What $550 Bought in 1828

I'm in the midst of analyzing a lot of records for a report. I came across an interesting chattel deed from 1828. Here's a list of what $550 could buy in 1828 in northeast Mississippi:

• negro boy Harry (age 24)
• one sorrell horse
• one clock
• two feather beds and furniture
• 8 head of cattle
• 30 head of hogs
• one woman’s saddle
• one man’s saddle
• 8 chairs
• 2 pots
• 2 ovens
• one skillet
• 3 pails
• one washing tub
• 3 tin pans
• 2 tin buckets
• 12 plates
• one desk
• one set of tea cups and saucers
• 2 glass pitchers
• one trunk
• one band box
• one sugar box
• one looking glass
• one set of knives and forks
• one loom
• 3 bedsteads
• one table
• one spinning wheel
• one pair cotton cards
• 2 bottles