The following is an inventory of the estate of Wilford Layton deceased
To wit:
One slave named Dolly a negro woman about thirtyeight years old slave for life.
Eighty acres of land being the next(?) half of the North chart quarter of section of section number sixteen in township number thirty north, range no. ten east east in the district of lands for sale at Cape Girardeau missouri land district and the same being the farm whereon the deceased in his lifetime resided.
1 falling leaf table
1 small painted cupboard
1 chest of drawers
1 yankee clock
1 old rifle gunn
1 old looking glass
6 old split bottom chairs
1 ten gallon kettle 2 peices pot metal
1 small grinding stone
1 seythe and cradle
3 bee hives
1 yellow sided cow and her calf
1 red pied cow and her calf
1 white speckled cow and her calf
1 red and white spotted cow an dher calf
1 black recoked cow with her calf
1 pied heifer 2 years old next spring
2 two tear old steers next spring
1 yoke of oxen about nine or ten years old
1 sinale lot of new wheat about 8 or 10 bushels inferior quality
1/3 interest in wheat farm
1 small lot of tobacco in the leaf
Seventeen acres of corn, ___ or less about ten acres thereof is set apart for the widow and her family as provisions for their use for the present year
23 head of sheep
one gray mare six or seven years old
One spotted horse six years old
One bay filly three years old
one yellow mare colt two years old next spring
50 head of geese
2 pair of ploughing geers old and ____ inferior quality
1 old cross cut saw
1 hand saw 1 drawing knife (old)
1 double tree and two single tree (old)
1 kneeding hoe 1 chopping ax (old)
2 old ____ ploughs
12 shoat hogs
1 log chain
1 lot _____ timber
1 old saddle
1 ring and staple 1 old sickle 1 frow
2 beds and bedding sufficient for the same _____
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