Grace Lloyd Inventory, Chester, 1760
List of Food Products
- In the Cellar: 7 Gammons and 7 Flitches of Bacon; A Quantity of Dry Beef
List of Cooking and Serving Utensils
- In the Dining Room: Two Black Walnut Tables; A Tea Table; China Ware in the Cupboard; Decanters & Glasses on the Mantle Piece; Hand Irons, Shovel, & Tongs & Hearth Brush
- In the back Room: A Walnut Oval Table; Two Box Irons & Stand & Heaters; Glasses & Decanters on Mantle Piece
- In the Closet Room: Apothecaries, Bottles, Phals, &c; A Spice Box; Stillyards and Tobacco Tongs; A large Peuter dish; Two Stone Juggs &c; A Soup Pan; An old Case of Bottles; A Box Barrel &c
- In the Front Room up Stairs: A Chamber Table
- In the back room up stairs: A Chamber Table; A Parcel of Earthen War on Mantle Piece
- In the Garret: a Spice Box
- Down Stairs & in the Kitchen: 15 Peuter Plates & 3 Glass Salt Sellars; 4 Large and 4 Small Pewter dishes; 3 Pewter Plates and a Soup dish; 3 large Pewter dishes and 12 Plates; 2 small Dishes, a Bason & Cullender; A Pewter Funnel and Tin Cullender; 2 Copper Coffee Potts and 2 Tea Kettles; A small Kettle (brass) and 3 Copper Skillets; 4 Iron Pots & an Iron Kettle; Hand Irons, Tongs, Frying Pan & Gridiron; A Jack Spit and Tacklings; Three Potracks, Pothooks, & Skimmer; A Ladle, Fleshfork, & Chopping Knife
- In the Cellar: A large Pewter dish and Plate; Casks & other Lumber in One Cellar; Ablut a Groce of Bottles; A Cedar Brewing Tub & Dumb Betty Tub; A Box with Candles
- In the Milk House: A Stone Mortar & Pestle; A Chafing dish and Plate Iron; A Pewter Plate and Bed pan; A Tin Watering Pot; A Small Still & Worm (given to Jane Hoskins); 4 Brass Milk Pans; A pair of Hand Irons; A Close Stool and Pan; Some Juggs, Bottles, & Other Lumber 2 Kegs & high Iron Candlestick
- Following articles listed, but room not mentioned: A Large old Copper Boiler; 17 Hair Cloaths for pressing Cyder; 4 Dozen & 10 Napkins at 20/ P Dozn; Seven Table Cloths; Eight more Napkins; Silver Plate; One Tankard; One Dozen larger Spoons; Six Tea Spoons; Tea Tongs; A Mustard Pot; A Pepper Box; A Marrow Spoon; A Spoon Washed with Gold; another large Spoon; Six more Tea Spoons; A Mustard Spoon; A Cup
Source: Chester County, Pennsylvania Inventories: 1684-1850 p315-317 (See Bibliography)
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