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 |
x = widow's selection
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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.