page 181: Inventory and appraisement

At a court continued and held for Berkeley County the 19^th Day of April 1786

This account current of the Estate of Jacob Woolam Dec'd was returned and ordered to be recorded.

Moses Hunter Clk

page 181: Inventory and appraisement ======== Penny Husler’s transcription of the estate papers of Jacob Ulm ========

Transcription note or What it it?

The source of these pages are the transcribed COURT estate records. I have tried my best to do an exact transcription. It was my intent to use the same upper/lower case letters and all original spelling. Sometimes the lack of punctuation creates a real problem in deciphering the intent of some of these records but I do not wish to alter the document in any way. The records were handwritten into a large ledger kept by the court.

Some Background information and pure conjecture:

During the time of the execution of this will two things were common that are unheard of now. They don't necessarily apply to this will but point out how little we understand the dynamics of life back then. 1) It was common, in some locations where it was law that the oldest son inherited everything, for that son to not even be listed in the will. Only the others that received special gifts and bequests were listed. In other cases, if gifts of property were settled on children at the time of marriage or the birth of the first grandchild they might be omitted in the will. 2) In some locations the the value of property was determined by selling it. Then the proceeds were split according to the wishes of the deceased. So you might see, as in this case, the widow buying the family bible and other personal items. Sometime the neighbors and family held off bidding, letting predetermined individuals go first. It appears that may have been the case in this auction.

Jacob said, in his will:

First I give all of my estate wherein I now live unto my dear wife Magdalene some of my children being along with her but if my children want to go and do for themselves then shall all the goods be sold and my good wife shall get her living out of it so long as she is a widow but if she marries another Husband she is to have the one third of all my estate and the remainder shall be equally divided amoung my Eleven children

So it seems that children were leaving home and Magdalene was cashing out to support herself on the proceeds.

Some final notes:

It may help to appreciate the documents a little more if you know about some of the people and relationships of the individuals in these documents:

the widow	also listed as	The Widow Ullam
Mathew Woolam	also listed as	Matthias Ullam
Vendal Woolam	also listed as	Windle Ullam
Batlzer Woolam	also listed as	Balser Ullam
Peter Woolam	also listed as	Peter Ullam & Ulam
Dan'l Woolam	also listed as	Daniel Ullam
John Woolam	also listed as	John Ullam
Barnet X Bessor	also listed as	Barnet Besor is the brother of Maria Magdalena (Boeshaar) Ulm
Christian Shively	also listed as	Shively - Christian is married to Anna Maria "Mary" Bashore, Barnhardt Bessor's daughter. He may be related to, Hannah (Balthasar's daughter) Woolam's husband John Shively. Hannah isn't born until 1785, however.
Peter Swingle	may be Johann "Peter" Schwingel - Peter is married to Mary Catheriine Bashore, another of Barnhardt Bessor's daughters.

Micheal Bitzar	husband of Maria Magdalena Boeshaar Ulm's niece Sophia Boeshaar
Mathias Pitzer	Michael Bitzer's brother.
Later you can figure out who was not at the sale or at least didn't bid. Film note: the fold of the page obscures the amount column. Note about the amounts: The underscore means left blank. The hyphen is used exactly as it was on the original, usually in the last column.

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page 181: [Inventory and appraisement]

In obedience to the above order of Court we the subscribers being first duly sworn have appraised the personal Estate of Jacob Woolam deceased in current money according to the best of our judgement

Which is as follows

			In pounds Sterling:
	A mare and colt		L70.0.0
	Two Cows		26.0.0
	Another Cow with the Bell		15.0.0
	Two Heiffers		15.0.0
	Eight Hogs		12.0.0
	Three Calves		10.0.0
	Five head of sheep		10.0.0
	Old Iron belonging to a waggon		6.0.0
	To other old irons		6.0.0
	To Lock chains		1.10.0
	To Mattocks Hoes and one axe		2.5.0
	Old plow iron and an old hopl/[*] and old axe		1.10.0
	To a Sythe & Gridle		0.5.0
	A Hackle{*}/Sythe [a difficult to read]		1.0.0
	A grindstone		11.0.0
	A Hackle{*]		L1.0.0
	A Stove [foot warmer? or perhaps a Stone]		12.0.?
	To Harrow Teeth		2.2.?
	To Plow and Clevice[*]		4.10.?
	To Cow chains		2.10.?
	Dunk fork and Pitch forks		1.5.?
	Sythes and cutting knives		_.10.?
	Mall and wedges		1.10.?
	Eight Chizells [Chisels]		2.0.?
	Hamers and anvels [anvils]		1.0.?
	To 4 Augers		0.10.?
	1 Saw foot adz & drawing knife		1.5.?
	To several Parts of old Iron		1.5.?
	To Pingers & a Trow (Grow?)		1.10.?
	Old Sickles		0.18.?
	Tackle		0.15.?
	Riddle [*]		0.8.?
	A Bell and Tare Book		0.10.?
	To an old Bridle and a piece of old chain		0.5.?

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Page 182

A big Wheel		1.5.0
To a square & trowel		0.4.0
Atoaster [a toaster]		0.12.0
more old Iron		0.15.0
Two portells		0.8.0
To a pot Bake		1.0.0
Spade & Shovell		0.10.0
A Lanthorn & 1 Candlestick		_.5.-
A pepper mill		1._.-
An old steel gard		_.6.-
To Coats and 1 Hatt		3.-.-
A Chest		2.10.-
To large Bible & other Books		9._.-
A churn		_.5.-
1 Iron pot		1.15.-
3 pots & skillet		2.10.-
To Laddles forks & frying pan		1.10.-
To a Gridle & a pair Tongs		_.15.-
To 4 ? [could be bakers]		1.10.-
To 3 Pewter dishes		1.10.-
To 4 Pewter plates		_.10.-
To a Straner [Strainer?] & spoons		_.10.-
To old knives and forks		_.15.-
To basket and pails		1.-.-
To a Table and seive		-.5.-
To a Dough Trough		_.10.-
To 2 Chairs & Table & Dough Trough		_.15.-
To a Horse		60.-.-
A Bed & Bedstead		5.0.0
To Do Do [ditt0]		12.0.0
To a Bedstead		1.5.0
To an Ax		_.10.0
To Horse Gears		3.10.0
A Cutting Box		1.10.0
A ??? Box		_.5.-
A Saddle		8.0.0
A Trunk and Gage		_.15.-
A Table		_.15.-
35 Bushels-Wheat at 25/		43.15.0
A stack Rye		10.0.0
A loom & gears		25.0.0
A fire Shovell & Tongs		_.10.-
Iron		1.0.0
A pot hook		1.0.0
	Arch Shearer
	Wm Buchannon
	his
	Barnet X Bessor
	Mark
	Teste will Drew t0 ???

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* Definitions -----------------

[Hackle, 1. To comb flax or hemp; to separate the coarse part of these substances from the fine, by drawing them through the teeth of a hatchel.]

[Hopple, v.t. To tie the feet near together to prevent leaping; as, to hopple an unruly horse.]

[Clevis, n. An iron bent to the form of an ox bow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of a cartneap to hold the chain of the forward horse or oxen; or a draft iron on a plow.]

[Riddle, n. [See Cradle.] An instrument for cleaning grain, being a large sieve with a perforated button, which permits the grain to pass through it, but retains the chaff.]

[I think a tare book was an account book but it's still listed in red so I remember to look it up for sure.]

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Page 183 [Sale - page 1]

Balser Ullam	a grubbing hoe	0.8.0
Ditto	for hoes	_.7.9
Ditto	2 hoes	_.11.9
Ditto	1 lock chain	3.10.6
Ditto	a foot adz	1.5.3
Ditto	1 cow chain	_.12.6
Ditto	1 Red Cow	22.0.0
Ditto	1 Girdle	1.4.6
Ditto	2 Plates	_.9.2
Ditto	1 Coat	2.2.6
Windle Ullam	1 Hoe	_.8.0
Ditto	1 ax	_.9.0
Ditto	1 scythe & cradle	_.12.0
Ditto	1Trow	1.9.1
Ditto	Hinges	1.1.0
Ditto	1 slate	1.1.2
Ditto	1 Chain	1.16.0
Ditto	1 Plough	9.10.0
Ditto	Horse Gears	_.10.0
Ditto	Cutting Box	2.2.0
Ditto	1 mare	60.4.0
Ditto	1 Bedstead	1.10.?
Ditto	1 Bushell	_.6.?
John Huslin	1 Hoe	_.8.?
Ditto	1 Spade & Shovell	_.12.?
Ditto	1 Chair	_.13.?
The Widow Ullam	1 Dung fork	_.10.?
Ditto	1 Axe	0.15.?
Ditto	1 Cow Chain	_.12.?
Ditto	1 Hide	_.15.?
Do	1 Knife wiith 2 handles	_.12.?
Do	1 Bell	_.11.?
The Widow Ullam	1 Portle	_.10.?
Ditto	1 Pepper Mill	1.10.?
Ditto	1 Big Wheel	2.0.?
Ditto	1 Calf	5.3.?
Ditto	1 Ditto	4.1.?
Ditto	1 Sheep	8.12.?
Do	1 Ditto	2.1.?
Ditto	1 Ditto	3.7.?
Ditto	1 Table	_.5.?
Ditto	1 Hackle	2.2.?
Ditto	1 Dough Trough	_.12.?
Ditto	1 Churn	_.5.?
Ditto	1 Tub	_.6.?
Ditto	1 Pail	_.2.?
Ditto	1 Baskett	_.2.?
Ditto	1 Knives ?????? & Strainer	1.1.?
Ditto	1 frying pan	_.9.?

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Page 184 [Sale - page 2 - Can't read any of the amounts. My copy cut them off.]

Ditto	1 Bason	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Pewter Dish	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Ditto	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Bason	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Pewter Dish & fork	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Spoons	0.0.0
Ditto	2 plates	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Skillett	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Pott	0.0.0
Ditto	1 brass Pott	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Ditto	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Large Ditto	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Frying Pann	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Hoe	0.0.0
Ditto	1 wheat seive	0.0.0
Ditto	1 shovell & tongs	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Hatt	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Coat	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Stove	0.0.0
Ditto	Wheat	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Chair	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Chist (Chest?)	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Pott hook	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Hog	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Ditto	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Cow with a bell by appraise t	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Bed	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Ditto	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Large Bible & other Books	0.0.0
Ditto	1 stack Rye	0.0.0
Peter Ullam	1 Plough Irons	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Chizell & 1 Auger	0.0.0
Peter Ulam	1 Portle or Portte	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Cow	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Heiffer	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Bridle & Belt	0.0.0
Ditto	Hogs	0.0.0
Nicholas Smith	1 pitch forke	0.0.0
Ditto	1 ax	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Broad ax & augar	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Drawing knifes	0.0.0
Ditto	2 hammers	0.0.0
George (unreadable)	1 Hay fork	0.0.0
Archibald Shearer	1 Hammer & trowell	0.0.0
Ditto	2 Drawing knives	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Coopers adz	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Sickle	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Hook & gage	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Dostean Girdle	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Hackle	0.0.0

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Page 185 [Sale - page 3 - Can't read any of the amounts. My copy cut them off.]

Archibald Shearer	1 ??????	0.0.0
John Creamer	1 Pengers & Snippers	0.0.0
Matthias Ullam	2 Chizells & 1 Auger	0.0.0
Ditto	(?) Heiffer	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Maull & Wedges	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Wooden Dish	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Pail	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Pewter Dish	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Dish	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Spoons	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Iron	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Weddger	0.0.0
Earnest Creamer	1 Hammer & anvill	0.0.0
John Rootraeaf	1 Saw	0.0.0
George Leggett	2 Sickles & 1 chizell	0.0.0
John Athy	2 Sickles & 1 chizell	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Cart	13.0.0
Christopher Ford	2 Chizells	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Cow Chain	0.0.0
Micheal Bitzar	1 Cow Chain	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Dough Trough	0.0.0
James Quin	1 Happell	0.0.0
Ditto	2 Cutting knife	0.0.0
John Frank	1 Old iron	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Lanthorn & Candle Stick	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Old Iron	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Harrow teeth	0.0.0
Benjamin Moore	Tarr Box	0.0.0
James Robinson	half Bushell & Chaise	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Clevis	0.0.0
Do	Ditto	0.0.0
Gasper Gander	1 sythe	0.0.0
James Quin	1 steelyard	0.0.0
Ditto	1 waggon	0.0.0
Christian Shivly	1 Hat Box	0.0.0
John Ullam	1 Saddle	0.0.0
Peter Swingle	1 Grindstone	0.0.0
Daniel Bessor	1 Table	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Pot Rack	0.0.0
John (???????)	1 Heiffer	0.0.0
John Saladay	1 Horse	0.0.0
Daniel Ullam	1 Colt	0.0.0
Barnet Besor	1 Loom	0.0.0
Daniel (????????)	1 ??????	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Seive	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Sheep	0.0.0
Ditto	1 Shovell	0.0.0

At a court held for Berkeley County the 21^st day of March 1780.

This account of sales of the Estate of Jacob Woolam deceased was presented and

Ordered ot be recorded.

Teste Will Drew t0 ???

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Page 427 - Itemized Estate Summary

Woolams}	D"	The Estate of Jacob Woolam in acco't with the Executor
Ac't bu^'t }	1780	To Cash paid Mr. ? Shearer	11.5.8
		To Cash paid Clerks notes 500 Dollars	150.0.0
		To Mathew Woolam bond for	12.4.5
		To Vendal Woolam bond for	88.6.3
		To Batlzer Woolam bond for	32.11.11
		To Peter Woolam bond for	31.7.8
		To a just acct against Dan'l Woolam for	50.2.0
		To do against John Woolam for	18.0.0
		To a just acct against John Murphy for	14.1.0
	1778	Cash pd to Thomas Stephenson 6/ Taxes 44/5 Clerks notes 301	3.18.5
		To Mathias Pitzer 16/ To the widow 15/ Rents ? 82/10	84.1.0
		To alen 2/11 White F3 F2.10 Christian Shively 12/6	6.2.6
		To Benjamin Moore Cryer of the Vandue{*} 75/	0.0.0
		Sheriff for
		To the ^ Clerks note 3 Dot at 6/ to 1	0.0.0
		To Effects purchased by the widow	207.24.10
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			720.6.10
		To Commisseon at 2/2 per-cent	o18.0.0
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	C ?/" 1778 Do ? 7		738,.6.10
	By amount of the Sale at Vendue[*]		670.18.6
	1780 By balance Due the Exec'r		67.8.4
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			738.6.10

			Robert Stephens
			Wm Porterfield

*[VENDUE, n. Auction; a public sale of any thing by outcry, to the highest bidder.]

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