10 Sheep | 1|18| 0 | 1 Soap Tub & 1 fatt dᵒ | | 4| 0 | 1 Cow & ? Yearlings | 1|15| | 1 Tobo hogshead | | 5| 0 | 1 Cow & Steere | 2| 0| | 2 Barrels 3 Hhd & 1 Tub | 1| 4| 0 | 1 Cow & Yearling | 1| 6| | 11 Barrs & 2 hhd | 1|11| 0 | 1 Cow & Yearling | 1| 4| 8 | 2 hammers | | 2|11 | 2 Heifers | 2|15| | 1 Reap hook & horse Collar | 1| 1| 6 | 1 bull & Steere | 2| 0| | 1 Cart & Saddle | | 2| 8 | 2 Sows & Pigs | 1|10| | 1 Whip Sawrest | | 1| 0 | 1 Stone Jugg | | 5| | 1 pr Iron wedges | | 5| 6 | 1 Sycamore Plug | | 4| 6 | 2 drawing knives | | 3| 0 | 2 Barrels & 1 hogshead | | 5| | 1 pr Traces | | | | 2 dᵒ | | 2| 6 | John Jackson | 7 Barrels & 1 hogshead | |12| 4 | Jacob Bailey | Giles Vick | ========================================================================================== [In the left margin] Thorpe Susanna Inv ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inventory of the Estate of Susanna Thorpe decd taken the 15th day of December AD 1794 ========================================================================================== 3 Head of Cattle, 2 feather beds & furniture, 3 Chests, 3 Small trunks, 1 small pine box, 1 pine Table, 5 Chairs, 10 Stone Jugs, 2 Pitchers, 6 Stone Mugs, 2 Safe, 1 Couch, 6 Pewter dishes, 13 plates, 3 dᵒ Basons, & 1 Poringer, 6 Table Spoons, 8 Tea Spoons, 1 Kettle & Tribet, 1 Copper Spice Morar & Pestle, 1 Sugar Bolw, ! Tin bucket, 1 Tea Pott, 1 Milk Pott, 3 delph punch bowls, 4 Iron potts & 1 Iron Kettle & 1 dᵒ Skillet, 1 Stone butter pott, 1 Tin pan, 1 Frying pan, 2 pr fire Tongs & 1 bread hoe, 1 Iron Pestle, 1 Pr Iron Wedges, 3 Axes, 3 weeding hoes, 1 hilling hoe, & 1 Grubbing hoe, 16 Glass bottles, 1 Glass Tumbler, & 1 Drachen Glass, 1 Looking Glass, 1 Pepper box, 1 Pewter ??? Gile Measure, 2 flax hackles, 1 /Linnen Wheel, 1 Wollen dᵒ, 3 pr Cotton Cards, 1 pr Woollen 1 box Iron & heaters, 1 Mans Saddle, 1 Womans dᵒ, 2 bridles 1 pr Toe combs, 1 hand bellows, 1 C????? 1 Tin funnels, 1 brass Skimmer, & 2 flesh forks, 2 Iron Pott Racks, 1 pr Sheep Shears, 3 Pr Sissors, 9 Table Knives & forks, 4 Reap hooks, 1 pr Stillyards 1 Pr money Scales, 2 Meal Sives & 1 Sarch, 2 bread Trays, & 1 bowl, 2 Chamber pots, 2 Tubs, 1 Pail & 4 Piggins 1 Cooper ???? howile?, 1 round Shave & Jointer, a parcel of old books, 1 Colt, 2 Candle Sticks & 1 pr Snuffers, 20 baskets, 2 Meal Stands, 4 large Stands 6 Cyder barrel, 1 pr Toe Cards 2 Carpenters hammers, 1 Lathing dᵒ, 1 Cork Screw, 1 branding Iron, 1 hanking wheel, 1 Cream pot, 1 Stone Pep?in, 6 Pheals, 1 pr Spoon Mold & Laddle, To £8 5 9 ½ in Cash (1 Wheat ???) ??? George Edwards At a court held for the County of Southampton the 8th day of January 1795 This Inventory of the estate of Susanna Thorp decd was this day return'd and ordered to be recorded Sam Kello Clk ------"------ ========================================================================================== [In the left margin] Darden Jas. Will ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the name of God amen I James Darden of Southampton county being weak & in a low State of health but being in sound mind & memory do make this my last will and Testament in manner following Vitz Item: I give unto my loving wife Ann Darden for the support of her self & Elisha Darden during her widowhood the following Negros Vitz Dorothy, Simon, & Charlotte all the house hold & Kitchen furniture & plantation utensils my sorrel horse named Starling Eight choice of the stock of my Cattle all the stock of my hogs except them which are to be fatten'd all my stock of Sheep One thousand four hundred pounds of fattened Pork, fifty five barrels of corn, half of my Crop fodder all my crop of Potatoes, Cotton all my pease in the hull four bushels of white pease & four Bushels of red pease all mt stock of Geese all my salt & flax all my Spirits except what may be made use of & all my sweetening of every kind provided ed should marry, I then give her during her life the following Negros Dorothy & Charlotte & her increase if any after her Marriage I desire Simon to be hir'd out and the money arising therefrom to be appropriated for the use of my son Elisha Darden and after her death my will and desire is that all the above mention'd Negros with the other property Viz Dorothy Simon & Charlotte should descend unto my son Elisha Darden to him & his heirs forever Item: My desire is that the land let me by my father should be sold for twelve months credit & the money arising therefrom to descend to my son Elisha Darden to him & his heirs forever Item: My will & desire is that my son Elisha Darden should be sent to school for the term of four or five years & then put to some trade until he arrives to the age of Twenty yers Item: My will & desire is that all the rest & residue of my Estate that is not before describ'd to be sold at my death & the money arising from to descend to my son Elisha Darden to him & his heirs forever Item: My will & desire is that if my son Elisha Darden should die without any heir that all all the above property mention'd to him should be equally divided between my Sister Julea Darden & my brother Jacob Dardens Children I hereby Nominate & appoint Jacob Darden Sen. & Jacob Darden jun. my lawful Exors to this my last will & Testament In Witness whereof I have fixed my hand & seal this 5th day of December 1794 Sign'd Seald & acknowledged } James Darden (seal) In the presence of } Robert H. Fisher } Stephen Pope } her } Zerobabell + Stacks } mark } At a court held for the county of Southampton the 8th day of Jany 1795 This will was prov'd by the oaths of Stephen Pope & Zerobabell Stakes two of the witnesses thereto & Ordered to be recorded / time being allowed for the Executor to qualify / And at a court held for the said county the 12 day of Feby 1795 And on the motion of Jacob Darden Jun one of the Exors Of James Darden decd who made oath according to law, Certificate is granted him for obtaining a Probat thereof in due form giving security whereupon &c. Sam Kello Clk ------"------