Madison County GaArchives Court.....Wilhite, John G. (Estate) 1840 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Narvile Jeff jeffnarvil@yahoo.com February 12, 2007, 3:13 pm Source: Madison County, Georgia Inventories Written: 1840 Estate of John G. Wilhite:[1] “An Inventory and Sale bill of part of the persihable estate of John Wilhite dec’d sold on the 13th day of November Eighteen hundred and forty on a twelve months’ credit (to wit) [Purchaser] [John’s Property] [Price] Funney Hammonds 1 Lot of Plows 62½ T. W. Filts 1 [lot of plows] .50 F. W. Hammond 1 [lot of plows] 37½ W. C. Head 1 Swingletree 37½ F.W. Hammonds 1 Grubbing Hoe 43¾ Jacob Eberhart Plows & Stocks 31¼ [plows & stocks] 31¼ Lot of Irons 37½ Robert Eberhart Lot of Gin Irons 56¼ W.C. Head Three plains & irons .25 M.G. Dyer Three Augers & Chisels .25 One adds .25 Jacob Eberhart Spade 56¼ Wm Cunningham Brace & bills 37½ Jesse G. Wilhite Scythe and Irons 1.60 One chest .06¼ Sebron Sanders [pair] Plow Gear[s] 93¾ M.C. Dyer [pair plow gears] 18¾ Jesse G. Wilhite Lot of cart wheels 1.50 [lot of cart] Irons .25 Jacob Eberhart [lot of] wheels .75 F.M. Hammonds ox cart 20.00 Jesse G. Wilhite [ox cart] 7.25 Large Pot 62½ John Vaper Road waggon 40.06¼ M.C. Dyer Bee Hive 6.25 A. Deadwilder Gray Horse 5.93¾ Wm Cunningham Black Sow & 2 Pigs 5.00 Six first choice Shoats 10.50 Jno. G. Deadwilder Five 2nd [choice shoats] 7.43¾ Wm Cunningham Sandy Sow & three Pigs 3.12½ George Butler White [sow & three pigs] 6.00 Jesse G. Wilhite Yellow Steer 3.12½ S. Swindals 1 [illegible] Cow & Calf 5.75 A. Deadwilder 1 Black Bull 5.06¼ J.G. Wilhite One black white faced Cow 7.06¼ Jas. Lacere 1 Red Cow & Calf 5.06¼ J.G. Wilhite 1 Cow & Calf 7.06¼ Sebron Sanders 1 Red Heifer 5.00 Jesse G. Wilhite 1 [red heifer] 7.06¼ L. Swinale 1 Small Bull 1.25 1 White Heifer 2.56¼ 1 [illegible] 2.75 Jesse G. Wilhite 1 Yoke Oxen 31.50 John Vaper 10 Geese [@3 2¢ each] 3.20 10 [geese @ 30¢ each] 3.00 13 [geese @ 36¢ each] 4.68¾ F.W. Hammonds 1 Clock Case 6.50 M. Breadwell 2 [pair] Sheep Shears .25 Joseph Deadwilder 2 [pair sheep shears] .12½ John Vaper 1 Hogshead .31¼ 1 [hogshead] .50 Jacob Eberhart 1 [hogshead] .31¼ $223.07½… John M. Wilhite 600 Acres Land, more or less 390.00 Gabriel Grimes 1 Negro Man Joe 97.00 James M. Bird 1 [Negro man] Bluford 500.00 R.E. Oliver 1 Girl Martha 504.00 $1,491.00” John’s additional estate was inventoried in the first few days of 1840:[2] 1 Walnut Bureau $8.00 1 large folding table, birch 8.00 1 side board, Mahogany 15.00 1 eight day Clock 30.00 4 Windsor chairs 8.00 8 split bottom chairs 6.00 1 looking glass .12 3 slates [illegible] 1.12 1 lot of Books 10.00 3 lamps with reflectors 2.50 2 [illegible] .12 lot of Crockery & Glass Ware 7.00 lot of Stone Ware 3.18¾ lot of tin Ware 2.00 lot of bottles 1.00 lot of Knives & forks and spoons & Waiters 1.50 1 folding table walnut small 5.00 1 Walnut desk 10.00 3 small toilette tables @50 1.50 1 large pine dining table 2.00 2 small trunks & chest 3.00 3 pair fire dogs 3.00 1 Cupboard 3.00 1 feather bed, bedstead & furniture 30.00 [1 feather bed, bedstead & furniture] 20.00 [1 feather bed, bedstead & furniture] 30.00 [1 feather bed, bedstead & furniture] 25.00 [1 feather bed, bedstead & furniture] 20.00 [1 feather bed, bedstead & furniture] 25.00 2 side saddles @ $7.00 each 14.00 1 mans saddle & saddle bags 5.00 2 old shot guns & powder horns 6.00 1 table & safe 1.00 2 buckets & 2 piggins 1.25 lot pot ware 14.00 4 spinning wheels & cards 8.00 1 loom & apparatus 4.00 1 Clock reel 2.00 2 flax wheels 2.00 3,000 lbs. Pork @ 6 180.00 a lot of salt beef 10.00 1 lot of hogsheads & barrells 2.75 6 club axes & 1 chop axe 7.50 4 mattocks & 1 Grubbing hoe 3.00 1 anvil and vice 2 ft long, 3 hammers & serving plate 8.00 1 lot plough, singletree & plough hoes 8.00 1 Ox Cart & body 10.00 1 Ox cart, body & carry log 10.00 1 barrel & 2 kegs contaning brandy & whisky 11.00 1 barrel & molasses 3.00 1 barrel & sugar 4.00 empty cask & tub .50 1 hogsgead salt supposed to be 12 bushels 15.00 1 box manufactured tobacco 12.00 92½ bushels of Wheat 69.37½ lot of barrels 2.50 1 Road waggon & gears, blue 100.00 [1 Road waggon & gears] 50.00 500 Seed Cotton @ 200 100.00 3 bags supposed 900 clean cotton @ 8 72.00 1 lot of raw hides, 4 4.00 1 dutch fan 18.00 12 bushels peas, supposed 9.00 1 pr steelyards 3.00 3 pr plough gears 3.00 136 barrels of Corn (supposed) @ $2.00 pr barrel 272.00 1 sett Blacksmith tools 15.00 15” Iron (supposed) 1.00 1 grey mare young 60.00 1 sorrel mare with blaze face 100.00 1 sorrel horse old 25.00 1 sorrel horse 50.00 1 sorrel horse blaze face 50.00 1 dark bay mare 70.00 1 sway-backed bay horse 40.00 1 sorrel mare fly 50.00 1 bay horse dick 20.00 1 bay blind horse 25.00 3 sows & pigs 15.00 1 yoke red oxen 40.00 1 yoke [illegible] oxen 15.00 5 Cows & Calves 50.00 2 Cows & Yearlings 24.00 1 sorrel blazed face stallion 75.00 7 stacks fodder 21.00 1 stack oats 10.00 9” sole leather @ [illegible] 2.70 1 Carriage & harness 100.00 2 walking sticks 3.00 1 Negro fellow Blueford 800.00 [1 Negro fellow][Name illegible] 400.00 [1 Negro fellow] Squire 1000.00 [1 Negro fellow] Old Joe 175.00 [1 Negro fellow] Buck 850.00 [1 Negro fellow] Daniel 1000.00 [1 Negro fellow] Young Joe 900.00 [1 Negro fellow] Tarlton 900.00 [1 Negro fellow] Wilson 850.00 [1 Negro fellow] Coleman 800.00 [1 Negro] boy Charles 500.00 [1 Negro boy] Simeon 400.00 [1 Negro boy] Peter 450.00 [1 Negro boy] Gabriel 300.00 [1 Negro boy] Jack 325.00 [1 Negro boy] Nelson 325.00 [1 Negro boy] John 250.00 [1 Negro boy] Anderson 250.00 [1 Negro boy] Fleming 200.00 [1 Negro] Woman Letty & child Aaron 900.00 [1 Negro woman] Louisa & child Jane 850.00 [1 Negro woman] Chana & child Sam 600.00 [1 Negro woman] Harriet & child Sidney 700.00 1 Negro Woman Easter & child Sam 525.00 [1 Negro woman] Martha & child Carolina 850.00 [1 Negro woman] Rose 800.00 [1 Negro] Girl Jinny 750.00 [1 Negro girl] Sarah 775.00 [1 Negro girl] Tilla 750.00 [1 Negro girl] Dilsey 775.00 [1 Negro girl] Sally 550.00 [1 Negro girl] Eliza 600.00 [1 Negro girl] Harrison 600.00 [1 Negro girl] Mary 250.00 [1 Negro girl] Susannah 375.00 [1 Negro girl] Adeline 250.00 [1 Negro girl] Edney 250.00 [1 Negro girl] Susan 225.00 [1 Negro] Woman Polly 300.00 [1 Negro woman] Amey 50.00 [1 Negro woman] Lucy 00.00 [1 Negro] Man Gabriel 00.00 1 Wooden Clock 6.00 3 Barrels 1.25 2 Augers & 2 chisels 1.00 2 tables 1.50 11 chairs 1.00 1 old gin & other irons 5.00 1 Chest 1.25 1 pr steelyards 1.00 1 Culling Knife 1.50 4 pr gears 4.00 4 stacks of fodder 8.00 4 singletrees & [illegible] 2.00 8 plough hoes 1.00 40 head of Geese 10.00 4 head of sheep 4.00 45 barrels of Corn @ 250 pr barrel 112.00 6 head of Horses 245.00 4 old waggon wheels 8.00 2 scythe & cradels 4.00 7 plough stock, 5 rods, 5 screws & tapes 1.43 shucks 2.50 10 bags Cotton (supposed) 3400 at 8 272.00 2 spinning wheels 2.00 2 pr Cotton cards .50 1 oven & pot 2.00 14 head of Cattle 56.00 32 head of Hogs 60.00 1 square 1 drawing Knife, 2 planes & 1 adz 1.00 2 turning ploughs 50 20 Bushels wheat 15.00 5 Barrels 2.00 1 loom 5.00 1 club axe 1.00 2 washing tubs 25 [$]25,467.56¾” In addition to his plantation in Madison County, Georgia, John also left ane estate in neighboring Jackson County as reflected in the inventory of his property taken by William Morgan, D.W. Burns and Preston Hardy on 11 January 1840: [3] “two beds & furniture appraised to $60.00 one Table and two chairs 2.00 one cross cut saw 5.00 one lot of forming tools 25.00 one ox cart & yoke 12.00 one Grind stone 4.00 three raw cow hide[s] 4.50 three sythes & Cradles 6.00 two ten gallon cags [kegs] 2.00 one lot of wheat supposed to be ten Bushels 82.50 five Bushels Peas 5.00 one five gallon cag [keg] full of Brandy 5.00 one drawing Knife .75 fifteen gallons cider 3.75 five axes 5.00 one brown colt 30.00 one lot of oats 50.00 one lot of Fodder 37.50 one lot of corn 320.00 one lot of shucks 10.00 one lot of stock Hogs 65.00 one lot of fat Hogs 90.00 One Yoke of Oxen & Yoke 40.00 One Cow & young calf 10.00 Two Cows and Yearling calves 24.00 One Yoke Young Oxen 16.00 One red Cow & Yearling 14.00 Two Yearlings 9.00 One small steer 4.00 One lot of Hogs at the mill 31.00 One lot of Pork 45.50 One lot of fat Tubs .50 One lot of stone ware 1.00 One lot of pot Ware 5.00 Four spinning wheel, two pair of cards and one dough machine 10.00 $1,035.00” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Madison County, Georgia Inventories, Appraisements, Bills of Sales 1841-1847 Book D: 59-60; Recorded 26 July 1843. [2] Madison County, Georgia Inventories, Appraisements, Bills of Sales 1841-1847 Book D: 69-73. 13 January 1840; Recorded 5 December 1843. [3] Madison County, Georgia Inventories, Appraisements, Bills of Sales 1841-1847 Book D: 67-68. Recorded 28 November 1843. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/madison/court/wilhite543gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 10.8 Kb