1801 Inventory of Gabriel Hardin, Deceased (transcribed April 14, 2015 by T. Hardin, ke3y@comcast.net) --------------------------------- This is the original inventory with the actual signature of James Hardin. Source: North Carolina, Estate Files, 1663-1979 Randolph County H Harding, Gabriel (1801) (find indexed at familysearch.org) February Term 1801 Memorandum of a Inventory of the Real and personal property of Gabriel Harding of Randolph County Decesed January the 13, 1801 to wit three hundred acres of Land one Negro mane one Negro woman one negro girl. One horse in the hands of James Harding son of Gabriel Harding Deceased five head of Catel thirty three head of Hogs one feather bed and two blankets three hundred and seventy three pounds of pork about eight barrels of Indian Corn two Iron pots one spider 3 puter bassons [3 pewter basins] one Dish three plat[e]s three beef hid[e]s one flax wheel one cotton wheel one colter [colter - a sharp blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow, used to cut the ground in advance of the plowshare]. One ads [adz] one Drawing knife three wagon boxes one shoe hammer one pir of shoe pingers [court copyist: 1 pair pinchers] one shruping [chopping?] hoe two weeding hoes one Clivess [clevis] one falsh Colter one hekel [hackle: a comb or board with long metal teeth for dressing flax, hemp, or jute; the neck plumage of a male bird, as the domestic rooster] four barrels some feathers one washing tub two pigins [piggin - Dialect. a small wooden pail or tub with a handle formed by continuing one of the staves above the rim] one Churn two Axes one matax [mattock] two fat tubs some hogs lard one table one bedstead Cond and hide two resse hooks two Sadels one Chear two bells one box iron one pair of shears one grindstone two pir of pot hooks four buckels two bridle rings one bag one pir of Cotton Cards Some flax seed. Taken by me Michael Luther Jun. [crossed out] /s/ James Hardin ======================== Court copy is a little different: North Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970, Randolph County, Wills 1794-1804 Vol 2. Frame 42 of 79. Written page # 74. (This is a copy written in the court record.) ========================= Frame 43 of 79. Written page # 76. "May Term 1801. Account of the Sales of the Estate of Gabriel Hardin Dec'd Returned by David Williams one of the Admr. Of the Deceas'd. (Intestate) ammounting to £ 654.3.3 –"