1828 Sale Bill of the Personal Estate of William S. Foley
Hampshire County, Virginia

Transcribed by Janie Martin Whitty ç2001, all rights reserved

Note: 

1.  do  is “short” for ditto

2.  A Shoat is a young piglet about half grown (Definition thanks to cuz Bud Boswell, grew up on a farm)

3.  Bald Horse is: a bald face horse, meaning it has a white blaze on it’s face (again, thanks to Bud)

*4, 5 & 6 provided by Pricilla Boswell - our Alt Cousin and Bud’s wife.  Thanks Priscilla

4.   Swingle tree is the swinging horizontal cross bar to which the traces or tug of a harnessed horse are fastened

5   Clavis (written Claviz here), is the key that drops in the Swingtree and holds it together.

6.  Trammel is an iron hook used for handing kettles and other vessels over the fire.

7.  Mattock:  An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax    or the point of a pickax.

8.  Harrow Teeth:  An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.

**Another from Cus Priscilla

9.  Flax Hackle:  Middle English hechele, hekele; Dutch hekel; German hechel  An instrument made of long teeth set in a board for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow or coarse part.  A Flax comb.

Description

Property

Name of Purchaser

$

Cents

2 Tubs & 1 Keg

 

N. Kuykendall

 

75

1 Big Wheel

 

William Purget

 1

00

! Bundle broke flax

Pd

Abraham Plum

 

52

1 pair Stirrup Irons

 

Isaac Kuykendall

 

49

1 Lott of old Iron

 

N. Kuykendall

 

42

2 Mattocks

 

John High

 1

90

1 Jack screw

 

Ditto

 

12

1 Flax Broke

 

Jasper Foley

 

60

1 cutting box

 

Ditto

 

12

1 fifth chain

 

Jonathan High

 1

62

1 log chain

 

Jasper Foley

 

80

1 Baskel (Basket?) & 1 half Bushel

 

Mathias Stulenbarger

 

25

1 set Harrow teeth

 

William Moore

 3

70

1 Shovel Plow, Swingle Tree & claviz

 

Jasper Foley

 1

20

1 ditto     do

 

William Bumcrotz

 1

08

2 pair hind Gears

 

Jonathan High

 4

02

2 Bridles (Hind?)

 

Jasper Foley

 1

52

1 pair Plough Gears

 

Ditto

 1

42

1          do         do

 

Ditto

 2

12

3 pair hip straps

 

Michael Hunnamon

 1

75

2 old saddles

 

Edward Taylor

 

25

1 saddle, saddle bags & Bridle

 

Peter Sines

 8

02

1 large Kettle & old oven

 

George Liller

 1

00

1 Pot, 1 oven & 1 tea Kettle

 

Solomon Moore

 1

00

1 Pot & 1 Bake Oven

 

Jasper Foley

 1

27

2 working tubs

 

Nicholas Leatherman

 

50

1 Pot & Ovenlid

 

Solomon Moore

 

25

1 Bucket & 1 churn

 

Edward Taylor

 

52

2 Seythes & cradles

 

Wm. Bumcrotz

 3

25

1 Bar Shear Plough

 

Jasper Foley

 1

50

1 Hand saw

 

Benjamin Robinson

 

45

4 Hoes & 1 dung hook

 

George Liller

 1

05

1 Wedge, 1 Ring, 1 corn cutter

(J. Foley)

John Ludwick

 

57

1 grind stone

 

Abraham Lear

 2

05

1 Lott of Cupboard Furniture

 

William Purget

 2

57

1 Cupboard

 

Jasper Foley

 3

76

1 Lott Knives & forks & coffee mill

 

Abraham Lear

 1

85

1 Lott of Books

 

Solomon Moore

 1

00

1 Chest of Drawers

 

William Purget

 1

25

1 small Wheel

 

Ditto

 1

00

1 Parcel of Feathers

 

Edward Taylor

 

43

1 Bed, 1 Bedstead & bedding

 

John Griffey

10

55

1 Lott of woolen yarn

 

Solomon Moore

 6

56

1 Rifle gun & pouch

 

John Lear

 9

25

1 cover lid & Hankel

 

Shadrick Goens

 2

55

1 Table

 

William Foley

 6

00

1 Ditto

 

Solomon Moore

 

56

1 Flax Hackle

 

John Brown

13

35

1 Bed, 1 Bedstead & bedding

 

Solomon Moore

 1

26

1 Bed, 1 Bedstead & bedding

 

Isaac Kuykendall

11

07

1 tanned Doe Skin

 

Abraham Vanmeter

 

60

7 Chairs

 

Jasper Foley

 1

76

1 ax

 

Abraham Vanmeter

 1

32

1 Waggon

 

Alex Page

34

00

4 Shoatz

 

Jasper Foley

 4

46

2 fat Hogs

 

Abraham Lear

13

62 ½

2 Ditto

(Note)

William Parker

  9

75

7 Shoatz

(Ju. Arnold)

Samuel Housholder

  7

06

1 Sow & 4 pigs

 

William Bumcrotz

  2

80

1 Bald Horse

 

Jasper Foley

  7

20

1 Brown Ditto

 

John Pancake

78

05

6 live Steers & 1 dead do

 

John Peerce

61

25

1 White cow

 

Thomas Davy

 9

00

1    do      do   (pied)

 

John Somers

 7

40

1 brown do

 

Abraham Vanmeter

 5

00

1 ditto  do ( with white face)

 

John Ludwick

 8

00

4 Heifers

 

John Vance

20

62

1 Colt

(Note)

Abraham Leatherman

12

75

1 Stack Wheat

 

Charles Hunnamon

30

55

1 Stack Rye

 

Joseph Shockey

16

25

3 Calves

 

George Tapp

 6

12 ½

1 Hay Stack

 

Philip Moore

 4

31

1  do     do

(Note)

William Elmore

 3

20

10 Sheep  (1st choice)

 

Thomas Davy

19

25

10 Ditto  (2nd choice)

 

Abraham Plum

16

36

13 Do

 

Joseph Shockey

14

60

1 Hay Stack

 

Abraham Lear

 8

80

1  do

 

Joseph Frazier

 7

50

1 Wheat Stack

 

Isaac Kuykendall

 7

69

1  do

 

James Stewart

 6

60

1  do

 

do

 2

00

1 Haystacks

 

James Hansbrough

 1

75

1 Oat Stack

 

Jasper Foley

 4

31

1 Wheat & Rye

 

Solomon Moore

 5

50

1 Bucket

 

George Liller

 

65

1 Jug

 

Abraham Vanmeter

 

12 ½

1 Pot Tramel

 

Jasper Foley

 

70

1 Table

 

Ditto

 

20

1 Lott of Flax

Pd

Abraham Elitt

 

75

1 pair Andironz

 

John High

 1

25

1 Lott wagon timber

 

John T. Hickman

 2

17

2 Shoatz

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOTAL $

616

31

WE, Isaac Kuykendall & Jasper Foley do certify that the above is a correct list of the sale of Personal Estate of Wm. S. Foley, dec’d given under our hands this 26th day of Dec. 1828.

/s/  Isaac Kuykendall, co-admin

/s/  Jasper Foley, co-admin

 

At a (court?) herto for Hampshire County the 16th day of September 1829 This sale bill of the estate of William S. Foley, dec’d was returned and ordered to be recorded.

Test.  /s/  John B. White CHC