RIPLEY COUNTY INVENTORIES Inventory of the personal goods and chattels of the late Gideon Sands deceased in Adams Township Ripley County Indiana. 1 rifle gun 12.00 1 cupbord and ware 10.00 1 copper kettle 1.00 1 table 2.00 1 looking glafs .50 3 baskets 1.25 1 bedstead 2.00 1 bed, beding and curtains 12.00 box and tools 3.00 1 hand saw .50 1 chest 3.00 2 wheels and reel 2.50 saddle and bridle 5.00 sythe and credle 1.50 barrels, tubs, ½ bushel 5.00 1 bed stead 1.00 1 chopping ax 1.00 grubbing mattock 1.00 log chain 1.00 oven,pot,kettle,griddle 3.00 shoemakers pincers .50 shoemakers hammer .25 1 flat iron, and sheers .25 1 slate .25 meal sive .50 washboard and launder stand 1.00 bread bowl .25 2 chisels and pinchers .75 2 small trunks .75 corn in the ear 3.00 sheet and quilt 1.00 1 plow 1.50 Maul rings .50 double and neck yoke .50 crowbar and hoe 1.00 2 old sythes and kettle 1.50 1 shovel and spud hoe 1.00 1 large clevis .50 6 bu wheat 6.00 cutting box and knife 2.00 shuffle plow and singletree 1.00 1 sickle .50 hay in barn 5.00 flax in barn 1.00 skillet and soaker 1.00 craine 1.50 book 1.00 1 bell and collar 1.00 2 bars of lead .75 3 head of sheep 6.00 1 cow 18.00 lantern, coffee pot, wash board 1.80 10 head of geese 2.50 1 doz fowls 1.00 1 frow 1.50 1 draw knife .25 2 meal bags 1.00 2 pr spectacles .75 total 141.00 The above is the inventory of the valuation of the personal estate of the late Gideon Sands deceased taken this 17th day of January 1838. James Jannings David F. Thomas