Appendix A. Account of Items Reserved for the Estate, 1759
Appendix A
Account of Items Reserved for the Estate
[1759]
Things reserved for the Use of the Estate & not sold
| No.1 | ||
| 1. | An Anchor | £ 1. 2. |
| 5. | An Applemill | 1. 8. |
| 4. | 4 Pots & Pothooks | 2. . |
| 6. | Augers Coopers & other Axes Millpecks &c. | 5. . |
| 7. | 1 Do & a Collar & hames | . 1. 6 |
| 8. | 76 Awlblades | . 1. 8 |
| 9. | 16 Axes & hoes | 19. . |
| 17. | 2 Barrels 1 Corn Crib & old hogsheads | 1. 3. |
| 18. | Old Do & a half bushel | . 2. |
| 27. | A large Flat with Anchor &c. | 25. . |
| 28. | A horse Boat & Canoe | 6.10. |
| 29. | A small Boat | 1. 5. |
| 30. | Colo. Custis’s books (18/6) | 4. . |
| 31. | His Fathers books | 25. . |
| 33. | Boxes & old Trunks | 1. . |
| 42 &c. | Butterpots 1 Search & Spinningwheel | 2. 3. |
| 53 &c. | Cows yokes & Chains | 25. 2. 6 |
| 61 &c. | Cyder Casks 7½ yds Kersey &c. | 12.12. |
| 66. | 3 Centerbits 14 files 1 Gouge 1 pr marking Irons &c. | . 8. |
| 82. | 1 pr Canhooks & 19 Whetstones | . 6. |
| 88 &c. | Chests & Trunks | 2. 4. 2 |
| 91. | 21 Chisels 12 Gimlets 6 pr sheep sheers | 1. 8. |
| 93. | A Cistern for meat & a Jarr | .10. |
| 98. | A large Copper kettle & 1 Iron pot | 10. . |
| 99. | An old Copper [Kettle] | .12. |
| 105. | 510 yds Cotton | 51. . |
| 112. | 1 Currycomb 1 pr Iron Spancels 3 Wedges | .10. |
| 115. | 2 Currying knives & 1 fleshing knife | 1.10. |
| 127 &8. | 2 Dog collars 1 Coopers Compass & 2 drawing knives | . 7. |
| 132. | 15½ yds Duffell & 7½ yds Kersey | 4.19. 6 |
| 133. | 8 Dutch blankets & 9 hats | 4. 3. |
| 134. | 3 ps. Dutch blanketting | 18. . |
| 135. | Earthenware & a parcel of Rope | 6. . |
| 139. | 24 whipsaw files & 11 plane Irons | 1. 4. |
| 140. | 68 files of different Sorts | 2. . |
| 143. | 49 yds flannel | 4. 1. 8 |
| 157. | 5 Grindstones | 2.16. 6 |
| 163. | 75 lb. Gunpowder & 1 C 3 qrs Shot | 8.18. |
| 169. | A handmill | 1. . |
| 170. | 33 hasps & Staples & 16 whetstones | . 7. 4 |
| 172.3. | 3 hatchets 10 Ironscrews 2 pr nippers 4 taper bits | .10. 8 |
| 174. | 30 mens hats | 3.16. |
| 178.9. | 5 hides 5 hhds 5 sieves & Lumber | 1.12. 6 |
| 180. | 6 pr x garnets 1 doz. Sickles 11 Spades | 4. . |
| 181 &c. | 145 Hoes | 21. 6. 2 |
| 197. | A set of hoops for Cartwheels | .12. |
| 210. | 4 Iron Pots & 2 pr hooks | 1.10. |
| 215. | 50 yds Kersey | 8. 7. 6 |
| 217. | 396 lib. Lead | 3. 5. 8 |
| 219.20. | 215 Sides & 46 Skins of Leather | 51. 9. |
| 238.40. | 1 gallon pot 2 measures 2 Riddles 2 Shovels | 1. 7. |
| 242.3. | Medicines | 10. . |
| 245.6.7. | 4 pr hand millstones & 1 peck | 6. 2. 6 |
| 248 &c. | 106 milkpans & a parcel | 3. 4. 6 |
| 253.4.5. | Nails 8 barrels &c. | 80.11. |
| 257. | Old hoes Axes boxes hoops &c. | 4. . |
| 261. | A parcel of old Iron & old harrows | 2. . |
| 262.3. | 9 ps. of 350 Ells Ozenbrigs | 74. 7. 6 |
| 265.6. | Pails Piggins & Tubs | .12. |
| 275. | 177 pr plaid hose & 1 pr Shoes | 11. 4. 3 |
| 276. | 75 yds Plains | 10. . |
| 280. | Plate | 187. . 6 |
| 284. | 4 Plows | .14. |
| 287.8. | 40 ps. of Rolls & wrappers | 55.10. |
| 293.4.5. | Saines | 31. . |
| 297.9. | 4 whipsaws 2 x cut 1 handsaw | 3. 7. 6 |
| 300. | 1 Sawwrest | . 1. 3 |
| 301.2.3. | Salt | 11. 5. 6 |
| 306. | 6 Scythes & furniture | 2. . |
| 310[–313]. | 52 pr Shoes & Pumps | 11.19. 6 |
| 314. | A parcel of Shoethread | 1. . |
| 324. | 21 course Sifters | 1. 6. 3 |
| 326.7. | 2 wire Seives & 1 wheat Do | .10. |
| 334. | 1 old Spade | . 1. |
| 339. | 22 Staples | . 3. |
| 341.2.3.4. | 4 pr Stillyards | 1.16. |
| 364. | Tar & Tar barrels | .15. |
| 369. | Thread | 7. . |
| 372.4. | Tradesmens & Carpenters Tools | 17.10. |
| 375.2 | Trowels | . 4. |
| 384. | 17 lb. Twine | .17. |
| 386. | 36 yds Virginia Cloth | 1.16. |
| 390 &c. | 20 Wedges | 1.17. 6 |
| £892. 8. 1 | ||
| Charge the Estate with | 370. 4. 3 | |
| young Mr Custis with the balle | 522. 3.10 | |
| Plate already charged | 187. . 6 | |
| to be yet chargd | £335. 3. 42 |
D, in John Mercer’s hand, ViHi: Custis Papers.
1. The number, or numbers, of each entry are the number, or numbers, of the same entry, or entries, in John Mercer’s consolidated inventory (Appendix E). This listing often gives additional information about the items in entries in the consolidated inventory.
2. For the total charges levied against John Parke Custis’s estate to April 1761, see doc. IV-B, n.5.