hundred dollars. This did not include the debts due him. The personalty of Jonathan Newell was appraised at £554; in addition, there was a very large sum due him in tobacco. The personal estate of Edward Phelps was valued at £455; of Mrs. Elizabeth Bushrod, at £355; of Robert Cobbs, at £235;[1] and of Francis Mathews, at £220.[2] The appraisement of the personalty of Major James Goodwyn amounted to £542, and of Mrs. Rowland Jones to £440.[3] The largest personal estates inventoried in York subsequent to 1690 were those of Mrs. Elizabeth Digges and Nathaniel Bacon, Sr. The first was valued at £1102; the second at £925, exclusive of live stock.[4] Passing to the personal estates appraised by order of court in Rappahannock, it is found that the records of that county, which are unusually voluminous, show very few that were notable in size. The three largest were those of William Travers, George Jones, and William Fauntleroy. The personalty of Travers amounted to 285,861 pounds of tobacco, or about £2382, a sum perhaps equal in purchasing power to fifty thousand dollars in American currency; the personalty of George Jones, to 108,308 pounds of tobacco; and of William Fauntleroy, to 30,828 pounds of the same commodity. Valuing a pound at two pence, these latter quantities represented all appraisement of £902 and £252 respectively.[5]
The most important personal estates in Lower Norfolk county in the course of the interval between 1650 and
- ↑ Records of York County, vol. 1675-1684, Vaulx, p. 390; Newell p. 142; Phelps, p. 175; Bushrod, p. 339; Va. State Library. The Phelps appraisement is exclusive of tobacco debts.
- ↑ Ibid., vol. 1671-1694, p. 130.
- ↑ Ibid., vol. 1687-1691, Goodwyn; p. 66; Jones, p. 381.
- ↑ Ibid., Digges, vol. 1690-1694, p. 217; Bacon, vol. 1694-1697, p. 281.
- ↑ Records of Rappahannock County, vol. 1677-1682, pp. 55, 74, 108. Large debts in tobacco were due both Jones and Fauntleroy
