Inventory of Michael Hagenbuch’s Estate

by Hagenbuch · Published April 5, 2016 · Updated April 5, 2016

Detail of Michael Hagenbuch's Estate Inventory, 1809

Michael Hagenbuch died in 1809 in Albany Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. He was born in 1746 and inherited the family homestead from his father, Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1711, d. 1785).

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Michael died without a will. As a result, a full inventory of his estate was completed in order to determine its value. Below is a full record of this inventory. Future articles will examine specific items listed within it and analyze their significance.

Inventory of the Goods and Chattels, Rights and Credits of Michael Hagenbuch of Albany Township in the County of Berks and State of Pennsylvania deceased. His estate appraised by us the subscribers 17th Day of April, 1809.

Signed Jacob Kieffer and Philip Braucher

Item	$	¢
one still	36
one still	20
35 hogsheads with one bottom	8	75
92 gallons of whiskey with the barrels	35
190 gallons of rye whiskey with the barrels	61	25
kegs and small tubs and trough	5	61
old iron	1	50
56 bushels of wheat	56
old barrels		37
crosscut saw, broad ax, twibil ax, shails	6	25
sledge, bar, iron, iron wedges, maul	4	50
six bushels of oats	2
one wagon	10
one wagon	60
two pair of ladders	3	50
two locking chain hand screw	4	50
gears for horses	12
chain, grubbing hoe, and tar pot	1
cutting box and sundries	1	75
mare	80
a mare	18
a mare	80
one horse	16
one mare	80
shingles	1
two plows and a harrow	7
apple mill, trough, and sled	4
160 bricks	1	75
potatoes	2	50
120 bushels of rye	80
windmill, forks, wagon cover, 1/2 dozen of brakes	5	50
two sieves, one barrel		75
cow chains and sundries	3
400 bundles of straw	16
augers, a square, shears, and sundries	1	50
four scythes, a draw knife	1	50
six hogsheads	6
two barrels, two tubs, and sundries	1	25
half hogshead, half barrel whole butter churned	1	50
half hogshead, one barrel	2	25
two barrels with cider ale and two empty barrels	13	50
two stands with hogs lard	2
two oil kegs, two bottles, small keg	2
one cow	12
one cow	13
one cow	7
one cow	9
one cow	7
one cow	7
one bull	6	50
heifers and oxen	32
three calves	6
one hog	5
nine hogs	13
four hogs	3
for plaster of paris and grindstone	15	50
for one shaving horse		25
two hatchets	3
two oil barrels and drum		75
musket and sundries	1	12
stove and table	13	50
stove	8
one watch	6
one clock and case	9
one table	2
one bed	5	50
one bed	5
one Bible	2	50
two books	2	50
three books	1
seven books		50
five chairs	1
lantern slate, a cut looking glass	1
one iron kettle and two iron pots	4
four frying pans, one pot	2	50
coffee kettles	1	50
lamps and sundries		50
buckets, earthen pots		50
dresser		25
seven pewter dishes	4
ten pewter plates	1	50
tinware		75
thirteen earthen dishes		50
eighteen plates	1
two dozen of pewter spoons		50
coffee mill, coffee pot, earthen cup	1
iron spoons and sundries		50
one wheelbarrow		75
two hoes and basket		25
old iron	1	50
25 pounds of tallow	2	50
one dozen knives and forks		75
seventeen yards of flax linen	5
14 pounds of tow yarn	1	40
raising butts and screws and sundries		75
wall and a chest	1	25
wall cards and a chest		25
one bed	2
bedstead and chest		50
one bushel and half of salt	1	50
dock trough and scythe		12
line		20
beehive with nails	1	50
spinning wheel		9
seven barrels each one head		50
shaving knife		30
four bushels of buckwheat	1	50
100 weight of gammon	7
nineteen bags	4	75
compass, rule, inkpot		75
stilyards	2	50
stove	14
table		75
tools for a tanner	1	50
give currying knives and sundries	5
seven shaving knives and shimmer	3
three stove plates, earthen pots, and sundries		87
table and a cut chisel and brush		50
about 150 feet of boards	1	50
100 feet of walnut boards	2
staves and shingles	4
leather	21
leather	9
leather	4	75
Spanish hides	107	56
twelve hides	18
razors and spectacles		75
30 acres of grain	87	50
9 acres of grain	8
4 sheep	6
book of debts	1121	61
one bond	266	67
in cash	118	28
	2812	65

Berks County

On the 19th day of April 1809, personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the justices of the peace in and for said county, Jacob Kieffer and Philip Braucher, who were sworn according to law and who both clear and say that they appraised the afore effects, articles by articles, as the estate and property of Michael Hagenbuch late of Albany Township deceased to the best of their understanding

Signed Jacob Kieffer and Philip Braucher

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above said

Signed Jacob Kimmel