1854, the settler’s wife, her husband sentenced to fifteen years for stealing sheep. Herein the official’s list of her possessions:
Two old tables, three old stools, two cooking pots of iron,
camp oven, tea kettle, frying pan, three dishes and a bucket
One dish had a cover
four plates, one cracked;
A cruet stand complete,
one salt cellar, one pepper mill
a clothes box, table cloth
table oil cloth,
a wool mattress
and EIGHT books.
One barrel, one auger, one adze
a handsaw, two knives, a grindstone
a plane, a spade, two axes, a jack plane
a square, ironwork
scythe and sickles eight of the latter
two hundred post nails
and fifty feet of timber
Eight ale and porter casks
fifty pounds of salt
She had three sows, one boar, twelve sucking pigs,
seven chickens, a cockerel
three “whippentines”?
and four small childen
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