"Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of Wm Massie Dec'd Sept. 1862", 1862

Containers:

Box 2

Scope and content:

Bound volume, 31 pages, approximately 21x32cm, consisting of an inventory of furniture, household items, livestock, and supplies created following William Massie's death. This volume does not appear to include specific names or numbers of enslaved people. The appraisal includes items in rooms and storage spaces at Pharsalia, Level Green, and Tyro, as well as different outbuildings and other locations. Contents and their monetary values are listed by room. Rooms listed include: Pharsalia's Garret, Long room, Big room, Little room, East end room, Nursery, West end room, Chamber, Office, Drawing room, Dining room, Pantry, Passage, Store room, Closet adjoining office, New Lumber house, Whiskey cellar, Old Lumber house, Weaving house, Daphne, Hospital, Lime house, Coonery, Carriage house, Apple house, Blacksmith shop and shelter, Still house, Coopers shop. Also includes inventories of Level Green, Tyro, Tyro Mill, Wheel Rights shop, Guano house, the Mill at Pharsalia, Coal house, and Stable shed. The inventory is very thorough - for example, the store room sections includes each vial of medicine or herb, the dining room items reflect the range of tableware, and the outbuildings sections list pounds of salt, barrels of whiskey or other alcohol, numbers of horses and livestock, and types of farm equipment. The volume offers a comprehensive glimpse of the plantation's range of activities in 1862.

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