Agreeable to an order of the worshipful Court of York County dated the 17th day of October 1796 we the subscribers have met and appraised the Estate of Benjamin Lester in manner and form following
| Will a man £80 Sarah a woman £60 | £140..0..0 |
| Killy a woman and Child Harry £70 Pheaby a woman £65 | 135..0..0 |
| Suckey woman £60 Hannah a Girl £50 Tom a Boy £50 | 160..0..0 |
| Lucy a Girl £30 Humphrey a Boy £20 | 50..0..0 |
| 1 red Cow with a Star in her forehead | 2..10..0 |
| 1 black pide ditto £3.. 1 black ditto £3 | 6..0..0 |
| 1 Brindle pide Heifer £2..10 1 black ditto £3 | 4..10..0 |
| 1 yearling £1.. 1 young Red and pide Bull £2..15 | 3..15..0 |
| 1 small red ditto £1..10 1 red Cow £2..10 | 4..0..0 |
| 1 Red Cow and Calf £4.. 1 yoke oxen £12 1 ditto £10 | 27..0..0 |
| 1 ox £5 1 red Cow and Calf £4 1 Brindle Cow & Calf £4 | 13..0..0 |
| 1 black Cow with Calf £3..10 1 red & white Cow £3..10 | 7..0..0 |
| 1 Red & white Heiffer £2 1 Red ditto £2 | 4..0..0 |
| 2 small Bulls £3.. 2 yearlings 2..10 | 5..10..0 |
| 1 Sorrel Horse £18 3 Sows and Pigs £3..10 | 21..10..0 |
| 1 Sow £1 7 year old Hogs £6..6 | 7..6..0 |
| 1 Sow & Pigs £1..10/ 1 ditto with Pigs £1..5 7 Shoats £3..15 | 6..10..0 |
| 1 ox cart £3 1 walnut Desk £4..10 1 Round walnut Table 30/ | 9..0..0 |
| 1 Round walnut Table 20/ 1 Mahogany Tea Table 36/ | 2..16..0 |
| 1 Corner Cupboard 25/ 2 small pine Tables 9/ 6 walnut leather B Chairs 42/ | 3..16..0 |
| 1 Bed Bedsted and furniture £7 1 ditto and furniture £5 | 12..0..0 |
| 1 Bedsted and furniture £6 10 Butter Potts 26/ | 7..6..0 |
| 6 pewter Basons 11/4 Pewter Dishes & 8 pewter Plates 24/ | 1..15..0 |
| 1 Queen chancy dish and four Plates 4/ 5 Reep Hooks 5/ | .. 9..0 |
| 1 Table 4/ 1 Bed and furniture £4..10 2 Flax Hackles 20/ | 5..14..0 |
| 4 Chest and half Hogshead 30/ 1 oald Saddle & oald Gun 4/ | 1..14..0 |
| 1 five hundred Sclay 3/ 1 Flax Wheat 15/ 1 oald woms. saddle 9d | ..18..9 |
| 1 oald Trunk 3/ 1 ditto 2/6 1 Safe 19/ | 1..4..6 |
| a Parcle of oald Books 15/ 3 Stays 15 1 pair Scales & Weights 15/ | 2..5..0 |
| 1 Bellmittle Scilet 30/ 1 spice mortar & Pessel 6/ | 1..16..0 |
| 3 Pott Racks 18/ 1 oald Coffee Pot 1/6 3 Flat Irons 6/ | 1..5..6 |
| 4 Water Pales 4/6 2 spinning wheels 18/ 1 oald Bridle 1/ | 1..3..6 |
| a Parcle of oald Iron 12/ 1 dutch oven 3/ 4 Iron Pots 24/ | 1..19..0 |
| 1 oald frying Pan 1/6 1 grind Stone 8/ | .. 9..6 |
| 1 Loom 25/ 3 ox Chains 28/ | 2..12..0 |
| 2 ox yokes 6/ 1 pair Trace & Chains 8/ | ..14..0 |
| 5 Weges 15/ 2 oald Ploughs 5/ | 1..0..0 |
| 2 grubbing Hoes 6/ 1 pair Harness and swingle Trees 5/ | ..11..0 |
| 1 Roy Hyde 10/ | ..10..0 |
| £658..10..9 |
Harwood Burt
Robert Patrick
John T. Burt
Returned into York County Court the 19th day of April 1797
and ordered to be recorded
Teste
Ro: H Waller Ct. Cur.
Exd.