Page:Economic History of Virginia Vol 2.djvu/184

This page needs to be proofread.

The York records disclose that there were an equal number of planters in that county who were in possession of silverware representing the same varieties. Thus the Hunt estate included a silver currel, one sack and one dram-cup;[1] the Croshaw personalty, a silver sack-cup, a silver tankard of the largest size, valued at four pounds sterling, perhaps equal in purchasing power to an hundred dollars in our modern currency, and twenty-four silver spoons.[2] Mrs. Elizabeth Digges bequeathed two hundred and sixty-one ounces of silver plate. Robert Booth left twelve silver spoons, one salt-cellar, and one silver tumbler.[3] In the estate of Richard Stock, there were thirteen silver spoons.

  1. Records of York County, vol. 1675-1684, p. 100, Va. State Library.
  2. Ibid., p. 33. This was Richard Croshaw.
  3. Ibid., vol. 1690-1694, p. 130.