Asa Dawson Sr Kent County Delaware Inven. & Acts. Dec 20, 1831 to Apr 12, 1832
Inventory of goods & chattels of Asa Dawson, dec'd, provided by Barratt P. Conner & Jonathan N. Gildersleeve this 28th day December 1831. [list of goods follows...] Total $72.00. Inventory into probate dated 2nd day of April 1833.
List of Sales of the Property of Asa Dawson, dec'd, this January 3, 1832:
Sarah Dawson, widow, 1 loom $.25 1 sm bed & furniture & lamp $.50; Asa Dawson (Jr.) 1 saw $.10; Riley Dawson 1 lot tin $.08 & 1 iron square $.30 & 1 pine desk $2.00; Robert Dawson 1 leather collar $.24; Joshua Shaw dish & lugin;
Friends or Kinfolk: John B. Conner, Peter Rawley, David Stocks, James & Elizabeth Anderson, Andrew Anderson, Henry Polk, John Bailey, Jonathon A. Gildersleeve, William Glass, Robert Cotton, Thomas R. Finsthavart, Jonathan Wapples.
To the Registrar of Kent County, John Bailey, Adm. of Asa Dawson, request for settlement & adjustment:
January 1832: Cash paid William M. Lockwood for letters $1.37; Cash paid Riley Dawson for winding sheet $1.25; Cash paid Reuben Howell for digging grave $1.00; cash paid John B. Conner for rent $40; cash paid Johnthan Green on executions $13.17; cash paid John D. Anderson on judgment $2.63; cash paid James Gillespy for coffin $4.00; cash paid to John Bailey on note $4.80; cash paid George P. Harrington for selling goods $1.50; 7 gallon ginn [cotton gin?] for vendue $.25; to registrar for passing acct $2.75; by amount of sales of good $69.58; by cash from David Stocks on acct $10.71; by cash from Thomas P. Reynolds on acct $1.25; ditto George P. Harrington $7.50; ditto paid to John Scott $8.00; Balance $97.04 plus 2.83 equal $99.87. Examined, adjusted, by the proviso & Dated July 22, 1833.
Source: Delaware Archives Probate File Asa Dawson; copy in possession of Pat Doster