of Fallowfield Township, Washington County, PA

ca late 1730s—1812

This page shows some documents pertaining to Vincent Colvin, who was the father of Lott and the grandfather of Henry "Sam" Colvin, who later moved to Oregon.

The Inventory Of the Appraisement of the Estate of Vincent Colvin, Dec'd
Exhibited May 11th, 1812

A True and perfect Inventory and concionable Appraisement Of All and Singular the Goods and Chattles rights and Credits which were of Vincent Colvin of Fallowfield Township in the County of Washington at the time of his death. (viz.)

(The following is transcribed from the original document, housed in the Washington County Courthouse in Washington, PA. All original "misspellings" are retained, but because of the penmanship, some names or items are not clear. When in doubt, a "(?)" is placed after the entry.)
Item
Amount
Cash on hand
$113.89
Thomas Brackins Note
$99.83
Wm. Bushfieds Note
$11.00
Henry Shouses Note
$12.00
James Martins Note
$3.00
John Martins Note
$0.79
Ja's Scotts due bill
$1.50
Alex'r McGrews Due bill
$2.19
John Younkers Acct
$1.20
Henry Blythe's Note
$22.00
William Fentons
$6.00
Wearing Apparel
One Great Coat, 3 Strait body'd Do 1 Pair overhals
$7.08
Nine Jackets
$7.30
three pair overals
$5.00
two pair Breeches
$3.60
One Flannel Shirt
$1.00
one handkchf
$0.30
one linen shirt
$0.10
Goods bequeathed to the Widow--one bed and bedding
$20.00
Two Beds, bedsteds & bedding
$14.50
one bed, bedsted & bedding
$30.00
Fifteen blankits
$41.00
Six bed Covers
$13.00
Two feather beds & bedsteds
$23.00
Thirtyseven yards of Flannel
$18.50
Twentyseven yards Cotton
$20.25
Twenty seven yards of Linnen
$9.00
Seven and an half Yards of Flannel
$4.00
twenty eitght yards of tickin(?)
$14.00
Two table Clothes
$2.00
Two tables
$8.00
One Case of Drawers
$10.00
One Cub board
$8.00
One Chest
$1.00
One trunk
$0.50
Three Chests
$1.50
Window Curtins
$1.33
One Warming Pan
$2.00
Three Spinning wheels & a reel
$3.00
Three windsor Chears
$1.20
One arm Chear
$1.00
Six Split Bottomed Chears
$1.50
One Stand
$1.50
One Looking Glafs
$2.00
Fortytwo Dozen Twoe thread
$8.40
Nine Dozen fine thread
$2.34
Nine Dozen & Cuts wool Yarn
$3.19
Three Iron Kettles
$3.50
Two Brafs Kettles
$22.50
Four pots
$4.50
a waffle Iron
$3.00
Four pot racks hand Irons & Tongs
$4.50
Coffee Mill
$0.50
Drefser & Drefser furniture
$12.00
large Pewter Bason
$0.75
Half a Dozen Knives & forks One Dozen Table Spoons
$0.75
Ten Earthen Crocks
$0.60
Cheese Prefs
$1.00
One frying pan
$0.75
One Churn and wooden bowl
$1.00
Two Ladles
$0.25
Two Cows & two Calfs
$28.00
Four Sheep
$8.00
Five Yards of thick Cloth
$5.50
One Grey horse
$40.00
One bay mare
$55.00
One Gray Mare
$45.00
Old black Mare
$35.00
One Young black Mare
$37.00
One Gray Mare with foal
$60.00
a Two year old horse...(?)
(price not legible)
One Black Cow with a white tail
$12.00
white back Cow
$13.00
Old Mottle Cow and Calf
$14.00
Doney Cow
$12.00
Blofs Cow and Calf
$14.00
Long Blacks heifer and Caf
$11.00
Pinks young heifer
$10.00
Chery Cow
$8.00
Star Cow
$9.00
Young Mottle Cow and Calf
$11.00
Blithes Heifer
$9.00
Young Pink
$10.00
Red Pink
$11.00
Old brindle
$12.00
Marine Calf
$3.00
a blofs do
$2.00
White backs Calf
$3.00
Blithes heifers Calf
$3.00
a white back Caf
$3.00
Red Steer
$4.00
a white back Steer
$4.00
a white heifer
$4.00
Red Pinks Calf
$2.00
Little red Steer
$4.00
little reds Calf
$2.00
Nineteen Sheep & Nine Lambs
$28.00
Ten best hogs
$32.00
Two Sows & Eleven pigs
$6.67
Fourteen Shoats
$9.50
three do
$2.25
A waggon
$35.00
Jack new (?)
$2.50
Large Grind Stone
$1.00
Small Grind Stone
$0.25
Five Augers
$2.25
Two Iron wedges
$0.75
Four Fallin Axes
$3.00
Broad ax
$0.50
mattock Sproutin hoe & pick
$1.80
Sone hammer & howel
$0.35
two bells
$0.30
Stackin board & Irons
$0.35
Three hillen hoes and Spade
$1.50
three Gimblits and Spike
$0.35
Mall rings and chisel
$0.20
Short Chain
$0.15
Hand Saw
$0.75
Box of Iron
$2.00
Log Chain
$2.75
Small Do
$0.75
Strechers
$0.75
Clarks Plough
$3.00
Risingers Plough
$2.50
Pair of Double trees
$1.00
Shovel Plough
$0.75
Shovel do
$0.25
Iron tooth Harrow
$2.50
Corn harrow
$1.50
a Double tree
$0.35
Sithe and Cradle
$2.75
One Do
$3.00
two Sithes
$1.00
two sickles & frawl (?)
$0.15
Crofscut Saw
$2.00
four Nibs four heel rings & Grofs Nail
$0.50
Cuttin knife
$0.30
a sled
$1.00
four bee hive
$8.00
windmill
$4.00
Cuttin box
$1.00
Two Pitchforks & Iron Shovel
$1.75
Pair of hind Geers
$4.00
Pair fore Do
$0.75
Pair of hind Geers
$1.75
One pair chains and Coller
$1.00
One Coller
$1.00
four blind bridles
$1.00
Leading Line
$0.25
wheel barrow
$0.25
Flax brake
$0.75
Drawin Knife
$0.75
Ox Yoke
$0.25
Tar keg & buckit
$0.25
Waggon Trough
$1.00
Thirty bushels Corn
$10.00
Thirteen bushels of Buckwheat
$3.33
Fifty bushels Rye
$20.00
Thirty bushels wheat
$16.00
old Do (?)
$14.85
120 Bushels Oats
$30.00
Ten bushels of rye
$4.00
Fourteen Cider barrels
$7.00
Barrel of Vinegar
$3.00
Five Old Cider barrels
$2.00
Six New bags
$5.00
pair Stillards
$0.75
Sheep Shears
.25
Nippers
$0.10
a Bible
$1.50
Shot Gun
$1.50
Saddle Bags
$2.00
Five Old bags
$2.00
Four Open barrels
$0.75
Three Guns
$0.75
four hundred flower
$6.00
Saddle and bridle
$13.50
Bacon (quantity illegible)
$6.00
20 lb. Beef at .05 ct. per lb.
$1.00
50 lb. Picklepork 6 cts. per lb.
$3.00
old saddle
$0.75
old Chest
$0.30
two flat Irons
$1.00
Washing tub
$1.00
Candlestick
$0.25
old Plane
$0.18
(several items illegible)
Big wheel
$1.00
18 1/4 lb Iron
$1.06
Case of Razors
$0.55
one razor
$0.50
a lot of books
$1.56
a desk
$18.00
side straps
$2.05
A tilling hoe & sprowting
$1.80
Tomahawk & two rasps & a file
$1.01
A lott of leather
$1.75
a wheat riddle(?)
$0.42
Money scales
$0.50
2 pair of specks Inkstand & comb
$1.00
One Negro Boy Named Ben
$10.00

 

Vendue List for Vincent Colvin property

A Vendue List shows who bought what at an auction after Vincent's death. This is transcribed from a copy of the original which is housed in the Washington County, PA Courthouse in Washington, PA. ("Do" is short for "ditto" or "same as above.")

 

Articles Purchased
Purchasers' Names
Amount
Chisel and bell Andrew Red $0.15
Mowing Sythe Ditto Do $0.27
Ditto Stephen Colvin $1.64
Drawing Knife Jacob Benet $1.46
Handsaw Andrew Red $1.77
Cross Cut Saw Leonard Everly $6.06
two Augers James Richards $0.28
Gimblets William Fenton $0.46
One Auger William Powers $0.42
Ditto Inch & half Stephen Colvin $0.70
Ditto two inch James Hair $1.60
two law Books James Crookham $0.41
Stilyards Elizabeth Colvin $0.80
Barrel of Vinegar Ditto Do $1.08
three Barrels Leonard Everly $0.16
two Ditto Andrew Walker $0.17
Saddle Bags Noah Frye $3.97
Old Saddle John Rice $1.31
New Ditto Stephen Colvin $8.30
Womans Saddle Elizabeth Colvin $1.00
three Old Bags John Colvin $1.60
two Ditto James Crookham $1.42
two Old Bags Noah Frye $2.01
two New Bags Jacob Benet $2.25
two New Bags Stephen Colvin $2.01
Shot Gun Thomas Sheafer $4.00
Loom Abraham Hickman $7.75
one pair of geese & 3 Reds Do Do $2.25
Cutting Knife Andrew Walker $0.27
One Sickle William Sampson $0.75
One Sickle Andrew Red $0.62
Grindstone Stephen Colvin $0.67
Do Do Robert K______
Young Pink Cow Noah Frye $14.30
White Back Cow James Carel $15.64
Grey Horse Stephen Colvin $41.00
Nichole's Mare Richard Baxster $69.25
Young Black Mare John Hill $62.50
Lame Grey Mare Noah Frye $52.00
Yearling Horse Colt Jacob Grable $15.32
Yearling Filly Daniel Vanvoorhis $18.00
two first choise of sheep Hannah Powers $4.00
two 2nd Do Do William McCall $4.05
two 3rd Do Do William Scot $4.00
two 4th Do Do John Allman $3.96
two 5th Do Do William McCall $3.77
two 6th Do Do Hannah Powers $3.32
four 7th Do Do Ditto Do $5.79
five 8th Do Do William Scot $4.60
Sythe and Cradle Peter Yohee $3.00
Ditto Do Peter Shive $3.96
Waggon Stephen Colvin $50.25
Bay Mare Elizabeth Colvin $55.00
Horse Colt Ditto Do $30.00
Bay Filly Do Do $30.00
Young Pink heifer Do Do $10.00
Red Pink (heifer?) Do Do $11.00
Long Blacks heifer Do Do $11.00
Chopping Ax Noah Frye $1.03
Do Do Stephen Colvin $1.13
Pack Saddle Andrew Walker $0.07
Two Tilling Hoes Abraham Frye $1.61
Mattock Stephen Colvin $1.51
two Iron Wedges William Fenton $1.02
Dung Fork Stephen Colvin $0.88
Shovel Do Do $0.50
Blind Bridle Andrew Walker $0.40
two pitch forks Falim Boyle $0.80
Flax break Stephen Colvin $0.29
Was(h)ing tub Do Do $0.28
Barrel Do Do $0.04
Waggon Trough Do Do $0.25
Ox yoak and tar Do Do $1.00
Cutting Box John Colvin $1.00
4 coats 1 pair of overhauls Do Do $7.08
9 Jackets Do Do $7.30
3 pair of overhauls Do Do $5.00
2 pair of Breeches Do Do $3.60
One flanel shirt Do Do $1.00
One Handkerchief Do Do $0.30
One Linen Shirt Do Do $0.10
One Silver Watch Falim Boyle $5.00
8 Acres of wheat at $1.10 per Stephen Colvin $8.80
2 Do of wheat @$0.15 pr Thomas Branen $0.30
12 Do Do @ $2.00 pr Stephen Colvin $24.00
8 Do Rye @ $1.26 pr Do Do $10.08
Bridle Henry Smith $2.01
Hand Mill Stones Stephen Colvin $1.00
Four open Barrels Elizabeth Colvin $0.75
three Gums (guns?) Do Do $0.75
Four bwt (?) of Flour Do Do $6.00
one bwt (?) of Bacon Do Do $6.00
twenty lb. of beef Do Do $1.00
Fifty lb. of pickle pork Do Do $3.00
One & half Bushel of salt Do Do $2.62
Big Wheel Do Do $1.00
Negro Benjamin Do Do $10.00
Three Shotes Do Do $2.25
10 bushels of old wheat at .61 per John Colvin $6.10
10 Ditto Do .60 pr William Fenton $6.00
10 Ditto Do .55 pr Henry Smith $5.50
10 Ditto Do .60 pr James Croakham $6.00
5 Ditto Do .65 pr Thomas Sheafer $3.25
3 Ditto of New Do .75 pr Thomas Jacobs $2.25
3 Ditto Do .75 pr Do Do $2.25
5 Ditto Do .76 pr Do Do $3.80
2 bushels of buckwheat at .50 pr William Fenton $1.00
2 Do Do .52 John Colvin $1.04
Bees & hive No. 1 Bazil Nealy $2.00
Do Do No. 2 Do Do $1.57
Do Do No. 3 John Young $2.69
Do Do No. 4 James Powers $2.53
Do Do No. 5 & 6 empty Bazil Nealy $0.12
Old Sled James Dunkin $0.18
New Ditto Stephen Colvin $0.50
10 bushels oats @ .32 pr John Colvin $3.20
10 Do Do @.31 pr Thomas Nickles $3.10
10 Do Do @.30 pr Do Do $3.00
10 Do Do @.28 pr Do Do $2.80
3 bushels of rye @ .41 pr Do Do $1.23
Wind Mill Stephen Colvin $6.55
Wheel barrow Do Do $0.58
30 lb. of sugar @ .16 pr Henry Richard $4.80
90 lb. Do @ .16 1/2 pr Bazil Nealy $14.85
30 lb. Do @ .16 1/2 pr Thomas Nickles $4.95
one pair of hind geirs Stephen Colvin $3.00
One pair of fore geirs William Sampson $1.52
Plow Ditto Stephen Colvin $2.75
Fore Ditto James Dunkin $2.31
Collar John Rice $1.12
Brick barrels Stephen Colvin $0.56

 

 

Abstract of Vincent Colvin (Sr.) Will

Sep. 2, 1811
(Recorded in Will Book #2, pp. 359-362, housed in Washington County Courthouse, Washington, PA)


The above monies are not to be paid for three years after my decease except if it be convenient for my executors to pay sooner.
I order my executors to sell the land that I bought from Rich Baxter at Williamsport.
Son Stephen and James Hair listed as sole executors.
Witnesses--Joshua [no last name], Abrm. Hickman, David Norris, James Mitchell.
Will proved April 22, 1812.