Person:Mealy Whitecotton (2)

Records of Mealy Whitecotton

• Mealy Whitecotton - listed in Register of Overwharton Parish Stafford Co VA 1723-58

• 1724 TobaccoTender list from S side Potomac Creek to Lower End of Overwharton Parish; MEALY WHITECOTTON listed with son HUSBAND WHITECOTTON & TIMOTHY CARTY as tenders of 10,416 tobacco plants.

Estate Records of Mealy Whitecotton

July 11, 1733 - the inventory of the estate of MEALY WHITECOTTON, deceased, is entered into the court records for Stafford County, Va (Stafford County Record Book M, p238-9). It contains the following possessions. Assessments are in old English monetar y units - Pounds/shillings/cents.

A horse, saddle and bridle 4.10.0

One ewe and lamb 0.10.0

4 cows and calves at 30S 6.0.0

3 young steers at 30S 4.10.0

3 two year old heifers, 1 two year old steer 4.0.0

3 yearlings at 10S 1.10.0

5 hoggs at 8S 2.0.0

2 sows and 12 shoats 2.3.0

4 lbs pewther at 10S 1.14.0

2 basons and one old dish 0.4.0

one old broken pot and pothooke 0.0.6

A ladle, flesh fork, and tonghs 0.6.0

Some old iron and 1 old axe 0.2.0

A trunk and one box 0.12.0

3 bowls, 2 trays,and some trenchers 0.1.0

3 stools and two couches 0.1.0

A riddle and bind sieve 0.2.0

A fiddle and fiddlestick 0.5.0

A gun 20S and a sheep bell 0.11.0

Apair old wool cards and some shoemakers tools 0.2.6

4 bottles and some tannedleather 0.11.0

3 pails and 3 piggins and a deer skin raw 0.11.0

A coat, vestand breeches, old shoes and stokins 1.15.0

Some cyder caks and other lumber 1.0.0

2 old feather beds, bedsteads and furniture 3.18.0

1 raw hyde and a pieceof a hyde 0.4.0

3 hives of bees 9S and a plough 2S 0.5.6

After the payment and collection of debts, SARAH WHITECOTTON , his widow, then appears in court to sign the final papers on June 15, 1737. The estate is valued at the time at 37.5.0. There also appears to be mention of tobacco valued at 11 and 16 cents.

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Information on Mealy Whitecotton