Inventory of the estate of John May Deceased

Inventory 7 June 1798, Page 307

Eleven slaves, to wit Simon, Sandy, Jack, Dick, Jeffrey, Lett, peg, Janey, Tom, Peter and Sarah, Five head horses, nineteen head cattle fourteen head sheep ~ ~ Thirty eight head hogs ~ four feather beds & furniture ~ Three tables. ~ Thirteen chairs. - Three chests. - Three Trunks One Cupboard ~ Two Guns. ~ Eleven Jugs. ~ Three handsaws; ~ One pair flat Irons. ~ One Looking Glass. ~ Three Carpenter Plains. ~ Three chisels, Three augers, one gouge one foot adds one hhd. Jointer, one howel, pr compasses & croios five axes, three grubing hoes, four hilling hoes, four weeding hoes, three plow hoes & one paddle or coulter, _ One pair cart wheels & cart body ~ 1 candlestick one set candle moulds, one funnel two pair sheep sheers, some shoemakers tools, one claw hammer, two cotton wheels, one flax wheel, one Jinor, seven pair cotton & wool cards. ~ Fire tongs & shovel. ~ Three hogs heads ~ Ten tight casks Eleven powdering Tubs. One barrel & one half bushell measure. Six water pails &c four Iron potts, three skillets one dutch oven one Tea kittle, one frying pan one spice morter, one Ladle, Skimmer & flesh fork, one grid Iron, twelve pewter Basons, seventeen ditto plates five ditto dishes, fifteen ditto spoons Two dozen knives & forks. Parcel earthen ware. ~ One pewter qt pott. One Sugar box, nine quart bottles, four butter potts. ~ two saddles & Three bridles, two drawing knives four sythe blades & two cradles two pair Iron wedges & one frow, one Lume One Still Three hhd. Tobacco weighing nett three Thousand eight hundred and Seventy five -

William Moore, Kennon Harper

In Nottoway County Court June 7^th 1798

This Inventory of the estate of John May deceased being returned is ordered to be recorded

Teste Peter Randolph C N C