Joseph Pitts Sr. Inventory
Joseph Pitts Sr. Inventory, May 1819.
Source: Robertson County Tennessee Will Book 3, pg 69-72.
Transcribed by Sharon Smith
© 2009
pg 69)
Seven hundred and ninety two acres of land, nineteen negroes & one still, four beds & steads and furniture and 1 desk and cupboard, one waggon and gears and set of blacksmith tools, twenty three head of sheep and twenty three head of cattle, five head of horses and wheat pan and a parcel of wheatstone, one set of dog irons & four plows, two clevices 1110 pounds of bacon, three cotton wheels & one flax wheel, 1 drawing knife, 1 chisel, one hand saw & 2 reap hooks, 2 umbrellas and one washing tub and pail, one piggin, one trunk, 16 head of geese, 2 bottles, one brass candlestick, five earthen crocks, one surveyors compass, four pair of cotton cards, one count real and winding blades, six chairs and six candle moulds, one pair of sheep shears, thirty yards of spun cotton and wool, one looking glass, 2 dozen candles, one bread waiter & tin coffee pot, two pair pot hooks & iron pot rack, 2 bread trays and sifter, one grindstone, one keg full of grape wine, one pair of warping bars, one iron wedge, six saucers and five teacups, 4 glass tumblers, 1 pepper box, sixteen books, one jug, one salt sellar, one earthen pitcher, one roundlet, one slate, one snipper, two small gauges, whisky cork and one
pg 70)
gourd and the full of shindling nails, one set of britch bands, a parcel of scantling, eight hundred feet of plank, one half bushel 9 pounds of tallow, a parcel of beef suet, two gourds and the full of hog lard, two blade stacks & top stack & a parcel of shucks, one cutting box and knife, a parcel of soap grease, a parcel of rice, one flax brake, one grindstone, one cloth loom, one coffee mill, six knives and forks and four table spoons & big spoon, ten pound bar iron, a parcel of sugar, a small quantity of salt, a quantity of dung hill fowls, some dryed fruit, a parcel of shoe leather, one pair of tooth drawers, one jointer, one shot gun, one bag of powder, one man's saddle, one pair of steel yards, one basket & the full of peas, one morticing axe, one set of waggon wheels, a parcel of cleaned flax, one iron belt, two pair of horse shoes, seven earthen plates, 2 razors & straps, shaving box and hone, seven still tubs, one large gun, sixty five dozen of sheaf oats, two big pots, one big kettle, one broad axe, two mattocks, one gridirion, one woman's saddle, one little kettle, one dutch oven & skillet, one hundred and twenty pounds seed cotton, forty seven head of hogs, sixty nine pounds ginned cotton, seventeen bushels & 3 pecks of cleaned wheat, two mattocks, two weeding hoes, shindle machine, one set of tongue & groove planes, one pair of mill stones, one raw hide, eight barrels, a parcel of cleaned flax seed, 3 bells, nine bushels of sweet potatoes, five bushels of cleaned oats, a parcel of corn, 3 pewter plates and one dish, a parcel of dressed deer skins, one cutter plow and shovel plow, 2 blade stacks, six pewter plates and an earthen plate & dish, one hand axe, and two club axes, one pail & piggin, one bread tray, one pocket compass.
Bartley PITTS, Exr.
pg 71)
A note of hand on Bartley PITTS for one hundred & thirty five dollars due 16th day of January 1816 with a credit on it for twenty three dollars & 25 cents that was paid the 5th day of Dec. 1818.
A note on George MIFFORD for six dollars & 20 cents which was due the 20th day of Jan 1819.
A note on Robert SMITH for eighty two dollars & eighty five cents which was due the first day of March 1819.
A note on William DORRIS for five dollars & forty cents that was due the 21 July 1816. A note left by Bartley PITTS in North Carolina for collection to the amount of eighty seven dollars 8 3/4 cents.
A bond on James HAMPTON and Robert SMITH for the rent of a field supposed to be 40 acres at one barrel per acre to be paid between the first and fifteenth days of November 1819.
A bond on George BARBEE that is conditioned for land to Jos. PITTS, John HAMPTON and Major GREGORY, the land is to be taken out of Grant No. 9472 said grant is for 493 acres.
Open Accounts due Joseph PITTS, dec'd.
William BALDRY on a settlement full in debt 1814--15.6
Robert EWING to 2 mattocks & 1 axe upset--3.0
Old MOFFET on John LAWNESS acct.--1.00
Ditto for 3 turns of corn--10.0
Uriah BAILEY 1/2 corn
Michael FINLEY to two 1/2 barrels corn
E. WILLIS horse shoes made & put on--0.9
Dr PRICEs blowing instrument--0.9
David KELTON 1/2 share sharpened--0.9
James HUMPHREYS 1/2 share sharpened--0.9
Michael FINLEY shovel sharpened--0.6
Ditto shovel sharpened--0.6
1.16.6
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G. FLOWERS 1/2 barrel corn
Sucky STRICKLAN 2 1/2 shares sharpened--0.6
Ditto 1 1/2 share pointed--2.6
George MOFFET 1/2 share sharpened & cutter pointed--2.0
Ditto 1/2 share sharpened--0.9
George MOFFET old shoes drove--1.6
Wm PAISLEY share sharpened cutter pointed--1.0
Wm HOLLAND 1 saw repaired--0.7
James HOLLAND 1 cutter sharpened--0.6
John PITTS 2 cutters sharpened--1.0
James ROSE 1 horse shod before--1.6
Benjamin ROSE 1 fluke layed--3.0
John GARNER 1/2 layed--3.0
Daniel CHAPMAN or Jones B. MENDED--2.6
Sucky STRICKLAN 2 1/2 share sharpened--2.6
John PITTS 1/2 share sharpened rod md.--0.9
Wm MAINOR horse shod 1/2 share sharpened--2.8
James HOLLAND 1/2 sharpened--0.9
1.6.6
Sucky STRICKLAN 37lb beef at 3 per pound
William GALLAWAY & brother 1 filly shod
William BALDRY jobs to chains--3.0
To 1 wedge upset & hilling hoe md. longer--2.3
To 1 1/2 share sharpened--0.9
S. STRICKLAND 45lb beef at 3 per pound--15.0
Abraham GREGORY to fodder--15.0
Ditto to butter--7.6
James RICE 1 hoe strop'd--3.0
Laban EDWARDS to 1 old pair shoes drawn on--1.6
G. FRAISER 2 plows sharpened--1.0
J. BONN old shoes drawn on & bell clappered--2.0
J. PITTS 1 bull tongue plow & clevices md.--2.0
To ditto 1 1/2 share sharpened--0.9
2.13.9
Robertson County Court May Term 1819
The Executor of Joseph PITTS delivered into Court an inventory of said Estate and ordered to be recorded.
Test, Wm SEAL C.R.C.
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