SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY – ESTATE OF ALEXANDER ADKINS, 1784

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Page 608-609

Estate: Silence Adkins, Spotsylvania Co, VA (1784)

RE ESTATE OF ALEXANDER ADKINS, DECEASED

KNOW all men by these presents that we Silence Adkins & Reubin Young are held 
firmly bound to William Smith, Edward Herndon, James Lewis & Robert Hart, 
gentlemen, justices of the Court of Spotsylvania County now setling in the sum 
of two hundred pounds.  The payment whereof will & truly to be made to the said 
Justices & their successors, we bind ourselves & each of us our and each of our 
heirs Executors Administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents 
sealed with our seals this 3rd day of August in the year of our Lord one 
thousand seven hundred eighty four in the 9th year of the Commonwealth.

THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such that if the above bound Silence 
Adkins, son, Executor of the Last Will & Testament of Alexander Adkins on deed 
do make or cause to be made a true & perfect inventory of all singular the goods 
chattles & credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands, 
in possession or knowledge of the said.  Also under Adkins on or into the hands 
possession of any other person is has same for him & the same so made do exhibit 
the County Court of Spotsylvania at such time as he shall be thereunto required 
by the said court and the same goods chattles & credits and all other the goods 
chattles & credits of the said deceased which at any time after shall come to 
the hands possession or knowledge of the said Silence Adkins on or into the 
hands possession or knowledge of any other person or persons for him do will & 
truly administer according to law & further do make a true & just account of all 
his actings & doings therein when thereto required by the said court and also 
shall well & truly pay and deliver all legacies containing and specified in the 
said testament as far as the said goods chattles and credits will thereunto 
extend.and the law shall charge, then the above obligation to be void and of 
none effect or else to remain in full force and virtue.

                                                      Silence Adkins  (seal)

                                                      Reubin Young    (seal)
Sealed & delivered
in the presence of:

John Brock

                     At a court held for Spotsylvania Court
                              August 3rd 1784 

Silence Adkins & Reubin Young acknowledged this the above which is ordered to be
recorded.

                                 Teste

Inventory of the Estate of Alexander Adkins deceased:

To Roan mare                                        £ 10.0.0
To Do young mare                                      10.
To f horse coalt                                       5.
To 4 cows and calves                                  14.
To 1 bull £1.5.0 and heifer £2.h and 3-year old £3.....4.3
To 2 sheep & bell                                       .15
To 8 hogs                                              3.14
To 1 feather bed & furniture                           5.
To do & furniture                                      3.10
To 1 pair of stillards 10s                              .10
To 1 gun & o/?                                          .8
To 1 old chest                                          .3
To 1 sire? old Do                                       .4
To 2 pr of cards                                        .2
To 7-1/2 pound wool & basket                            .8
To 1 frying pan                                        1.6
To 1 flat iron                                         1.6
To 1 stone jugs & 1 stone butter dish?                 6.9

Source:  Library of Virginia,
Wills Book E, 1772-1798,
Spotsylvania County, VA,
Reel 28, page 608-609

Note: Spelling is as appeared in the original. Paragraphing was added by the 
transcriber for ease in reading. This document refers to the ninth year of the 
Commonwealth.  The transcriber believes 1784 was in the eighth year of the 
Commonwealth, unless they were on a fiscal year system.