Widow’s Allowance - Martha Reaves
Duplin County, North Carolina
Estate File of Robert Reaves
Duplin County
Martha Reaves widow of Robert Reaves having made application for year’s allowance the undersigned were summoned and being duly sworn proceeded to allot and assign to her the following articles of property to-wit)
| Twenty barrels corn | $60.00 |
| One bank Potatoes | 3.00 |
| One bank Potato (slips) | 3.00 |
| Eleven fat hogs (1000 lbs) | 60.00 |
| One Sow & Six pigs (yellow sow) | 8.00 |
| One pen of fodder (nearest garden) | 7.00 |
| One Cow | 8.00 |
| One lot chickens (all) | 2.00 |
| One buggy & Harniss | 25.00 |
| One Cart for Harniss &c | 15.00 |
| Five bus peas (all) | 3.00 |
| One lot of tools | 3.25 |
| Two plows-hoes &c | 2.00 |
| One Iron wedge & maul | .50 |
| Thirtine (sic) chairs | 3.25 |
| Two bedsteads/mattress & bed clothing | 4.00 |
| One pair of andirons | .05 |
| One Horse & bridle | 40.00 |
| One Riding saddle | 2.50 |
| One Grindstone | 2.00 |
| One cook stove & fixtures | 3.00 |
| One water bucket & basin | 0.50 |
| One large pot one table two benches | |
| one bucket three tubs three barrels one | |
| tray one safe & contents one spinning | |
| wheel contents of dairy one clothes | |
| press one table one chest) | 9.15 |
| Window curtains | .75 |
| One lard stand & twenty lbs lard | 2.00 |
| One trough & soap | .50 |
| Two Empty Kegs | .20 |
| Potatoes in cellar | 1.00 |
| One stone churn | .35 |
| Balance in Money | 24.00 |
| $300.00 |
Commissioners J. R. Faizon
Jas F. Shine
A. G. Moseley, JP
December 16th 1884