rye                                         .62
2 forks & barn shovel                            1.25x
1 scoop shovel                                    .37
1 collar & hames                                  .30
1 fanning mill                                  17.00
1 ton of hay                                     3.50x
1 lot of wheat @ 65cts                          21.45x
50bu of corn @ 20cts                            10.00x
1 back band                                       .18
1 sorrel horse                                  55.00
1 white cow                                     10.00
1 spotted cow                                    8.00
1 spotted heifer                                 7.00
3 yr old calves                                  8.25
1 head of sheep & 1 lamb                        10.00
1 log chain                                       .50
2 sows and pigs                                  6.50
5 small sows                                     7.00
1 sow & 9 pigs                                   9.00
1 drawing knife & guage                           .25
1 wagon cover                                     .50
4 doz chickens                                   4.00
16 gees                                          2.00
1 big plow                                       5.00
1 sythe & hangings                               1.25
1 old sythe                                       .15
2 hoes                                            .50
1 lot of rolls                                   6.50
1 rifle gun                                     10.00
1 cupboard & contents                           10.00x
1 looking glass                                   .18x
1 bed & bed clothing                            17.00
1 bed,bedstead & clothing                       40.00x
1  ditto                                         7.00
1  ditto                                         7.00
1 old cupboard & contents                        2.50x
1 box with clothing                              2.50x
1 lot of ironware                                1.00
2 wsh tubs                                       1.16x
1 big kettle                                     1.25
1 stack of hay                                   2.00
1 lamb                                            .75
1 note on Hartshorn Hovey?                      20.00
total                                          796.39

We do hereby certify that the above is a true appraisement bill
of the personal estate of Jonathan Fruits, deceased, so far as it
has come to our knowledge, and given under our hands this 23rd
day of April AD 1847.
S. Craig
James Merrill