LIBRARIES IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA; WM AND MARY QUARTERLY, V3N3, PAGES 180-182 Transcribed by Kathy Hay ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm LIBRARIES IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA SELECTIONS1 FROM THE RECORDS OF YORK COUNTY, BY THE EDITOR. XXI. The following inventory represents the total estate of Richard Winne, deceased (1645): lb Tob. Imprimis. A fixt-musket & shot bag 200 One owld suite of clothes, a babers case 4 verry owld Bookes, 2 owld fishing lines & 60 a hooke, Jurat in cur. vicessimo die Dec. 1645 teste me Ro: Bouth ________________________________________________________________________________ _____________ 1The county record books show a constant development literary, intellectual, and material. The wills and inventories of many of the more wealthy people were recorded in the General Court, and the records destroyed. Page 181. XXII. Inventory of "Ralph Watson, Clarke", taken 22th January, 1645, mentions cows, heifers, calves, hogs, pigs, dishes, a silke gowne, one black serge sute &c.; "Bookes that these p'sers will not prayse, but Mr Grymes according as it was ordered: Thirty greate bookes in folio, most of them * * * and old authors; about fifty bookes in quarto most of them being lattin bookes." XXIII. Inventory of George Hopkins, minister dec. taken the last day of October 1645: "His library of old bookes in a little smale * * * " Among debts paid by the administrator, Elizabeth Hopkins relict, is "Tobacco due Capt John West, Esq/, for diett 3 yeares - one yeare for Mr. Hopkins & one yeare for himself, wife and two servants." XXIV. Inventory of Mr. William Kellaway (1645): "Itm sixe little bookes" . . . . . . . . 0100 [Total inventory, 3530 lb. tob., money due the estate L181.16s.08d, and three servants.] XXV. Inventory of Thomas Deacon, "late of the psh of Yorke, deced.," taken by Mr. Robert Kinsey, Henry Lodie, Wm. Light & Lawrence Hulett. (1648.) A Bible, ye practice of piety, a testament & a small pcell of other bookes all old at . . . . . . . . . . 0060. [Total inventory, 19343 lb of tobacco.] XXVI. Will of Doctor Henry Waldron (1657): Bequeaths "all my Library and Bookes whatsoever in this country and my horse together with my chests of physicall means" to Capt. [Doctor] Robert Ellyson of James City Co. XXVII. Inventory of Major John Broadnax (1657): "14 bookes." His inventory, which is a very interesting one, amounted in tobacco to 6,361 lbs., and consisted chiefly of articles of wardrobe - 3 pr gloves, 3 broadcloth suits, perriwig, rapier, ribbon, slippers, cuffs, &c. He was probably a royalist, who had figured in the civil wars in England. His will mentions his eldest son Thomas, living in England on "Fair Church street" (London?), and son John living on "Gracious street," and gives "my Bible-booke also my Eare-Ring with a diamond in itt" to daughter Elizabeth Broadnax. XXVIII. Inventory of Lieut-Coll Thomas Ludlow (1660): "The bookes worth 250 lbs. tobacco, "a picture of Judge Richardson to the Waist," "one little chest wth some French bookes in it. [Total inventory - some articles not entered - L449.6s.5d and 113,686 lbs of tobacco.] XXIX. Inventory of Rev. Edward Johnson, deced. (1665): ffoure small pictures 6 pence; "The Bookes belonging to Edward Johnson son & Heir, - Mrs. Mallory for Mrs. Johnson 1/3 of them, - ye rest 3L. XXX. Paul Johnson's Inventory (1671): One new bible and 17 old bookes". Page 182. XXXI. Inventory of John Baskervyle, clerk of York Co (1674-5): "A pcell of English Bookes L3"; "a pcell of Latine Bookes L1." XXXII. Appraisement of the Estate of Capt. ffrancis Mathews, Oct. 26, 1675: "32 Bookes, valued at 1L 10s. [Total inventory, L220.19s.02, exclusive of 45 cattle, 3 horses, tobacco claims making 10445 pds and L6.12s in money.] XXXIII. Inventory of Dr. Henry Winter (1679): "New bookes" worth 300 pds tobacco. Total inventory 4045 pds tobacco, and bills due the estate 4804 pds. XXXIV. An appraisement of the Estate of Mr. Jonathan Newell (1679): "Bookes - 63 Bookes of several sortes, 6 pay Bookes, some large." Among the servants were "4 Turkes at L95". XXXV. "An acct of what Goods were left at Lawrence Hides at the time of his death &c. (1679). "1 new Bible, 7s.6d; 10 Bookes 3s". XXXVI. Inventory of Edward Phelpes' Estate (1679): L455, 17s, 5d. and claims amounting to 28124 pds tobacco, including "2 Bookes entituled pennance for sin 5s. 3 Bookes Bishop Loviday and Norwood 6s".