Augustine Washington’s Probate Inventory. July 1, 1743.

 
Augustine Washington’s Probate Inventory. July 1, 1743.

Hall Back Room
1 Bed and Furniture £8
1 Bed £4
1 Chest of Drawers £3
1 Tea Table £0.5
4 Rush Bottom Chairs £0.10
2 Window Hangings £0.8
1 Dressing Glass £0.15
1 Trunk £0.6
1 pair hand Irons £0.2.6
Passage
1 large table £0.17.6
1 couch £0.5
1 small table £0,2
Back Room
2 beds and furniture £4.10
1 chest and box £0.8
1 old chest of drawers £0.5
Hall
1 Scren Fore (possibly an escritoire or writing desk) £0.13
1 Large Looking Glass £2.10
1 Large Table £1
1 Small Table £0.15
1 Arm Chair £0.12.6
11 Leathern Bottom Chairs £2.15
1 fire shovel and tongs and one pair hand irons £0.7.6
Parlour
3 beds £9
Old table £0.6
3 old chairs £0.2
1 old desk £2
1 looking glass £0.15
1 set window curtains £0.2.6
1 sugar box £0.4
Lumber in the room and cupboard £0.15
Upstairs Hall Chamber
3 beds and furniture £9
1 trunk £0.8
Parlour Chamber
2 old beds, 3 mattress cases £1.12
6 rugs £4.10
9 blankets £1.16
1 large cooler £0.10

Negros At The Home House

• Jack £30
• Bob £35
• Ned £22
• Dick £30
• Ned £30
• Toney £30
• Steven £2.10
• Jo £0.0.1
• London £20
• George £20
• Jcumy £5
• Jack £5
• Lucy £20
• Sue £35
• Judy £20
• Nan £32
• Betty £15
• Jenny £12.10
• Phillis £12.10
• Hannah £8

Stock

• 6 oxen at £2.10 - £15
• 9 cows at £1.10 - £13.10
• 4 two years old 15/ - £3
• 2 heifers at 20/ - £2
• 6 calves at 5/ - £1.10
• 21 sheep at 5/ - £5.5
• 2 sows £1.4
• 2 barrows £1.4
• 15 shoats £1.17.6
• 3 horses £12
• 1 mare £1.15

Plate

• 1 Soup spoon £1.10
• 18 Small Do. £13.10
• 7 Tea Do. £1.15
• 1 Watch £5
• 1 Sword £1.15

Glasses

• 1 Decanter £0.1.6
• 1 Mugg £0.1.6
• 3 Tumblers £0.1.6
• Sundry Salt Sellers £0.2

Chinaware

• 9 Gilt Saucers
• 6 Do. cups
• 1 Do. Teapot Milk Do. £1
• 1 Slopbowl & Butter dish
• 1 Tea pot Stand & Spoon Boat
• 8 blew Cups and Saucers
• 1 Slopbowl and Tea Pot £1
• 1 Milk pot & Stand & Sugar Dish
• 1 Large Blew and White Bowl £0.7
• 1 Do. Gilt £0.10
• 2 Dishes £0.5
• 9 Custard Cups £0.9
• 4 Coffee Cups £0.4
• 11 Plates £0.11

Dairy

• 16 Pewter Dishes £3.4
• 44 flat Plates £2.4
• 18 Soop Do. £0.18
• 4 Large Basons £0.12
• 2 Small Do. £0.3
• 3 Dish Covers £0.1.6
• 1 Cullender £0.5
• 2 fish Drainers £0.5
• 1 Do. Kettle £1.5
• 1 Small brass Do £0.1
• 1 bell Mettle Skillet £0.5
• 2 Old Sauce pans £0.2
• 1 Safe £0.1
• 7 Rundlettes £1.1
• 1 Churn 1 Pale 2 Wash Tubs 2 Piggins £0.12.6
• Old Tubs barrels pr £1

Closet

• Sundrys Lumber £2

Store House

• 49 Sifters £2.5
• 14 Searches £0.17.6
• 1 Set Coopers Tools £2
• 1 Set Surveyors Instruments £1.10
• 1 Old Suit of Curtains £1
• 9 yards wide Cloth £1.7
• 3 ½ yards Lite Do. £0.7
• 16 ½ yards blew pans £0.16.6
• 4 ¾ yds Druggits £0.6.6
• 12 yds Fustin £0.12
• 16 ¾ yds Shalloon Remns £1
• 1 ps Irish Linnen 25 yards £2.10
• 6 yds Do. £0.9
• 65 Ells Course Oznabrigs £1.12.6
• 81 Do. at 6d £2.0.6
• 27 ½ yds Cotton £1.7.6
• 22 yds Cours Plaid £0.11
• 8 yds dyd ozna £0.4
• 1 Old Saddle £0.6
• 2 Sugar Tubs £0.5
• 5 Small Coolers £1

Kitchen

• 7 Iron Potts £2.2
• 2 Coppers £4.15
• 1 Old Dripping Pan £0.0.6
• 2 frying Do. £0.3
• Old tubs £0.10
• 2 Spits
• 5 pr pot hooks £0.5
• 3 Racks £0.5
• 1 Large Skimmer & flesh forks £0.4
• 1 Grid Iron £0.1.6
• 1 Pr Stillyards £0.3
• 1 Box Iron £0.3
• 1 flat Do. £0.2.6
• 1 pr Hand Irons £1.2

Linnen

• 6 Diaper Table Cloths £2.2
• 10 Napkins £0.10
• 6 pr Sheets £4
• 10 White Linnen napkins £0.6.8
• 11 pr Pillow Cases £1.3
• 8 Towells £0.5.4
• 5 pr White Sheets £1.10
• 5 pr brown Do. £1.5
• 6 pr Pillow Cases £0.4
• 12 Towels £0.8
• 1 Suit of Silk & Cotten Curtains £1.5
• 7 Table Cloths £0.7
• 11 Old Napkins £0.0.11
• 1 Set of Silk Curtains £2
• 12 Oznabs Napkins £0.8

Cash

• Cash in a Purse £9.7.4

The inventory contains several words that are not in common usage today. Here are a few definitions (correctly spelled):

rundlet - a small barrel of uncertain size from about 3 to 20 gallons

piggin - small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle

shalloon - a lightweight wool or worsted twill fabric, used chiefly for coat linings

osnaburg - heavy, coarse cotton fabric used for grain sacks, upholstery, and draperies

drugget - a fabric woven wholly or partly of wool, used for clothing

ell - English linear measure equal to 45 inches (144 centimetres)

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