Hugh
Cummings' Estate Account of Sales
Marshall
County, Tennessee
Inventories
of Estates
Volume
B, pages 269, 270 & 271
Hugh D.
Cummings, Admr & C
An
Inventory of the personal Estate of Hugh Cummings, Deceased
Notes: Good.
To: One note of hand on Charles
Reese
For four
Dollars due 25th December 1845, No Credits
Accounts: None
An account
Sales Made of the personal property of the Estate of Hugh Cummings, Dec'd
At his late
residence in Marshall County after having Advertised according to law
property purchaser Amounts
1 gofer plow Robert Luna $ .95
1 Bell do do .80
1 Small Table " " .50
1 pair Steelyards " " .65
1 pair Sheep shears "
" .45
1 trunk " " .50
1 Bedstead & furniture " " 8.00
1 White Cow & calf "
" 5.00
1 gofer plow James Kidd .80
1 gofer plow Howell M. Dowdy .40
1 pair Gears & collar do do .60
1 single Tree & clevis " " .20
1 Double tree "
"
.10
1 Single Tree & clevis (???) (???) .75
1 Barshear Plough Sensaberry Blackwell .10
2 Weeding hoes do do .05
1 Scythe & Cradle do do 1.30
2 Riddles do do .05
1 Barshear Plough John Leonard 1.35
2 Hoes Hugh Mcadams .10
1 White (???) Cow do do 5.00
1 Speckled Cow & calf do do 7.00
3 Second choice sheep do do 2.50
6 last choice sheep do do 2.40
1 Blind bridle do do .05
1 pair of (????) John Carpenter 1.40
1 Large Spinning Wheel do
do
2.55
1 Lot Picked Cotton do do .75
1 (???) Colt do do 8.50
1 Black spotted cow do do 5.70
1 pair of Gears & collar William R. Smith .55
1 Spotted Sow " " 3.40
1 Sow " " 3.15
1 (????) Stand William Wood .50
1 Lot Bacon Thomas Brents 2.50
1 Yoke Steers do do 13.10
1 pot Large Samuel Harrison .30
1 Large oven lid " " .75
1 Bed & furniture " " 6.95
1 Man's saddle " " 2.25
1 Milk Churn Simon Luna .10
1 Churn
Sarah Rhodes .25
1 Skillet & lid " " .25
3 Chairs
"
" .60
1 dresser & contents " " 1.00
1 Desk
" " .10
1 Bed & furniture " " 5.00
2 Beds & furniture " " 10.00
1 set Spools " " .20
1 Gray Mare
" " 17.00
1 White & Black (????) " " 7.00
60 Geese
" " 12.90
1 Coffee Mill " " .25
1 small pot Kimbro Hall .25
1 Large pot William Medaris .85
1 Grind Stone Wright
Luna
.30
1 Spinning Wheel John M. Harper .40
1 drawing knife " " .30
1 bridle
" " .20
1 Gray Horse Robert Davis 48.00
1 Sorrel Horse Newcom Hoopson 40.00
1 Sorrel (???) Horse Lorenzo D. Stockton 51.00
1 Black Mare Thomas Cummings 33.50
1 Black Cow Albert Anderson 5.00
1 Black calf Ambrose B. Larwood 1.25
1 Black spotted yearling " " 1.35
1 Black Cow Joseph H. Morris 5.50
3 1st choice Hogs John B. Fishback 14.60
(?) 2nd choice Hogs " " 10.00
4 choice shoats " " 2.20
1 Old Sow (???) Blackwell 3.50
2 Shoats do do .60
(?) 1st choice sheep A(????) D. Anderson 4.00
1 Lot Seed cotton James Price .625
3 chairs Moses Daniel 1.00
1 Table John Owens 1.05
1 Set Andirons Davidson McAdams .50
20 Barrels Corn Jane A. Thommason 17.20
38 Barrels Corn M(???) W, Graves 27.93 & 3/4
5 Barrels
Corn
Benjamin B. Harper 5.75
1 Large pot James Sewell .30
there were
several tiny, cramped
notations of
items sold to this
individual after
the preliminary
total for the
sale was written in.
The total for
all these other items sold to James Sewell amounted to: 6.05
__________
Total amount of
sales:
$412.61 & ¼
The forgoing is a full account of the Sale and Inventory of
all the property of the estate of Hugh Cummings, Dec'd directed by law to be
sold. Notes with good security Due 1st
October 1847 were taken from the purchasers this 4th day of January
A. D. 1847.
Hugh D.
Cummings, Admr of Hugh Cummings, Dec'd.
Sworn to in open Court this 4th day of January
1847
John Elliott
Clerk
"Settled 28 March 1849" is written in boldface script along
the margin
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Transcribed and contributed by Dick Wood
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