Sale of the Goods of Margaret Riggs Orphan
Account of Goods sold at Publick Sale belonging to Margaret Riggs Orphan December the 7th 1749
Spellings have not been changed. - Do is the abbreviation for Ditto.
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William Marshall Richardson |
To 1 cow and Calf |
01.00.0 |
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William Marshall Richardson |
1 four year old Steer |
00.07.0 |
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Ditto |
1 Square Table, 1 Pair wool Cards |
00.02.6 |
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Ditto |
60 Gallons old Cyder Cask |
00.00.7 |
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Capn Mitchel Scarburgh |
1 Iron Pot |
00.11.0 |
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Andrew Stuart |
1 Pair Mill Stones 8/6d Ditto 1 hackle 15d |
00.09.9 |
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Jonah Belote |
1 Cow 20/6d. Do 1 Heifer 18/ Do 1 year old 5/6 |
02/04/00 |
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John Waltham |
1 Cow |
00.19.6 |
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Spencer Pratt |
2 Heifers |
01.00.6 |
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Littleton Scarburgh Major |
2 Bulls |
00.15.0 |
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Henry Gascoyne |
4 Sheep 16/. 3 chairs 22d |
00.07.10 |
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Thomas Hall |
1 Oval Table |
00.03.6 |
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Benjamin Stuart |
1 couch 10/6d Do fishing Line 4 hooks 1 horn |
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Cup 1 Gouge 1 cansister 1 Pair flesh forks 1 [-----] Candle Snuffers |
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Razor Pepper box 2/2d |
00.12.8 |
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Ditto |
1 Skillet 1 Bole 1 Rundlet 2/10d. ditto 1 old trunk 1 Drawing |
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knife 1 frow and hand [-----] 7/ |
00.09.10 |
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Thomas Kellam |
1 Desk |
01.00.0 |
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Richard Bayley |
6 Bottles 1 punch Bole |
00.01.9 |
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West Kellam |
1 old Loom |
00.01.8 |
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William Bayley |
1 old Cyder Cask |
00.01.10 |
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William Marshall Richardson |
1 Choping knife |
00.00.3 |
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Do |
1 Pot Rack 6/9 1 Woolen wheel 1d |
00.06.10 |
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Mitchel Scarburgh |
7 geese |
00.05.6 1/2 |
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Richard Kellam |
115 Gallons of Cyder Cask |
00.03.0 |
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Thos Teackle |
110 Gallons of Cask and 1 Square Table |
00.03.11 |
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Jonah Belote |
2 Casks |
00.02.11 |
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George Smith |
1 Gun |
00.03.6 |
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12/15/03 |
The above is a sale by Naomi Marshall Richarson Administratrix of Isaac Riggs with his Will annexed And William Marshal Richardson Guardian to Margaret Riggs and husband to the said Naomi.
Returned into Court December 27th 1749 & Ordered to be recorded
Truly Recorded Geo. Holden Clk
NOTE: Margaret Riggs was the daughter of Isaac Riggs who wrote his will 11 September 1742 (Nottingham). An abstract of his will reads:
RIGGS, ISSAC - 11 Sept. 1742 - 26 Oct. 1742 - To daughter Margaret Riggs plantation where I now live & for want of heirs to my bros.Watson & Benjamin Riggs. Witt: Ardrew Allen, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Mary Rodgers - Codicil: To mother her choice of 6 hogs, cattle &c. To kinswoman Elizabeth Smith. p. 402 In order of prob: Presented by Naomi Riggs, widow of the testator, who qualified.
Sources:
_____. Accomack County Wills &c 1749-1752:23, 24.
Nottingham, Stratton. Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia
1663-1800. (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1990).