Inventory and Appraisement of Colonel John Stanard

Page 333 Fredericksburg County Will Book C [1834]

Slaves
James $500.00
Humphrey $500.00
Matilda 200
Mary 300
Parlour
1 Brufsells carpet $40.; 1 sofa $12. 52
1 dozen cane bottom chairs 6
2 card tables $5; 1 tea table $6. 11
1 looking glafs $6.; 5 prints $4. 10
9 alabaster ornaments 4
2 plated snuffer trays, 22 pr snuffers 1.5
1 piano forte, music stool & metronome 100
1 pr andirons, fender, shovel, tongs 12
1 bust of General Jackson 1
1 hearth broom .20; 1 rugg $2.50 2.7
Dining Room
1 mahogany side board 18
1 set dining tables $15.; 1 tea table $4. 19
10 flag bottom chairs $4.; 1 carpet $6. 10
1 grate, fender, shovel & tongs 6
1 Declaration of Independence with gilt frame 2.5
7 profile frames $1.; 4 lamps $2. 3
2 pr plated candlesticks (old) 0.75
1 pr alabaster ditto $.50; 1 marble inkstand .12½ .62½
12 waiters $2.; 2 stone pitchers $1. 3
2 tin freezers .50; 2 tin bucketts .50 1
1 glafs bowl $3.; 2 glafs pitchers $2.50 5.5
1 doz silver spoons $35.; 1 doz tea spoons $12 47
1 lot old spoons $3; 1 cream pot $10 13
1 ladle $3.; 1 lot plated ware $3 6
2 coasters $1.50; 1 bieker $3.; castors $1. 5.5
1 set ivory handle knives & forks 7
1 set buck horn ditto 4
lot of ware $2.; plate warmer $1.50 3.5
sundries in closet $2.; sundries in 2nd closet $2. 4
Pafsage
1 Sofa $7.; 1 refrigerator $12. 19
2 old card tables $2.; 12 chairs $6 8
2 maps $4.; 1 pafsage carpet $2.50 6.5
1 stair case carpet & rods $10.; 1 lanthorn $4. 14
1 pair horn & scrubing brush 0.25
4 green window blinds (broken) 0.5
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Chamber
1 bed, mahogany bedstead & furniture 40
1 bureau $10; 1 drefsing table $10. 20
1 looking glafs $3; 1 easy chair $2.50 5.5
1 mahogany wash stand, basin, ewer, &c. 6
1 pr andirons, fender, shovel, tongs 5
1 pr small andirons 2
7 chairs $3.50; 4 paintings & frames .50 4
1 candle stand $2; 1 family bible $3.50 5.5
1 chimney screen $.50 0.5
amount carried forward 2006.32½
Lodging Room #1
1 bed, bedstead & furniture 26
1 trundle, bedstead, bed & furniture 12
1 bureau $6.; 1 spice prefs $4. 10
1 work stand $5.; 1 candle stand $.25 5.25
1 wash stand, 2 basons, 2 pitchers 5
toilet table, looking glafs & drefsing box 1
8 windsor chairs $2.; 1 rocking chair $.25 2.25
1 small chair $.20 0.2
1 pr andirons, shovel & fender 1.5
1 lamp & a piece of alabaster 0.25
1 lot in closet 1
1 trunk 0.5
Lodging Room #2
1 Bed & furniture with camp bedstead 24
1 single bedstead, bed & furniture 5
1 crib $1.50; 5 chairs $1.25; 1 screen $2.50 5.25
1 prefs in the pafsage $5. (upstairs) 5
3 brafs candlesticks $.75 0.75
1 set bed curtains (old) $1.; 1 bed quilt $1. 2
8 danitz window curtains $8.; 4 calico curtains $4 12
10 counterpanes $15.; 9 blanketts $12. 27
1 counterpane for crib $1; 1 danitz canopy $1 2
In back porch
1 pine prefs & table 3
Kitchen
4 iron pots $1.50; 5 ovens $2. 3.5
1 baker $.50; 10 pieces woodware $1.50 2
1 pr andirons, shovel, tongs & spit 2
3 old tables $.50; 2 pot racks $.50 1
2 gridirons, 1 griddle .12½
1 tea kettle $.50; 1 spice mortar $.12½ .62½
1 frying pan .75; 2 flat irons .50 1.25
1 patent coffee toaster 1.5
2 coffee mills .06¼; 1 sifter .12½ 0.1875
1 cullender 0
trays, bowls, paste board, rolling pin & bread pan 0.5
1 set of measures 0.4
1 spinning wheel 1
6 milk pans & strainer 0.75
1 bell mettle skillet 2.5
1 marble mortar & pestle 0.5
In Chamber (continued)
15 pr sheets $20; 12 pr pillow cases $4 24
1 doz napkins $2; 1 doz towels $1 3
6 china towels $.25; 1 drefsing box $1. 1.25
1 lot of danitz & pinge ?? 10
a lot of old carpet &c. 5
2208.36¼
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Cellar
1 pr brafs scales & weights 1
1 washing machine .12½
2 pine tables $.25; 1 furnace .12½ .37½
woodsaw & horse $.12½; safe 2.50 2.62½
1 pine bedstead 0.25
1 hobby horse 1
5 demijohns 0.5
1 saddle & bridle 3
1 small carriage 2.5
1 lot stone ware 1.5
1 ditto china 1
1 ditto china 1.5
1 ditto small jar 1
1 set of stone china (about 200 pieces) 25
1 lot of garden tools 0.5
Dining Room continued
8 star wine glasses $1; 11 tumblers $1.50 2.5
12 plain jelly glafses $1.; 10 cut ditto $1. 2
10 cut wine glafses $1; 12 cut glafs tumblers $3 4
12 cut glafs goblets & 3 old ones 3.5
1 salver $.50; 3 glafs dishes $2.50 3
9 decanters $12; 8 plain tumblers .50 12.5
2 glafs baskets .25; 10 sweet meat glafses $1 1.25
4 glafs salt cellars $1; parcel table mats $1 2
1 doz large tea plates, gilt edge 3
1½ doz small ditto 3
1 doz cup plates 0.5
11 french china tea cups & 10 coffee cups & saucers 4
11 nut pickers .25; 2 water bottles .37½ .62½
1 plated liquor stand & 1 bottle 2
1 buffalo cow & calf 16
Book case & secretary 8
50 vols. British poets @.20 10
5 vols. Goldsmith's animated nature @ .50 2.5
3 vols. domestic encyclopedia @.75 2.25
2 vols. American Biography @.12½ 0.25
6 vols. Rollin's ancient history @.06¼ .37½
6 vols. Josephus @.25 1.5
9 vols. Shakesphere @.25 2.25
129 vols. miscellaneous works @.06¼ 11.06
total 2348.50¼
At a court of Hustings held for the the Town and Corporation of Fredericksburg on the 14th day of November 1833.
Ordered that Hugh Mercer, Henry T. Phillips, William M. Blackford, John Minor, John Terrier, or any three of them praise all the personal estate of John Stanard deceased, to them produced & make return thereof to the Court Their hands.
Teste J. J. Chew
C.C.
This day the within named William M. Blackford, Henry T. Phillips, and John Minor personally appeared before me John Chew, a Justice of the Peace for the Corporation aforesaid, and made oath that they will truly and justly appraise the personal estate of
taken on the 10th July 1834 and succeeding days.

Last Update: 11/10/97

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