Franklin County
April Term A.D. 1854
Pages 376-378
An inventory of the personal estate of Joseph Seal deceased taken by Isabel Seal and Giles Gant administratrix and administrator and appraised by Samuel Holiday and Joseph Wynn
| Description of property | |
| 6 chairs | 1.25x |
| dresser ware | 6.25x |
| 5 pieces of pot metal | 1.75x |
| lot of tin ware, stove & apparatus | 8.75x |
| 9 crocks & 1 jug | .75x |
| brass kettle | 1.00x |
| fire shovel & candlestick | .25x |
| rifle gun & apparatus | 12.00 |
| sheep shear, pistol & scissors | .50x |
| breakfast table & stand table | 3.00x |
| razor box & brushes | .50 |
| bedstead bed & bedding | 14.00x |
| bedstead bed & bedding | 13.00 |
| bedstead bed & bedding | 19.00x |
| woman's saddle & bridle | 10.00x |
| man's saddle & bridle | 8.00 |
| wagon cover | 4.00 |
| 8 yds mixes janes | 4.30 |
| 7 yds linsy | 2.00x |
| 7 yds white flannel | 2.80x |
| coffee mill | .25x |
| 9 window blinds | .90x |
| 6 bags | 1.50 |
| bureau | 5.00x |
| rocking cradle | .75 |
| lot peacock feathers | 1.00 |
| 22 yds white flannel | 8.50 |
| steel yard | 1.50 |
| some 30yds carpet | 8.00x |
| another lot bed clothing | 16.00x |
| 1 large & 1 small spinning wheel | 1.50x |
| loom & apparatus | .75x |
| lot of woolen yarn | 3.50x |
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| 2 bureaus | .25 |
| 3 axes | 1.25 |
| barrel & pickled cucumbers | 2.00 |
| barrel of cider | 1.75 |
| cultivator | 3.50 |
| 3 scyckles | .20 |
| lot of Irish potatoes | 6.00 |
| scythe & hanging | 1.00 |
| dirt shovel & hoe | .20 |
| double tree & 4 single trees & 2 clevices | 1.00 |
| trunnel bedstead, 1 blanket & bed quilt | 2.00x |
| 1 umbrella | .50 |
| wash tub & 2 wash boards | .40x |
| milk churn | .40x |
| 1 andiron | .10x |
| scythe & cradle, square & hatchet | 1.25 |
| slate | .10x |
| lot of old irons | 1.00 |
| 1 gray horse | 65.00 |
| 1 mare colt | 22.00 |
| set wagon harness | 10.00 |
| curry comb | .05 |
| hayin the barn, west end | 4.00 |
| lot of oats | 45.00 |
| lot of blls & kegs | 2.00x |
| lot of flax seed | .50 |
| fanning mill | 8.00 |
| dung fork & pitch fork | .50 |
| lot of hay in old house | 8.00 |
| hay waggon bed | .25 |
| waggon & bows | 60.00 |
| 1 scoop shovel | .05 |
| 13 head of sheep | 17.00x |
| 1 hay stack | 4.50 |
| 26 fat hogs | 279.00 |
| 22 stock hogs | 35.00 |
| 4 plows, 1 harrow & 1 double tree | 8.30 |
| 4 calves | 12.00 |
| 3 other milk cows | 45.00 |
| 2 heifers | 10.00 |
| 1 wagon wood bed | 2.00 |
| half bus, peck & half peck measure | .60 |
| 2 other fat hogs | 20.00x |
| 20 bus of wheat | 12.00 |
| another lot of wheat | 20.00 |
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| lot of pea fowls | 2.50 |
| lot of ducks | 5.00x |
| lot of turkeys | 5.00 |
| lot of chickens | 5.00x |
| some 5 acres of corn in field | 40.00 |
| 1 white backed milch cow | 14.00x |
| some 13 acrs of wheat in the field or emblements | 35.00 |
| 2 hay stacks on the Mt. Carmel farm | 15.00 |
| some 3 acres of corn in the field at the Mt. Carmel farm | 35.00 |
| 5 yds janes (brown) | 2.50x |
| hay in the east end of barn | 10.00x |
| 1 scythe stone & pocket book | .15x |
| 1 lot unbroke flax | .50x |
| money on hand | 49.82 |
| an account against David Russel | 11.00 |
| note on Elisha B. Jenkins dated May 1th 1852 & Dec. 25th 1852 | 6.75 |
| note on F. M. Seal & Caleb Seal for $70.00 dated June 20th 1852 & due Dec 25th 1852 with payment of 29$ endorsed thereon without dtae | 41.00 |
| note on Elmore Crager for $6.50 dated April 1st 1852 wih int from date | 6.50 |
| Note on Briton Gant dated April 12th 1852 and due January 1st 1853 | 10.28 |
| more money on hand | .45 |
| Total personal | $1219.15 |
Signed by use this 8th day of December 1852.
Samuel Holliday
Joseph Wynn appraisers.
Rec'd of Giles Gant Administrator of the estate of my late husband Joseph Seal, deceased the articles charged to me in the foregoing inventory the 8th day December 1852.
Isabel Seal
widow's selection = x