An inventory showing the amount of property shown to the subscribers as the estate of Josiah Boothby, Deceased - for appraisement August 22nd & 23rd 1834
Property valueProperty value
One wagon two beds $ cents a pair of steelyards 1 12 1/2
cover and tar bucket 40 00a lot of barrels 1 00
two pr of Gears & bushings 3 50two foot wheels 0 50
clevis and doubletree 37 1/2
pitch fork 31 1/4stone hammer & swingtree 0 25
two hoes 12 1/2two cows 18 00
one plow & clevis 3 00book case 0 62
three barrels 75six young sheep 3 00
one table folding4 00one lot of rent corn 5 00
one table - do 2 50one lot of hay 3 50
one bureau 7 00one lot of corn in field 15 00
three calves 3 50one mare 30 00
on brass kettle 0 50one salt boat 75 00
one 10 Gl kettle 1 50one lot of 107 bls of salt 250 00
dish kettle & lid 1 37 1/2one lot of 4 bls of salt 5 00
one 60 gl kettle 3 50tongue chains and line 0 50
a lot of tools 2 00(signed)
one bridle 0 75 Benjamin Smith
one squar cupboard 2 50 Joseph Ralstin
one coffe mill 0 25 John Berran,
trammel chains 0 12 1/2 Appraisers
one jug 0 50
one half bushel 0 25
a lot of old iron 0 75

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Partial Glossary of Archaic Tool Terms

trammel - an iron hook used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire

steelyard - a balance scale, in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterweight slides along the longer arm to produce equilibrium. Its place on this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight. Commonly used in the plural "steelyards"

Clevis - a U-shaped piece of iron, with a pin passing through holes in the two ends, as a means of connecting a plow or cart to a draft animal

Doubletree - a crossbar on a wagon, carriage or plow to each end of which the singletrees are attached when two horses are harnessed abreast

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