William Hines, Jr.
1714-1784
This son of William Hines, Sr. (1690), and Elizabeth Gross Hines, was born between 1714 and 1717, and died about 1784. He was married to Rebecca Little, who is mentioned in the will of her father, John Little, dated October 29, 1739, and entered for record September 27, 1742, in Newport Parish, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. ...
The will of William Hines, Jr., is found in Will Book D, page 215, in the records of Sussex County, Virginia. It is dated February 4, 1779, entered for record February 19, 1784; and reads in part:
I give and devise to my son William Hines seven negroes Robin, Jacob, Peg, Judah, Cherry, Jenny and Tempe and their increase....
....to my son Allen Hines all the tract or parcels of land I have possessed him with and four negroes, Old Jacob, Ben, Jim and Little Patt and their increase....
....To my son Howell Hines all the lands I purchased from John Battin in Nansemond County, likewise four negroes, Jim, Moses, Agg and Little Cate and their increase....
....to my son Micager Hines one tract or parcel of land lying on the west side of Simmons Road containing two hundred and fifteen acres, more or less, likewise six negroes Ned, Tab, Atha, Little Kit, Sambo and Davy and their increase....
....to my son Booling Hines the land whereon I now live and part of an entry taken up by David Hines and bounded by a line of new marked trees to Simmons Road thence down the said road by a line of new marked trees to the lands whereon I now live, likewise four negroes Jeff, Peter, Hamshire and Phillis and their increase....
....to my daughter Elizabeth Mitchell forty pounds cash.
....to my daughter Anne Dixon one negro called Cate and her increase....
....to my daughter Salley Chappell two negroes Old Jimmy and Harry....
....to my daughter Susanna Hawthorn three negroes Old Patt, Doll and Little Nan and Anthony and their increase....
....to my grandson Cannon Hines Dixon one negro girl called Annica and her increase....
....I lend to Elizabeth Hines, widow of my son Charles Hines, the one fourth part of eight negroes, Kitt, Dick, Sam, George, Nan, Jimmy, Amy and Suckey during her widowhood, at her death or marriage I give the whole of the forementioned negroes to be equally divided between my three grandchildren Rhoda, Elizabeth and Patty Hall Hines....
....after my just debts, etc, my personal estate be divided between my three sons Howell, Micager and Booling Hines....
....my son William Hines my whole and sole Executor, and direct that my estate not be appraised....
....this fourth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine. William Hines, Jr. signed the will with his mark, witnessed by John Hines, William Hines and Salley Seward.
An inventory of the estate is found in Will Book D at page 587, and final accounts are filed in Will Book E, pages 348 and 404, in the records of Sussex County, Virginia. The inventory of estate indicates that William was a man of substance and, like most of our pre-Civil War ancestors, a slave holder, with numerous slaves listed in his will, and five more in the inventory. It is of some interest, to indicate how our ancestors lived, and what they had to own in order to conduct their rather independent lives as plantation owners. It is repeated here, with values of each item expressed in pounds, shillings and pence. The spelling is as close to the original as possible:
one negro girl named Jane 60-00-00
one do boy Drue 20-00-00
one do girl Gempy 55-00-00
one do man Jacob 100-00-00
one do wench Juda 75-00-00
two horses; two horses and harness 38-00-00
two horses 26-05-00
one black mare, one sorrell filly 32-00-00
one bay filly, one black horse 17-00-00
one yoak of oxen, fourteen head cattle 42-02-06
one riding chair, ten barrells corn 7-00-00
two sows, four shoats, 10 rawhide 4-02-00
one bushell peas, seven bushel oats 1-00-06
passell of old hoes and axes 0-08-00
two axels, a pair of wedges and a plow hoe 0-16-00
passell of planks, a ox yoak 0-18-06
two potts, a parcell of pewter 1-10-00
one spice mortar and pestle, barrells 0-11-06
thirteen barrells, one pott, tubb and pale 2-16-06
one ram, one bed and furniture 3-10-00
three beds and furniture, one looking glass 12-07-06
one desk, one chest drawers 3-10-00
passell of chairs, passell shot molds 0-15-00
passell of books, passell of earthen ware 0-10-00
five beef hooks, two gunns 3-03-06
one dearskin, one pair (illegible) 0-09-00
two candlesticks, one safe 0-06-07
three spinning sheels, two tables 0-08-06
one flax wheel, two flatt irons 0-17-06
two hackels, one loom, one slay and (illegible) 1-03-00
knives and forks, shott bagg and horn 0-02-06
one ginn, a pair of fire tongs, funnell 0-08-07
pair of hand iron, three yards of cotton cord 1-10-00
wearing aparell, one narrow axe 1-13-00
two gimlets, one curry comb 0-02-06
one sadell, one whipsaw, tea kettle 0-07-00
one pair flesh forks, bone (illegible) 0-01-06
one slay, two geese, one jugg 0-07-06
passell of cotton, passell of bacon 17-13-00
passell of fat 1-07-00
one side saddell, passell of hoes 1-07-00
one chest 0-15-00
