Pursuant to an order of York county court bearing date the 18th. day of May 1767 we the subscribers being first sworn did appraise in current money the slaves and personal estate of John Lester deceased as followeth.

To 2 draught steers & 5 cows 1 bull and 1 steer£21.0.0
To 2 sows 3 barrows and 5 shoats3.5.0
To 1 horse £ 5 1 cart and wheels £ 2 .107.10.0
To bed and furniture £10, 1 dd. £ 6, & 1 do. £521.0.0
To 1 table 20/ one chest 26/ 1 trunk 5/ 1 do. 2/62.13.6
To 1 arm chair 5/, 4 leather chairs at 7/6 each1.15.0
To 2 old rush chairs 2/ 3 silver tea-spoons 10/0.12.0
To 6 pewter spoons 2/ one dressing glass 10/ 1 brush and shoe thread 1/6 0.13.6
To 2 table cloths 12/6 a parcel of leather 30/2.2.6
To 4 sides of sole leather [...spi]nning wheel 10/1.14.0
To a parcel of [torn] one tubb 1/32.14.3
To 4 milk trays [torn] 16/60.17.9
To 3 pewter [torn] tubb 3/ some sugar 2/60.8.6
To 1 jugg 2/ [torn] & hooks 12/0.19.0
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To 1 old tubb 1/, 1 brass kettle 12/6, 1 table 2/0.15.6
To 2 pair of money scales 5/ 1 pair of large do 3/0.8.0
To 1 old spice mortar 2/6 one pair of steelyards0.5.0
To cross-saw and rest 10/ one set of iron wedges 7/60.17.6
To a set of coopers tools 30/, 2 old axes 3/ old iron 5/1.18.0
To 1 iron skillet and ladle 3/ 1 warming pan 1/3 tea kettle 7/0.11.3
To 3 baskets 2/ 4 broad hoes @ 3/ each 12/0.14.0
To 1 old meal tubb sifter and searce 2/3 5 meal bags 10/0.12.3
To 4 old hoes and 1 narrow ax 2/6, 3 old casks 6/60.9.0
To 1 pair of oyster tongs 2/6, parcel of unpick'd cotton 6/0.8.6
To cotton 2/ spinning wheel & card 5/ old box 7½d.0.7.7½
To 3 old tubbs 3/ an half bushel 2/6 wheat hogshead and 3 tubbs 7/0.12.6
To 1 case of knives and forks 5/ box iron & heaters 4/0.9.0
To 1 pair of fire tongs 1/3 spoon-moulds 5/ saddle 40/ brush 7½d.2.6.10½
To 7 barrels of corn @ 12/6 per barrel4.7.6
To a veal sold 15/ cash £6.18.67.13.6
Negro man Sampson25.0.0
Negro man Peter15.0.0
Negro boy George60.0.0
Negro woman Judy25.0.0
Negro woman [torn]40.0.0
Negro girl [torn]30.0.0
Negro girl [torn]18.0.0
Negro child [torn]10.0.0
£314.6.0

[Recorded] 15th [June] 1767

[The oath of the appraisors, Charles Hansford, John Dickeson, and William Moody, and the order to record the inventory are mutilated.]