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Inventory of the personal property of Mrs.Sarah Banks, deceased, including two enslaved persons, whose names were not recorded.

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Page 1 The personal property of the estate of Mrs. Sarah Banks deceased appraisal by the Subscribers 9 Plates $1.50 2 Bedsteads $4.00 5 Chairs $5.00 2 Tables $4.00 1 pr of andirons $4.00 A Chest of Drawers $30.00 Cups & Saucers $2.62/2 Sugar dish and small plate $? Clear jug & decanter $75? Knives & forks Salt cellars and looking? glass $1.50 Six large silver spoons $14.25 7 small do $5.00 1 Silver Soup Ladle $12.00 1 Parasole $.50 3 tumblers $.75 2 Candlesticks $2.00 Cups & Saucers $.50 2 Feather Beds, 4 Pillows, 1 Bolster 2 Mattrass $40.00 1 small chest of Drawers $4.00 3 Common Chairs $1.50 4 Plough lines $1.50 Plantation Tools $6.00 Household Furniture $10.00 3000 lb of Seed Cotton $84.00 200 Bushels of corn $75.00 $311.00 26 head of Cattle $169.00 100 head of Hogs $100.00 4 fodder Stacks $16.00 2 Negroes $800.00 3 Oxen $75.00 15 Sheep $52.50 1 pr of iron wedges $2.00 1 Common Chair $.50 1 churn & 2 buckets $2.00 1 Cross-Cut saw $4.00 1 Drawing Knife $.50 2 Hoes $1.50 1 grindstone $3.00 1 Pot & Dutch Oven $3.00 1 Chopping Axe $2.50 1 Log Chain $2.50 3 ploughs & one ring & staple & 3 yokes $20.00 1 Ox Cart $20.00 $1274,,.. 311 $1585.00 Lewis Evans J B Taylor Job Routh Before me Sam’l Brooks Esq- a Justice Of the Quorum Personally appeared Lewis Bingaman administrator of all and singular the Goods and Chattels of Sarah Banks dec’d who being duty sworn according to law did depose and lay that the within writing contains a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods and Chattels of the said deceased as far as have come to his knowledge or possession, (except some wild stock running at large). Jany 12th 1811, Sworn and subscribed to Lewis Bingaman Before Brooks JIQ [Written as a note vertically toward the bottom left of the page] Orphan? Court Filed APL term 1811 [Written as a note vertically toward the bottom right of the page] 88 Apl term 1811 Inv of Sarah Banks Estate reed page 175. A

Date

1-26-1824

Approximate Creation Date

1811-01-12

Time Period

1810-1819

Subjects

Slaveholders ; Slavery -- Mississippi ; Slavery -- Mississippi -- History -- Sources ; Slaveholders

Keywords

slavery; enslaved persons; Mississippi; estate files; probate files; Adams County; Sarah Banks; Estate Inventory

Disciplines

African American Studies | Cultural History | United States History

Geographic Location

Adams County (Miss.)

Object Type

text

Physical Format

Document

Digital Format

TIFF

Physical ID

Sarah Banks Estate File, Box 6, Probate and Estate Files Collection, Historic Natchez Foundation, Mississippi

Digital ID

HNF_Box6_BanksSarah_01121811_b_1_u and HNF_Box6_BanksSarah_01121811_b_2_u

Source

Sarah Banks Estate File, Box 6, Probate and Estate Files Collection, Historic Natchez Foundation, Mississippi

Repository

Historic Natchez Foundation

Publisher

Historic Natchez Foundation

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries

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Copyright protected by Historic Natchez Foundation. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

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hnf@natchez.org

Banks, Mrs. Sarah - Inventory of personal property of Mrs. Sarah Banks, deceased

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