SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - William Penn ----¤¤¤---- Know all men by these presents that we, Mary Penn and Thomas Penn are held and firmly bound unto William Smith, Edward Hampdon, Thomas Colien? & Thomas Towles, gentlemen justices of the Court of Spotsylvania County, now sitting, in the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds hereto the payment whereof will truly to be made to the said justices and their successors, we bind ourselves and each of us and each of our heirs Executors & Administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents.Sealed with our seals this day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one and in the eighth? year of the Commonwealth. The condition of this obligation is such that if the above bound Mary Penn, Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of William Penn deceased do make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods chattels and cridits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of the said Mary Penn and her same be made into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for her and the same so made do exhibit in County Court of Spotsylvania at such time as she shall be therein be required by she said bound and the same goods chattels and credits and all other the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased which at any time shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of the said Mary Penn or into the hands and possession of any other person persons for her do will and truly administer according to same? and further do make a just and true account of her notings? and doings therein when thereto acquired by the said Court and also shall will and truly pay and deliver all the legacies contained and specified in the said testament as far as the said goods chattels & credits will thereto estend? and the law shall charge then this obligation to be void and of non effect or else to remain in full force & virtue. her Mary X Penn (seal) mark Sealed and delivered ) in the presence of: ) Thomas Penn (seal) (there are no names here) In obedience of an order of the County Court of Spotsylvania to the attached? we the subscribers being first sworn have approved the estate of William Penn, deceased, viz: 1 chest £ 0:10:0 (balance forward) 67:19:0 1 saddle 1:10:0 1 bowl 0:01:0 1 negro wench named Cate 55:00:0 4 sheep 2:00:0 1 large looking glass 6:00:0 1 mare 18:00:0 1 bedstead 0:01:0 1 sorrel coalt 6:00:0 1 table 0:10:0 1 pay book 0:01:3 1 gun shot bag & horn 2:00:0 3 sto? bells 0:07:6 1 trunk 0:07:6 _________ 1 pewter? bucket & stock l:17:6 £ 84:08:9 bucket & shoe bucket ________ 67:19:1 Given under our hands this 29th day of December 1781. Nathan Hawkins William Pemberton John Milkam? Williams? Source: Library of Virginia Will Book E, 1772-1798 Spotsylvania Co, Reel 28, page 428 Note: Spelling is as appeared on the original. Paragraphing added by transcriber for ease in reading. Numbers may not add properly due to my inability to decipher some of the handwriting. Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Von Mings Stachon, vonstac@comcast.net Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm