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| Appraisal of Estate of Council Wooten. Jefferson County, FL. 1857. |
Note: I've kept the original spelling, capitalization and punctuation, and added any comments in square brackets [ ]. I've formatted the names of enslaved individuals in bold.
We the Subscribers appointed to appraise the Estate of Council Wooten deceased late of Jefferson County do hereby appraise the following articles--
36 Head of Cattle at $4 per head - $144.00
136 Head of sheep at 1.37½ per head - 193.14
208 Head of Hogs at 3.50 per head - 728.00
One Bay Mare 14 Years old at 100 - 100.00
One Bay Horse 4 Years old at 175 - 175.00
One Bay Filly 2 Yrs. 2 months old at 150 - 150.00
One Bay Mule 7 Yrs old Lame in hind leg - 125.00
One Brown Mare Mule 5 Yrs. old at 175 - 175.00
One Light Brown Mare Mule 5 Yrs. old at 160 - 160.00
One small Bay Mule 3 Yrs old at 135 - 135.00
One Large Sorrel Mule 3 Yrs old at 175 - 175.00
One 4 Horse Waggon at 65 - 65.00
One 2 Horse Waggon at 30 - 30.00
One 45 saw Gin at 40 - 40.00
One negro fellow named Loderick [Frederick?] 50 Yrs at - 500.00
Do. [Ditto] Do. Do. named Morris [Marcus?] 40 Yrs at - 800.00
do. do. do. named Frank 35 Yrs at - 1100.00
do. do. do. named Maick [Mack?] 25 Yrs at - 1100.00
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One negro fellow named [Esau?] 25 Yrs at - 1000.00
[One negro fellow] named Rop [Ros?] 24 Yrs at - 1200.00
[One negro fellow] named Washington 24 Yrs at - 1100.00
[One negro fellow] named Hardy 23 Yrs at - 1100.00
[One negro fellow] named [Jim?] 20 Yrs at - 1100.00
[One negro fellow] named Abner 18 Yrs at - 1100.00
[One negro fellow] named Green 19 Yrs at - 1100.00
[One negro] Boy [named] Frederick 14 Yrs at - 900.00
[One negro boy named] Dick 11 Yrs at - 700.00
[One negro boy named] John 9 Yrs at - 600.00
[One negro boy named] Derry [Gerry?] 5 Yrs at - 300.00
[One negro boy named] Elias 3 Yrs at - 200.00
One negro Woman Hannah 50 Yrs at - 400.00
[One negro Woman] Rachael 23 Yrs at - 900.00
[One negro Woman]Sarah 14 Yrs at - 900.00
[One negro] Girl Lucy 7 Yrs at - 300.00
[One negro] Girl [Fennby?] 3 Yrs at - 200.00
[One negro Girl] Marry 2 Yrs at - 100.00
[One negro girl] Infant 2 months at - 50.00
[One negro] Woman [Hughy?] 25 Yrs at 00.00
19,215.12
W.C. Thomas}
Alzen May}
Asa May } appraisers
Lafayett Wooten, administrator
Jefferson County, ss.
The foregoing is duly recorded in my office [??] Book of “Inventories, appraisements and accounts of sales” page 274 this 25th day of October AD 1857.
Tho. [Thomas] Chase
Judge of Probate
Source of scanned original: "Florida Probate Records, 1784-1990," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Q5-VC45?cc=2046765&wc=QCL8-JWR%3A350468501%2C350500401 : 20 May 2014), Jefferson > Inventories and appraisements 1845-1865 > image 170 of 271; county courthouses, Florida.
