Knox County Court, May term 1828

Appraisement of the Estate of Moses Dorton

The appraisement of the estate of Moses Dorton, dec'd is as follows, viz.

1 Bed & furniture with curtains $50, One ditto $50, Two other beds with furniture $80, 1 ditto $40, One bedstead $3.00, One bed and furniture $30, one ditto $30, 1 cherry cupboard and furniture $35, One bureau $25, One folding table &7, 1 Birch ditto $9.00, Two half round ditto $10, One Walnut square frame ditto $1, 1 walnut folding ditto $4.50, One walnut corner cupboard and furniture $26.00, 1 walnut chest $2, one poplar ditto $2, one candle stand $1, 25 common chairs $10, shovel, tongs, and poker $3, Three pair andirons $9, 2 pair small ditto $3, Waiter, 2 tin boxes, 2 pitchers and looking glass $4.50, 1 shaving box, 2 razors, strap and hone $4, Eleven books $5.50, Poplar chest $1, 3 trunks $6, 3 steelyards $8, Two flax wheels and 2 queling wheels $7, 2 cotton wheels $3, reel 75 cents, One loom and apparatus $20.50, 1 Dye kettle $2, Five cook ovens $12.50, small kettle and skillet $3, 1 tea kettle and coffee mill $4, One waffle and 2 grid irons $3, 3 pair pot hooks, one trivet and 2 coffee pots $2.50, 3 crocks and 2 buckets $2.50, 3 pails, 2 piggins, and one wash tub $2.75, 3 large kettles, 2 pair pot hooks and 1 pot $18, 1 Yellow boy named Alfred $300, One black ditto named Grange $250, 1 ditto named Lewis $200, One girl 2 years old named Matilda $150, 1 woman named Fanny $400, one boy named George $450, One boy named Ned $450, 1 girl named Ginny $250, one boy Abram $300, one boy named James $425, 1 girl named Hannah $275, One girl named Charlotte $350, 1 Sorrel horse and saddle $17, One sorrel horse and one Bay horse $110, 2 Iron gray Fillies $50, Sven bee hives $15, Two smoothing irons $1.50, 1 pair pot hooks 50 cents, 2 candle sticks, 2 snuffers, one wash pan $1.50, 15 turkeys $3.50, twenty-seven geese $12, 13 ducks $1.621/2, 11 sheep $16.50, 10 barrels $14.25, One loom $3.00, One cupboard and two boxes $1, 1 rifle gun with the necessary accouterments $15, 1 pair double trigger $1.50, 1 wagon $60, one cart $25, Between 30 to 40 hogs $68, 15 cows and calves $150, 14 head of horned cattle $70, 1 pair of oxen and yoke $35, Pair iron ox bows $3, Set of Smith's tools $75, 1 pit saw $12, 3 cross cut saws $15, 5 falling axes $7.50, Broad axe and iron $3.75, 4 augers, 2 chisels, hand saw, and drawing knife $6, Mowing and briar sythe $2, 5 reaping hooks $1.871/2, 3 shovel ploughs $3, 4 Bull tongue plows $5, 1 Jack screw $8, 3 log chains $10, 2 pair stretchers $4, wire sieve $1.50, 1 set breeching hip straps and breast chains $7, 2 iron wedges $1.50, 4 pair gears for plowing $13, 7 weeding hoes $5.25, small grindstone 25 cents, 1 bell collar and buckle $1.25, 2 sythes and cradles $5.50, Flax brake $1, 1 small poplar table 75 cents, 2 pot trammels $5, half bushel measure 37 1/2 cents, 2 flax heckles $2.50, one iron tooth harrow $5.00, 1 cutting knife and box $1.50, Bed, bedstead and furnitue $50, E.E. $5260.37 1/2.

Richard Herndon

Matthias W. Cain / Appraisors

B. Herndon

From: Will Book A, pages 112-113

Knox County Clerk's Office

Barbourville, Kentucky