Warren A. Wiglesworth, dec'd
Spotsylvania County [1853]


As shown us by his Admr made this 17 Feby 1853
Fredericksburg Circuit Court #77-14 "Dudley Adm vs Wigglesworth’s heirs"
Home tract of land, 650 acres @ $7 $4,500.00
Negroes  
Lindsay $500.00
Dabney $400.00
Jim $600.00
Walker $600.00
Randal $975.00
Phillis $700.00
Daniel $650.00
Dick $650.00
Jane $550.00
Mary (deformed) $100.00
Kitty & child, George $800.00
Richmond $500.00
James $250.00
Lye $0.00
Ellen & 2 children Wm. Pattison & Maria Ellen $1,100.00
Celia $0.00
Lucy & child, Tom $1,000.00
Annis & child Milly $800.00
Edy & 4 children, Sally, Jim, Mary & Henry $1,900.00
Henry $925.00
Alfred $650.00
Silva $0.00
Patsy $0.00
William $550.00
George, hired in Richmond & appraised by description $800.00
Household furniture $19,500.00
New Room  
1 bedstead & furniture toilet table 1pr andirons, glass,  
3 chairs, underbed & matrass $20.00
Chamber  
1 Bedstead & furniture (appraised to be taken by one of the  
Children) $20.00
Amt carried Forward $19,540.00
1 Bed, stead & furniture, appraised to be taken by one of the  
Children $20.00
1 secretary & bookcase, 1 easy chair, 1 bedstead, candlestand, 1 miror,  
4 chairs, 1 pr andirons, shovel & tongs $20.00
Books in bookcase $6.00
Dining Room  
1 sideboard, 2 folding tables, clock, andirons, 3 chairs & 1 shotgun $15.00
Passage  
1 crib, 8 chairs, 1 bench, old books &c $5.00
Parlour  
2 Mahogany Tables, andirons, old sofa, 8 chairs, Large map of U.S.,  
1 bench $15.00
Table ware, Stone & Tin ware, old books &c $15.00
Room over Parlor  
4 beds with bedsteads & under beds, candlestand, washstand, looking  
glass, carpet, andirons & Tongs $45.00
Passage  
1 Chest, 5 white counterpanes, 4 table cloths, 1 table, old trunk & 2 chairs $10.00
Old Stairs  
2 Beds, steads & underbeds, washstand, andirons, table, tongs & poker $21.00
Garrett  
3 chests, 2 fenders, old barrels, tin boiler &c $8.00
Kitchen  
4 pots, 4 ovens, tea kettle, Preserving stove, 2 trivits, 2 pails, 3 trays, 1  
churn, pothooks, ladles, gridles, skilletts, copper kettle &c $10.00
Meat House  
New bacon supposed 4000 Lbs $440.00
2 firkens & 14 pots lard 170 lbs $18.70
Lot of beef supposed 200 lbs $8.00
Barrels & cracklings, 2 boxes, funnel &c $1.00
   
Lot of planks 3.00; rope, saddle & bridle 5.00 $8.00
Old Iron .50; 3 pr harness .50; 5 setts plough shares 2.50 $3.50
Ox chain, handsaw, half bushell, 1 broad ax?, 7 pole axes $8.00
3 spinning wheels & pr cards $10; corn planter, 5 double & 7 single ploughs  
hoes, wedges, old axes, cultivator &c 15.00 $25.00
Cutting box, spade, shovel, ox chain, old copper kettle $12.00
Old jugs & paint bucket $0.25
Corn, supposed to be 180 bushels @ $3.00 $540.00
Carried forward $20,799.45
   
Old machine iron, axes, 2 benches, 3 bbls with lime $6.50
Augers, steelyards, harrow teeth, hammes, chisel &s $1.00
Corn sheller, wheat fan $35; 2 whole & 1 broke sack salt 5.00 $40.00
3 boxes, old barrels, bar of iron & oil can $2.50
Oats supposed 34 bush'l $16.; carriage & harness $100 $116.00
Buggy & harness $50.; 5 broad? sows, 3 pigs & 39 shoats 85. $135.00
2 ox carts, 1 stone? cart $35.; waggon, harness, sheet bags 80. $115.00
2 large harrows $2.; grindstone & cut___? 2. $4.00
2 grass blades, 4 wheat cradles, 1 new blade & cider trough $6.00
5 casks with some vinegar & 1 beef hide $5.00
1 young mule 50.; 4 work mules 300. $350.00
Pr bay horses & old horse 200.; 12 ??? $236.00
Topstuck? Shucks? 12.00, 16 sheep 32.; 3 yoke oxen 120. $164.00
2 cows & calves, 12 young cattle & barren cow 84.; silver spoons 10. $94.00
1 certificate 18 shares Farmers Bank stock $1800  
1 certificate 5 shares New stock? $500.00
2 certificates 5 shares each Bank of Va stock $700  
cash in house $50.00
Bonds & ?? (approximately) about $2,400.00
Cash collected by adding Bank dividends $137.00
Sums outstanding, accounts amt not ascertained $27,660.95
   
Appraisement at Quarter  
Negroes  
Jesse $800; Armistead $900 $1,700.00
Jefferson $950; Walker $800 $1,750.00
Wyatt $500; Sarah $625 $1,125.00
Letty $50; Dick $500 $550.00
Betsy & 2 children Alice & Nancy $1100.; Tilda $450 $1,550.00
Crops. 15 Blades Stacks 45.; Tops shuck straw chaff 20. $65.00
160 Bbls corn (supposed) $480.00
80 bbls oats $40.00
Cattle: 3 yokes oxen $120; 17 cows & young cattle $102 $220.00
17 sheep $34.; 1 ox & horse cart $25.; 2 wagons & harness sheets & bags  
$100; 5 cradles 5.; 45 hogs large & small 60. $165.00
Amount carried forward $35,364.95
   
25 hoes, 8 aces, 5 spades & shovels $12.00
3 double & 5 single plows, 2 shovel & swingletrees $9.00
1 harrow, 1 cultivator, 2 ox chains, & 4 setts plough geers $7.00
3 horses & 3 mules $385.00
1 wheat fan, corn sheller & grindstone $12.00
1 threshing machine $80; 2 spinning wheels $6 $86.00
2 manure forks, wedges $2.50
2 hogsheads of tobacco in Richmond $160.83
Total $36,009.28
We the undersigned being duly sworn do make the above report of inventory and appraisement of the estate of Warren A. Wiglesworth dec'd.
Lewis A. Boggs
Chas O. Young
Henry Duerson
Isaac G. Cason, commissioners

Last Updated on 5/20/99
By Gary Stanton
Email: gstanton@umw.edu