APPENDIX D
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 |