Person:William Bolling (8)

Name	William Bolling
Alt Name	William Bowling
Alt Name	William Bolding
Gender	Male
Alt Birth`^?`	Abt 1707	of Orange County, VA
Birth`^?`	1709	Virginia
Marriage	1735	Virginiato Anne Sims
Death`^?`	Bef 23 Apr 1772	Orange County, Virginia[Estate Administration]

1 Land Records
2 Estate Records
3 Records in Virginia
4 Notes

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Land Records

Bk 12 pg 67-68 24 Aug 1749 between George Taylor, Gent., (OC) and William Bowling (same) in consideration of covenants, hath granted to farm lett - one plantation cont. 57 acres, formerly belonging to William Donathan on which Francis Hensley lately lived. To hold during the natural lives of the said William Bowling, Anne, his wife, and Samuel Bowling, his son or longest liver paying on 5 Dec 500 pbs of Tobacco, also every year, first day of Feb, one fat hen, Capon or pullett, and delivering it at the dwelling house of George Taylor... sgd. Geo. Taylor Wit: Matthew Hubbard, William Isbell. Rec 28 Nov 1751

Deed Book 12, pp. 67-68, Orange County, VA, August 24, 1749. George Taylor, Gent. of Orange County leased 57 acres to William Bowling, his heirs, Exrs. and Adms. for and during the natural lives of him the said William Bowling, Ann his wife and Samuel Bowling, his son and the longest liver of them. (1) The rent to be paid for 500 lbs. tobacco cash on Fredericksburg Warehouse on (each) fifth day of December. (2) One fat hen or pullet delivered on each 1st day of February to the home of the sd. Geo. Taylor. (3) 100 additional pounds of tobacco for each tithable kept by Wm. Bowling & his children. (4) Wm. Bowling shall cause 100 apple trees to be planted in an orchard within three years of date of this lease and will keep the same well cultivated and within a good fence. Wit.: Matthew Hubbard, William Isbell Recorded: Thursday, Nov. 28, 1751.

Orange County, VA. Deed Book 12, page 160: William Sims and Annister Sims, his wife, of St. Thomas Parish, Orange County, Planter, to William Bolling of same co. and Parish, Planter, for #19 current money of Virginia, 300 acres on a branch of the Pamunky River granted by Patent March, 1736 to Richard Kemp...Kemp to William McDonaugh by deed July, 1741...by deed to Richard Sims, deceased, father to William Sims. Wit., Zachery Taylor, John Cave, William Bickers. Recorded June 28, 1753.

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Estate Records

Orange County, VA. Order Book 8, page 175: At a court held April 23, 1772, John Bowling granted administration of Estate of William Bowling, deceased, whereupon he with Samuel Brockman, Jr., John Atkins and Conyers White, his security, entered into and acknowledged their bond for the same in the sum of £500.

Orange County, VA. Order Book 8, page 256: At a court held May 28, 1773: Andrew Shepard & Co. vs John Bowling, Adm. of William Bowling, deceased. This day came the plaintiffs, by their attorney, and the said John Bowling, eldest son and heir of his deceased father, William Bowling, by a note under his hand confessed to the complainants bill. Judgement Granted.

Estate Inventory

Orange County Will Abstracts 1744-1778

pg. 93 (pg 449) Wm. Bowling. Inventory. 24 April 1772

To 1 cow and earling and bell 3.15.0

To 1 cow and one heefer & bell L3.17.6 to 2 cows & caves L9.0.0 12.17.6

To 3 garling. L1.17.6 to 1sow & piggs 25/. to 10 hogs at 7/60 apiece L3.15.0 6.17.6

To 9 head of sheep L2.12.6 to 1 black horse L6.0.0 8.12.6

To 1 bed and furniture of cow hids 7.10.0

To 2 beds and furniture L 9.10.0 to 1 gun L4.10.011. 0.0

To poiuter dishes basons and spoons 1.14.0

To 2 bin pans 4/ to knives and fork & shem 5/6 0. 9.6

To 6 jugg 7 bottles 1 spice martes of pepet 0.15.6

To 1 box iron of heaboct 5/ to 1 flex wheel 12/ to 1 mans saddle 5/ 1. 5.0

To 1 table & 6 chairs & 1 chest 12/ to 2 pices of hand leather 3neuheds 30/ 2. 8.0

To carpenters tools 7/6 to 2pot of hooks 1 frying pan L 1.6.3 1.13.4

To 8 book 15/ 3 water pacts 5/ 1. 0.0

To planters tools hoes a set of wedges 1.10.0

To 2 lydes cash 1 bell 64 geese of 2 tubs 1. 5.6

Pursuant to an Order of Court we the subscribers have appraised the Estate of William Bowling according to the above amount.

Stephen K. Smith

James Smith

Joseph Bell

At a court held for Orange County on Thursday the 28th of May 1772

This Inventory of appraisement of the estate of Wm. Bowling deced being returned is ordered to be recorded.

Test. Geo. Taylor Cth Cur.

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Records in Virginia

Orange County, VA - List of Delinquents for year 1737: John Boling, 1, Levy 26; William Boling, 1 Levy 26.

Orange County VA Road Orders 1750 - 1800; P. 40 23 Oct. 1755 N.S. p. 180 Ordered that Richard Woolfolk overseer& have following persons .... William Bolling...

Orange County, VA - List of Delinquents for year 1758 Willm Bolling [X] 2

Orange County, VA - Judgement Sept 1759, W. Bolling -3

Orange County, VA - Tithables 1764 - Wm Bolling, 2

Orange County, VA - Tithables 1768; William Boling, 2; John Boling, 4

Order Bk 7 Min Bk 1 - p. 310 23 May 1765 (mb p. 68) William Bolling being a Poor man being old & Infirm is excused from paying County levy

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Notes

In trying to explain the LONGEST LIVER contract used in Virginia, Ihave turned to Nel Hatcher ([email protected]). Nel is an excellantHatcher researcher and her pages can be found athttp://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/faq.htm. Her research has found the answer in the following answer shereceived:

Nel, I think you will see that the tobacco was paid once, not yearly.The hen is technically a yearly payment. The family made a one-timepayment - which might be the true value of land [rarely] or less. Thetenants are essentially buying use of the property, but not ownership.The lease and land can't be passed to heirs, therefore they pay lessthan the true value of a sale.

Every conveyance must contain "consideration". Consideration can meanthe value of the land, say 100 pounds, or "love and affection", or 10shillings, or 500 pounds of tobacco - whatever the parties agree on.In addition to the consideration, deeds often specify the quit rentthat attaches to the land. The fat hen is rent. *Rent* is the profitfrom land, paid in money, provisions, labor, etc,. [whatever theparties agree on] In this case, the hen might really have been givento the owner, but usually, the rent is a shilling, peppercorn, orIndian corn, which was never intended to be paid. The hen can becompared to paying "tribute" to the original owner, whether actuallypaid, or not..

The owner gets "cash up front". He does not give up the title orownership of the property, but gives up the "use of land", and allprofit from it. The leasee gets to use the land for a specific period.[99 years, 500 years, or for the life of the tenant, etc] . The tenantgets to keep any product, benefit, or profit from the land, for theterm of the lease. The leasehold estate ends with Samuel's death. Hecan't will the land to anyone. The land reverts to the heirs of theowner, George.

In this case, the land could be rich or poor. The individuals might berich or poor. Even wealthy people used this form of conveyance for anumber of reasons. For instance, some plantation owners wanted a pieceof land to house slaves near the fields they were working, which couldbe miles away from the big house. Field hands needed an overseer. Thisland could even adjoin another tract owned outright by the tenants [-I don't know if you have already researched the family, or not]. Theymight be adding to their estate, or needing Samuel to be near anelderly relative. [a lot of options here]

In legal discussions of leasehold, it is pointed out that the tenantsare often "friendly tenants", meaning they often have a relationship,by blood or friendship, with the owner. In a farm-let leasehold, theland is sometimes already destined to become the property of thetenants. Samuel might have a "future interest" in the land, if forinstance, he stood to inherit the land anyway. You can be sure that afamily of three couldn't live well on 67 acres, even if it were greatland. IF this was their only land, they could be considered "poor".This is especially true, since this was a contract with the owner. Ifthe owner died, the new owners didn't have to necesarily honor thecontract. Tenants were sometimes thrown off the land, which is whythis form of conveyance was usually between people who knew eachother.

"Farm" originally meant, "a leased or rented tract of land". Manors,plantations, tracts, were *owned*. Farms were only rented or leased,never owned. Lease, let, and farm, had the same meaning. Today, whenwe say, "I'm going to *farm out* this job to someone else", we mean weare going to let someone else take over. In this sense, Samuel'sfamily could have been doing George a favor - maybe Geogre leased, sosomeone else could "take over". I don't think you can judge the ages,quality of land or wealth of anyone, from this document.

The Valley Forge National Parks Authority states the the muster rollshown on the website does include a William Bowling died in 1778,cannot be the above William.

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