SUSSEX COUNTY ORPHANS COURT EXTRACTS 1770-1830 Compiled and Edited by Susan M. Chase Rebecca J. Siders Bernard L. Herman Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy University of Delaware Newark, DE 1970 1 ABBOT, GEORGE (child-Stephen/David/Sally/Ann) IJ-136 (1803) Cedar Creek Hundred ...two small houses in sorro Repare with twenty five appel trees in different places with seven hundred pannels of worm fence in sorro repair and the gardeen to cut log timber to repare the said fence and fire wood to rase his yearle rent with out waste... annual value £12.0.0 ABBOTT, WILLIAM (child-John/Sarah) L-241 (1814) Broadkiln Hundred On Sarah Abbott's Land ...one old dwelling House with tow Rumes in bad repair and fifty Seven Apple trees on decline and about four or five hundred Pannels of fence in bad repair... annual value $20.00 On John Abbott's Land ...One small field cleared and About four hundred pannels of fence round the same... annual value $10.00 ABBOTT, WILLIAM (child-Tabitha) L-250 (1814) Broadkiln Hundred ...a small clearing and About three hundred Pannels of fence... annual value $10.00 ABBOTT, WILLIAM (child-John/Sally) L-412 (1817) Cedar Creek Hundred John's portion ...eight acres of cleared land enclosed with a fence much out of repair and Surrounded with Swamp, there are not any improvements on it and the land Poor... annual value $8.00 Sally's portion ...fifteen or twenty Acres...under bad fence...one Old dwelling House in bad repair a few apple Trees,...North end of the House should be Weatherboarded with some half pine plank and some little repairs done to the sides... annual value $18.00 ADAMS, JOHN (child-Mary) L-331 (1815) Nanticoke Hundred ...one two Story House thirty four by eighteen feet, Cook House and peazza forty two by Sixteen, one Barn eighteen by fourteen all in good order and repair, one Stable, one Corn House, Still and Smoke 2 House in bad order out of repair, three thousand and twenty pannels of fence bad order, Nine hundred and fifty peach Trees on the decline, one hundred and fifty Apple Trees good order... annual value $200.00 ADAMS, JOHN (child-Andrew/John/William D./James W./George W.) L-333 (1815) Nanticoke Hundred ...One frame Dwelling House two Story thirty four feet by eighteen, Cook House and piazza forty two feet by Sixteen one Barn eighteen by fourteen all in good order and repair, One Stable, one Corn house Still House and Meat house all in bad order, Three thousand and twenty pannels of fence bad repair, Nine hundred and fifty peach Trees on the decline, one hundred and fifty Apple Trees in good order... annual value $200.00 ADAMS, JOHN (child-Andrew/John W./William D./James W./George W.) L-516 (1818) Nanticoke Hundred ...fifteen hundred and thirty five pannels of fence in bad repair... annual value $120.00 ADAMS, MANLOVE (child-Nelly) L-204 (1813) Northwest Fork Hundred ...one Single Story framed Dwelling House with a brick Chimney in good repair 16 by 20 and one old log house with a Brick Chimney in Very bad repair 16 by 20 and one Small Milk House in Bad repair and fifteen hundred and twenty Six pannels of fence in bad repair and Sixty five Apple Trees old and in bad repair... annual value $60.00 ADAMS, MANLOVE (child-Eppy Broom) L-275 (1814) Northwest Fork Hundred ...one old loged house fourteen by Sixteen with an earthen floor and in bad repair Also fifty eight Apple Trees and twenty peach trees with eight hundred and Seventy Seven pannel of fence in bad repair... annual value $28.00 ADAMS, ROGER E-[18] (1789) Northwest Fork Hundred ...a framed dwelling house, sixteen feet by twenty in good repair, an old kitchen twenty feet by fourteen in bad repair, a milk house ten feet by eight in midling repair, a stable twenty seven feet by ten in midling repair, two old corn houses, a log smoak house eight feet square, in good repair, a hen house twelve feet by ten in good repair, and a framed barn thirty feet by twenty in midling repair, and likewise two thousand three hundred and ninety two pannels of fence in midling repair... annual value £20.0.0 3 ADAMS, ROGER (child-Cannon) H-130 (1799) Northwest Fork Hundred ...A Framed Dwelling House 16 feet by 20 with a Brick Chimney in Midling Good Repair A framed Cook House 20 feet by 15 with a Brick Chimney in Midling Repair A framed Milk House 8 feet square between the two above house is in Midling Repair, A log Smoke house 12 feet by 10 in midling Repair a small log smoke House 8 feet by Square in Bad Repair Two log Stables 10 feet Square with an interval between them of 10 feet Square making in all 30 feet by 10 all under one Roof in Bad Repair, a Walled Garden in bad Repair [ ] Bearing Apple Trees & 259 peach Trees & 36 Chery Trees on the home plantation & 28 Apple Trees and 32 peach Trees on the Out Place & 3290 pannels of fence on the home plantation & the Other Out Place In Midling Repair, a Log House on the Out Place 14 feet by 14 in midling Repair... annual value £27.10.0 AKE, RILEY (child-Caty) K-443 (1810) Baltimore Hundred ...one old framed Dwelling house in midling repair, Two old framed Out houses, one Corn Crib, fifty Six old apple Trees, Thirty Seven peach Trees, Eight hundred and Eighty two pannels of worm fence about six good rails to the pannel... annual value $9.00 AKE, POLLY (child-Polly) K-214 (1809) Baltimore Hundred ...one old framed dwelling House in Midling repair, two old framed out houses One small Corn Crib Eight hundred and eighty two pannels of worm fence about Six rails to the pannel fifty Six apple Trees Chiefly old and decayed, Thirty Seven peach Trees, also we find but a small proportion of wood land... annual value $18.00 ANDERSON, JAMES (child-Theophilus/Walter/Peter/Frederick/William) K-464 (1811) Broadkiln Hundred 53 acres ...Six hundred and seventy three pannel of worm fence in bad repair... annual value $20.00 Baltimore Hundred 460 acres ...a framed Dwelling house Sixteen by twenty feet one Story with a brick Chimney, one Barn thirty by twenty four feet, there being about one hundred Acres cleared also about Seventeen hundred and fifty pannels of worm fence in very bad repair, also twenty five Apple trees & about two hundred and fifty Peach Trees... annual value $30.00 4 Broadkiln Hundred ...two Lotts of ground situate on the square at George Town also two out Lots in said Town on said Lots...one two Story framed House about Sixteen by fifty feet, one Store House One and an half Stories high Sixteen by eighteen feet, one granary one and a half Stories high eighteen by twenty feet one old granary one Story fourteen by Sixteen feet, one Kitchen one Story fourteen by sixteen, a smoke house, Carriage House and Stable, two Lotts inclosed with Ceedar Board & the other two with posts & rails all in good repair... annual value $110.00 ANGE, JOHN E-[19] (1793) Northwest Fork Hundred ...fifty old declining apple trees and one old dwelling house and wooden chimney in very bad repair, small garden very bad repair & two hundred pannel of old fencing in very bad repair... annual value £0.40.0 ANGE, JOHN (child-Nancy/Peggy) G-84 (1798) unknown hundred ...One log Dwelling House about 12 feet by 14 in very Bad repair Forty nine Pannels of fence in Bad repair Eighty apple Trees & one Sixth part of a Saw-mill in midling repair... annual value £6.0.0 ART, BAILEY (child-Hetty W.) O-261 (1827) Lewes & Rehoboth Hundred ...fifty acres of land in one tract, adjoining lands of William Harris's others without any building thereupon, enclosed by Four hundred Pannels of fence in bad repair... annual value $15.00 ...a tract of land near the deep valley containing fifty acres. with an old untenantable house there on enclosed with Five hundred pannels of fence in tolerable good repair... annual value $12.00 ...a house and Lot in Pilot Town... annual value $22.00 ...the grave yard lot on the Bank... annual value $4.00 ...one acre of marsh... annual value $1.00 5 ATKINS, DANIEL E-[4] (1787) Baltimore Hundred ...one good framed house, hipp-roofed, with a brick chimney, twenty feet by sixteen, not finished inside. - four hundred fifty six pannels of worm fence, five good rails to a pannel. - fifty five old apple trees and twelve old peach trees... annual value £5.0.0 AYDELOTT, JAMES (child-Samuel/Eber/Betsy/Polly/John/David/Ruth) H-186 (1801) Baltimore Hundred ...one frame house fifteen feet long and Eighteen feet wide the House much out of repair also we find seven Hundred pannels of fence thereon at about five good rails to the pannel forty two apple trees two Hundred and twenty eight peach Trees & eight Cherry Trees...the Guardian shall repair the Chimney in a good like manner and glaze the windows of the house & under pillow the House Sufficiently well with good bricks within the Space of Two years from the date hereof for which said Repairs we do allow her the sum of Four Pounds ten Shillings... annual value £3.0.0 AYDELOTT, JOSEPH E-[84] (1791) unknown hundred ...a tolerable good dwelling house twenty two & half by twenty but wanting some repairs, one old cook house wanting a new roof, and the brick chimney taken down and put up anew, and one old smoak house,..