There's no date on this inventory but it had to have been completed before the end of 1863 so the amounts are given in Confederate dollars. No personal effects are listed so there's a wardrobe but no mention of clothing and a book case without mention of what books it held.
[Estate Papers, Phillips, Nancy (Minor) to Piques, Sarah. Source: Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]
The list of property appraised
on Mrs Timney Phillips Estate Dec'd.
by John L Carmichael A. Lockwood A
McBoysh W S Crawford and W H
Stantin
Value
1 Wardrobe $12.00
Clock 8.00
Beaureau 15.00
Book case 8.00
Clock 1.00
Beil[Bell?] 10.00
2 wheels* 10.00
11 Chairs 11.00
Lot Croc[k]ery 80.00
1 Dining Table 8.00
3 Small " 3.00
1 Large " 1.00
1 Mirror 2.50
2 Water Buckets 4.00
2 Washstands 1.00
2 Table & workstand 6.00
1 Bed stead &c 40.00
1 Bed stead &c $30.00
" " " " 50.00
1 Matress stand 25.00
5 Counterpains 7.00
7 Cover lids** 140.00
1 [too faint to read] 20.00
6 Quilts 60.00
10 sheets 50.00
7 Pillow slips 7.00
Covering of quilt 3.00
2 Trunks 1 box 6.00
34 Pains glass 30.00
100 lbs of Cotton 90.00
1 Loom 10.00
2 Cook spiders*** 10.00
1 Pot & tea kettle 5.00
Sheets of [?] 3.50
Pot [?] 1.00
2 Pot racks 6.00
2 Wash Pots 10.00
3 " Tubs 3.00
1 D[?]**** 25.00
7 bushels wheat 56.00
1 Wagon 100.00
1 ginger jars 4.00
1 Mule 300.00
1 Bay mare 50.00
1 Clay Bank 50.00
3 [?] gear 25.00
1 Gin 25.00
250 bushel Corn 500.00
2000 lbs fodder 30.00
1 Buggy 75.00
1 Thrasher 100
Smiths tools 200.00
228 lb Iron 228.00
16 Carry Plows 424.00
2 shovels [swate? & scouter?] 54.00
Lot Iron old plows 50.00
3 sheep 30.00
? Goats[?] 675.00
4 sows & 4 Pigs 200.00
4 Cows & 4 Calfs 400.00
2 heifers 200.00
1 Beef yearling 50.00
1 steer 25.00
Enoch 1000.00
Doctor 1500.00
Harriett 100.00
Martha 1250.00
1 s[c]ythe Cradle***** 5.00
8494.00
Of the four enslaved persons listed, Enoch and Doctor had been part of Timney's second husband's estate when he died in 1852.
*Spinning wheels
**Coverlets
***A long handled skillet on three legs for cooking on a hearth. If you want to buy one for yourself you can find them at the Historic Housefitters Co. for $165.00.
****Given the context perhaps some kind of drying rack?
*****Here's one of these in action:
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