Thomas Steel Inventory

Franklin County
August Term AD 1843
Pages 203-206

An inventory of the goods chattels and effects Thomas Steel late of Franklin County and State of Indiana deceased. Taken by James Steel, executor of the estate of the said deceased with the assistance fo Redin Osborne and George Hish, appraisers this 16 day of August 1841.

1 meal barrel 0.25
1 barrel and flour 1.00
1 barrel and peaches 0.50
1 tub and apples .87½
1 tub .62½
1 bucket .18 3/4
1 bag and meal .37½
1 skillet and lid 0.50
1 large skillet and lid .62½
1 oven and bales 1.00
1 gridiron 0.75
shovel and tongs 1.75
1 tea kittle 0.50
1 set of andirons 1.25
1 tin bucket 0.25
1 set of smoothing irons .87½
1 crock of apple butter .62½
1 crock of apple butter .12½
10 crocks 0.50
2 jugs 0.25
2 candlesticks and 1 ink stand .18 3/4
1 lot of bees wax .12½
1 haim and 2 lines 0.50
1 saddle and bridle 2.50
1 little chain and washboard 0.62
1 coffee mill 0.75
book of the United States 1.50
1 bible and hymn book 1.00
1 dictionary .37½
1 magazine 0.75
1 razer and strap 1.12½
3 table cloths 1.00
3 towels .37½
1 lot of carpet 5.50
1 cradle 2.00
1 clock 7.00
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1 watch 15.00
2 barrels 1.25
1 kittle and basket 1.25
1 churn 0.75
1 keg and lard 2.00
1 pickle keg 0.50
1 box and salt .18 3/4
1 meat tub and meat 3.50
1 keg of soap 0.50
1 lot of wood 0.75
1 lot of table planes 1.12½
Pinnel ploughs and bits 3.00
tooth and smoothing plane 0.50
dove tail and compass saws 0.50
4 files .37½
1 hand saw 0.25
2 hammers 1.00
1 lot of chisels .62½
2nd lot of chisels .62½
3rd lot of chisels 0.75
4th lot of chisels 0.75
1 lot of turning tools 1.50
1 set of bench planes 2.50
1 jointer 1.00
brace and bits 3.50
3 trying square and 1 level 1.50
3 morticing chisels 1.00
2 drawing knives .31¼
pinchers, compasses and files 0.50
2 screw drivers 0.50
hand ax 0.75
2 mallets 0.25
1 corinthian, ovolvo and bead .45 3/4
1 relister 0.50
3 rabbet planes 0.75
1 plough and gouve 0.50
1 cove plane .12½
1 bead .18 3/4
1 ogee 1.25
2 oil stones .62½
1 lot of hand screws 2.00
1 lot of patterns 0.25
1 glue kettle 1.00
1 large box and contents 1.00
1 small box and contents 0.75
1 circular saw 0.25
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1 rule 0.50
1 jar, lot of bottles, candles, moulds & stand 0.50
1 lot of brass buts 0.75
1 lot of table hinges 0.25
1 square table 0.50
1 breakfast table 4.00
2 face screws 1.00
1 3 feet bed stead 3.00
1 lot of table hinges 0.75
1 set of castors .37½
1 lot of stand nubs 0.25
1 lot of brass headed nails .12½
1 box and contents 0.50
1 stone jug .37½
1 bench screw .12½
1 lot of bed screws 0.50
3 panes of glass .12½
1 lot of sand paper and rule .37½
1 set of table legs and colums .37½
1 stand 1.50
1 breakfast table 4.00
1 dining table 6.00
1 bed stead 4.00
1 bed stead 3.00
1 bed stead 3.00
1 bed stead 3.00
1 bed stead 4.00
1 fancy bed stead 8.00
3 sets high posts 6.25
11 sets of posts 9.62½
1 trunnel bedstead 2.00
1 stove and pipe 6.50
1 grindstone 0.50
1 hoe 0.50
1 box 1.00
jack and fore plane 1.00
1 work bench 1.25
1 bed screw 1.00
?? 0.25
1 barrel 0.25
1 turning lathe 8.00
1 lot of nails 8.00
1 iron hold fast 0.50
1 varnish bottle, jug bottles and 1 print cup .37½
1 lot of lumber in the sho? 0.75
1 lot of scantling 2.50
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1 lot of cherry lumber 2.00
1 lot of walnut lumber 1.00
1 lot of walnut lumber 1.00
1 lot of walnut lumber 1.62½
1 lot of cherry lumber 4.50
1 lot of maple lumber 1.68
1 lot of cherry lumber 0.56
1 lot of cherry lumber 1.75
1 lot of poplar and cherry lumber 1.75
1 lot of poplar lumber 1.75
1 lot of cherry scantling 0.60
1 lot of cherry lumber 4.62½
1 lot of cherry lumber 1.20
1 lot of cherry lumber 0.80
1 lot of poplar and cherry 0.50
1 cow 9.00
1 lot of hay 2.00
1 pocket book 0.25
  40.67½
4th page on inventory 79.33
3rd page on inventory 32.68 3/4
2nd page on inventory 48.06¼
1 page on inventory 17.12½
  217.88
property not proper to be appraised  
1 note on William Maharny 21.00
interest on the same to this date 3.13
Zachariah Davis balance due on note 9.62½
interest on the same to this date 1.51
1 note on John Michael 5.50
interest on the same to this date 0.09
1 note on John Kerr and James Kerr 12.25
1 note on Henry W. Davis 9.00
interest on the same to this date .34½
Judgement on the docket of John Turner against John Haver for $7.50. Debt interest on the same to this date 7.66
Book account on Henry Landis 21.87½
Book account on Samuel Masters 10.87½
Book account on Samuel Masters 5.00
Book account on John Michel 2.50
Book account on Thomas Husted 1.50
Book account on James Briant 12.50
Book account on John Briant 1.50
Book account on Aron Masters 10.18 3/4
Book account on Robert Templeton 14.00



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