Inventory of John Shafer

Franklin County
April Term AD 1859
Pages 137-140
On the 26th day of March 1856 in the office of the Clerk of Court afores'd was filed the following inventory to wit:
An inventory of the personal estate of John Shafer deceased taken by Jacob Shafer and John Shafer executors, of the last will of said deceased and appraised by Daniel Shafer Senr and Nixon Davis.

Description of the Property Value
1 Washtub & board .35
2 2 jugs & tea kettle .15
3 tin ware & crocks .15
4 keg & vinegar .25
5 3 barles & salt 2.25
6 cr cutter & slop bucket .20
7 2 jugs .30
8 1 pair steelyards 1.00
9 brass kettle .30
10 plow & mattock .70
11 wood sough & augers .50
12 saw & drawing knife .45
13 rat trap and scyth .20
14 scoop shovel & hook .50
15 1 grind stone .25
16 1 cradle 1.00
17 7 sacks .65
18 2 measures? .10
19 1 log chain 1.00
20 1 iron kettle .90
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21 1 harrow 2.00
22 1 cultivator 1.25
23 2 one horse plows 1.00
[carried over] 15.45
24 1 peacock plow 1.00
25 1 Miller plow 10.00
26 1 one horse plow 1.50
27 1 wind mill 1.00
28 1 double tree .75
29 2 dung forks 1.00
30 pitch fork, rake & neck yoke ..75
31 2 pair of gears 5.50
32 back band & traces .45
33 scythe & sith .80
34 1 wagon & cover & bows 45.00
35 oats per bushel 21cts
36 corn per bushel 25
37 1 buggy & hames 50.00x
38 1 dunn mare 30.00
39 1 bay mare 60.00
40 1 broken horned cow 12.50
41 1 light red cow star in the forhead 14.00
42 white faced cow 10.00
43 1 dunn cow 9.50
44 1 white steer 12.00
45 1 dark red heifer 8.00
46 4 calves 21.00
47 1 sow and pigs 12.00
48 4 of the first choice of hogs 26.00
49 7 shoats 14.00
50 1 cooking stove & contents 3.00
51 1 hay rigging .60
52 B. horse halters & biscuit? .30
53 1 sow 8.00
54 1 barl .20
55 1 bugy shares? .30
[carried over] 359.15
56 2 kegs .20
57 a lot of pots .20
58 1 lot of rag carpet 4.50
59 2 buckets .15
60 1 stand & table .75
61 3 smoothing irons .75
62 large tin & coffee pot .25
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63 to a sundry of articles .35x
64 7 milk pans .25
65 2 set of windsor chairs 4.50
66 2 chairs .75x
67 1 rocking chair .90x
68 coffee mill & churn .75
69 horn .15
70 pinchers snuffers & sharping? .25
71 first bureau 4.50x
72 1 bureau 2.00
73 1 desk 1.25
74 2 stands 1.50
75 small stand & table 1.45
76 1 clock 5.00
77 1 looking glass 1.50
78 1 set of hand irons .50
79 1 lot of cubertware 6.00x
80 1 lot of dishes 3.50x
81 2 picture frames .40
82 1 picture & frame .20
83 1 bed 20.00x
84 1 lot bed clothes 14.00x
85 second class bed 17.00x
86 1 double coverlid 4.00
[carried over] 97.50
87 1 coverlid 3.00
88 2 quilts 2.00
90 comfort 1.50
91 4 sheets & 3 pair of pillow cases 2.00
92 one trunk .40
93 1 lot of cotton carpet 3.50x
94 2 sheets & 3 slips .80
95 4 pair of window curtains 2.00x
96 3 table covers & 3 towls 1.65x
97 No. 1 Bed 13.00
98 No. 2 Bed 10.50
99 No. 3 Bed 9.50
100 No. 4 Bed 10.00
101 No. 1 lot of carpet 3.50
[carried over] 63.35
total $535.45

Daniel Shafer
Nixon Davis, appraisers
February 25th 1856

x = widow's selection [page 139]
State of Indiana
Franklin County I, Jacob Shafer, one of the executors of the last will of John Shafer deceased swear that the foregoing is a true and complete inventory of all the personal estate of said decedent which has come to my knowledge so help me God.
Jacob Shafer
Subscribed and sworn to before me the 26th day of March A. D. 1856
John M. Johnston
Clerk for Franklin Co.


Last modified 4 May 2005