James Kidd’s Personal Estate Value & Distribution (1841)
transcribed and contributed by Dick Wood
Marshall County Inventories of Estates, Volume A, pages 218-219
Amount of property distributed amongst the heirs of James Kidd, dec’d by the Executors:
| One | Bay horse | @ | $ 40.00 |
| One | Sorrel Mare | @ | 55.00 |
| One | Sorrel Colt | @ | 25.00 |
| One | Cow & calf | @ | 10.00 |
| One | Heiffer | @ | 8.00 |
| One | Cutting (???) | @ | .50 |
| One | Pot & hooks | @ | 2.50 |
| One | Cupboard | @ | 12.00 |
| One | Chest | @ | 3.50 |
| One | Check reel | @ | 1.00 |
| One | flax “ | @ | 2.00 |
| One | Table | @ | 4.00 |
| One | Pair of dog irons | @ | 2.00 |
| One | Bedstead | @ | .25 |
| One | Shoe hammer & nippers | @ | .50 |
| One | Loom | @ | 5.00 |
| One | Flat Iron | @ | .80 |
| One | Pair of chairs & Hang up (???) | @ | 1.50 |
| One | do do do | @ | 1.40 |
| One | Chair | @ | .50 |
| One | Pair of steelyards | @ | 1.25 |
| One | saw, ax, drawing knife, iron wedges & chisel | @ | 1.62 & ½ |
| A | (???) of old iron | @ | 2.50 |
| One | Kitchen table | @ | 2.00 |
| A | lot of pewder | @ | 6.00 |
| One | oven Skillet & 3 pot hooks | @ | 2.75 |
| One | case & razor | @ | .25 |
| Two | old (????) | @ | .62 & ½ |
| Books | @ | 2.50 | |
| Chairs | @ | 4.50 |
Sworn to in open Court Janr. 4th 1841 John Orr, Sr. one of the Executors
M. W. Oakley, Clerk
Transcriber’s Note: See James Kidd Will at Marshall County Will Book A, pages 48-49