Inventory and appraisement of the estate of the Richard Johnston, dec'd.
| Front Room | ||
| 1 piano forte | 150 | |
| 1 side board | 20 | |
| 1 doz rush bottom chairs | 12 | |
| 1 secretary & book case | 25 | |
| 1 pillar claw tea table | 15 | |
| 1 carpet | 25 | |
| 1 small work table | 3 | |
| fender, shovel, tongs & poker | 7.5 | |
| seventy pieces of glafs ware | 12 | |
| five tea boards | 5 | |
| box of wax work | 5 | |
| 5 plated candlesticks & shades | 2 | |
| portrait of Jas Madison | 5 | |
| ditto of Thos Jefferson | 5 | |
| speech of Rob. Emmet in a frame | 2 | |
| Pair of Venetian blinds | 4 | |
| Back Room | ||
| sett of dinning tables | 12 | |
| doz windsor chairs | 8 | |
| 1 old carpet & rug | 5 | |
| 1 old fashioned looking glafs | 2 | |
| lot of earthen ware | 12 | |
| two setts of castors | 5 | |
| 3 Britannia tea pots & coffee pot | 2 | |
| 4 old waiters & bread basket | 1 | |
| doz silver table spoons | 34 | |
| 7 silver tea spoons & broken sugar tongs | 4 | |
| 1 silver toddy ladle | 2 | |
| pr snuffers & tray | 2 | |
| 4 diaper table cloths @ $2. each | 8 | |
| 2 common ditto @ $1 each | 2 | |
| 5 napkins @ $.50 each | 2.5 | |
| doz dinner knives & forks, 5 breakfast do | ||
| & carving knife & fork | 3 | |
| Pafsage | ||
| doz Grecian windsor chairs | 10 | |
| pafsage lamp | 3 | |
| domestic pafsage carpet | 2.5 | |
| Drawing Room | ||
| 1 sopha | 30 | |
| rush bottom settee | 5 | |
| doz rush bottom chairs | 12 | |
| 1 card table | 4 | |
| 1 tea ditto | 4 | |
| brafs andirons, shovel & tongs | 10 | |
| large mantle glafs | 8 | |
| two mantle ornaments | 5 | |
| 2 candeliers | 10 | |
| 9 pictures in frames | 8 | |
| amount brought forward | 513.5 | |
| 6 Venetian blinds @ $2.50 each | 15 | |
| 1 carpet | 25 | |
| 1 rug | 2 | |
| sett of china, white & gilt | 10 | |
| small sett of ditto flowered | 5 | |
| Front Chamber | ||
| three feather beds, bolsters & pillows | 60 | |
| mahogany carved post bedstead | 15 | |
| ditto reeded ditto | 6 | |
| acorn top poplar ditto, lowpost | 4 | |
| doz yellow rush bottom chairs | 6 | |
| 1 bureau & cabinet | 20 | |
| 1 carpet, very old | 5 | |
| 3 cotton window curtains | 3 | |
| fender, shovel & tongs | 2 | |
| seven common towels | 0.5 | |
| 1 candle stand | 1 | |
| 1 common small pine table | 0.5 | |
| 1 tin wash basin | 0.25 | |
| 5 strips of domestic carpetting | 2.5 | |
| Back Chamber | ||
| 2 feather beds, 2 bolsters & 2 pillows | 30 | |
| doz yellow windsor chairs | 6 | |
| 16 blankets | 18 | |
| two low post bedsteads | 8 | |
| 1 rocking arm chair | 2 | |
| 7 white cotton counterpains | 14 | |
| 2 blue & white ditto | 4 | |
| 3 toilet covers | 1.5 | |
| 1 mahogany close bed stool | 3 | |
| 10 pr cotton sheets | 10 | |
| 11 pr pillow cases | 2.75 | |
| 5 cotton bed spreads | 1.5 | |
| small pine table | 0.25 | |
| small toilet glafs, broke | 0.25 | |
| yellow rocking chair | 2 | |
| Porch | ||
| 1 refrigerator | 10 | |
| pine table | 0.5 | |
| safe | 1 | |
| old walnut table | 1 | |
| 17 old windsor chairs | 4 | |
| 4 brafs candlesticks (flat) | 1 | |
| 1 pr snuffers | .12½ | |
| 2 tin wash basins | .37½ | |
| amount brought forward | 817.5 | |
| Kitchen | ||
| 1 very old tin kitchen | 0.25 | |
| 3 iron pots | 3 | |
| 2 iron ovens | 1.5 | |
| 1 griddle | 0.25 | |
| 3 tea kettles | 1 | |
| 1 spider | 0.25 | |
| 1 spice mortar | 0.25 | |
| 4 flat irons | 1 | |
| 1 frying pan | 0.5 | |
| 1 brafs skillet | 4 | |
| pr kitchen fire dogs & shovel | 1 | |
| 2 pr warfle irons | 1 | |
| 1 pr wafer irons | 0.5 | |
| 1 coffee mill | 0.25 | |
| 8 iron bound tubs | 4 | |
| 1 kitchen table | 1 | |
| 1 ironing table | 1 | |
| ladle, skimmer & flesh fork | 0.5 | |
| 1 very small iron pot | 0.25 | |
| 2 tin bread moulds | 0.25 | |
| 1 tin cake mould | 0.25 | |
| 1 tin coffee boiler | 0.25 | |
| Under the porch | ||
| 1 plough | 5 | |
| 1 grindstone | 0.5 | |
| 2 axes & hatchett | 0.5 | |
| 1 pick axe, spade & garden fork | 1 | |
| Closet | ||
| 4 pickle pots & 4 jugs | 3 | |
| Stable | ||
| old Phaeton & old harnefs | 6 | |
| 2 ploughs | 5 | |
| old cart & gear | 2 | |
| old wheel barrow | 1 | |
| pr small steelyards | 0.5 | |
| cow & calf | 15 | |
| yearling | 1 | |
| heifer | 5 | |
| amount brought up | 885.25 | |
| 1 iron chest in Rothrock's store | 10 | |
| Cellar | ||
| sett of scales & weights | 5 | |
| tin oil stand & the oil in it | 15 | |
| 2 iron bound casks & other things in cellar | 4 | |
| 18 pieces cast iron | 1 | |
| 1 barrel Spanish whiting | 3 | |
| Negroes | ||
| 1 Negro woman called Penny | 300 | |
| 1 Negro boy, Andrew, son of Penny | 300 | |
| 1 Negro woman called Betsy & her youngest child | ||
| called Betty | 500 | |
| 1 girl, Mary, about 6 years old | 200 | |
| 1 girl, Jane, between 4 and 5 ditto | 150 | |
| 1 woman, Martha & her young child | 400 | |
| the interest of Richard Johnston in Negro man Jefse | 20 | |
| total | 2793.25 | |
| Pursuant to an order of the Corporation Court of Fredericksburg, a copy of which is annexed to the other side hereof, the undersigned proceeded to appraise all the personal estate shown to them of Richard Johnston dec'd, of which the foregoing is a correct statement amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $2793.25, all which we respectfully report as required by the order aforesaid. Given under our hands this first day of April in the year 1835. | ||
| Thomas Wright | ||
| Robert C. Bruce | ||
| Richd Walker |
Last Update 3 January 2011
Name: Gary Stanton
Email: gstanton@umw.edu