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indebted to him for work which he had done in the course of his trade was Robert Booth, whose inventory showed an account in Kingston’s favor of seven pounds sterling.[1] Edwin Malin, also of York, was the owner of a plantation, having on one occasion purchased fifty acres.[2] Thomas Meders of Lancaster held landed property in White Chapel parish in that county.[3] Richard Burk of Rappahannock and Robert Wiggins and Thomas Wade of Northampton were also men of considerable means.

  1. Records of York County, vol. 1690-1694, pp. 180, 366, Va. State Library. Kingston, it seems, had been imported under articles of indenture by John Forrest. See Ibid., vol. 1687-1691, p. 170.
  2. Ibid., vol. 1675-1684, p. 423, Va. State Library.
  3. Records of Lancaster County, original vol. 1687-1700, p. 12.