SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - John Bishop, 12 Nov 1795
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A True and Perfect Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of John Bishop,
Deceased
                                                                         £   s   d
       5 feather beds and furniture £34, 3 chests 2-2-0               £  36   2  0
       5 tables £4-5-6, desk £6, 1/2 doz walnut chairs £4-10             14  15  6
       1 case and bottles 6/, spinning wheel 6/, reap hook 6/             0  18  0
       X-cut (cross-cut) saw 12/, cain cupboard £1-10, tumbler 6/         2  11  0
       Parcel earthen ware 17/, 6 tea spoons & funnel                     0  18  9
       Proof vial and tumbler 1/2, 2 salt cellars 1/6, m____?             0   2  6
       quart pottle & juk (jug?) 1/3, 3 pr cards 6/, staiglet 2/          0   9  3
       parcel of books 15/, juke stand and brush 1/3, looking glass 2/    0  18  3
       8 chairs £1-1, box glass £2-12, candle stand & mold 5/             3  18  0
       loom and gear £1-5-6, flax wheel & real £1-4                       2   9  6
       pair fire dogs 12/, cotton per lb @ 4d, 289 lbs                    5   8  1
       bloch and tacles for lein 10/, coffee mill 6/, butter pot 1/3      0  17  3
       4 bowls 6/, 10 stone juggs 15/6, 2 pewter basons 1/2               1   8  6
       sugar box 3, 4 earthen pans 2/9, 3 earthen potts 2/                0   7  9
       1 grind stone 12/, dutch oven 12/, jugg and oil 5/                 1   9  0
       2 butter potts 6/, kigg white lead 10/, 2 bands & salt £1-10       2   6  0
       parcel of tools £2-3-6, bill mettle skillet 12/                    2  15  6
       pair steelyards 12/, 2 pewter measures 1/6, pair trails 12/        1  15  0
       spice morter 5/, parcel pewter £2-9-3                              2  11  3
       parcel earthen ware 16/, 4 pott 9/, spider 5/                      1  10  4
       pott & (marked over), small pott 4/, dutch oven 6/                 1   0  0
       2 pott racks 15/, frying pan 8/, ladle & griddle 3/6               1   6  6
       tongues (tongs) & shovel 3/6, tea kettle & tribet 3/ 2 meal tubs   0   9  0
       (there seems to be one more line here - goes off paper)

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In obedience to an Order this day ?? December 1794, we the subscribers have
valued and appraised the estate of John Bishop agreeable to said order.  Given
under our hands this 12th day of November 1795.

                                                         Samuel Maget
                                                         Drewry Beal

                    At a Court held for the County of Southmark
                            the 20th day of December 1802

This inventory and appraisement of the estate of John Bishop was this day
returned and ordered to be recorded.

                                                   Samuel Kello, Cl.(clerk)
Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book 5, 1797-1804
Southampton Co, VA
Reel 17, pages 371-372

Note: £.s.d stands for librae solide denarii (or pounds/shillings/pence).
      reap is a small bundle of grain (reap hooks presumably would be to pick
         it up).
      fire dogs:  simple mechanical device for holding or fastening.
      steelyards: a balance or scale for weighing.
      spider: a frying pan, originally one with attached legs for use over
         open fire


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