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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