A second inventory of John Summers’s estate, taken a day after the first and returned by James Summers as administrator. Like the first, this is a copy made in 1804 by Alderson Ellison, clerk of the Beaufort County court. The surname is written so that it can be read as either Summers or Sommers; it is given here as Summers.
Inventory of part of the estate of John Summers – Beaufort County, March 8, 1788 (copy certified 1804)
Transcription notes: spelling, capitalization and punctuation follow the original. Words in [square brackets] are editorial notes; [?] marks an uncertain reading and [illegible] marks words that could not be read.
An Inventory of part of the Estate of John Summers deceased March 8th 1788.
Two feather beds Six pewter plates, one dish & three basons – Six pewter spoons, one pewter tea pot. four earthen plates, one Milk pot or tea pot, 5 Cups and Saucers two butter boats One Sugar dish, & Mustard pott two tea bottles, butter boats, one Glass mug – two Iron potts, one frying pan, one pair fire tongs 3 Stone Jugs One —— two tubbs one Chest 1 tubb, one pale [pail], one piggin, one case of bottles four Knives and Six forks, one Club. & one Grindstone, one Gun and one Sett of poppetts [?] one plane – one Iron tea Kettle, one pair of pott hooks, Seven Chizells & guages [gouges], One Augur, two candlesticks & some old locks & one coffee pot & one teapott, one Stone pitcher
Balance due on J. G. Blount’s Books £41..0..0
Note of forty pounds ten shillings £40..10..0
due from Richard Blackledge in a/c [account] [?] – five pounds 18/11
James Summers admr.
A true Copy from the record as witness my hand and Seal of office this 29th March 1804
Ald. Ellison Clk Inf. Court Beaufort
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Inventory Estate John Summers decd. March 8th 1788
About the original
This list adds household goods, including pewter, earthenware, cups and saucers, a sugar dish and mustard pot, a tea kettle, coffee pot and teapots. It also adds money owed to the estate: a balance on the account books of J. G. Blount (John Gray Blount, the Washington, N.C. merchant, is the likely person), and a note owed by Richard Blackledge.
A piggin is a small wooden pail with one long stave for a handle. The word read as “poppetts” is not certain; poppets were parts of a lathe. Seven chisels and gouges and a plane fit with the carpenter’s tools in the first inventory. The blank after “One” is in the original.
The amount after “five pounds” is read as 18 shillings 11 pence. The words before it are not clear.
Source: Inventory of part of the estate of John Summers. Roach Family Papers (#346), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Box 1, Folder b (Inventories, Wills, and Estates, 1783–1868). Collection guide. Digitized folder: ECU Digital Collections, 0346-b1-fb.
Images courtesy of East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. View in ECU Digital Collections: 35967.
Part of the Roach Family Papers collection on East Carolina Roots.
