Lenoir County NcArchives History....Inventory, before 1814

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Joe P. Sutton, PhD, sutton@edtesting.com, May 20, 2018.

Clellan Sutton Collection, Bucklesberry Community, La Grange, NC.

THOMAS SUTTON & WILLIAM SUTTON INVENTORY, BEFORE 1814

William Sutton Pork	William Sutton Pork
1 – 196 |  9 – 151	1 --- 153
2 – 153 | 10 – 114	2 --- 150
3 – 167 | 11 – 171	3 --- 115
4 – 153 | 12 – 151	4 --- 131
5 – 156 | 13 – 164	5 --- 137
6 – 159 | 14 – 146	6 --- 158
7 – 147 | 15 – 148	7 --- 122
8 – 157 | 16 – 169	8 --- 143
-------	| 17 – 160	---------
   1288	| --------	     1109
	      1374	     1288
			     1374
			---------
		           ? 3771
			     1257
			---------
			     2514 lb meat

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Thomas Sutton Pork	24 ? 146
 1 ? 150 | 11 ? 133	25 ? 134
 2 ? 158 | 12 ? 164     --------	        
 3 ? 147 | 13 ? 176	     280        
 4 ? 147 | 14 ? 149
 5 ? 135 | 15 ? 146
 6 ? 128 | 16 ? 154
 7 ? 150 | 17 ? 140
 8 ? 152 | 18 ? 132
 9 ? 133 | 19 ? 142
10 ? 158 | 20 ? 145
-------- | 21 ? 146
    1458 | 22 ? 135
         | 23 ? 138
           --------   
         |     1900
         |     1458
         |      280
       ? |     3638
         |     1212
         |     2426 # meat

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Comments:

Thomas and William Sutton are likely the sons of Benjamin 
Sutton, Sr. It stands to reason that, given the Collection 
contains more than 50 documents bearing Benjamin Sutton, 
Sr.'s name, and since documents of this nature were typically 
passed down generationally, one would expect documents 
bearing the names of Benjamin, Sr.'s sons to also be contained 
in the Collection.

Thomas, born ca. 1782, would have been in his early-30s at 
the time of this document. His brother, William, born 1784-1789, 
would have been within the same age range. Both men were well 
into the prime of their working adult lives. This large hog 
inventory, then, logically supports the work of experienced men 
like Thomas and William.

Benjamin Sutton, Sr. also had brothers named William and Thomas. 
But William's death date of 1813-1820 eliminates him as the 
William in this document.

Benjamin’s brother, Thomas was born before 1758, Although his 
death year is unknown, he would likely have been too elderly to 
have partnered with the younger William, Benjamin Sr.'s son.  

See additional discussion about Benjamin, Sr.'s sons, Thomas and 
William, and Benjamin, Sr.'s brothers of the same names in the 
1814 receipt for Benjamin, Thomas, and William Sutton in this 
Collection.

The basis for assigning a document date of before 1814 rests on 
an earlier 1814 receipt naming Benjamin, Jr., Thomas, and William 
which had a pork price of $6 per hundredweight, the same $6 unit 
indicated in the current document. 

Dating the document before 1814 also has to do with its reference 
to the dollar. The US monetary system switched from the British 
pound to the dollar after 1800. An 1810 invoice to Winifred Sutton
(also in this Collection), who was sister to Thomas and William, 
also used the US dollar as the monetary unit.