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Inventory of the Estate of James Clarkson


Essex county virginia; Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of James Clarkson, deceased, made this 1st day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.

Books
1st Lot; 5.00
2nd Lot; 4.00
3rd Lot; 2.50
4th Lot; 1.50
5th Lot; 2.50
6th Lot; 2.50
7th Lot; 1.50
8th Lot; 3.00
9th Lot; 2.00
10th Lot; 1.50
11th Lot; 1.50
12th Lot; 1.50
13th Lot; 2.00
14th Lot; 1.50
15th Lot; 5.00
16th Lot; 2.00
17th Lot; .50
Treatise on Weaving by J. Clarkson; 3.00
3 Grid of News Papers; 1.50
1 Slate; .33

Other Articles
2 pr Scales and weights; 4.00
1 Chest; .50
26 Stays; 13.00
1 Stay and Harness; 3.00
12 Pr Weavers harness; 10.00
42 yds Warp Cotton; @?; 6.67
10 lb Cotton Warp twined; 4.00
8 1/2 yds Cloth (Herring Boned @ 25 cents); 2.12 1/2
12 yds Draper; @?; 4.00
10 yds Dimity; @?; 2.50
8 1/4 yds Fusting; @?; 2.66
4 1/2 yds Broken Fusting; @?; 1.25
1 Cotton Counterpain; 3.00
1 ditto; ditto; 3.00
1 ditto; ditto (check); 1.50
1 Table Cloth (Huckerback); 1.50
All the Blankets; 2.00
5 Flag chairs; 2.50
1 Looking Glass; .33
1 Bed, Bedstead and furniture; 20.00
1 Box; .13 1/2
1 large Pine Chest; 2.00
1 Bed (doubly furnished) & stead; 24.00
5 Jugs; 1.25
2 large fat pots; 1.00
3 do do, smaller size; .75
1 Doz. Black Bottles @ 4 cents; .48
1 quilling wheel; .50
1 spinning wheel; 1.00
1 old ??; 1.00
1 Barrel; .50
1 large Box; .25
2 old Barrels; .25
1 Box and contents; .12 1/23
Trays and sifter; .50
2 pr Steelyards; 2.00
pr wedges; .50
Parcel Wooden Ware; .50
pr Warping Pan and Boxes; 2.00
1 old Box; .12 1/2
3 pr Temples, Shuttles, etc; .75
1 Winder; .12 1/2
pr and Irons; .50
Parcel Tin Ware; 2.00
Parcel Pewter Ware; 5.00
Parcel Crockery Ware; 1.00
1 Bedstead; .50
1 Cow Bell; .50
Parcel Iron Ware; 4.00
2 Iron Pot Racks; 1.00
5 pr window Curtains; 2.50

Pursuant to an order of Essex County Court bearing date the 20th day of December 1824, We the undersigned therein appointed have appraised the estate of James Clarkson, decd, according to the above statement. Given under our hands this 1st day of March, 1825.
Wm C Latane; Wm D Reynolds; Ephraim Beazley; Thomas Wright Jr.; Joseph Clarkson, Adm.

At an Intervening Court begun and held for Essex Co at the Courthouse in Tappahannock on the 17th day of Oct 1825, this Inventory and Appraisment of the Estate of James Clarkson, decd, was returned and ordered to be recorded. Teste: Wm B. M. Matthews, Clerk

note: Immediately following in the court record is the inventory of James Clarkson's son, Richard Clarkson.


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Inventory of the Estate of James Clarkson; prepared by Blanche Aubin Clarkson Hutchison and sumbitted by Pamela Hutchison Garrett for Family Stories at pamgarrett.com website; 2015.