Return to William Harper's Will
INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE
OF WILLIAM HARPER, SUSSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA
DATED OCTOBER 20, 1757
Negroes to wit: Toney, Tom, Ned, Cupit, Matt, Bob, Dolor, George, Pegg, Sucey, Billy, Jean, Aaron, Nan, Moses, Hanorco and Rick.
31 Head of Cattle 112 Head of Hoggs 50 barrels of corn
4 feather beds furniture seven guns
six leather chairs 1 chest of drawers one table
two chests 26 hoggs one cross
9 dishes 9 plates 21 spoons
one frying pan one skillet four spinning wheels
four iron potts one copper kettle one still
25 head of sheep thirty five head of geese
one hundred and forty gallons of brandy
four hundred sixty pounds of cotton
19 ells of Agnabriggs 3 ells of rools
one sett shoemaker tools five axes
one set of wedges two pair of wheels
two sets of horse harness four horses
nine sides of leather a small parcel of books
four pair of collen cards one loom
3 harps eighteen pounds of wool
five candle sticks one sale setter one sett of pistols
one livoid (?) ap____of _____.._____ [these last 2 blank spaces is just as shown
in the inventory]
carpenter tools three juggs two muggs
six coffy cups one pair of money scales
one grinding stone four bushels and a half of salt
one box in a parcel of coopers tools
fifteen bushels of wheat three rear hooks
one quart cott one pint Do. one tin funnel
one quire of paper three suits of cloaths one bridle and saddle
one housen and slate one pepper box
one looking blass one warming pann three bells
one hand mill a parcel of pails and twelve cyder casks
one case of knives and forks one flask
one razor and hoan one taper
75 and fifty two pounds nine shillings and three pence cash and 1903 ____of tobacco and a parcel of liunqer.
May 19th 1758
At a court held for Sussex County the 21st day of July 1758