Primary Source: Probate Inventory of Valentine Bird, 1680

ALBEMARLE August 2d 1680
Wee the Subscribers being Ordered by the Grand Councell for the appraismt of ye Estate of Capt. Vallentine Bird Deceased wee doe In order hereunto appraise the sd Goods and Chattles as is brought before us to the best of our Skill and Judgment:

Imprimis 3 pr fine holland Sheets at 50 Shillings per paire 07:10:00
3 Pr of Course Sheets att 30 s pr 04:10:00
1 Pr of Course at 01:05:00
2 Prs halfe worne Sheets 15 s Pr 01:10:00
3 browne Orsenbrigg Sheets at 5 s 00:15:00
1 Pr worne Sheets 00:08:00
11 pillows at 2s 6p 01:07:06
6 pillows at 2s. 6p. 00:15:00
4 Cubboard Cloathes 00:16:00
1 fine Holland Cubboard Cloth 00:08:00
1 Dozn Daipr Napkins & Table Cloth 01:10:00
1 Dozn and 9 Daiper napkins 01:18:00
3 Table Clothes 00:18:00
6 course Table Clothes 01:10:00
2 dozn & 4 Course Napkins 01:10:00
16 Course Towells 01:10:00
1 fine holland Towell 00:05:00
1 Tankard and 1 Dozen Silver Spoons 13:07:04
1 Sett Curtains vallens & Counterpans 01:10:00
1 Sett of old Curtains and Vallens 00:10:00
1 fringed Shoulder belt 00:10:00
1 gray Shagd Rugg 00:10:00
1 green Shagd Rugg 01:00:00
1 Shagd Rugg 01:05:00
1 Shagd Rugg att 01:02:00
1 Dark Cullowed Rugg Shagd 01:00:00
1 Large Black Trunck 00:15:00
1 Smaller Black Trunck with Drawers 00:15:00
1 small Chest 00:10:00
1 Iron bound Chest 01:00:00
1 Iron bound Chest 01:00:00
1 New ffeather and boulster 06:00:00
1 ffeather Bed and Boulster 04:00:00
1 Hammacker 00:18:00
1 bed boulster and pilloe 05:10:00
1 bed boulster Coverlet & pillow 04:10:00
1 Looking glass 00:05:00
1 Glass Case 00:10:00
1 dressing box 01:00:00
1 Warming Pann 00:10:00
1 Bed Stead 00:08:00
One Pcell of books 06:00:00
2 hair Brushes 00:01:06
23 Round and Square Bottles 00:12:00
15 yd of Keirsey 01:17:06
11 Prs plain Shoes at 3:s Pr 01:13:00
1 Black walnut Table & frame 01:00:00
10 Chairs 02:10:00
1 Couch at 01:00:00
1 Table and frame 00:13:04
1 Table Cloth 00:06:08
1 Striped Carpet 00:05:00
1 Whip saw 01:00:00
1 bed stead and Cradle 00:10:00
1 fowling piece 01:10:00
1 musket and fowling piece 01:15:00
2 Smoothing Irons att 00:10:00
1 pair of Stilliards and pea 00:08:00
1 Dozen pewter plates 01:10:00
1 Dozn pewter plates 01:04:00
19 pewter poringr at 01:08:06
6 Small Salts 00:06:00
2 Large Salts at 00:06:00
2 pewter Candlesticks 00:05:00
3 Sawsers at 1s 3p per lb 00:04:06
51 Pewter Dishes at 03:03:09
4 pewter Basons 01:12:00
3 old peweter plates 00:05:00
2 Large brass Candlesticks 01:10:00
A parcel of Tining ware 02:00:00
2 pewter Chamber potts 00:08:00
1 pewter Tankard 00:03:00
1 paire Tongues & Fire Shovell 00:05:00
1 brass Kittle: 32 pound at 02:00:00
3 skillets at 18 shillings 00:18:00
6 bell mettle mortor & pearsell 00:10:00
1 posnet at 00:04:00
1 brass (?) and Ladle 00:05:00
1 frying pann at 00:06:00
3 spitts 00:10:00
1 paire andirons 00:15:00
3 paire pothooks 00:06:00
1: paire racks 00:03:00
1 iron pott wt 50 lb at 4p pr lb 00:16:08
1 iron pott wt 36 lb at 4p pr lb 00:12:00
2 iron pott wt 33 lb at 4p per lb 00:11:00
1 Lignum vitee punch bowl 00:15:00
1 Lignum vitee mortor 00:02:06
1 flesh forke 00:01:00
1 Cradle 00:05:00
Negro men; (vizt: Mingo at 40:00:00
Andrew and Thom: at 35 lb Sterling pr each 70:00:00
women: negroes Hanna; Betty; Betty; & Bess at 30 lb Sterling each 120:00:00
Mary ye Indian 20:00:00
Negro boy mustapha 20:00:00
1 Small Negro boy named Robin at 15:00:00
1 small negro Girl named Jane 15:00:00
1 Negro Child George 10:00:00
1 Woman Servant named Ann ffarmer of 4 years to serve 08:00:00
1 hand Mill 06:00:00
1 sett of wedges 00:10:00
7 weeding howes at 1s: 6p: 00:10:06
8 hilling howes at 00:07:00
2 old Axes at 00:02:00
1 spaid att 00:06:00
1 Trowell at 2s: 6p: 00:02:06
1 broad ax at 00:04:00
1 hand saw at 00:02:00
1 Lathing hamer at 00:01:06
1 coopers adze & rift 00:03:00
22 sheep at 10s: 11:00:00
plantation and housen 80:00:00
12: old Sowes 09:00:00
30 Shotes 07:10:00
6 barrows and board 05:05:00
12 cowes and calves at 30s 18:00:00
6: 2 year old beasts 06:00:00
Total is 583 lb—01s—03p  

SAMUELL DAVISS
WM. NEVELL
JNO DIE
Signum
Tobacco lb

By 2000 pounds of tobacco Due from Capt Zacha Gillam &c 2000

I the Subscriber Doe present In humble Manner this as A True Inventory of the Estate of Capt Bird of this County Late Deseased I being his Executrix The Debts of ye Estate being drawne up; I forgott to Bring them; which I humbly Crave Leave to the Next Session of ye Grand Councell; for presentmt of them and that to this Inventory Credits they may bee annexed; November 8th 1680

MARGARET BIRD
The pettionar is Lt Allowed for ye Bringing in of the Debts
ROBT JOHNSON HOLDEN, Secrata


Primary Source Citation: 
Grimes, J. Bryan. North Carolina Wills and Inventories Copied From Original and Recorded Wills and Inventories in the Office of the Secretary of State. Raleigh: Edwards & Broughton, 1912. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994. 

 

 

Credit text

From J. Bryan Grimes, ed., North Carolina wills and inventories (Raleigh, N.C.: Published under authority of the Trustees of the Public Libraries, 1912), pp. 472–474. - Original Source