Richard Ratcliff of Lancashire, England and Talbot County Maryland - by Clarence Earl Ratcliff 1972
Ratcliff Bulletins - Clarence Earl Ratcliff
INVENTORIES
1721 Book #6, pp. 210-212, Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland
"A true and perfect inventory of all and singular, the goods, chattles, rights and credits of Richard Ratcliff, late of Talbot Co., dated, taken and appraised, as customary, this 17th day of July 1721, by us the subscribers, viz." (namely):
1. wearing apparel, 15s; & cane, 10s
2. old featherbed, hood? of curtains, 20s
3. rug much worn, 6s
4. 10 yes of , 10s
5. 1/2 yard of linen, 2s, 3p
6. apparrel of carpenter coopers, 5s
7. tools,
8. tooth drawers, 2s (Dentists equipment?)
9. forks
10. tobacco box and old booths, 1s, 9p
11. snaffle bit
12. 50 1/2 powter (powder?) 17s, 6 1/2p
13. three falling lixos, @ 3p, 9p
14. a silver spoon, 15s, 6p
15. 2/6
16. 32 of old iron, 2s, 8p
17. old chaffond, 9p
18. old cards
19. a small box of old shoemaker tools, 2s
20. tools
21. old chest of small tablets, 10s
22. tin funnel, 1s, 1p
23. box scrap fan,
24. 10 lbs of leather, @ 6p, 2p, 5s
25. old shillards
26. box of , 16s, (all above on page 210)
27. spectacles, (clock?) and candlestick, 1s, 10p
28. 16
29. door hinges and lock, 3s, 6p
30. 6 lbs.
31. 6 pad of nails, 2s
32. 2 sorry bedsteads, 2 chaft beds, 16s, 6p
33. couring
34. old books, 2s
35. quick ?
36. 3 box (?) of rug yarn, 15s
37. eavers ? and thrums?
38. 6 glass bottles @ 3p, - 1s, 6p
39. 19 1/2 foul wood, 11s, 7 1/2 p
40. 3 couse hapkins ? 2s, 6p
41. table cloth
42. 3 earthen pots, 3 milk pans, 3s
43. rugs, two old, 8 softers, 10p
44. 3 casque and 15 barroles, 17s, 6p
45. 3 randlotts and washing tub, 7s, 4p
46. old saddle and bridle, 8s
47. old weaving loom and apparelle, 10s
48. stays and old geares
49. hand mill and peeler, 18s
50. wooding plow, 9s
51. share and cotter
52. 4 hid os wheel, 18s
53.
54. cart and wheels, 1s, 5p
55. old wooding hoos (hoes?) 2 grubing, 4s
56. 2 hilling
57. box iron, frying pans, 4s
58. 3 piggeos, 4s, 6p
59. 2 iron pots, 18s, 3p
60. boxes, 3s, 3p
61. young barrows - hogg, 11s
62. 25 pounds ?
63. 6 shoat, 13 piggs, 7s
64. brass skillett, 2s, 11p
65. cow and calf, 15s
66. old 50
67. 4 cows and 8 yearlings, 10p
68.
69. (end of page 211)
70. 3 hefers, 5p, 5s
71. a hefer and a bull two years old, 2p, 5s
72. a steer 3 years old, 5s
73. a horse called "Jack" 3 years old, 3p, 15s
74.. 15
75. small horse, 2 pounds
76. sow - man named Francis, 2 pounds
77. stock 5 months to grow
78. Thomas Cowden 2 years to serve, 6 pounds
79. a woman, Ann Loyd, a convict, 8 pounds
80. a beggar girl, Mary Robinos, 6 years, 6 pounds
81. to serve to 18,
82. 2 bushels of wheat, sowed and plowed, 6s
83. old woolen wheel, 3 beggars, 6p
84. 2/6p
85. 2 old chairs, 3s, 6p
86. 30 bushels of Indian corn, 3 pounds
87. a small cow bell, 2s
88. a grind stone
89. some old lumber, 2s, 6p-------
total 21p, 8s
Thomas Hopkinsd (seal)
Thomas Ewbank (seal)
Approved by creditors and next iof kin: William Ratcliff
John Fellows
John Kennedy