Franklin County Inventories Page 213-214 Book A Appraisement of the estate of Eli Scallon The following is the amount of the personal property of Eli Scollon decd as appraised by Thomas Skinner Sr. and Thomas Smith the sd appraisers being duly sworn according to law do return as follows 1 lot of clothing 16.00 1 feather bed 20.00 1 do do 20.00 bed clothing 10.00 cash & notes 15.00 shaving tools 1.50 1 chest 2.50 books 1.00 1 spice mill & 2 baskets 2.00 earthing ware .75 cupboard & furniture 7.75 1 seive 1.75 1 pr of card .50 1 pr of flat irons .75 1 do sheep shears .75 1 basket & clothes 2.00 1 mare & colt 50.00 1 brown mare 50.00 19 sheep 38.00 2 cows & calves 32.00 1 heiffer 7.00 9 hogs 27.00 2 sows & 19 piggs 14.00 corn & truck on the ground 50.00 wheat and flax 24.50 2 kittles & bails 6.00 1 shovel & 1 bar shear plow & gears 12.00 1 saddle, bages & bridle 10.00 3 spinning wheels & reel 6.00 moticed slad ? 4.00 tools 7.00 corn in the crib 8.00 total $147.75 1 barrel & salt 6.00 3 barrels 2.00 kegs & soap 4.00 beacon 6.00 1 bag .50 cooper ware 1.00 pot meatal 5.00 1 slide .50 2 setes of latches .50 1 shoe bench and tools 1.00 1 table & cloth, knives & forks 2.00 2 bells 1.50 1 trammel 1.00 1 crop hatchet .25 linning 12 yards 3.00 flax & thread 5.00 bedstead .75 5 chairs 1.00 lime .50 2 barrels & wool 1.87½ total 491.12½ the whole amount of the personal estate of Eli Scollon Decd State of Indiana, Franklin County Personally appeared Thomas Skinner and Thomas Smith before me, Hugh Morrison a justice of the peace in and for the said county and being duly sworn according to law saith that upon the seventeenth day of August 1817 they the said Thomas Skinner and Thomas Smith made a just and conscientious appraisement of the personal estate of Eli Scallon deceased as shown to them by the administrators of the estate according to the best of their abilities and judgment sworn and subscribed the 30th day of October 1817 before me Hugh Morrison. Thomas Skinner Thomas Smith