Estate Inventory

The Inventory and appraisement of the goods and Chattels late of John Caulk late of St Georges Hundred in the County of NewCastle and State of Delaware decd made the 28th day of October 1812 by us whose names are hereunto subscribed –

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1 Negro Girl (Priscilla) aged 21 Years (Slave) $160

1 Do.  Do. (Lydia) about 4 Years to serve   $56

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Negro Girl (Mary Ann) child of Lydia aged 2 Y 10 Mo   $40

Do.   Do. (Eliza) child of  Do aged 7 Months   $25

Do.   Do. (Maria) child of Priscilla aged 4 Y 5 Mo   $50

Negro boy (George) child of Do. Aged 1 Y 5 Month   $50

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1 Black man Samuel for 1 year and 2 months   $70

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John Lum. Thomas Bird

Inventory. John Caulk. Feb’y 25th 1813

Oct 28, 1812

Newcastle County SS I Do Certify that John Lum and thomas Bird Nammed in the Within Warrant as appraisers Hath Been Duely Quallifed according to Law for the Purp[ose] Mentioned in said Warrant and Before Entering the Merrits of the Praisment on the twenty [eighth] Day of November Eighteen Hundred and t[welve]. Before Elisha Boldin

Delaware, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1676-1971, New Castle, Register of Wills, Catlin, Jonathan-Cavender, Thomas, 1881, Image 346

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Transcribed 27 Aug 2026 by Nancy Maliwesky