Scott, what a wonderful moment you have given us "inventory types"!--
This sounds like a town dweller with large vegetable garden (and
workshop). A comparison with other inventories of roughly the same
place, time and period would help. We don't have any precisely apposite
to this, but you might find it useful to refer to the _few_ Virginia
inventories posted on our web site (we have a lot posted with room names,
but only a few with itemized listings)--for instance William Edmandson,
1774, at
http://departments.mwc.edu/hipr/www/inventories/virginia/edmonson,wm.htm
or Robert Mitchell, 1808 at
http://departments.mwc.edu/hipr/www/inventories/virginia/mitchell,r.htm
John
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, W. Scott Smith wrote:
> Question of the day:
>
> Based on the contents of this household inventory, which was registered
> in Campbell County in 1799, do you think that the individual, who was
> a Quaker, lived on 140 acres in the county, or 1/2 to 2 acres in town?
>
> Please use your discretion in replying either to the whole list or
> to me at [log in to unmask]
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> 1 Turning Lathe & sundry other lumber
> 11 head of hogs
> 1 desk
> 5 black bottles, 1 decanter
> 1 Coffy Mill, 1 candlestick
> 2 flat irons
> Earthenware
> 2 tin waters
> 1 puter dish
> Tin ware Spoons Nives and forks
> 1 pare of cards
> 1 Stone jug
> 1 paper trunk
> Stuff for winsor chairs
> 1 churn
> 1 flax wheel
> 1 saddle
> 2 bags, 1 tub
> 1 horse collar
> 1 womans saddle
> 1 hand saw
> 1 ax
> 1 drawing knife, gouge, &c.
> 1 pair of shears
> 1 Coopers adds &c.
> 1 flour plain
> 1 sifter
> 1 Washing tub, piggin &c.
> 1 barrel
> 1 plow
> 1 pot, 1 oven, 1 scillit, &c.
> 1 feather bed
> 2 bead steds
> 1 walnut box &c.
> 2 pounds feathers
> 1 rasor and looking glass
> 2 cows and cafries
> 1 Horse
> 1 Counter pin sheet, 1 blanket, &c.
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