========================================================================================== In the left margin: Evans Hannah Inv An Inventory of the Estate of Hannah Evans deceased taken 26 day of Feby 1791 =============================================================================================== ½ Dozen Tea Cups & Sausage, 2 Tea Pots, 5 Old Queens Plates, 1 pint Cup, 1 Tumbler, 1 Small Cup, 5 Bottles, 1 Bowl, 3 Butter Potts, 1 Milk Pan, 1 Salt Cellar, 1 purple box, 1 Safe, 1 Large Prayer Bool, 1 Pewter Dish, ½ dozen spoons, 3 Pewter Plates, 2 Dᵒ Dᵒ, 1 Pewter dish, 1 Pewter bason, 2 Small Dᵒ, 1 pʳ Cotton cards, 1 pair Dᵒ, 1 pʳ Wool Dᵒ, 1 Candle Stick & Stuffers, 1 Grid Iron 1 flesh fork, 2 tea canisters, 4 Rush Bottom Chairs, 2 Iron Pots & Hooks, 1 Small Dᵒ, 2 Iron Pot Racks, 2 Water Tubs, 1 Pott, 1 Piggen, 1 Small Dᵒ, 1 tray woolen wooden bowl, 2 Pine Chests, 1 Small Truck, 1 Case, Four Baskets, ½ Dozen Knives & Forks, 1 Old powdering Tub, 1 Meal barrell 3 Old Barrels, 1 pine Table, 1 Woolen Wheel & Spindle, a parcel of Seed Gotten, ½ of a raw gide, 1 Small Looking Glass, 1 Large Stone Jug, 1 Small Dᵒ, 1 Bed & furniture, 1 old Dᵒ, 1 Iron Skillet 1 Small Hatchet, 3 Cows, 1 Calf, 1 Small Steere, Half of a Small Yearling, a parcel of old books, 1 Common Prayer Book, 1 Sheep, 124 Pounds of Pork @ 2 Pʳ Lb, 3 Lb Spun Cotton, Leather for Two pʳ Shoes, 1 Small piece of Leather, 1 Sifter, Cash 19/- John Tho Blow Executor ========================================================================================== In the left margin: Helver John acc curr 1794 Estate of John Helver decd Dr In acct with Mary Helvey administrator ========================================================================================== „Paid Willm Urquhart his a/c . . . . . £ 4„ 10„ 6¾ By amt Sales of the estate £ 114„ 12„ 8 „Paid Doctr Irwyne his a/c . . . . . . „ 12„ 0 31„ 15„ 4¾ „Paid Lucy Ruffin . . . . . . . . . . . „ 16„ 9 Due the Estate ~~~~~~~~ 89„ 17„ 3¾ „Paid Charles Birdsong bond bale . . . 8„ 11„10½ her „Paid Benjamin Ruffin his a/c . . . . . . 4„ 11„ 6½ Mary X Helvey „Paid Joseph Vick . . . . . . . . . . . „ 3„ 0 mark „Paid Samson Stanton his a/c . . . . . . „ 12„ 6 „Paid Doctr Holmes his a/c . . . . . . 1„ 13„ 6 10 day of April 1794 In Obedience to an Order of the „Paid Miles Birdsong . . . . . . . . . . „ 5„ 8 worshipful Court of Southampton we the Subscribers „Paid Charles Briggs . . . . . . . . . . 2„ 5„10 have audited the acct curr of Jno Helvey's „Paid Sam Kello take Ticket 93 Tobb . . „ 11„10½ Estate & find it fairly Stated as above „Paid Robert Goodwn . . . . . . . . . . 1„ 14„ 0 Benja Ruffin „Paid Jno Simmons Shff is OK . . . . . . 1„ 16„ 2 Charles Buggs „Paid Henry Briggs Shff is the cat . . . „ 17„10 „Paid Sam Kello for recording the } . . . 1„ 11„ 2 At a court held for the County of Southampton the 13 day of „appraisement & this a/c current } Aprl 1794. This acct curr of the estate of John „Paid Charles Briggs Jur Shff a/c . . . 1„ 1„ 1½ Helvey decd this day was reported And ------- 31„ 15„ 4¾ Ordered to be recorded Sam Kello CC ========================================================================================== In the left margin: Jones Mary Will In the Name of God Amen I Mary Jones in parish of Nottoway & County of Southampton being in good health & perfect and sound mind & memory and as it is appointed once for all flesh to die I ordain this my last will & Testament in manner & form followeth first and principally I give & bequeath my Soul into the hands of the Almighty God who gave it & my body to the earth to be buried in a decent and Christian like manner discretion of Executor hereafter named and for what worldly Estate it hath pleased the almighty God to bless me with I dispose of as followeth - I give & bequeath unto my cousin Mary Williams two beds & furniture & 2 chest & one Woolen wheel & one spinning wheel& four pewter basons & for dishes & Ten plates & Two dozn of Spoons and one Coffee pott & three Porringers & Two Earthern boles & one pott & one frying pan and one Table & the remainder part of my state after my decease the same to her and her heirs forever ___ Lastly I do hereby appoint Elisha Whitney to be my whole sole Executor of this my last will and testament Renouncing and disanuling all other will or wills by me heretofore mention'd declar'd as Witness my hand and Seal this the 1st day of June 1783. her Signed Sealed & Delivered } Mary + Jones (seal) in the presence of } seal Joshua Whitney } At a Court held for the County of Sᵒton on 10 day of Apr 1794 This Will was prov'd by Jermina Hatfield } the Oaths of Jermina Hatfield & Ann Whitney two of the witnesses thereto and Ann Whitney } Ordered to be Recorded And on the Motion of the Elisha Whitney the Executor therein nam'd who made oath according to Law Certificate is granted him for obtaining a probat thereof in due form giving Security whereupon &c Sam Kello ========================================================================================== In the left margin: Harris West Will In the Name of God Amen I West Harris of the County of Southampton do this fourteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one fhousand seven hundred and nineth four make and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner following - I desire that there may be a line ?un from a pine thats the corner tree of the dividing line between me and Wm Harris to the Creek so far as it will take ten acres of Wm Harris's land to make up my 337 Acres ___ Item: I lend onto my wife Julia Harris the whole of my lands containing 337 Acres Until my son Hardy Harris arrives to the age of twenty one years to be given to him and to his heirs forever. I give and bequeath unto my wife Julia Harris one Mare Three head of cattle (her choice) one sow & nine pigs five Earthern plates, three pewter plates, one pewter dish & Bason one pine Table one pine chest one Feather bed and furniture one Iron pot & hooks one case of Knives & forks one tablecloth & two flat Irons ___ Item: I desire and direct the residue of my estate be sold a public sale to satisfy my just debts Lastly I do appointment my friends Henry Thorpe Arthur Applewhite and Jno Richardson Exors of this my last will and testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal on the day and year as above written Sign'd Seal'd Publish'd & West Harris (seal) declar'd in presence of his } Morris + Dunn } mark } her } Mabel + Dupree } mark } Jno T Richardson } At a Court held for the County of Sᵒton on 10 day of Apr 1794 This Will was presented in Court by Henry Thorp & Arthur Applewhite (The third refused) proved by the Oaths of Morris Dunn & Mabel Dupree the witnesses thereto and Ordered to be rcorded. And on the motion of the said Exors who made Oath according to Law Certificate is granted them for obtaining a probat thereof in due form giving Security whereupon &c Sam Kello ========================================================================================== In the left margin: Williams Issace acc curr Dr The estate of Issac Williams decd in a/c Current with John Davis admr ====================================================================================================================== Dec 1789|To tax on admr his estate | „|12| O |pᵈ Wm Crichlow at diff times his ????? } | | | | Jan 7 |pᵈ Shff his tax &c for 87 ^ ??? | | | |pᵈ 7„15„1 acct 3/9 } | 7|18|10 | |ticket of 136 lb of Tobbaco | 8|15| 7½|pᵈ Richd Yarbrough ???? division his estate | 3| 0| O | Jun |pᵈ Micajah Griffin for crying the estate | „|12| O |pᵈ Anselm Bailey his acct | 1| 1| 6 | |pᵈ Mary Moore her acct | 1| 8| 1 |pᵈ Shff taxes &c for 1788 | 7| 1| 8 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Received by the STP (go-stp.com) from Fenton Harrison on 3/13/23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------