Miscellaneous Documents

Inventory of the Estate of
Lemuel Dunham of Hartford, Maine


Source: Oxford County Probate Records.

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Real Estate
A part of lot numbered eleven in the 7th range of lots (approximately 90 acres)        $100

“Deceased’s interest in the farm recently and for a long time occupied and improved by him, consisting . . . in the buildings erected thereon by said deceased, fences and other lasting beneficial improvements by him therein and thereon made, estimated at $600.”

Livestock
1 pair stags $50 1 pair oxen $40
4 cows $60 1 mare $25
1 pair 3 year old steers $40 1 colt (2 years) $35
1 pair 2 year old steers $23 1 colt (1 year) $25
1 heifer $9 1 other colt $15
45 sheep, 18 lambs $60 2 swine $14
3 yearlings, 2 steer, 1 heifer $13

Farm Utensils (partial listing)
oxcart with appendages     $14 plow $7.67
buffalo robe calf skin 10 bee hives

Lumber

Household Furniture
7 feather beds valued at $10, $6.67, $5.67, $4.17, $7, $3, $2.50
4 pair blankets iron bailer 2 half hogsheads
3 pair blankets meat tub cheese press
3 bed quilts 3 1/2 foot table cheese screen
1 comforter table loom
3 pair sheets 2 looking glasses 2 spinning wheels
dining chairs iron kettle set warping bars
1 rocking chair pot tea kettle
kitchen chairs 2 baskets 2 grain measures
clothes chest 2 heat tubs 2 pails
light stand 2 wash tubs 1 churn
brass timepiece 1 cooking stove and apparatus
1 hand trunk 1 pair flat irons

Crockery Ware
5 dozen earthen milkpans 1 dozen tin pans 2 pair andirons
1 dozen common tubs 1 dozen plates 2 bushels corn
tinware 2 stone jars
1 wooden can 1 pair lamps

Total Appraisal- $952.53.

Claims against estate and charges- $239.70

Inventory taken 10 July 1848



Original text © 1993, 1997-2002 by C. L. Dunham and Tammy L. (Dunham) Caron
Moses Dunham of Hartford, Maine               Email: dunham@softhome.net