SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - Benjamin Britt (partial), 23 Jan 1797 --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- IN OBEDIENCE TO AN ORDER OF THE WORSHIPFUL COURT OF SOUTHAMPTON We, the appraisers have met and appraised the estate of Benjamin Britt, dec'd in the following manner and at the prices in form following this 23 day January 1797. One sow & pigs £3.0.0 corn by the barrel 20/, one stack of tops 24/ 5 4 " Blades by the hundred, 5/pease by the bushel, 4/6 a parcel of " 19 6 Turners tools 10/ One mare £6.0.0, one saddle 10/, one bed & furniture £4.10 13 " " One bed o/o £3, one parcel of chair fraims 5/ 3 5 " Four pewter plates, 2 dishes & one bason 16/, 2 bottles, 2 spoons " 18 " one plate 2/ 12 jugs 3/, 2 morters 2/, 1 piggen 1/3, 1 meal tub 1/3, 1 table 1/3 " 8 9 Pine chest 5/, one trunk 1/3,, one looking 1/3 " 6 6 One wheel & 2 ? cards, seed cotton 4/ lb " 11 " One slate 1/6, parcel of barrels 5/, book 3/, sugar box 2/1 " 10 " Knife box, knives & forks, bridle, leather & sheep skin " " 6 Two potts, one dutch oven, one frying pan, one grind stone 1 2 6 One skillet, one plow, two weeding hoes, one ax 3/, one hammer 9 " 12 9 One sturgeon hook & raisor 6/9, saw rest, sturrip irons of sipors? " 9 3 2 combs 2/6 One negro man Jerry 85 " " ___________ £ 112 14 7 Richard Worrell P.? Adamson? (I presume these names are the appraisers) Source: Library of Virginia, Will Book 5, 1797-1804 Southampton Co, VA Reel 17, page 133 Note: Numbers may not add properly due to my inability to decipher some of the numbers. There are slashes that may stand for shillings; there are markings that look like percent (%). A lot of unknowns. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Von Mings Stachon vonstac@comcast.net ___________________________________________________________________