CULPEPER COUNTY – ESTATE: BENJAMIN STROTHER, 1763

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Estate: Benjamin Strother, Culpeper County, VA (1763)

Benjamin )
Strother ) Pursuant to an Order of the worshipfull Court of Culpeper, we
Inventory) the subscribers being appointed by the P (possibly for Culpeper)
           Court to appraise the Estate of Benjamin Strother, late, of the
           County of Culpeper aforesaid, deceased, & being first sworn 
           before one of our Justices for the said County have appraised the
           same in current money as follows:

           To A negroe woman named Bess                      £ 45  0  0
           To A negroe boy named Tom                           15  0  0
           To Another negroe boy named James                   15  0  0
           To A feather bed and bolster, and old rugg )       (faded out)
              blanket and part of old keels?          )            "
           To One old trunk                                        "
           
                                                       
Given our hands the 30th day of July and 1763.        G? Lightfoot? (faint)
                                                      John _____________(faded)
                                                      Richard __________(faded)
           August 18th 1763
           Returned into court & 
           ordered to be recorded.
                                                      Teste:
                                                      Roger Dixon, Cl.Cur.


Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book A, 1749-1770
Culpeper Co, VA
Reel 31, page 340