SALES ACCOUNT OF THE PERSONAL ESTATE OF WILLIAM MOSS—1835
The following list contains the items comprising the personal estate of William Moss, entered at a sale at auction held April 15 and 16, 1835.
The original list appears in Fairfax County Will Book S-1, pages 7-18, and shows the name of the purchaser for each item. In listing the items here, the names of the purchasers have been omitted and the items listed by categories for convenience.
FURNITURE
| 1 pine Table | .50 |
| 2 Washstands, Bowl & pitchers | 2.25 |
| 1 Bed weighing 70 lbs at 34 cts | 23.80 |
| 1 ditto—58 lbs at 39 cts | 22.62 |
| 1 ditto—78 lbs at 27 cts | 27.06 |
| 1 ditto—58 lbs at 26 cts | 15.08 |
| 1 ditto—70 lbs at 32 cts | 22.40 |
| 1 ditto—58 lbs at 29 cts | 16.82 |
| 1 Pair Card Tables | 10.50 |
| 1 Set Dining Tables | 10.50 |
| 1 Breakfast Table | 4.00 |
| 1 Portable Writing Desk | 4.00 |
| 1 Mantle Clock | 26.00 |
| 1 Stool | .37 |
| 1 Tester Bedstead | 2.50 |
| 1 Mahogeny Bedstead | 3.30 |
| 1 Bedstead | 2.00 |
| 1 Bedstead | 4.00 |
| 1 Mahogeny Bedstead | 5.65 |
| 1 Maple Bedstead | 12.00 |
| 1 Mahogeny Bedstead | 6.25 |
| 1 striped carpet | 3.40 |
| 1 striped carpet | 4.10 |
| 1 striped carpet | 1.55 |
| 1 figured carpet | 3.25 |
| 1 large carpet | 17.00 |
| 1 striped ditto (new) | 28.00 |
| 1 piece stair carpet | 5.50 |
| 1 Striped Carpet | 8.75 |
| 1 Striped Carpet (small) | 5.00 |
| 1 passage carpet | 1.00 |
| 1 arm chair | 1.00 |
| 1 Dozen red chairs | 1.25 |
| ½ Dozen cream coloured chairs | 4.00 |
| ½ Dozen cream coloured chairs | 4.00 |
| ½ Dozen rush seat chairs | 9.00 |
| ½ Dozen rush seat chairs | 8.75 |
| ½ Dozen Black Chairs | 4.25 |
| ½ Dozen Black Chairs | 2.00 |
| 1 Side Board | 21.00 |
| 2 waiters | .37½ |
| 1 Breakfast table | 2.25 |
| 1 Walnut Safe | 6.25 |
| 1 Book Case | 16.00 |
| 1 Pair Andirons Shovel & Tongs | 1.75 |
| 1 Safe & contents | 2.25 |
| 1 Pair And Irons & Fender | .75 |
| 1 Bureau | 4.80 |
| 1 Dressing Glass | 3.50 |
| 1 Pair And Irons brush &c | 1.30 |
| 1 Dressing Glass | 1.37½ |
| 1 Bureau | 7.50 |
| 1 bureau | 5.10 |
| 1 dressing glass | 1.50 |
| 1 gilt looking glass | 3.50 |
| 1 pair andirons | 2.85 |
| 1 bed weighing 80 lbs at 24 cts | 19.20 |
HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS
| 1 Pair Decanters | 4.00 |
| 2 Glass Pitchers | .87 |
| 2 Latts | 1.00 |
| 22 Wine Glasses | 3.87 |
| 10 Gelly Glasses | .75 |
| 1 Dozen Jelly Glasses | 1.15 |
| 9 Glass Caps | 1.37½ |
| 1 Celery Glass | 1.00 |
| 3 Bottles & 1 Decanter | 1.50 |
| 1 Mire Filler | .25 |
| 1 Glass Stand | 2.00 |
| 1 toaster | .50 |
| 1 Waiter, tea Pot &c | .25 |
| 1 Cork Screw | .25 |
| 1 Pair Waiters | 2.00 |
| 1 Waiter and contents | 2.80 |
| 1 Large Bowl | 4.00 |
| 2 Pair Brass Candlesticks & Snuffers | 1.50 |
| 1 Waiter & 4 Glasses | .50 |
| 1 pair Tureens | 1.00 |
| 11 Small Plates | .87½ |
| 6 Soup plates | .75 |
| 7 dishes | 1.50 |
| 1 bowl and Mustard Pot | .25 |
| 1 Pitcher | .25 |
| 2 Plated Baskets | 9.50 |
| 1 Pair Plated Candlesticks | 8.75 |
| 1 Pair Plated Snuffers & Tray | 6.25 |
| 1 Lot dishes & crocks | .95 |
| 1 Kettle | .76 |
| 1 bag of Corks | .15 |
| 2 casks & contents | 1.50 |
| a parcel tins | .25 |
| 1 Oven, Kettle & Hooks | .62½ |
| 1 Cake Moulds & pot | .50 |
| 1 Strainer, print & Bowl | .55 |
| 1 Pewter Basin, Tin &c | .55 |
| 1 Gun & apparatus | 7.75 |
| 1 Fire Sett (complete) | 16.00 |
| 1 Fire Set (in Dining Room) | 4.90 |
| 1 Bucket, tub & Griddle | .50 |
| 1 Shovel & Tongs & sifter | .50 |
| 1 old safe and contents | .40 |
| 1 tin safe and basin | 2.00 |
| 2 Jugs, 4 Crocks & 1 jar | 1.25 |
| 5 Large stone crocks | 1.35 |
| 3 earthen and stone jar | .30 |
| ½ Dozen jars | 1.00 |
| ½ Dozen old crocks | 1.15 |
| 2 pewter basins | 1.00 |
| 1 China diner set | 11.25 |
| 5 Large Dishes | 3.00 |
| 5 pieces Brittania Ware | 5.00 |
| ½ Dozen silver spoons | 5.00 |
| ½ Dozen silver spoons | 5.12½ |
| 5 Silver Spoons | 2.25 |
| ½ Dozen Silver Table Spoons | 16.00 |
| 4 Silver Table Spoons | 8.50 |
| 2 Salt Spoons & toddy ladle | 5.00 |
| 1 Pair sugar tongs | 1.75 |
| 1 Soup ladle | 9.00 |
| 2 Silver tumblers | 9.50 |
| 1 Sett Tea ware | .50 |
| 1 Large bowl | .60 |
| 1 Sett Castors | 6.00 |
| 1 Lot Wood ware | 1.50 |
| 1 Lage pots & hooks & 1 Lage oven | 2.00 |
| 1 Large oven | .76 |
| 1 oven and Pot | 1.80 |
| 1 Frying pan & Grid Iron | .75 |
| 3 pots | .62½ |
| 1 Furnace, Kettle & pot | .25 |
| 1 Spice Mortar & Pestle | .75 |
| 1 Brass Kettle | 3.00 |
| 1 Reel &c 2 Spinning Wheels Basket & Contents | 5.85 |
| 2 Smoothing Irons | .87½ |
| 1 Quilting frame | .12½ |
| 4 pairs Cards | .55 |
| 1 Lot frames & Brushes | .75 |
| 2 Dozen Knives & forks | 13.00 |
| 1 chest | .37½ |
| 1 pair Round Tables & Bellows | 2.00 |
| 1 Writing Desk, Slate & Inkstand | 1.25 |
| 1 basket of Chambey | 1.12½ |
| 1 Table, Desk & five mp & contents | 1.45 |
| 1 pair pillow cases | .80 |
| 3 pair pillow cases | 1.55 |
| 1 pillowcase | .35 |
| 3 pair cotton pillow cases | .84 |
| 1 Table Cloth | 1.30 |
| 1 ditto ditto | .35 |
| 1 Table Cloth | .63 |
| 1 ditto | .50 |
| 1 ditto | .70 |
| 1 ditto | 1.75 |
| 1 ditto | 2.00 |
| 1 Pair Diaper towels | .42½ |
| 1 Ditto Ditto | .30 |
| 1 Ditto Ditto | .28 |
| 1 Ditto Ditto | .28 |
| 1 Ditto Ditto | .26 |
| 1 Ditto Ditto | .15 |
| 1 Ditto Ditto | .26 |
| 1 Ditto Ditto | .28 |
| 3 Toilet Covers | 1.43 |
| 1 Toilet Cover | 1.37½ |
| 1 Toilet Cover | .16 |
| 1 Box, Boot Jack & old Stool | .30 |
| 1 Lot Cake Moulds | .15 |
| 1 Shovel & Tongs & Warfel Irons | .31 |
| 1 Driping Table | |
| 1 ditto—3 fire screnes & Lot old tin | 1.25 |
| 1 Pair Blankets | 4.05 |
| 5 pair Blankets | 10.62½ |
| 1 ditto Ditto | 2.75 |
| 1 White Counterpane | 2.55 |
| 1 striped ditto | .75 |
| 1 pair Blankets | 3.12½ |
| 1 white Counterpane | 4.55 |
| 1 calico Ditto | 1.68 |
| 1 ditto Comfort | 2.00 |
| 1 Ditto Ditto | 1.55 |
| 1 White Counterpane | 10.00 |
| 1 Figured Ditto | 1.91 |
| 1 White Counterpane | 1.75 |
| 1 ditto ditto | 2.80 |
| ditto ditto | 3.50 |
| ditto ditto | 1.50 |
| ditto ditto | 2.75 |
| 2 Counterpanes | 2.25 |
| 2 tablecloths | 9.00 |
| 8 pair Sheets | 22.30 |
| 2 pair sheets | 3.80 |
| 4 ditto ditto | 9.12½ |
| 2 ditto ditto | 6.87½ |
| 1 Pair Blankets $4.25—1 ditto $3 | 7.25 |
| 1 clothes brush | .31 |
PICTURES, BOOKS AND PAPERS
| 2 Maps U. States | 8.80 |
| 1 Print of Thomas Jefferson | .25 |
| 5 volumes Washington life | 5.00 |
| 1 Vol. Gordons Digest | .25 |
| 1 Vol. Guthries Geography | 2.25 |
| 1 Vol. biography dictionary | 1.75 |
| 6 Vol. paper work at 25 cts | 1.50 |
| 1 Vol. Life of Napoleon | .62½ |
| 1 Vol. Olive Branch | .51 |
| 1 Vol. Memoirs of Napoleon | .35 |
| 1 Vol. Tuckers History | .26 |
| 4 Vol. Modern Europe | 2.00 |
| 10 Vol. Encyclopedia | 3.00 |
| 1 Vol. Burns Work | .16 |
| 1 Vol. Christianity | 1.10 |
| 1 Vol. Classes Cookery | .14 |
| 1 Vol. Haies Pleas | .40 |
| 1 dictionary | 1.00 |
| 1 Book on Farriery | .30 |
| 1 lot old Books | 1.30 |
| 1 lot old books | .51 |
| 1 vol. History of Rome | .37 |
| 1 vol. Dridens Tour | .20 |
| 1 vol. Strong Bow | .17 |
| 1 vol. Political Enquiries | .50 |
| 1 vol. Ewells Discourses | .37 |
| 2 vol. Sydney on Government | 1.75 |
| 5 vol. Shakespeare | .95 |
| 1 vol. Montagues Reflections | .42 |
| 1 vol. Gambler | .15 |
| 1 vol. History U. States | .85 |
| 1 vol. Snodens America | .26 |
| 1 vol. Astronomy | .22 |
NEGROES
| Negro | Isaac | 800.00 |
| ” | Jacob | 800.00 |
| ” | Aaron | 660.00 |
| ” | Cornelius, Betsey & Child | 800.00 |
| ” | Edward | 550.00 |
| ” | Maria | 528.00 |
| ” | Mary Ann | 600.00 |
| ” | Kitty | 620.00 |
| ” | Ann | 630.00 |
| ” | Cornelia | 500.00 |
| ” | Jane | 240.00 |
| ” | Ellen | 205.00 |
| ” | Daniel | 175.00 |
| ” | Massa | 131.00 |
| ” | Jenny | 40.00 |
| ” | Emanuel | 40.00 |
| ” | Chloe | .50 |
| ” | Charles | 250.00 |
FARM PRODUCE
| 1 Stack Hay | 29.50 | |||||
| 1 pacel of Hay | 8.65 | |||||
| 1 | Stack of | Oats | 35.00 | |||
| 1 | ” | ” | 43.00 | |||
| 1 lot Wheat Straw | 1.25 | |||||
| 1 | Beehive | 1st | choice | 1.25 | ||
| 1 | ” | 2nd | ” | .75 | ||
| 5 | Barrels | Corn | at | $4.10 | 20.50 | |
| 10 | ” | ” | at | $4.12 | 41.20 | |
| 5 | Barrels | Corn | at | 4.05 | 20.25 | |
| 5 | ” | ” | 4.10½ | 20.50 | ||
| 4 | ” | ” | 4.12½ | 16.50 | ||
| 3 | ” | ” | 4.12½ | 12.37½ | ||
| 1 Hogshead of Vinegar | 2.62½ | |||||
| 1 Beehive 3rd choice | .62½ | |||||
| 5 empty Bee gums | .12½ | |||||
| 1 barrel soap | 1.60 | |||||
| 105 | lbs | Bacon | at | 12½ | per lbs | 13.12 |
| 103 | ” | ” | ” | 13 | ” | 13.39 |
| 100 | ” | ” | ” | 13½ | ” | 13.50 |
| 100 | ” | ” | ” | 13½ | ” | 13.50 |
| 257 | ” | ” | ” | 13 | ” | 32.60 |
| 61 | ” | ” | ” | 10 | 6.10 | |
| 1 | Barrel | vinegar | 1.65 | |||
| 1 | ” | ” | 1.55 | |||
| 1 | ” | ” | 1.90 | |||
| 1 barrel vinegar | 3.30 | |||||
| 1 barrel vinegar | 3.30 | |||||
| 1 Hogshead of Vinegar | 5.00 | |||||
| 1 bag Wool | 45 lbs | at | 32 | 14.40 | ||
| 1 ditto | 25½ | at | 25 | 8.92 | ||
| 1 ditto | 5 | at | 26 | 1.30 | ||
| 1 bag yarn | 35 lbs | at | 54 cts | 18.90 | ||
ANIMALS
| 1 Dun mare | 52.50 |
| 1 Sorrel Horse | 78.00 |
| 1 Bay Horse | 40.00 |
| 1 ditto do | 48.50 |
| 1 Sorrel Horse | 57.00 |
| 1 Bay Horse | 88.00 |
| 1 Stud Colt | 62.50 |
| 1 ditto (Sir James 6 years old) | 111.00 |
| 10 and 10 lambs (Jno Washington 1st choice) | 42.00 |
| 73 Ewes & Lambs at $2. each (Jno Washington) | 146.00 |
| 1 cow | 10.12½ |
| 1 White and Red Cow | 15.00 |
| 1 cow and Bell | 10.00 |
| 1 Black Cow | 17.12½ |
| 1 Red Heifer | 7.06½ |
| 1 White and Red Cow | 17.50 |
| 1 ditto ditto | 14.50 |
| 1 Black and White Cow | 18.00 |
| 1 Buffalo Cow | 18.25 |
| 2 Breeding Sows | 6.00 |
| 5 shoats 1st choice | 7.50 |
| 4 do 2nd ditto | 5.00 |
| 1 Black Cow | 14.00 |
| 1 cow | 14.00 |
| 1 ” heifer | 13.00 |
| 1 Red Steer | 6.00 |
| 1 Dark Steer | 13.00 |
TOOLS, FARM EQUIPMENT AND IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY
| 1 Lot old gear | 2.70 |
| 1 Lot old plough gear | 2.55 |
| Cart gear Harness &c | 2.40 |
| 1 Lot old Carriage irons &c | 4.50 |
| 5 Mowing Scythes | 2.10 |
| 2 Scythes & Cradles | 2.35 |
| 1 Grind Stone | 3.25 |
| 4 Sacking Bags | 1.00 |
| 12 old tubs 25 cts—1 cutting box 3.25 | 3.50 |
| 1 pair saddle bags | 3.50 |
| 3 tubs, barrel &c | .35 |
| 2 old pots oven &c | .25 |
| 1 large iron kettle and soap | 5.00 |
| 2 empty barrels and 1 barrels soap | 1.67 |
| 3 old tubs | .15 |
| 1 Light Cart | 30.50 |
| 1 Broad Tread Cart | 11.70 |
| 1 Wagon & 2 extra Bodys | 34.50 |
| 1 Sand Sifter | .50 |
| 1 Wheat fan | 9.00 |
| A pacel Rye and Oat Straw | 18.00 |
| 2 old grain hogsheads | .50 |
| 1 augur crank &c | .75 |
| old harness | .12½ |
| 1 box and some glass | .50 |
| 3 barrels & some salt | .60 |
| 1 old Saddle | .25 |
| 9 old barrels | .62 |
| 4 empty stands or Hogsheads | 2.37½ |
| 3 empty Hogsheads & 2 barrels | 2.12½ |
| 2 pair Shears and Keg White Lead | 1.37½ |
| 1 Sett Scales & Weights & Jugs | .51 |
| 1 pair Stirrup | .35 |
| 1 parcel Shvel and Spades | 1.75 |
| 2 Forks and Rake | .50 |
| 1 Lot Swingletrees | 1.80 |
| 2 Wheel Barrows | 1.12 |
| 1 old Cart Body, Shafts, &c | 3.55 |
| 1 Carriage & harness | 35.00 |
| 1 Saddle and Bridle | 8.00 |
| 1 rope | .26 |
| 1 Sett Blacksmith’s Tools | 20.75 |
| 1 bucket & old iron | .31 |
| 3 Halter Chains | .75 |
| 1 Jack Screw | 2.00 |
| 1 old boring machine | 1.00 |
| 1 chain and old plough share | .55 |
| 1 Crow bar and Bar of Iron | 1.37½ |
| 1 Barshear plough | 7.50 |
| 1 Dutch plough | .87½ |
| 3 Chopping Axes | 1.15 |
| 1 Lot Carpenters tools $2.25—1 Log Chain $1 | 3.25 |
| 2 axes | 2.25 |
| 1 Small Bar Shear plough | 7.50 |
| 1 Large Bar Shear plough | 7.25 |
| 1 Large ditto-old | 1.00 |
| 3 old ploughs | .12½ |
| 1 pair Steelyards | 1.00 |
| 5 Hilling Hoes & fork | 1.25 |
| 1 Harrow | 5.00 |