SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - James Darden, 15 Jan 1795 --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- Estate: James Darden, Southampton Co, VA (1795) An Inventory of the Estate of James Darden, dec'd this 15th day of Janurary 1795 1 feather bed & furniture, do, do, do, small do, do, black walnut desk, do, do, table, small walnut table & 1 maple table, 10 mulberry chairs flag bottoms, 1 buffett & looking glass, pair of flat irons & 1 case with six bottles of fire tongs & shovel & 1 pair of fire dogs, pan of pocket steelyards, 3 small bowls & 18 earthen plates, 3 cups, 4 saucers & 4 tea spoons, 1 large earthen dish & 2 small ones, 6 tumblers, 1 old mug & tea pott, 2 mustard bottles & 2 half pint bottles, small butter pots & 1 pepper caster, 1 search? & 1 old spice mortar, candle stick & snuffers, cloathes brush, 1 buckle brush & 2 shoe brushes, flower tub, honey tub & four gallons of honey, old case & three bottles, 2 quart bottles, large jug & 4 small ones?, 2 small sugar boxes, 1 pail & rundlett, 1 butter pail & 1 milk pail, ten coffee pott & 2 old wooden cans, 1 case of knives & forks & 6 old knives & 4 forks, chest & 2 old trunks, cradle & 2 cotton baskets, 2 flax hackles, 4 slays & 2 pair of haxinss, 1 loom, 1 noggin & 1 butter churn, 10 table spoons, 4 half gallon basons & 1 small bason, 2 pewter dishes & 6 plates, 1 pair working bars & boxes, 1 woolen wheel, 2 old woolen wheels, 1 pair cotton cards, 2 old cards, 2 tubs, 1 water pail, 2 trays, 1 dish, pail & 1 pr bushel of large cot, 2 small ones & 2 pr pott hooks, 1 frying pan & 1 dutch oven, 2 old skillets, 1 tribute? & grid iron, 1 iron, tea kettle & 2 beal lewis iron spit, 1 old cask & 1 die tub, old p.? table, 3 old bushel baskets, 6 bushels of potatoes & 10 bushels of plantins, 7 old barrels, 2 barrels with pease in the hule, 2 baskets & 1 small bag of feathers, 2 meal barrels, 1 barrel & 1 bushel of fatt, 2 cyder barrels, 1 ??, 18 gallons of brandy, 1 keg of wine, 1 keg vinegar & 1 cyder, 4 old casks, 1 tub & 1 fatt tub, 1 brod ax, 2 hammer axes & 2 grubing hoes, 5 weeding hoes & 1 flax beak, 2 plow frames & 4 stou? hoes, 5 vials, 1/2 barrell? of spice & 1/2 barrell? of pepper, 9 cyder barrels, 1 collar & hamn? & 1 back band cart, saddles, 1 pr traces & collar & 2 bridles, 2 carts & 1 pair of old wheels, 2 small grind stones & 1 woman's saddle, 3 old barrels, 1 reel & flax wheel, 1 hand saw & 1 ?? sheep shears, 2 augers, 3 reap hooks & 2 gimblets, 1 gouge, 1 adds & 1 side leather, 10 sheep & 8 head of cattle, 16 geese, 1 boat?, 3 sows & eighteen pigs, 4 sows & 1400 weight of fatt pork, 150 weight of seed cotton, 1 cyder troughf & laath form, 55 barrels of corn, 1 neg. woman Dorothy & child, 1 negro boy Simon, 1 horse Starling, 1 steel trap, 1 horse foll'd ball, 1 small filly, 6 stocks of bees, 6 fatt sheats, 1 sow & head of cattel, 1 rawhide, 1 raw calfskin, a parcel of rotten corn, 1 sett of saddlers tools, man's saddle & bridle, 2 sides of sole leather, small pair of broad cloth, half 1/4 of a yard, 2 ft fut webb, 2 burying knives & 1 doz girt buckles, 1 gun, 1 canoe, 1 paper of saddle tax?, 1 pr of morocco?, 1 bible & 2 spelling books, 1 hymn book & 1 saltes?, 1 book Dissiples of the Methodist, stacks of blades & 4 stacks of topo fodder, 15 bushels of pease, 1 saatute coat & 2 close body coats, 1 pair boots, 2 pr shoes & 1 pair spurs, 1 money scales & weights, 1 razor, 1 pair horse floems?, 60 weight of corn'd pork, 1 hog skin, 2 sheep skins, 1 smoothing plane & 1 brush. The above contains a true & perfect Inventory of all the goods chattels & credits of James Darden, dec'd, as far as I know or believe, given under my hand this 15 day of January 1795. Jacob Darden Executor of James Darden, dec'd At a court held for the County of Southampton the 12 day of January 1795 This Inventory of the estate of James Darden, dec'd, was this day returned and ordered to be recorded. Sam Kello, Cl. Source: Library of Virginia, Will Book 4, 1783-1797 Southampton Co, VA Reel 17, page 669 Note: The Inventory is shown as it was written in narrative format. Do means ditto. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Von Mings Stachon vonstac@comcast.net ___________________________________________________________________