Bidwell Lore – Agrippa’s Probate Inventory

Welcome to Bidwell Lore number 170! This week we are looking at the inventory taken when Agrippa died so you can get a better sense of how he lived. We will be off for the next two weeks due to the holidays and back on January 9th to wrap up the Agrippa story.  

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Agrippa Hull’s Probate Inventory
Rick Wilcox, 2022

This week we take a deeper look at Agrippa’s will, specifically the probate inventory done at his death. In the table that follows, you can see the extent of his wealth. The property items are on the left, followed by the value as established by the people doing the inventory.

House Lot and Buildings	400	00
North corner lot estimated at four acres at $40 per acre	160	00
South corner lot estimated at fours acres at $23 per acre	92	00
Wood corner lot estimated at twenty acres at $17 per acre	340	00
Personal Estate
Bureau	3
Desk & bookcase	3
Clock	1	50
Red Cupboard	2
Breakfast Table	2
Stand		50
Kitchen Table		75
Looking Glass		75
Boston Rocking Chair		75
6 black chairs	2
6 Kitchen & ?	1
4  Hay Bottom		50
Look Stove Pipe & apparatus	10
Long Tub	1
Wood churn		25
Pounding Barrel	1
Large Brass Kettle	2
Small Brass Kettle		50
Wash Tub		50
Set of Measures		50
3 wood Pails		25
Soap Tub		75
Meat Tub		25
16 tin pens	2	10
Carried forward	37	45
Brought Forward	27	45
2 large pens		8
5 tin pens		25
Candle molds		50
Milk strainer & cullender		25
2 small tin pails		20
7 pieces tinware		20
2 platters & tea set		60
5 wooden dishes	1
Stone sink	1	50
10 stone jars and jugs	1	50
2 old tables		30
6 candle sticks		25
Lard Tub		10
2 hives		50
2 brass candle sticks		50
12 bottles		25
2 iron pots		25
2 Steepers		25
Hand saw		50
Tongs		17
2 lad irons		25
Tea waiter		21
5 small cups		10
9 breakfast Plates		25
12 tea plates		25
6 edged plates		12
6 blue breakfast plates		18
Blue Tea Set 17 pieces	1	50
11 cups and saucers		10
3 pitchers		50
3 Pudding dishes		50
2 edged dishes		20
2 edged platters		40
2 edged dishes		10
2 bowls		10
Wish dish		20
13 small Plates		28
6 silver tea spoons	3	50
6 German tea spoons		20
5 large Bostonian dishes		20
2 bed sheets		6
8 knives & forks	1
6 tumblers		25
2 glass dishes		20
2 glass lamps		12
12 pair cotton sheets	4	80
6 ½ pillow cases		65
Striped comfortable		75
Blue striped quilt	1
Old striped quilt		40
Light Blue Quilt		75
3 Table Spreads	1	25
4 cotton shirts & 2 handkerchiefs		50
6 vests		75
Over coat & Pants	2
2 west room Bedstead Beds Bolsten & pillows	2
Green Feather Bed & Pillows	4	50
2 South Room Bedstead Beds Bolsten & pillows	1	75
Bedstead Beds Bolsten & pillows	1	75
2 Comfortables		59
1 Iron bar	1	50
1 chain		75
3 iron wedges		75
Arce		25
Waggon broken	3
Sleigh	3
Wheel Barrow		50
Total	80	33
Brought Forward	80	33
Horse Harness	5
Shovel & manure fork		70
Chain & Shoe		50
Old Mare	16
Law	35
Law	30
Total	167	35
Add two fire pails		17
	167	50

And below, you can see expenses paid out of his estate in the months after Agrippa’s passing.

1848 Sept 4	To E.C. Brinton for coffin per receipt	5	00
	To Stephen Tucker for digging grave	1	50
Sept 28	To DR Williams on Act see receipt	14	00
Dec. 7	To DR Williams for balance of his act.	16	16
	To Royal Fowler his act per receipt	16	58
		53	24

We will return in two weeks with a story from Electa Jones to wrap up our series about Agrippa Hull.

Happy Holidays Everyone!