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Column 1
An inventory of goods belonging to Joseph and Ann Neal lost in the Late Flood
£ S D
One Feather bed 3 0 0
6 Do. pillows 0 15 0
2 Bolsters All very good 0 12 0
2 Oak bedsteads with headrest 1 0 0
1 Long Fir Table and form 0 5 0
A Square Wainscot Table 0 8 0
2 Arm Chairs 0 10 0
4 common Do. 0 8 0
A large Oak cupboard 0 15 0
2 Dressers with Shelves 1 5 0
A Closet 0 11 0
3 Spinning Wheels 0 19 0
1 back reel 0 5 0
3 gallon casks one full
of Ale newly brewed 0 15 0
2 Washing Tubs 0 5 0
2 Large baskets for Linen 0 2 0
2 small Do. 0 0 10
1 Horse to dry linen on 0 5 0
A gridiron 0 1 0
An iron shovel 0 1 6
One pair of fire {?} grate 0 4 0
A Girdle 0 2 6
A Hanging Spit 0 1 0
Beef forks 0 0 8
2 flat irons 0 4 0
1 pot one gettling 0 8 6
1 meal sieve 0 1 0
Seven dishes and twelve plates
of the best pewter 1 9 6
14 14 6
Column 2
Brought over 14 14 6
One tin Cullender and Bridging Box 0 1 4
One funnel and hair sieve 0 0 7
5 white stone dishes 0 4 0
16 Do. plates 0 2 8
6 red and white China cups and saucers 0 12 0
6 blue and white Do. our best china 0 6 0
4 common Do. 0 0 6
6 tea spoons silver 0 14 0
3 tea pots 0 1 6
8 blue and white Basons 0 1 8
1 small punch bowl 0 1 0
A tea chest with 8 cannisters 0 7 6
1 white qt decanter 1 pint 0 0 9
1 Middle sized looking glass 0 8 0
1 Large English Bible 0 12 0
Do. Tillotson's Sermons Bound 0 2 0
Nelson's Devotions 0 1 0
3 Common Prayer Books 0 4 6
2 Nen weeks {?} preparations 0 2 6
and several other books which
cannot at once be recollected
Eleven sheets most of which were
made with good Tno{?} cloth 2 10 0
5 pair of pillow-slips 0 9 0
9 blanketts, 4 of which were old 1 3 0
2 good bed quilts, 1 green, 1 blue 1 1 0
2 old bed ticks, not good ones 0 4 0
3 old happings 0 4 6
2 bed curtains, 1 green 1 blue 0 14 0
12 pounds of hard soap 0 6 0
4 {?} of Jersey ready combed 0 6 0
¼ stone of good wool 0 2 0
£25 12 6
Column 3
Brought over £25 12 6
3 lb of stocking yarn ready for knitting 0 6 0
2 pecks of wheat in a {?..?} 0 7 3
4 small table cloths 0 18 0
4 Napkins Hugeback 0 4 0
7 towels of Russia Ton {?} 0 7 0
31½ yds of linen cloth white bleached 3 3 0
and made of lint at 10d and 12d per pd
22 yds of coarse ton cloth bleach'd 1 2 0
9 yds of fine ton cut into 3 shirts 0 12 0
not made, one shirt body found
One stone of Ton at 7Sh in a sack, cost 2sh the sack 0 9 0
in cash £2 7s 2 7 0
A water skeel and dish 0 1 0
5 Fudder of Coals 0 11 8
3 dozen bottles 0 6 0
Wearing apparel
one black cloth waistcoat 0 10 6
A pair of Buckskin Breeches 0 15 0
A pair of Brown cloth Do. 0 6 0
5 good shirts 1 5 0
1 long neckcloth 0 1 6
4 pair of white stockings 0 10 0
6 pair woolen stockings 0 12 0
1 pair Boots 0 12 0
1 pair of shoes hers {?} 0 5 6
5 gowns, 3 of which have been 3 0 0
found, but are dash'd to pieces
2 White cloth aprons 0 9 0
5 Checked Do. 0 10 0
2 coarse ton Do. 0 1 6
44 19 5
this page transcribed by Ian Brown and edited by Joan Harvey
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