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age, was valued at twenty-five. The appraisement in Middlesex ran from twenty to thirty shillings.
It was not until 1690 that flocks of sheep became objects of common observation in Virginia; previous to this, a saddle or leg of mutton was thought to be a much finer dish than venison, wild goose, widgeon, or teal.[1] In the last decade of the century the inventories reveal the fact that sheep formed a not unimportant part of many estates. In 1691, among the live stock of Samuel Hollier, of Elizabeth City, were two rams, five wethers, and seventeen ewes; Thomas Price, of this county, in the same year possessed
- ↑ Clayton’s Virginia, p. 35, Force’s Historical Tracts, vol. III.
