Bill of work done on Colin and James Rofs's brick house and out houses on the same lot

Collection: Spotsylvania Superior Court of Chancery
Record Title: Carter, administrator of Taylor vs Ross
Year recorded: 1816
Record ID: 59-15
Account #5.
To splitting 10 girders and trimmers 5.00.0
To 153.36 Square Framing 3 story house the girders & trimmers spliced and bolted @ 17/6 134.04.0
To 11.76 Square Framing floor and cellars @ 12/ 7.01.0
To 3 window shutter and putting up shelves in cellar 1.13.0
To cutting hatchway fitting door and steps to cellar 2.05.0
To 3 setts folding outer cellar doors including frames 54/ 8.02.0
To 2 Pair inside folding doors and frames @ 54/ 5.08.0
To 2 Pair ditto to private cellar @ 48/ 4.16.0
To 1 Pair steps hatchway and &c &c 0.18.0
To 34.56 Square T & G secret nailed flooring 36/ 62.02.0
To 30.24 Square do do Flushed @ 24/ 36.06.0
To 21.50 Square flooring and ceiling in Garret @ 12/ 12.09.0
To 26.40 Square cyphered sheating @ 6/ 7.18.6
To 26.40 Square shingling @ 12/ 15.17.0
subtotal 304.09.6
To drefsing round and jointing 30M shingles @ 10/ 15.00.0
To R Marshall for 120 feet modillion cornice @12/ 72.00.0
To 88 feet cornished barge boards @ 2/ 8.16.0
To 4 dripboards @ 12/ 2.08.0
To 120 feet of scolloped coping on ridge of house @3/ 1.10.0
To 1 scuttle door, opening, hanging & fastening 1.04.0
To making and hanging 7 Pair window shutters 36/ 12.12.0
To 2 pair folding doors in passage ea 150/ & 166/ 15.16.0
To 2 pair folding doors store & compting room 121/ 12.12.0
To making, casing and hanging 3 doors with double jams putting on locks &c @ 84/ 12.12.0
To making casing and hanging 2 ditto with panneled jams & putting on locks included @ 108/ 10.16.0
To making casing and hanging 9 doors with double arch'd and grooved jams @ 72/ 32.08.0
subtotal 197.14.0
To 17 window frames, casing sashes and hung with pullies &c compleat @ 90/ 76.10.0
To 3 ditto to store and counting room @ 72/ 10.16.0
To 13 ditto to third story @ 60/ 39.00.0
To 2 ditto to Garrett @ 48/ 4.16.0
To Fixing up store, shelves, draws and painting 60.00.0
To 96 feet plain cove cornice @ 4/6 21.12.0
To 127 feet modillion cornice @ 9/ 57.03.0
To 152 feet dental cornice @ 4/6 34.04.0
To 76 feet plain cornice @ 3/ 11.08.0
subtotal 315.09.0
   
carried over 817.12.6
To 114 feet cornice in dining room @ 4/ 22.16.0
To 4 prefses with pilasters, chimney piece included 30.00.0
To 412 feet wash and chair boards @ 2/6 51.10.0
To 6 closets with groved jams, shelves doors &c @ 120/ 36.00.0
To 1 chimney piece 2 arches & c 20.00.0
To 114 feet cornice in drawing room @ 4/6 25.13.0
subtotal 185.19.0
To 66 feet picture strips @ 2d 11.00.0
To 322 feet dado in drawing room @ 1/ 16.02.0
To 312 feet raised wainscoating in pafsage @ 1/6 23.08.0
To 377 feet plain ditto @ 1/ 18.17.0
To 117 feet dado in 3rd story @ 6d 2.18.6
To lst Stair case compleat with rampant railing 45.00.0
To 2nd ditto ditto To To To 40.00.0
To 1 ditto to garrett with a door 9.16.0
To 4 chimney pieces @ 24/ 4.16.0
To 3 ditto with dentals &c @ 90/ 13.10.0
To 1 ditto in Front room 4.16.0
To 392 feet chair and wash boards in counting room and 2nd story @ 2/6 49.00.0
To altering frame of stair way 3.00.0
To preparing wooden brick 6.00.0
To 12 curbs and trimmers @ 12/ 7.04.0
To 1 chimney piece in counting room 1.16.0
To 1 Garrett Ladder and platform 0.15.0
To fitting 58 door and window lintels about and below 8.14.0
To glazing 448 Lights of Sash @ 4 + d 8.08.4
To 582 Yds painting 3 coats above and below @ 13 + d 32.14.9
To 202 Yds painting 2 coats @ 9d 7.11.6
To 160 Yds painting on roof a@ 7+d 5.00.0
subtotal 81.03.7
  £1313.09.7
To 1 ladder with Iron hooks on dwelling house 0.18.0
To removing warehouse & agreement 30.00.0
To 1 necefsary 6 by 9 with 2 doors, floors, scantling petition, seats &c compleat 12.00.0
carried to another sheet 1356.07.7
   
Bill for building Meat House on same lot  
7.20 Square dbble studded framing @ 12/ 4.06.4
5 Square weatherboarding @ 9/ 2.05.0
48 feet single cornice @ 9d 1.16.0
40 feet corner boards @ 3d 0.10.0
3 Square shingling @ 12/ 1.16.0
1 double door hanging &c 2.02.0
painting ditto 80 Yards @ 2d 0.16.8
1 Urn on top and King post 0.09.0
subtotal 14.01.0
45 feet pailing with rabited & plained coping 2/6 6.12.6
45 feet carved headed pailing @ 3/6 7.15.6
painting ditto 1.04.0
61 feet rough plank fence @ lOd 2.10.0
160 feet rough ditto with capping @ 8d 5.06.8
2 gates casing posts compleat to garden and yard including steps 2.08.0
subtotal 25.17.6
   
Sundries for Kitchen  
1568 feet paving @ 12/ 9.08.0
9 Sqr plain sheeting @ 1/6 0.13.6
9 Sqr Shingling @ 10/ 4.10.0
5 Sqr Rough flooring @ 12/ 3.00.0
2 Sqr plain ditto and framing steps 1.10.0
2 3/4 Sqr rabbitted ptition @ 20 2.15.0
3 door casing and hanging @ 30/ 4.10.0
1 trap door 0.15.0
5 old windows, newly cased and putting in 18 panes new glafs @ 15/ 3.15.0
1 loft ladder @ 15/ 0.15.0
1 prefs and 2 setts of shelves 1.16.0
64 feet barge board @ 3d 0.16.0
4 drip boards @ 6/ 1.04.0
56 feet cornicing @ 2/6 7.00.0
6 lintels and wooden bricks @ 3/ 0.18.0
water drefser in kitchen 0.16.0
subtotal 45.01.6
   
Sundries done to warehouse viz  
1.80 Sqr weatherboarding @ 9/ 0.16.2
36 feet new sills and putting in ditto @ 1/3 2.05.0
5 cellar windows frames and fixing iron bars 1.10.0
40 feet plank fence between kitchen & Meat Ho. 0.13.4
subtotal 5.04.6
carried over £1446.12.1
1 putting 49 feet old pailing & hanging gate 0.16.8
To 4 Pr new cellar folder door with steps &c 4.16.0
subtotal 5.12.8
   
To Sundries for Building a Meat house on B Building lot  
600 feet scantling @ 12 7.04.0
Building ditto 12.15.4
Building necefsary on same lot 6.00.0
172 feet pailing @ 4d 2.17.4
15 Garden rails and 6 posts @ 1/6 1.11.6
painting 2 rooms upstairs 1.04.0
Total £1483.16.11
Excepted
September 15th 1802
Fredericksburg


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