Brian Hall - Translation of documents obtained from NEHGS 5/15/08 – Linda Hall
Brian Hall
Seekonk
1839
Translation of documents obtained from NEHGS 5/15/08 – Linda Hall
Handwritten document:
August 14, 1840
This may certify to all concerned that I have examined the _______ account and believe it to be correct and am willing it should be so settled with the Probate.
Horatio Barney
Horatio Hall
George L Sutton
Isaac Hall
Polly Hall
Ephraim L Hall
Milton Hall
Handwritten document:
The second account of Theophilus Hutchins (sp?) Administrator on the estate Brian Hall late of Seekonk (deceased)
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- your accountant charges himself with the balance of his first account |
$225.20 |
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Four Dollars & fifty lots of Viall Medbery |
4.50 |
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Cash for half of a pew in the Baptist meeting house in Seekonk |
23.75 |
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For the sale of the farms where on ____ _____ _____ |
1004.00 |
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______________ for rest of farm |
100.00 |
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To Horatio Hanneys Note |
7.03 |
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Alba Vrent |
1.00 |
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Balance of Luther Lyon |
3.00 |
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1369.45 |
And ___ allowance of the following charges and payments
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To Wm Hammond for Tax |
23.00 |
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John ___ bik |
3.00 |
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3.75 |
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Lewis Walker |
2.00 |
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3.40 |
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To Wm Hammond for Tax |
5.36 |
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4.74 |
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James Bland______ |
2.00 |
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Wm ________ |
1.20 |
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A____ for _______ |
.56 |
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Seth Clark |
.35 |
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Scribbled out |
1.00 |
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James ________ |
.50 |
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Polly Hall’s note |
114.44 |
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Philip Dunfee (2 notes) |
227.91 |
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John Prentice |
42.00 |
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Wheaton and Anthony Co account in ___inster |
160.39 |
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Wheaton and Anthony Co account note as advanced |
221.12 |
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Theophilies Hutchisin |
24.97 |
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Issac Hall |
25.00 |
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Horatio Barney |
35.00 |
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Allen ______ |
1.50 |
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Asa__ Chaffee |
2.70 |
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Thomas ________ |
27.24 |
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Samuel Tingley |
20.00 |
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Ina Mason |
3.00 |
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Cyril Read |
1.50 |
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My fee for settling the estate |
65.00 |
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1024.14 |
Cash paid to the heirs of the ____ of Sale _______
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To Polly Hall |
49.39 |
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To Issac Hall |
49.39 |
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To Milton Hall |
49.39 |
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To Ephraim L Hall |
49.39 |
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To Horatio Hall |
49.39 |
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To Horatio Barney & wife |
49.39 |
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To Wm L Sutton & Wife |
49.39 |
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1369.45 |
Bristol SS Probate Court at Seekonk Sept 1- 1840
Theophilus Hutchins adm of the estate of Brian Hall late of Seekonk deceased having made oath to the truth of his afore-written account, and it appearing to me that the heirs at law of said deceased approve thereof and no one appearing to object thereto, after a full examination thereof, I do allow the same, and order it to be of record.
O Prescott J. Probate
Handwritten and typed document:
I Theophilus Hutchins do solemnly swear that in disposing of the estate lately belonging to Bran Hall late of Seekonk in said county now deceased, I will use my best judgment in in fixing on the time and place of sale, and that I will exert my utmost endeavors to dispose of same in such manner as will be most for the advantage of all person interested herein.
Theophilus Hutchins
Briston SS March 30, 1840
Subscribed and swore to
Before me O Prescott Judge of Probate
Handwritten and typed document:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol SS
To Theophilus Hutchins of Seekonk in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid,
You having been duly appointed admin of the estate of Brian Hall – late of Seekonk – in said County – deceased and taken upon you that trust by giving bond faithfully to discharge the duties thereof as the law directs, are hereby directed to give notice of the same within three months from the date hereof by causing notifications thereof to be posted up in two or more public places in Seekonk an affidavit of which, with an original notification (or a copy thereof) you are to make and to file in the Probate Court of said County of Bristol, within one year from the date hereof, that the same may be there recorded, and when occasion should require it , used as evidence of the time, place and manner in which such notice shall have been given. Given under my hand this 5th of April A.D. 1839 O Prescott Judge of Probate
The subscriber hereby give public notice to all concerned that he has been duly appointed and taken upon himself the trust of admin of the estate of Brian Hall late of Seekonk in the County of Bristol deceased, by 0 giving bond as the law directs. He therefore requests all persons who are indebted to said deceased‘s estate to make immediate payment, and those who have any demands thereon, to exhibit the same for settlement to Theophilus Hutchins dated April 5-1839
Theophilus Hutchins makes ______ that agreeable to the order of the Hon. O Prescott Judge of Probate of Wills &c. for said county dated the fifth day of April last, he did within three months from said date, post up notifications whereof the foregoin is a copy, at each of the following places viz: at the inn of Allen ____ and at the store of _________ _____ Luther and John _______. Theophilus Hutchins
______ to by the above named _ at a Probate court for the County of Briston holden at Taunton in said county on the 21st of June A.D. 1839 Before me, O Prescott Judge of Probate
Handwritten and typed document:
_______ all men by these _____ that we Theophilus Hutchins, Viall Medbery and _______ Luther all of Seekonk in the county of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts are holden and stand firmly bound and obliged onto unto Oliver Prescott Esquire Judge of the court of Probate in and for the County of Bristol, in the sum of four thousand dollars, to be paid to said judge or his successors in said office, or assigns, on demand. To the true payment whereof, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents Sealed with our seals dated third day of the March eighteen hundred and forty –
The condition of this Obligation is such, that whereas the above bounden Theophilus Hutchins at a court of Probate holden at Taunton in and for said County of Bristol on the third day of March 1840 was authorized by said Court to make sale of certain real estate belonging to Brian Hall of Seekonk in ____ county of Bristol deceased.
Now therefore if the said Theophilus Hutchinsshall sell the same in the manner prescribed for sales of real estate by executors and administrators, and shall account for, and dispose of, the proceeds of the said sale in the manner provided by law, then this obligation to be void: otherwise to remain in force. Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
_____ Wheeler
Mary Luther
Theophilus Hutchins
Viall Medbery
________ Luther
Bristol SS. April 4-1840. I have examined, and do approve of the foregoing bond, and order the same to be recorded and filed in the Probate Office
O Prescott Judge of Probate
Handwritten and typed document:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol, ss At a court of probate holden at Taunton in and for said County on the seventh day of January A.D. 1840
Whereas Theophilus Hutchins Administrator of the estate of Brian Hall late of Seekonk in said county, deceased, has offered for allowance his Seekonk account of his administration of the estate of said deceased has offered for allowance his second account of his administration of the estate of said deceased and also his private account amounting to twenty four dollars ninety seven cents against said estate; Ordered that the first Tuesday in March next at ten o’clock before noon at the court of Probate then to be holden at Taunton in said county be assigned for taking the said accounts into consideration: and that the said Hutchins give ______ notice thereof to all persons interested by causing an attested copy of this order to be published three weeks successively in the Taunton M___ a Newpaper ____ in Taunton before the said time that they may be present, and shew cause, if any they have, why the accounts should not be allowed.
Oliver Prescott Judge of Probate
Handwritten and typed document:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol To Church (?) Gray and Lewis Walker both of Seekonk in said county _________
Whereas the estate of Brian Hall late of Seekonk in said county deceased hath been represented to me as insolvent, and insufficient to pay all just debts which the said deceased owed: You are therefore hereby appointed Commissioners (being first sworn) to receive and examine all the claims of the creditors against said estate, and you are to cause the times and places of your meeting for that purpose to be made known by publishing notice thereof three weeks successively in the Taunton Mrig (?) a newspaper printed in Taunton.
And six months are allowed to said creditors to present and prove their claims: At the end of which time you are to make return to me of this Commission, with your doings thereon.
Given under my hand this twenty fifth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine. Then Church Gray and Lewis Walker _____ and made oath that they will faithfully discharge the service to which they are appointed by the above commission.
Before me, Allen _____ Just. Of the Peace
To the Judge of Probate for the County of Bristol.
We the subscribers having been appointed to receive and examine the claims of the creditors to the estate of Brian Hall late of Seekonk in said county, deceased, and having given notice and performance of service required, now present a list of claims that have been laid before us with the sum we have allowed on each claim, as follows: viz
Jan 9, 1840 accepted
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Creditors Names |
Claimed |
Allowed |
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Seth Clark |
.35 |
.35 |
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Polly Hall |
113.68 |
113.68 |
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John Prentice |
42.00 |
42.00 |
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Isacc Hall |
211.75 |
25.00 |
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Horatio Barney |
65.33 |
35.00 |
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Phillip H Dunfee |
216.39 |
216.39 |
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Ditto |
7.16 |
7.16 |
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Thomas J. Griffin |
27.24 |
27.24 |
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Estate of Allen Monroe |
1.50 |
1.50 |
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Wheaton & Anthony Co note |
239.31 |
239.31 |
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Ditto |
158.17 |
158.17 |
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$865.80 |
Seekonk December 31 1839
Church Gray and Lewis Walker
Commissioners
Handwritten document:
To the judge of Probate for the County of Bristol. ______ _______ that the heirs of Brian Hall late of Seekonk in said county deceased who has lately died intestate leaving goods and estate of which administration is necessary – we therefore request that you Hon would appoint Theophilus Hutchins
Administrator on said estate agreeably to law in such cases made and provided. Seekonk April 2nd 1839.
Polly Hall
Milton Hall
Horatio Hall
Horatio Barney
George L. Sutton
Ephraim L. Hall
Handwritten and typed document:
To the judge of Probate for the County of Bristol Theophilus Hutchins Administrator of the estate of Brian Hall late of Seekonk in said county, deceased respectfully represents, that the estate of the said deceased, will probably be insufficient for the payment of his debys; he therefore represents the same as insolvent. Dated June 21 1839. Theophilus Hutchins
Church Gray
Lewis Walker
Comm
Handwritten and typed document:
To the Judge of Probate for the County of Bristol
Theophilus Hutchins
Administrator
of the estate of Brian Hall late of Seekonk in said county, deceased respectfully represents that the debts due from said deceased as nearly as can be ascertained amount to nine hundred and fifty dollars and sixty five cents; that the charges of Administration amount to about fifty nine dollars and eighty eight cents and the value of the personal estate of said deceased which remains un__________ amounts to one hundred and ninety two dollars and sixty five cents that the real estate of said deceased consists of two parcels of land which are under separated mortgages the first of which contains seventy acres more or less is bounded Northerly by a road and Westerly by land of Wm Mason & land which the said deceased _____hand of William Hall – the second of which contains thirty acres more or less and is bounded Northerly by a road easterly by the first above mentioned lot, Southerly by the land of William Mason and Westerly by land of Josiah Kent (?) and Thomas L. Neck (?) that neither of said ____ of land will sell for enough to pay the debts of that by a ____ sale of sixteen that residue thereof would be greatly injured. He therefore prays that he may be licensed to sell the whole of the real estate of said deceased above described for payment of said deceased debts and charges. Theophilus Hutchins
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol
At a court of Probate holden in Taunton in and for said county on the seventh day of January 1840.
Upon the foregoing petition of Theophilus Hutchins ordered that said petitioner notify all persons interested therein to appear at court of probate to be holden at Taunton in and for said County on the first Tuesday of March next, by causing an attested copy of said petition with this order thereon to be published in the Taunton Mrig a newspaper printed in Taunton three weeks successively prior to said Court, to be holden aforesaid, that they may then and there appear and shew cause if any they have why the prayer thereof should not be granted.
Oliver Prescott Judge of Probate.
Handwritten and typed document:
The first account of Theophilus Hutchins Administrator on the estate of Brian Hall late of Seekonk deceased. The said accountant charges himself with the personal estate of said deceased as from inventory amounting to $231.38
Also to the _____ of sale as from bill 18.12
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$249.50
And _______ allowance of the following charges and payments
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A____ T______ |
1.50 |
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______ ______ |
1.50 |
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Josiah Hunt (?) |
.75 |
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Seth Wood |
.75 |
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Lewis Walker |
.75 |
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Wm Hammond |
6.40 |
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Caleb Abel |
2.00 |
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Church Gray |
1.00 |
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Joshua Read |
1.00 |
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William Leonard |
3.50 |
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Philip Wood |
4.00 |
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24.30 |
Handwritten and typed document:
Bristol: Church Gray, Josiah Hunt and Seth Wood of Seekonk.
You are hereby appointed to appraise, on oath, the estate and effects of Brian Hall late of Seekonk in said County deceased which by law are to be administered. When you have performed that service you will deliver this order and your doings in pursuance thereof to the Administrator of said deceased that he may return the same to the Probate Court for said county of Bristol Given Under hand this second day of April the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine.
Oliver Prescott Judge of Probate
Bristol April 4th 1839 then church Gray, Josiah Hunt and Seth Wood above ___ ____ made oath that they will faithfully discharge the trust to which they are appointed the above warrant Before me
Lewis Walker, Justice of the Peace
An inventory of the estate of Brian Hall late of Seekonk in the County of Bristol deceased viz:
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____ Mr. _eal _____tine of about one hundred acres of land with all the buildings _______ standing being the _____ ______ Farm |
$2,000.00 |
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Half a pew in Baptist Meeting House |
18.00 |
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2018.00 |
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Horatio Barney note & interest dated Feb 22 1836 |
6.76 |
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Charles Tourtitat note and interest dated March 16 1839 |
6.77 |
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One horse wagon 20.00 __ wagon harness 5.00 |
25.00 |
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2nd ___ harness 2.50 farming ____ wagon 7.00 |
9.50 |
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Old wheels and thills 30 one sled 30 one wagon wheel 50 |
1.10 |
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Old __ wagon 2.00 ____ body 75 |
2.75 |
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Draft chain 1.00 3 waggon chains 75 ___ old iron 75 |
2.50 |
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One boer 50 old Syther and Sneads 45 oat ____ 25 |
1.20 |
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1 dung fork 50 shovel 15 2 garden hoes 15 |
.80 |
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___ oats about seven buckets 40 |
2.80 |
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Two shooth16.00 one two year old heifer 30.00 |
46.00 |
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One horse 25.00 ____ English hag 7.50 |
32.50 |
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Barrel containing hay ____ 1.00 grind stone 1.00 |
2.00 |
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Lot dung ___ fowls 2.00 1 iron kettle 75 |
2.75 |
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2 iron pots and kettles 75 1 iron pot 50 |
1.25 |
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2 iron kettles 50 3 spiders 60 1 ____ kettle 15 |
1.25 |
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Fry & ____ Kettle 50 hand ___ 50 pair ____ 25 |
1.25 |
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4 ____ sticks 20 6 flat irons 75 ___ and irons 50 |
1.45 |
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2 ____ & 2 ____ 25 1 stone and 1 nail hammer 30 |
.55 |
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Water ____ 15 looking glass 50 candle ____25 |
.90 |
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Maple desk 3.00 maple table 1.00 |
4.00 |
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6 green canister back chairs 1.50 & old chairs 40 |
1.90 |
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9 milk ___ .75 all the ____ in the _____ |
1.35 |
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3 stone jugs and 2 jugs 50 ____ with chopping & ____ 30 |
.80 |
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Tea Pot 15 one basket with ____ 10 |
.25 |
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Basket containing china Crockery and Glassware |
1.00 |
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13 small silver spoons 3.60 Holy bible ___ ___ |
7.00 |
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1 ladle 25 7 ____ 1____ and basin 50 |
.75 |
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Milk shaine and milk quart 25 1 small ___ ____ 50 |
.75 |
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2 old boxes 10 1 table 25 1 bed trough 10 |
.45 |
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1 rolling chair 75 2 copper plate window ____ 50 |
1.25 |
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1 looking glass |
2.00 |
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2 armed chairs & 6 others ____ bottom chairs 2.00 |
2.00 |
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Pair brass andirons 3.00 me carpet 4.00 |
7.00 |
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Best set large knives and forks 75 2nd best ditto 25 |
1.00 |
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Best set tea knives 60 5 knives and forks 25 |
.85 |
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Mahogany table 2.00 ____ horse 28 |
2.28 |
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One ___ ___ best bed pillows and bolster |
7.00 |
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Second best bed bolster and pillows |
5.00 |
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___ ___ bed bolster and pillows |
4.00 |
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2 bed stead & cord 80 two ____ under beds 50 |
1.30 |
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Best bed quilt 2 & second best bed quilt 2.00 |
4.00 |
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Old bed quilt 1.00 one bed quilt 1.00 |
2.00 |
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Old bed quilt 25 old comforter 15 |
.40 |
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_____ blankets 75 ___ cotton sheets 1.00 |
1.75 |
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6 linen sheets 2.00 5 old cotton sheets 1.25 |
3.25 |
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_____ cotton ____ sheets 50 |
.50 |
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One chest 75 27 cotton pillow cases 1.02 |
1.77 |
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Chair liners ___ ____ 12 linen dishes table clothes 1.00 |
1. |