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1750 Essex County, Virginia Will Book 8, Part 2; [Antient Press]; Page 387
Essex County Sct. Pursuant to order of Court dated the 16th day of October 1750. We the Subscribers being first sworn before a Justice of Peace for this County appraised the Estate of JOHN ALLEN, Deced. as Followeth
3 Barrows 1 sow 4 of ten small hoggs £4.2.4 four shoats £16. £ 6.16.0
12 soop plates 15/12 flatt do. 16/ 6 flatt do. 7/ 27 spoons 6/ 2.4.0
301bs of new pewter a 3lbs old pewter at 10 3.10.0
6 new knives & forks 6/ five do. Black handles 2/6 0.8.6
5 jackleg knives & six old forks 2/6 0.2.6
9 cows & calves a 1/15 & 1 bull 20/ 16.15.0
2 heifers & 2 stears a 15/ one large cow £1.15.0 4.15.0
4 cows a 28/ 3 heifers one young stear at 2/6 9.18.0
2 yearlings a 16/2 2 potracks 16 1491bs of pot iron & hooks a 4d 4.17.9
1 frying pan 3/6 1 ladle and flesh forks 2/6 fire shovel & tongs 4/ 0.15.0
1 small brass kettle 3/ tea kettle 7/6 brass skillet & frame 2/6 1.15.6
1 iron pot & hooks 7/6 one still and worm £17.-.- one cullender Sr lanthorn 5/ 17.12.6
1 tin mugg 1/6 one driping pan 1/6 two tin milk pans 4/ 0.7.4
7 cannesters 1 peper box 1 grater 2 funnels 5/ one w peper 2/ 0.7.0
1 p of spoon molds 5/ 2 box irons & heaters 8/ 1 currying knife & steal 4/ 0.17.0
1 p of sheep steers 6d mouse trap 6d old chafing dish 6d 0.1.6
1 p of hand irons 14/6 1 candle box 2/6 hatt brush 1/ 0.18.0
Sundry wareing cloaths & shirts £10.0.0 one bed bedstead & furniture 16.10.0
9 yards of strip'e Holland a 2/ 13 yards of check lirmin 1 1/3 0.14.0
23 q/2 Eus oz. a 1/2 one chest 10/ 1 large trunk & 1 small do. 12/ 2.9.5
1 case of bottles 10/ parcel of old rope 1/ 2 old boxes 1 stand 1 chair frame 3/ 0.14.0
4 Dozen glass bottles a 3d 12/ three stone butter potts 6/ 0.18.0
2 stone bottles 7/ 2 earthen butter potts 2/ two earthern bottles 2/ 0.11.0
2 white chamber potts 1/6 2 stone at mugs 2 small cream potts 2/ 0.3.6
1 bed bedstead & furniture £6.0.0 1 bed and boulster 46/ 8.0.0
Carried over
1 bed bedstead & furniture £6.0.0 1 warming pan 10/ 6.10.0
1 old blanket & sheat 3/ one new pr of cotton cards 3/ 0.6.0
5 pr old cards 3/9 old box and trunk 1/ four pounds of cotton 5/ 0.9.9
tubs. 3/ 0 small casks 12/2 2 old rum casks 6/ 6 tubs 3/ 1.4.0
4 tubs 3/ five piggens 5/ one bay horse £4.10.0 4 nanon axes 5/ 5.3.0
2 broad axes 3/6 two iron wedges 2/ one plow hoe 3/6 0.9.0
Coppers & carpenters tools 16/ shares & paint 1/6 0.17.6
Saddle & cloath & 2 bridles 15/ one side saddle 10/ 1.5.0
Cart wheel box'd 8/ one broad hoe & narrow do. 3/ 0.11.0
Parcel of old iron 5/ one old search & 2 sifters 2/ 0.7.0
2 spining sheels 3/ one cross leg'd table & 3 old forms 4/ 0.12.0
1 saddle & housing 15/ one old bed bedstead & furniture £2.10.0 3.5.0
Shoemakers tools 8/6 parcell table linen 38/ five towels 5/6 2.12.0
4 piller cases 7/ one Holland sheat 16/one cotton do 14/ 1.17.0
1 pr old cotton sheats 14/ one pr do. 1 linen 1 cotton 14/ 1.8.0
1 old homony sifter Sr 1 old broad hoe 2/ one gun 20/ 1.2.0
State file & pearcers 3/ 12 delph plates 12/ 4 china cups & sausers 6/ 1.1.0
3 bowls 3/ six cups & sausers 3/ one painted pocket bottle 6 0.6.6
1 stone tea pott 2 milk potts 2 sugar potts 1 tart pan 3/6 0.3.6
Parcell of stone & clay'd waire 5/ one dozen of tea spoons 0.7.0
1 silver spoon 15/ one qt & 1 pt decanters 3/ one glass can 2/ 1.0.0
2 crewetts Sr glass candlestick 3/ 3 glasses 1 tumbler 1 glass ladle 4/ 0.7.0
2 glass salts 2/ 2 pr old spectakels 1/6 one spice mortar Sr pestle 5/ 0.8.6
2 brass candlesticks & snuffers 3/6 one pr of bellows 5/ 0.8.6
1 pr shares 6d 8 old keep hooks 4/ branding iron 2/6 0.7.0
I smothing plain & chisel 1/6 one grindstone Sr iron axletree 5/ 0.6.6
1 hone 2 razors some thread 13/ six leather chairs 48/ one desk £4.6.0 7.7.0
1 old elboe chair 1/6 large ovel table £2.5.0 one small looking glass 2.14.0
1 small trunk 7/ six old Flagg chairs 10/ one flowerd table 15/ 1.12.0
1 square table 2/6 parcell of old books 12/6 one old leather chair 0.16.0
1 bed bedstead curtins & vallions & furniture £8.10.0 8.10.0
1 bed and furniture & trundle bedsted £4.15.0 5.0.0
Carried over
One chest 5/ 151bs of brown sugar 6/3 four pounds of single efffid sugr 5/4 0.16.7
9 1/21bs of talon 4/9 one tap bearer 1/ one brass cock 1/ 0.6.9
90 gallons brandy a 3/ £13.10.300 gallons of cider 4d £5.0.0 18.10.0
Parcell of cider casks 15/ two meal bags 1 cyder bagg 7/6 1.2.6
Half groce of corks 1/ two brass ink stands 1 cork soren 1/ 0.2.6
One servant Woman named JANE DICK 7.0.0
One Negro man BRITAIN 40.0.0
One Negro Woman PHILLIS & child 60.0.0
One Negro Man RADER 40.0.0
One Negro man GEORGE 35.0.0
One Negro man TOM TAYLER 38.0.0
One Negro woman DAPHNE & child 50.0.0
One Negro girl JANUARY 20.0.0
One Negro boy FEBRUARY 15.0.0
One Negro boy CEASER 21.5.0
One Negro man BOOKER 25.0.0
One Negro boy JOB 18.0.0
One Negro woman JUDAH 35.0.0
2 hides one cow & one stears 10/ 0.10.0
Att the Quarter called JUDAHS
1 iron pott & hooks crack'd 2llbs a 2d 0.3.6
1 hand jointer & cross 4/ one young gray mare & colt £6.0.0 6.4.0
1 black riding horse £6/0/0 old white mare & colt £4.10.0 10.10.0
2 cart horses £10.0.0. cart & wheels & harness 35/ 11.15.0
21 sheep £5.5.0 two tubs 2/ one bushel of beans 3/ three iron wedges 3/ 5.15.0
21/2 bushels of peas 3/ two hilling hoes 3/ 0.8.0
2 old broad hoes 1 grubing hoe 1 narrow axx 4/ 0.4.0
7 barrows 1 boar a 12/6 £5.0.0 3 large sows a 12/6 £1.17.6 13 shotes a 5/ 10.2.6
1 cow & calf 30/ one do 25/ five two year old cattle a 12/6 £3.2.6 5.17.6
Att the Quarter called AMBROSE ALLENS
1 chest 4/ one bedsted & furniture £3.0.0 3.4.0
1 peper box 6d one bason 2 old dishes 3/ parcel of beans & peas 5/ 0.8.6
1 old reap hook 6d iron pot & hooks 5/ frying pan 2/6 0.8.0
Carried Over
1 old cotten & harness 1 pigan 2/6 one plow hoe 1 broad hoe 2 grubing axes 0.6.6
3 cows & calves £5.5.0 one large cow 35/ one stear 25/ 8.5.0
2 heifers 40/ one cow and yearling 40/ 4.0.0
11 hogs £3.17.0 one large sow 15/ 4.12.0
3 old flagg chairs & 1 old forme 2/ 0.2.0
In Mr. JOHN LATANES possession
One Negro man DICK £45.0.0 one bed & furniture £5.0.0 50.0.0
At Piscataway Quarter
3 cows & calves £5.5.0 one bull 25/ four stears 6.10.0 13.0.0
1 stear 32/6 two stears £3.0.0 two stears £2.10.0 7.2.6
2 heifers 40/ two heifers 30/ two barron cows £3.5.0 6.15.0
16 bushells of wheat 48/ one bed & furniture £2.10.0 4.18.0
1 old gun 10/ one bushel of salt 2/6 four board hoes 3/ 1.0.6
Parcell of old iron 5/ one grubbing hoe 1/6 0.6.6
1 grindstone 5/ parcel old pewter 5/ one pott 12/6/03 1.2.6
1 small pott & hooks 5/ 1 frying pan 2/6 one meal bagg 2/ 1.9.6
2 iron wedges 4/ one narrow ax 2/6 one sigar 1 old sifter 1/6 0.8.0
2 bushels beans 6/ two old tubs 1/6 two tobo. hhds 5/ two old do. 3/ 0.15.6
1 sow & six pigs 12/ two large sows 24/ 1.16.0
11 hoggs £5.10.0 five large shoats 25/ 7 smalldo. 24/6 7.19.6
10 large pigs 15/ one small oar 6/ 1.1.0
1 hive bees one old pewter chamber pot 7/6 0.7.6
Given under our hands this 19th day of Ober 1750 758.1.6
ELIZABETH ALLEN, W. ROANE, T. WARING, Jr., FOREST UPSHAW
At a Court held for Essex County at Tappahannock on the 18th day of December Anno Dom 1750. This Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of JOHN ALLEN Deceased was this day returned & ordered to be recorded and is truly recorded.
Test JOHN LEE, C.E. Cur.
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1717-1722 Essex County, Virginia Wills, Inventories & Settlements, No. 3; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 196.
The will of Erasmus Allen was dated 26 January 1719. In the name of God Amen I Erasmus Allen being Sick and week in body but of perfect mind & memory blessed to be God for it I do ordain this my Last Will & Testament in manner & form following first rendering my Soul unto almighty God my maker stedfastly hopeing & believeing that through the Merrits of Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ I shall receive full pardon and Remission of of [sic] all my Sins and body to the Earth from whence it was taken to be buryed in such decent maner,
First I Give to bequeath unto my Son John Allen that peice of Land joyning to my Brother Wm Allen to him & his heirs for ever And the rest of my Land I Give to my Son Erasmus Allen & his heirs for ever only my wife shall have it dureing her life,
Secondly I Lend to my Loveing wife Dinah Allen my Three negroes & all the rest of my Estate during her Life and she shall pay all the Debts that is now due without any of my Children Estate or dismissing any of it, Thirdly I Give unto my Son John Allen my negro man named Guile & to his heirs for ever
Fourthly I Give unto my Son Erasmus Allen my negro Girl named Mill and to his heirs for Ever and if the negro Girl should have Children shall be distributed as followeth ye first to go to my Daughter Rachel Cheny The next to my Son Benjamin & ye next to my Son Joseph and the next to my Daughter Margreat & the next to my Daughter Dinah & the next to my daughter Barbary and the abovesd negro man & Girl Shall be due to my Two Sons John & Erasmus Allen after my wife decease and that the abovesd Negro’s Shall not be apaised [sic] with the rest of my Estate and my negro Woman Doll shall be Valued with the rest of my Estate and after my wifes decease to be equally divided between the rest of my Children Rachell Cheny & Margret Dinah Barbary & Benjamin & Joseph & if my wife Should marry my Children Shall be at age at Eighteen, I do make my wife & my Son John Allen Holy & Souly Executors makeing this my Last Will & Testamt. As Wtiness my hand & Seal this 26 day of January 1719” Signed Erasmus Allen. Wtinesses: Andrew his + mark Diar, Wm Allen. Presented in court 16 August 1720 by Dinah Allen and Jno Allen and proved by Andrew Dyar and Wm Allen. Recorded 16 August 1720.
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1722-1749 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Will Book A; [William Armstrong Crozier];
REEVES, GEORGE, Spotsylvania Co., d. Nov. 20, 1753, p. Mar. 5, 1754.
Wit. Henry Buchannan, John Crane, Theodore Monson.
Ex. brother, Thomas Reeves, Peter Copeland.
Leg. nephew, Thomas, son of Thomas Reeves;
nephew Henry, son of Thomas Reeves, my land in Essex Co., and if he should die without issue, then to his brother, John Reeves;
niece, Patience Ball, daughter of Joseph Reeves;
sister, Elizabeth Allen;
niece Sarah Attwood, under eighteen years of age and unmarried;
niece, Patience Gatewood and her sister,
Elizabeth Copeland; Mr. Peter Copeland, my sword, belt and silver cup;
brother, Thomas Reeves. Page 183)
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1722-1730 Essex County, Virginia Wills, Bonds & Inventories, No. 4; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 312-13. Will of Samuel Waggener in the County of Essex in the Parrish of Southfarnham, being sick and weak in body, dated 12 March 1728/9.
Unto my son Samuell all my land and plantation.
Unto my dearly beloved wife. Christian Waggener dureing her naturall life my whole estate. After her decease to be equally devided between my five children Lucrecy, Samuel, Price, Winifret and Temperance Waggener. If my beloved wife shall see fitt to pay any of them their part when they come of age. it is my desire she should.
My friend John Allen as an overlooker in my state afairs.
My beloved wife Christian Waggener exitor.
Samll. Wagener
Wit: John Allen junr., Benja. Waggener.
16 Sept. 1729. Proved by the executrix and by the witnesses.
Pages 313-14. Bond of Christiana Wagoner as executrix of Samll. Wagoner. Unto William Daingerfield, Sal. Muscoe, Richard Tyler jun., Thomas Sthreshly junr., Gent., justices. For £500 sterl. 16 Sept. 1729. Securities, William Allen and Benja. Wagoner.
Christana Waggner
Wm. Allen
Benja. Waggener
16 Sept. 1729. Acknowledged.
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1738-1742 Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 22; [Antient Press]; Page 168)
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that we GEORGE REEVES and FRANCIS ATTWOOD are held and firmly bound unto JOHN ALLEN his heirs in the sum of Twenty pounds Sterling Witness our hands & Seals this 15th day of July 1740
THE CONDITION of this obligacon is such that Whereas Judgment being this day given in Essex County Court unto the sd JOHN ALLEN & ELIZABETH his Wife late ELIZABETH REEVES agst ye sd GEORGE REEVES Exr. of the Last Will and Testament of JOHN REEVES deced in a suit in Chancery depending between the sd GEORGE REEVES Exr. of the sd JNO REEVES & the sd JOHN ALLEN & ELIZABETH his Wife the sd GEORGE REEVES had an appeal granted him to the Eighth day of the next General Court giveing security according to Law if therefore ye sd GEORGE REEVES appealant as aforesaid shall accordingly appear and prosecute the appeal at the sd next General Court & pay all Costs and fifty Shillings Currt. money or Five hundred pounds of tobacco which the Law gives in case he shall be Cast in the said appeal that then this obligation to be void otherwise to be in full force GEORGE REEVES
FRS ATTWOOD
At a Court held for Essex County at Tappa on the 15th day of July 1740
GEORGE REEVES & FRANCIS ATTWOOD acknowledged this bond to be their act and deed which on the motion of the within JOHN ALLEN was admitted to record
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1718-1721 Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 16; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 270-73.
20-21 Feb. 1720 [1721]. John Gatewood of Southfarnham Parish, Essex County, planter, to John Allen of same, planter. Lease and release; for £16 sterling. 50 acres being one plantation whereon I now live on the south side of Rappahannock River in Southfarnham Parish bounded on the land of Henry Reeves, Thomas Todd, Thomas Bell and John Cheek ...
John (J) Gatewood
Wit: A. Somervell, Wm. Allen, Jno. Byrom.
21 Feb. 1720 [1721]. Acknowledged by John Catewood.
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