This Bill of Sale from January 1930, details the transaction of all his possessions from my paternal grandfather, Alex Simms to his wife Mary for the sum of one dollar. No one knows what led up to this transfer but I assume Alex owed someone money and his possessions were at risk of being taken to pay the loan. By transferring these goods, chattels and effects to his wife, he kept them from the creditors until times improved. The circumstances don't really matter but the list of property owned by my grandparents in 1930 is fascinating! It has been a bit of a struggle to make out the handwriting and figure out what each item was and what its contribution to farming in the early days on the prairie was. The pictures were found on Google searches and may not be right! Please let me know.
- our bay gelding star on forehead
- our chestnut gelding stripes on face
- our bay team of horses, 2 bay mares stripes on forehead
- our gray gelding, our gray mare, our piebald gelding
- our bay gelding star on forehead, 1 gray gelding, our brown mare
- 10 milk cows, 4 heifers two years old, 9 yearling calves
- seven pigs, 100 hens
- J I Case 15-27 engine,
- our Deering Binder,
- our Massey Harris Binder,
- our Deering Mower,
- our 22 disc drill,
- 2 John Deere plows,
- Our Great West Plow,
- Our set 6 furrow harrow,
- Our Massey cultivator,
- 1 Roers Cultivator,
- 3 high wagons, one truck wagon,
- 3 racks, 2 sets of sleighs, 1 wagon box,
- 4 hp engine,
- our crusher,
- 1 fanning mill.
- Ford Car 1918 model,
- our democrat,
- several sets of Harness,
- a quantity of feed and ? ,
- all General Household furniture
It is certainly an interesting document from the past and I learned a lot about farming 86 years ago from writing this blog post!
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