Inventory of William Nevins

Franklin County
November Term AD 1860
Bath Township
Pages 278-282

Inventory of the personal property of the Estate of William Nevins deceased, late of Bath Township, Franklin County, Indiana taken this thirteenth day of July 1859 by Martin Miller, administrator.

[Description of Property] [Valuation]
9 chairs 4.00
1 sowing? 1.50x
1 stand .87x
1 mantle clock 1.00x
1 kitchen cubboard 1.00
1 lot of cubboard 8.00x
1 cooking stove & fixture 6.00x
1 kitchen table .75x
1 brakefact table 2.00x
1 looking glass .25x
2 oil lamps & 1 can .75x
1 lot of books 5.00
1 lot of table cloths 2.00x
1 lot of 8 pair of window curtains 4.00x
1 bedstead & beding 8.00x
1 center table & cover 5.00
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7 chairs reed bottoms 6.00x
1 map of U. States 2.00x
1 looking glass .75x
1 lot of bed cloths 8.00
3 counter pins 3.00x
3 quilts 3.00x
3 comforts 3.00x
1 blanket & coverlet 4.00x
1 flowered carpet 8.00
2 candlesticks .50
3 sheats .50x
2 pair of andirons .50x
1 rag carpet 3.00x
4 chairs split bottoms 1.50
Amount brought forward $93.87
1 bureau 3.00
1 chest .50x
1 bed & bedstead 6.00x
1 rifle gun 8.00
1 bed, beding & bedstead 12.00x
1 reg carpet 3.00x
1 bed, beding & bedstead 8.00
1 bed, beding & bedstead 10.00x
1 parlor stove 3.00x
1 wash stand & fixtures 1.50x
1 looking glass 1.40x
1 pea feather fly Brush .75x
1 dust brush .25x
2 carpet sacks 1.00
1 rag carpet 3.00x
8 pieces of carpet 4.00x
2 beds, beding & bedsteads [1 taken by widow] 16.00x
1 looking glass .25x
1 spitoon .15x
1 box 1.25
1 whitewash brush .20
3 planes & whetsone 1.50
5 augers 1.25
1 hand saw, 2 squares & mallet 1.50
1 drawing knife chisels & gimlet 1.25
1 lot spade & shovel 2.00
1 ax .75x
1 grindstone & trough .50x
1 half bushel .50x
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3 shovels 1.00
2 iron wedges .75
1 grubing hoe, hammer & mallet 2.00
1 lot of nail & keg .25
Amount brought forward $188.37
shaving horse & work bench 1.40x
15 fruit cans 1.00
25 lbs wool 61.00
1 lot of 10 sacks 2.00
second lot of 10 sacks 1.50
1 box of old irons .10
1 foot addz .75
1 cross cut saw 2.50
1 lot of old wheat in bushel 7.00
1 lot of old barrels .15
1 mowing scythe .75
1 churn & buckets .75x
1 brass kettle 1.25
2 wash tubs 1.00
1 molasses keg .50
1 meat tub .50x
2 lard cans .50x
4 crock & 3 jugs .25
1 piece of harness leather 1.50
1 shoe box tool & clamp .75
2 flour barrels 3 kegs .20x
1 safe & table down in cellar 1.00x
1 lot of 7 crock 1 jar .60x
1 lot of paint jugs .25
2 barrel & soap 1.00x
1 iron kettle 1.50x
1 iron kettle .50
1 lot of clapboards .75
1 hoe dig .50
1 shovel plow .50
1 log plow 2.50
1 two horse plow 6.00
2 one horse plow 10.00
Amount brought forward $242.92
2 double shovel plows 6.00
1 2 horse harrow 2.50
1 double tree & single tree 1.50
1 horse stretcher .75
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1 two horse stretcher .75
1 log chain 1.00
1 log sled .25
1 lot of old irons 1.00
1 pair of steelyards .75
1 pair of pinchers .25
1 scythe & 2 stock knives .75
2 grain cradles 2.50
4 fork & 2 rakes 3.00
1 man saddle 3.00
2 set of harness 10.00
2 set of harness with hip straps 8.00
1 wheat fan 15.00
1 lot of hay 24.00
1 lot of old corn 30.00
1 scoop shovel .75
1 one horse buggy & harness 25.00
1 two horse spring wagon & harness 100.00
1 two horse wagon 50.00
2 barrels & ½ bushel Timothy seed 1.00
1 iron rod .50
1 lot of wheat in dozen 80 dozen 24.00
Second of wheat in Dozen 125 dozen 35.00
1 lot of hay in log stable 6.00
1 lot of corn & potatoes one acre 7.00x
1 field of corn supposed 15 acres 120.00
1 lot of corn supposed 2½ acres 16.00
1 piece of corn supposed 4 acres 20.00
1 piece of corn supposed 6 acres 38.00
Amount brought forward $797.17
1 lot of oats supposed 2 acres 12.00
second lot of oats supposed 3 acres 18.00
7 old sheep & 3 lambs 15.00
1 red heifer 25.00
1 black cow 20.00
1 red & white cow 20.00
1 red heifer with white face 15.00
1 white heifer 18.00
1 brown heifer 12.00
1 red bull 8.00
1 bay roan mare & colt 160.00
1 black roan mare & colt 1880.00
1 roan yearling colt 75.00
1 yellow yearling colt 65.00
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1 black filly 100.00
1 yellow horse 90.00
1 sorrel mare 125.00
1 old black mare & colt 90.00x
4 black spotted hogs 24.00
4 white hogs 18.00x
1 calf 2.50
1 ox 6.25
1 silver watch 6.00
1 sow & nine pigs 14.00
1 spotted sow & 8 pigs 7.00
1 sow & 8 pigs 15.00
1 sow & 6 pigs 12.00
1 note of hand on Glover Land 18.00
1 note of hand on J. R. Lee 15.75
1 note of hand on Asa? Akers 12.65
1 order on Township 46.87
1 order on Township 77.83
1 note of hand on B. F. Miller 283.50
Amount brought forward 2398.52
1 note of hand on Wm Vanscoge of no value or very doubtful $60.00 00
1 book account Lewis Whiteman 25.50
1 book account J. R. Lee 7.50
1 book account Andrew Bevis doubtful $487 00
Cash on hand 19.50
1 trunk 2.50
1 wheel barrow 1.00
1 piece of lead piping .50
The amount of appraisement in name of Deo $2454.52
Notes due William Nevins dec'd a guardian of Elizabeth Nevins
1 note of hand Wm Miller 82.40
1 note of hand James Murphey 238.13
1 note of hand Joseph Kelsey 173.00
Whole amount of appraisement $2948.05

We the undersigned appraisers do certify the above a true list of the appraisement
Henry Shultz
John R. Lee, appraisers

The list of the personal property of William Nevins dec'd taken by widow at the appraisement to the amount of $300 allowed by law not required to be account for.
July 14th A.D. 1859
x = widow's selection [$300.12]
Received of Martin Miller administrators of the estate of my late husband William Nevins deceased the articles charged to me in the foregoing inventory this 14th day of July 1859.
Mary E. Nevins


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