of John Washington, £377;[1] and of John Pritchard, £476. In addition, the personalty of the latter included in the form of debts due him £30 and 101,307 pounds of tobacco.[2]
The largest personalty appraised in Middlesex County by order of court was that of Robert Beverley;[3] it consisted of property amounting in value to £1,531 4s. 10d. To this sum, there are to be added the debts due him in the form of tobacco, 331,469 pounds, and in the form of metallic money, £801. This would mean that Beverley was in the possession of a personal estate that would be equivalent to £5000 at least, or in modern figures perhaps to about one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, rating tobacco at two pence a pound.[4] The personal estate of Corbin Griffin was valued at £1131, and that of Robert Dudley at £548.[5]
The personal estates appraised in Henrico previous to the close of the century were comparatively small. The personalty owned by Francis Eppes, who combined the trade of a local merchant with the business of planting, was probably as large in volume as that of any citizen in this county; independently of the value of the contents of his store, which at the least added as much again, it amounted to £302.[6] The personalty of Thomas Osborne was inventoried at £208;[7] of William Glover, at 23,500
- ↑ William and Mary College Quarterly, April, 1893, p. 145.
- ↑ Records of Lancaster County, original vol. 1690-1709, p. 16.
- ↑ See his inventory on file among records of Middlesex County.
- ↑ At ten shillings the hundred-weight of tobacco, or 1 1/5 pence a pound, the personalty of this estate would have been equal to £4537, or about $91,000 in modern values.
- ↑ Records of Middlesex County, original vol. 1698-1713, Griffin, p. 136; Dudley, p. 99.
- ↑ Records of Henrico County, vol. 1677-1692, p. 93, Va. State Library.
- ↑ Ibid., vol. 1688-1697, p. 350.
