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The estate of Dr. John Davis (1744 - 1816)

A true and perfect Inventory and conscionable appraisment of all and singular the Goods & Chattels, rights and credits of Dr. John Davis late of Tredyffrin Township Chester County (Decd.)
February 28th 1816

	D.	Cents
1 riding mare, bay, saddle & bridle	64
1 large bay horse - opus	100
1 brown horse - mosey	40
1 Grey mare	70
1 brown horse - cub	30
1 blind black mare	1
1 young bay mare, stan & snip	30
1 large red cow, welch	20
1 brindle white face cow	18
1 white hide cow, dinah	12
1 red & white cow, milk	20
1 pied cow and calf	30
1 red bull, white face	18
lot of 6 steers at $20	120
1 pair working oxen & yahu (?)	20
24 sheep at $4	96
6 swine	22
2 large sows	15
1 farm waggon	45
1 pair hind wheels & hay ladders	20
1 wheel barrow	2
1 lot of boards $2 per hund. 360 ft	7	20
2 iron bars at	2	50
2 log chains at	3
ox yoke & long ladder	1
1 old light cart	5
1 large sled	4
1 marble roller	10
Wheat at $1.50 per bushel (38)	57
Oats at 40c per bushel
Flax seed at 1.00 per bushel (272)	1?	87?
1 winnowing fan & appendages	15
Hay at $20 per ton	10
1 half bushel and bags	3	50
1 cutting box	3
Rakes & pitchforks	3
Cart gears	5
Lot of team gears	32	50
1 ox cart	45
Rye at 90 cents per bushel (45)	40	50

1 lot of augers, drawing knives, broad ax etc.	4
2 Grubbing hoes	1	50
2 dung forks	1
spade & shovel	1
1 plough	7
1 plough	2
2 harrows at $4	8
1 old plough & swingle trees	1
Grindstone	1
2 crosscut saws at $2	4
Mall & wedges & rings	2
Lot of barking irons, hatchet etc.	1
old iron	1
small harrow with handles	2
2 cradels & sythes	5
2 pitching axes & briar hack	1	50
Lot of tubs	2
10 empty barrels	5
1 grass pan & stand 0.50	3	75
1 large iron kettle	3
1 large iron pot	2
	____	____
	58	75

1 brass kettle & plank iron		75
1 lot tea kettle pots etc.	2
1 ten plate stove	6
2 kitchen tables		50
6 rush bottom chairs at .75c	4	50
1 dough trough	1	50

Front room below stairs

	D.	Cents
1 looking glass	6
1 dining table	4
1 card table (circular)	5
1 marble table	10
8 black winsor chairs	5	60
1 large waiter	1	50
3 dimijons	3
andirons, shovel and tongs, brass head	3

Back room

	D.	Cents
1 Eight day clock	40
1 Desk	12
1 Bureau	5
1 Dining table	4
1 breakfast table	2	50
1 looking glass	4

Location unknown

	D.	Cents
1 Sett amputation instruments	20
1 Pocket case instruments	10
cathiters	3
Trachan (?)	1
2 Mortars & pestle	4
1 sett tooth drawers	2
Sett andirons shovel & tongs	1

Up stairs

	D.	Cents
1 Sett Globes & chart	30
Portmanteaus	3
1 Case of Drawers	12
1 Case of Drawers in back room	7
1 bed and bedsteads	18
1 small stand	1
1 small looking glass		50
1 bureau	8
1 looking glass & shavers	3
1 bed & bedsteads feather	4
1 stand		75
1 rocking chair	1
1 pair andirons	1
1 small table with drawers	1
1 looking glass. Back room up		75
8 chairs coloured windsor	8

Book	Value
Guthries Geography	$2.50
A New System of Modern Geography by William Guthrie, 1794 /5
link to digitized copy
Medical Museum, 5 vols.	$5.00
Military Library	$4.00
Wlalkers Dictionary	$5.00
Proofs of a Conspiracy	$1.00
Foncroys Elements	$1.00
Hameltons Midwifery, & Whitt	$1.50
digitized copy not found
Sydenhams Works, 2 vol.	$3.00
Copeland & R. S. Thomas	$0.50
VanSwieter's works, 11 vols.	$10.00
Quincy's Medical Dictionary	$1.00
digitized copy
James' Dispensary	$1.00
Book not found
Church on Y. fever	$1.00
Book not found
Cullens Lectures	$1.50
digitized copy
Heister's Surgery	$3.00
Heister, Lorenz, 1683-1758: A General System of Surgery In Three Parts 1750 multiple formats at Google page images at HathiTrust
Fleming's Physiology	$1.00
Book not found
Woodhouse's Chemistry	$2.00
James Woodhouse biography
Anna Maries travils, 4 vols.	$3.00
Thesis 1799	$1.00
Cullens Practice, 2 vols.	$1.50
Smellies Midwifery, 3 vols.	$2.00
Geographical Gramer	$0.50
Brooke's Practice of Physic	$0.50
Cosmagraphy folio	$1.00
A lot of old books	$1.00
A lot of Latin classics	$3.00

	D.	Cents
1 Bond of $1000 from Enoch Davis with interest	1050
Cash Eighty dollars	80
Book debts	2402	93
Israel Davis William Brown appraisers
The pregoing appraisins were duly qualified before me the 29th of July 1816, Charles Kenny regr.

A Statement of the accounts of Cad^r. E. Davis, Joshua Jones & Mathew Roberts
Adm^rs. of Dr. John Davis (decd)
December 20th 1817

1816	Dol.	Cents
To the amount of Sundry articles inventoried and taken at the appraisment by Cad^r. E., Enoch, & Elijah Davis.	956	30
To amount of sales as per Vendue paper	644	01
To Cash at appraisments	80
To a bond of one thousand dollars on Enoch Davis with interest from the first day of April 1816 to the 31st day of December A. D. 1817	1105
To amounts of Book Debts	3019	50
To Cash received for fat cattle	180
To neat proceeds of Crop of Grain	320	92
To one year's rent of Mansion farm by Cadr., Enoch & Elijah Davis	160
To two years rent for farm by James Clemmens	400
To amount of Sales of Real Estate made on the 26th day of December 1816 as per vendue paper	30709	77
To amount of Interest on Sales of Real Estate from the first day of April 1816 to the thirty first day of December A.D. 1817	1381	93

total correct	38957	43

April 1817		Dol.	Cents

1	By cash paid Jesse Grissel as per bond	1121	17
2	By cash paid Samuel Philips as per bond	145	36
3	By cash paid Dr. Elijah Davis as per bond	573	11
4	By cash paid Mary Morgan as per bond	75	10
5	By cash paid Hannah Lewis as per bond	148
6	By cash paid George Beaver as per receipt	16	74
7	By cash paid Cornelius Conard as per receipt	16	36
8	By cash paid Joseph Boggs as per receipt	13	65
9	By cash paid William Woodman as per receipt	8
10	By cash paid Joseph Hampton as per receipt	4	60
11	By cash paid Reese Howell as per receipt	11	26
12	By cash paid John Busby as per receipt	17	30
13	By cash paid John Rowen as per receipt	23	25
14	By cash paid John Hampton as per receipt	21	12½
15	By cash paid John Daniel as per receipt	6	50
16	By cash paid John Barnett as per receipt	41	43
17	By cash paid John Gossder (name unclear) as per receipt	16	74
18	By cash paid John Brooke as per receipt	4
19	By cash paid John Baugh (2) as per receipt	17
20	By cash paid John Pugh jr. as per receipt	2
21	By cash paid John Moore Sr. as per receipt	20	94
22	By cash paid John Meredith jr. as per receipt	69	90
23	By cash paid John Snyder as per receipt	186	60
24	By cash paid James Barry as per receipt	9	68
25	By cash paid James Clemmens as per receipt	45	53½
26 x	By cash paid John Moses jr. as per receipt	13	50
27	By cash paid John McLean (name unclear) as per receipt	3	85
28 x	By cash paid John Oldwine as per receipt	2	30
29 x	By cash paid John Richards as per receipt	28	75
30	By cash paid Job Davis as per receipt	6	18½
31	By cash paid Jacob Nolden as per receipt	15	12½
32	By cash paid Joseph Walker Sr. as per receipt	116	03
33	By cash paid James Watson as per receipt	27	20
34	By cash paid Jesse Roberts as per receipt	45	46½
35 x	By cash paid James Morgan as per receipt	6	50
36	By cash paid Joseph Weatherby (name unclear) as per receipt		72½
37	By cash paid Isaac Walker as per receipt	3	36
38	By cash paid Joseph Lewis as per receipt	2	50
39	By cash paid James McGuigan as per receipt	13	29
40	By cash paid James Bowman as per receipt	21
41	By cash paid Israel Busby (name unclear) as per receipt	5	68
42	By cash paid Jonathan Davis as per receipt	1
43	By cash paid John Mitchell jr. (name unclear) as per receipt	10	12½
44	By cash paid J. & D. J. Rhoads & co. as per receipt	12	50
45	By cash paid Hannaniah Walker as per receipt	8	50
46	By cash paid Margaret Eastburn as per receipt	3
47	By cash paid Samuel Sturk as per receipt	21	31
48	By cash paid Seth Wells as per receipt	14	81
49	By cash paid Elijah Lewellin as per receipt	3	91½
50	By cash paid Benjamin Watson as per receipt	17	10
51	By cash paid David White as per receipt	3	61
52	By cash paid Jesse Good (not admitted) as per receipt	0
53	By cash paid Charles Carr as per receipt	35	57
no item 54 in list
55	By cash paid Thomas Cornogg as per receipt	11	47
56	By cash paid Michael Batt as per receipt	5	62½
57	By cash paid Adam Snyder as per receipt	1	50
58	By cash paid Benjamin Davis' Estate as per receipt	4	88
59	By cash paid Daniel Richards as per receipt	18	61
60	By cash paid Levi Wells as per receipt	85	93
61	By cash paid Edward Woodman as per receipt	13	94
62	By cash paid William Laurence as per receipt	30	24
63	By cash paid Anthony Freeman as per receipt	57	16
64	By cash paid Rhudolph Huzzard direct tax	44	94
65	By cash paid Thomas Davis as per receipt	160
66	By cash paid Edward Stott (name unclear) as per receipt	9	36
67	By cash paid Evan Davis as per receipt	10	37
68	By cash paid Rhudolph Huzzard county tax	16	72
69	By cash paid Rpbert Sproul reording doul (words unclear)	1	38
70	By cash paid Elijah Brooke as per receipt	1	05½
71	By cash paid Bosen Abel (labourer) as per receipt	27	70½
72	By cash paid Thomas Taylor as per receipt	30
73	By cash paid George Taylor tax on lands in Ohio	10	75
74	By cash paid Alexander Kenneday as per receipt	127	20
75	By cash paid Charles Loveland as per receipt	4
76	By cash paid Samuel Jenkins as per receipt	1	37½
77	By cash paid William Siter jr. as per receipt	15	32½
78	By cash paid William Brown estate as per receipt	45	64
no item 79 in list
80	By cash paid Samuel Wright as per receipt	22	29
81	By cash paid Abel Lewis as per receipt	81
82	By cash paid Robert Kenneday as per receipt	26
83	By cash paid Edward Pugh as per receipt	71	17
84	By cash paid Abner Hughs as per receipt	4	62
85	By cash paid Owen Brook as per receipt	8	47
86	By cash paid Joseph Priest as per receipt	30
87	By cash paid James Potts as per receipt	8	36
88	By cash paid William Henry as per receipt	3	00½
89	By cash paid Bernard Vanleer as per receipt	3	33
90	By cash paid George Taylor for tax on lands in Ohio	10
91 x	By cash paid J. Potters administration for printing hand bills and notices to creditors	5
92	By cash paid Vendue crier	14
93	By cash paid Enos Bronson for advertizing sale of real estate	15	85
94 x	By cash paid William Duane for advertizing sale and publishing notices	11	64
95	By cash paid John Binns as per receipt	7	50
96	By cash paid Charles Mowry as per receipt	4	75
97	By cash paid Dennis Wheeler as per receipt	3	75
98	By cash paid James Winnard as per receipt	2	50
99	By cash paid David Sower jr. as per receipt	2	50
100	By cash paid Sheriffs Costs & Clerk of Court fees as per receipt	66	68
101	By cash paid Ziba Pyle counsel as per receipt	30
102 x	By cash paid Thomas Ross as per receipt	10
103 x	By cash paid Joshua Evans as per receipt	34	38
104 x	By cash paid Joshua Jones as per receipt	110
105 x	By cash paid Enoch Davis as per receipt	40	39½
106 x	By cash paid Randal Evans as per receipt	118	89½
107 x	By cash paid Sarah Dewees as per receipt	64	42
108	By cash paid John Cotton as per receipt	194	60
109 x	By cash paid Isaac Tomkins as per receipt	1	90
110	By cash paid Sarah Thompson spinner as per receipt	2
111	By cash paid Deborah Taylor as per receipt	6
112	By cash paid Peter Alexanders as per receipt		37½
113	By cash paid Thomas Conner as per receipt	5
114	By cash paid Seth Wells as per receipt	8	62½
115 x	By cash paid David Maxwell as per receipt	54
	By commissions on $8247.66 indeciferable. 6%?	494	85
	on $30709 at 1 perc.	307	09
	By cash paid Register for examining passing and filing this ye copy	6	08
	By cash paid Clerk of Orphans court	1	50
	Balance due estate	33267	07
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		38957	43