Sylvester Saltmarsh

The Estate Inventory for Sylvester Saltmarsh is 2 1/2 pages long, typed and single spaced. For this reason compiler will not attempt to copy it in these notes; however certain key information has been extracted in order to point out other significant persons or information.

RIPLEY COUNTY INVENTORIES Inventory of the personal property of Sylvester Saltmarsh deceased taken by Wm. Duley administrator and appraised by John Whitehead and Rowland Robinson.

• 4 log chains 5.00
• 2 mans saddle 2.00
• 1 woman's do 3.00
• 1 shoe maker's bench, tools 2.00
• 1 sickle .15
• 1 hand saw .56
• 2 riding bridles 1.00
• 2 pr martingales .50
• 2 sets horse gears and line 8.00
• 20 bu wheat 10.00
• 1 quantity of timothy, barrel 1.25
• 3 ox yokes, 1 without irons 2.50
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• 152 lbs sole leather @.20 30. 49
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• 1 candle stand...
• 4 kitchen chairs 1.00
• 1 big iron kettle 1.50
• 1 tea kettle 1.00
• 1 gridiron .25
• 1 bedsted (sic) 4.00
• 1 single coverlet 2.50
• 1 calico quilt 2.00
• 1 bedstead, straw bed, woolen quilts,
• linnen (sic) sheet, bolster 2.00
• 1 shawl .75
• 1 flat iron .36
• 1 volume "Life of Christ" 1.00
• 1 brown mare and colt 40.00
• 1 pr of oxen 35.00
• 1 2 yr old heifer 3.00
• 1 bull 2.00
• ... ...
• accounts on Hery (sic) Risinger 3.44
• Frederic Meyers 5.40
• *Riley McKee 1.45
• John Bartlet .nv
• Michael Miller 1.13
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• account on James Abel .88
• John Dorsh 4.38
• Daniel C. Abel .69
• Jenkins Fitzgerald 8.25
• Wm. Agnew .nv
• note of Edmund Conner 16.02 1/2
• James Stevenson and John Whitehead 100.00
• Phillip Anthony .70
• George Saltmarsh 25.00
• George Miller 21.08
• Charles Salyer 18.60
• Thomas Johnson 23.40
• Daniel Manley 4.625
• note of Joseph B. Agnew, S. Behry 22.48
• Jacob & *Anthony McKee and David Wallace 124.63
• David Wallace 15.00
• *Wm. W. Agnew 5.00
• Silvenus Munson 3.00
• John Fuller 13.81
• Daniel Tayler (sic) 13.50
• no total
• subscribed May 20, 1844

Compiler's note: Since this inventory is dated "May 20, 1844" it is likely that Sylvester Saltmarsh died in 1844 rather than in 1845 as held by other researchers.