Monday Is for Mothers: Timney P. Watts (1805 - 1863) - Probate Records, Part 5, The List of Property

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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