Brunswick County, Virginia, Wills: George Berry, 1782 Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mary Stickman Transcribed by Sharon Hamilton ==================================================================== Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== In the name of God amen I George Berry of Brunswick County being low in body but sound in mind and memory calling to mind it is once ordained for all to die do make this my last will and Testament. First I resign my soul unto God who gave it hoping for salvation through Christ Jesus, and my body to be decently interred at the Discrection of my Executors and as for my wordly goods I dispose of as follows here: Item I give unto William and George Berry my sons the plantation whereon I now live Except five acres to them and their heirs, forever. Item I give and bequeath unto my son John Berry five acres of my above disposed and excepted land Including his Shop to him and his heirs forever. Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Sarah Clayton a negro which named Nell to her and her heirs forever. Item I give and bequeath all the rest of my estate of what sort soever not all ready disposed of to be equally divided between my ten children that is to say Enoch, Betty, John, Thomas, Molly, Nancy, William, Patience, Patty and George Berry to them and their heirs forever. Item and lastly I constitute Enoch and John Berry Executors of this my last will and Testament revoking all other will or wills whatsoever as writings my hand seal this tenth day of September Anno Dom 1782 Signed and published George Berry (LS) before Joseph Lyell Gardner Sogner (his mark) Herod Vaugham (his mark) Brunswick County Court 25th of Nov. 1782 This will was proved by the oaths of Joseph Lyall and Herod Vaughan witness thereto and ordered to be recorded and upon the motion of Enoch Berry and John Berry the Executors therein appointed, and they having given bond with Security and taken the oath according to Law Certificate is granted therin for obtaining a probate thereof in due form. Teste Ead Drury Stith H.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inventory of the estate of George Berry decd 1782 November 25th Bond a negro fellow L75.0.0 Sam a negro fellow 80.0.0 Moses a negro fellow 80.0.0 Davie a negro fellow 75.0.0 Soloman...Do 50.0.0 Frank L60 her child L10 70.0.0 James a lad 50.0.0 Suckey/Suchey a girl 50.0.0 Edmon a boy 40.0.0 Judith Judith a girl 30.0.0 Judith an old wench 25.0.0 one mare L3 her colt L5 8.0.0 1 mare fole 65.0.0 1 bay mare 10.0.0 23 cows and calves 30.0.0 20 sheep at 5/ 5.0.0 70 barrels of carrots 10/ 35.0.0 1 bed and furniture 6.10.0 one Do 6.0.0 1 Do 7.0.0 1 old Do 2.10.0 227 of cotton in the seed a 4 3.19.0 2 flax wheels 1.7.6 2 slays and old harniss 0.7.6 1 brass desk lock 0.2.6 1 small trunk 1 pocket book 0.5.0 1 hamper basket 1/6 1 cradle 5/ 0.6.6 1 dish 30/ 1 box Iron heater 6/ 1 chest 25/ 3.1.0 2 pair cotton cards 10/ one pair opecticles(?) 2/6 0.12.6 1 large book the auther Burkett 2.0.0 7 old books 8/ a looking glass 12/ one pair money scales 1.2.0 5 earthen plates 5/ 1 punch bowl 4/ 0.9.0 1 sugar box 4/ one salt Cellar 1 1/2 1 Sheep shears 7 1/2 0.5.3 6 deep puter plates 8/ a parcel 8/ 2 dishes, etc. 11/6 1.7.6 1 bason 6/ 1 searse(?) 1/6 1 loom 12/6 1 cotton wheel 4/ 1.4.0 1 pot and hooks 8/ 1 Iron pestle 5/ 1 pot 4/ 1 frying pan 10/ 1.7.0 1 wool cards 2/6 1 dutch oven 1 large pot and hooks 10/ 1.16.6 2 earthen pans 2 Do pots and 4 cups 4/ 1 cotton wheel 4/ 0.8.0 3 casks and 25 of feathers 2.6.0 one 100 gallon cask Iron hooped 8/5 60 gallons Do 25/ 1.13.0 three 30 gallon Do 10/6 3 hides 17/3 plow hoes 5/ 1.12.6 3 hilling hoes 8/3 axes, 1 grubing can & some old lumber 1.8.0 eight eight pounds of Iron 4/ some gums with peas & beans 20/9 1.4.9 1 runlet 3/6 jug 2/6 1 bedstead w/ six reap hooks 7/6 1.3.6 1 bedstead 3/6 old pot 2/6 200 flax in stalk 25/ 1.11.0 1 hogshedd with flaxseed 4/ 1200 of Tobacco 12.4.0 2 plows 5/ 1 table 5/ 1 pail & juggin 4/9 1 brush 1/ 0.15.9 9 chairs 15/ 1 heckle 6/ some knives and fork 6/ 1.7.0 1 old pair of tongs 3/ 1 candlestick 1/ 0.4.0 9 old, 6 small hogs and 6 pigs 9.6.0 2 barrows 25/ 14 fatt hogs nett 1820 at 20/ 19.19.0 1 small stack of tops 7/6 1 Do of blades 6/6 0.14.0 4 sows and 19 pigs 4.7.6 50 feet stack of tops full of chucks, & 4 cocks of blades 9.0.0 1 stack of tops and blades 7/6 1 hide 12/ some wheat 15/ 1.14.6 1 harries(?) 1/3 1 g____ 40/ 1 ax 10/6 3 bushels peas 9/ 3.0.7 1 matt 1/3 1 cast 55/ 1 quilting frame 6/ 1 old cash 1/3 3.3.6 some flax in the stalk 5/ some nubbins 26/ 1.11.0 1 grubing hoe 1lulling Do 7/6 1 auger and hammer 2/6 0.10.0 2 saddles 1.11.6 1 reaphook 0.1.3 7 barrels of corn at 10/ 3.10.10 2 shoots 0.7.6 1 pair of wedges 0.7.6 855.15.1 -------- In obedience to the order of the worshipfull Court of Brunswick we the under written have appraised the estate of George Berry dec. Joseph Lyall John Ingram Moses Ingram Brunswick County Court 27th January 1783 This Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of George Berry dec. was returned by Enoch and John Berry his Executors and ordered to be recorded. Teste Ead Drury Stith H.C.