NEW CASTLE COUNTY ORPHANS COURT EXTRACTS, 1770-1830 Compiled and Edited by Rebecca J. Siders Bernard L. Herman Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy University of Delaware Newark, Delaware August 1990 ABRAHAM, BENJAMIN I-1-291(1803) unknown hundred ...one old log house twenty by eighteen feet and one story in bad repair... annual value $60.00 (Spanish mill'd dollars) ADAMS, JOSEPH (child-Levi/Margaret/Mary) I-1-286 (1803) St. Georges Hundred ...a small log mesouage scarcely tenantable, a sawed log barn about forty four by twenty four feet in but indifferent repair - and about twenty old and scatered apple trees... annual value £25.0.0 AIKEN, FANNY/JOHN/MATTHEW ALEXANDER/ROBERT (minors) F-1-397 (1785) Pencader Hundred Town of Glasgow ...The tavern house storehouse stabling & an old Granary with ten acres of land & the lot back of the stabling all in good repair except the granary... annual value £73.0.0 ...two dwelling houses & stabling in tolerable repair... annual value £15.0.0 ...The house & lot on Sandy Hill the lot not fenc'd & no timber to fence it the house in very bad order... annual value £3.0.0 ...The house and eighteen acres where David Anderson lives, the house in bad order & not worth repairing. the fencing is in bad order & no timber to repair them... annual value £4.0.0 ...The house and place where John Cornish lives; the house in good order but no barn...the well in bad order & about twelve peach trees... annual value £15.0.0 ...House & place where Robt McMullen now lives. the house wants roofing the barn in bad order no land to be cleared thirty apple & peach trees... annual value £20.0.0 ...Levy Johnston...the smith shop in tolerable order... annual value £6.0.0 ...The house Kitchen & stable & garden & lot where Wm Glasgow now lives in good repair... annual value £12.10.0 ...house & lot...Wm Reddicks...the loft wants laying the well wants repairing... annual value £5.0.0 ...The house & lot & tanyard occupied by George Sanky in good repair... annual value £25.0.0 ...house & lot...Thos Morrow...the house in good order... annual value £7.10.0 ...house & lot...Wm Gaughy...the house in tolerable order... annual value £5.0.0 ...house & lot...widow Johnston...in bad order & not worth repairing... annual value £1.0.0 ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (child-Susannah) F-1-368 (1784) Pencader Hundred ...one dwelling house which wants new shingling, one Kitchen which wants shingling one smoke house one barn which wants new flooring & that there is two hundred apple trees... ALEXANDER, ISAAC (child-Isaac/Jane/Ann) G-1-49 (1789) Pencader Hundred mansion house £72.0.0 - Isaac Jr. plantation £36.0.0 - Jane, wife of Wm. Whann place (?) £36.0.0 - Ann, wife of Peter Williams ALEXANDER, JOSEPH (child-Elizabeth) I-1-690 (1811) St. Georges Hundred ...a Log House and Kitchen, said Kitchen wants covering, frame Granary, Carriage House, and Stable in good repair Garden in good repair Old Smoke House wanting covering an Old Apple Orchard about twelve Trees a Young Peach Orchard of fifty Trees... annual value $160.00 ...Also House and Kitchen with a Garden paled in with a Well of Water at the Door in the Village of Port Penn... annual value $45.00 ALEXANDER, JOSEPH (child-Rebecca/Elizabeth) K-1-44 (1806) St. Georges Hundred 140 acres ...a small log house and kitchen wich was weather borded by Guardian wanting a new ruf and chimney windows and dores repaired Yard and garden fenced in and a well dug and two sheds to be built along side of a Granery and corn house built by the Guardian...two old log tenniments not worth repairing and a small smoke house and twelve apple trees... annual value $60.00 Village of Port Penn ...a small frame house and kitchen on the corner of Stuart and Market Street...necessary to cover the said kitchen and weather bord it and [?] two rumes of said house... annual value £12.0.0 [Father--Joseph: 1804 taxlist "1 D. House, kitchen, stable, Corn Crib" also 1 town lot and house] ALFREE, JOHN (child-Eliza) K-1-44 (1812) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796*) Home or mansion farm ...dwelling house in excellent Order Barn wanting repair an apple Orchard of fifty nauturel trees and one old apple orchard sixty peach trees one granary tolerable repair, smoke house good - no stabling - kitchen wanting repair - an out house attached to the farm as a dwelling house wanting repair... annual value $226.00 Levels farm ...dwelling house is in a state of tolerable repair, the kitchen bad, corn crib new, Granary wanting repair... annual value $200.00 ALLEN, JOHN F-1-59 (1778) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796*) ...a brick dwelling house thereon in good repair except the hearth and chimney back, which wants immediate care an old Logg Kitchen Barn and Stable which (stands in need of some repair also) also an apple orchard and a Garden... annual value £50.0.0 ALLEN, JOHN/ROBERT (minors) G-1-85 (1789) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796*) ...one brick dwelling house and log kitchen the wall of the dwelling house much broke. the stone wall under the Kitchen broke away the logs sunk down as also a barn stable much out of repair...it is necessary to put a new roof on the barn and stable to repair the kitchen and house wall to put a sill under one side the barn there is also a smoak house in tolerable repair an old apple orchard... annual value £23.0.0 ALLEN, MARY E-1-67 (1776) unknown hundred ...dwelling house, barn and stable with about 80 or 90 acres of arable land, an apple orchard &c. in tenantable order... annual value £35.0.0 ALLEN, SAMUEL (child-Jane/Robert/Charles/Samuel) F-1-21 (1778) Red Lion Hundred ...a frame dwelling house wanting a joice in lower floor, the sills to be repaired a sawed log kitchen - an old log barn and stable, wanting three rounds of logs, and part of the roof to be repaired, there is also a round log corn crib, and smoak house, the latter of which wanting three logs, the whole of which we have ordered to be done - there are also two bearing orchards... ALLMAN, ISAAC (child-Mary) I-1-552 (1807) St. Georges Hundred ...a Brick Mansion House and Brick kitchen in good repair fraim double Corn House with Grainary between them and above in good Order and Shed Carriage - House adjoining but indifferent a large log Poltry House and a large log stable in tolarable repair a small log Barn in bad repair a few old apple and cherry trees...two log tenements one of which is a two story log House in bad repair the other small and little worth... annual value $300.00 ALLSTON, ABNER (child-Hannah Jenkins) I-1-415 (1805) St. Georges Hundred ...an old Frame Dwelling House, with a log kitchen adjoining the two in but indifferent repair - a log Granery with a new Oak roof and Gable and weatherboarded - Corn House of skelpt logs, roof ordinary - meat house of logs in pretty good repair - Old Milk-House of Brick, and Stone, but indifferent - Old frame Barn with sheds in bad repair - with a Young bearing orchard of Eighty Apple-tres, with a variety of Peach-trees variously dispersed... annual value £85.0.0 ALLSTON, ABNER (child-Hannah) H-1-291 (1796) St. Georges Hundred ...a frame dwelling house one and a half story a framed barn and log stable abought 60 bearing apple trees 20 young ditto the dwelling house wants the roof repared and weather bording and sealling upon the inside granary wants weather boarding and the roof patched the oven wants a new roof the stable to be repared the roof pathed a new floor in the same... annual value £25.0.0 ALRICH, DAVID/ISAAC/JACOB (minors) F-1-430 (1786) New Castle Hundred (David - 1798, 1804*) ... one dwelling house & kitchen and small orchard in tenantable repair... annual value £38.0.0 ALRICH, SAMUEL (child-Eliza/Mary/Sarah) D-1-284 (1771) New Castle Hundred ...the dwelling house on said lands near the King's road in the tenure of James Kirkpatrick & Wm Donally wants a new roof on the front side, the wall of the shed room to be built up, two fireplaces to be repaired and arched, a cellar door walled, & a door made, a new oven built, with sundry other repairs to make the house Tenantable. One stable, a garden wanting to be inclosed, a small orchard, a well wanting the wall raised a new curb. One dwelling house & kitchen in the occupation of Lydia Dunning in tenantable repair, a large orchard, a garden wanting to be enclosed, the wall of the well to be raised. One dwelling house in the tenure of Peter Gallocher in tenantable repair, and that the fences on the above mentioned premises are in tenantable repair... annual value £100.0.0 (including thirds of Lydia Dunning,late Alrich,widow of Samuel Alrich) ALRICHS, JOHN (minor) I-1-669 (1805) St. Georges Hundred 110 acres ...a Brick House and kitchen in A tenantable repair a Carrige House Stable and Corn-Crib with a few Apple-trees... annual value £72.10.0 ALRICHS, JONAS (child-Peter/Thomas/Sally Ann/William/Jonas) I-1-336(1804) Borough of Wilmington lot in Market Street, between Front and Water Streets ...a two Story Frame House and Kitchen...wanting considerable repairs... annual value $53.33 ALRICHS, PETER H-1-181 (1795) St. Georges Hundred ...that the mansion house wants repairing as followeth viz. a penthouse on each side of the said mansion house wants covering, a new porch in front wanting; five lights of glass in the parlor is wanting & twenty-eight lights of ditto wanting upstairs, & the cieling upstairs wants repairing; in the old part of sd house upstairs, there are four 12 light windows want filling with glass, two of sd windows want new shutters the other two want hanging; the chimney wants topping out; eleven lights of glass wanting below stairs in old part of house; also one door, two cellar-doors and jambs wanting. The old kitchen and weavers shop not worth repairing corncribs stable and chair house in tolerable good repair excepting doors for chairhouse which are wanting. A new paled garden, the well to be raised and a new kirb wanting; the smoke house in midling repair an old orchard of about forty apple trees in a decaying condition... ALSTON, JOAB (child-John/Thomas/Lydia H/Mary Ann/Hannah) K-1-119 (1814) Red Lion Hundred Mansion farm 250 acres ...a Brick dwelling house two Stories high and Brick kitchen adjoining a framed Barn with stables under and corn crib attached to same all in ordinary repair a draw well and pailed garden in good repair an apple Orchard containing about one hundred trees in thriving condition about Seventy old peach trees on the decline and a few other fruit trees of but little consequence... annual value $275.00 St. Georges Hundred 150 acres ...a log dwelling house one and half Stories and an old framed kitchen adjoining in tenantable repair, one old log barn and stables adjoining in bad repair, a spring house and draw well in good order and a pailed garden in good repair, an apple orchard containing about one hundred and ten trees in thriving condition and a few other fruit trees... annual value $190.00 ANDERSON, JOSEPH (child-James/Mary/Joseph/Samuel/Rebecca) D-1-241 (1769) St. Georges Hundred ...the mill dam broke in three places the mill-house wanting under pinning Floor cedar covering and sundry repairs... with fore-bay and mill-wright work at 60.0.0 to repairing the dam 60.0.0 to a pair of waste-gates 30.0.0 annual value £150.0.0 the plantation leased at £15/year two acres allowed to be cleared of the woodland annual value £15.0.0 the mill when in order as mentioned above with the dwelling house in good order the smoke house fowl house & stable do. with the land of swamp & Marsh thereunto belonging annual value £75.0.0 ANDERSON, JOSIAH (child-Mary/Rebecca) I-1-578(1808) Christiana Hundred 42 acres ...a small Stone House in good repair, a small log Stable in very bad repair, both logs and rooff nearly gone, likewise a small tenament in Midling repair, a Young Orchard of bearing Apple, Pear, and Cherry-trees... annual value $60.00 ANDERSON, WILLIAM D-1-366 (1772) New Castle Hundred share of land valued at £11.5.0 share of marsh or meadow valued at £7.10.0 ...a log barn with a cedar roof and plank floor, having at each end an old shed; also a small apple orchard. The Barn and Sheds are in bad repair, the fences on the premises in good order... ANGER, THOMAS (child-Mary) I-1-221 (1802) Christiana Hundred (1804*) ...one two story brick dwelling house in good repair, one old log cooper's shop much decayed nearly down... annual value $50.00 APPLETON, ROBERT (child-John H./Susannah) G-1-380 (1792) Appoquinimink Hundred (John - 1796*) ...one dwelling house in good repair one Kitching in bad repair one smoke house in good repair one stable in good repair a small apple and peach orchard... annual value £18.0.0 ...two dweling houses in bad repair no orchards... annual value £17.0.0 APPLETON, ROBERT (child-John.H.) I-1-472 (1806) Appoquinimink Hundred (John - 1796*) ...One old dwelling House and Kitchen in bad repair One smoke house in good repair... annual value $50.00 ...One old Dwelling House in bad repair no orchards... annual value $35.00 ARMSTRONG, RICHARDSON (child-Samuel) I-1-170 (1802) unknown hundred ...one old Log House with two Rooms below Stairs with two fier places in very bad repair Twenty Apple trees and no more...that the Guardian be permitted to build a meet House, a Corn Crib, a Stable, an Oven, a Poultry House, and repair the Dwelling House... annual value £30.0.0 ASKEW, LEWIS SAMUEL/GULIELMA MARIA SPRINGLET (minors) N-224 (1829) Borough of Wilmington lot on the Kennet Road - 2 acres ...a two storied Brick House and Kitchen in ordinary repair...a one storied frame house, with a small frame building separate from it used as a Wash house, both frame buildings are very much out of repair... annual value $100.00 BAKER, JOHN A./SAMUEL/ELIZABETH ANN/SARAH (minors) M-265 (1827) Borough of Wilmington lot between High and French Streets, running from Front to Water Street about 21 or 22 feet on each street ...a two story Frame house on Front Street nearly new not wanting much repair. - And on Water Street an old Frame Shed Building & Kitchen wanting much repair... annual value $100.00 BAKER, WASHINGTON (minor?) N-55 (1828) Pencader Hundred (?) ...one Log dwelling house weatherboarded, and occupied as a Tavern one Log stable a few apple trees the remains of an orchard, the Buildings in indifferent repair... annual value $75.00 BALDWIN, ELI (child-Eli/Samuel) G-1-152(1790) Brandywine Hundred Eli's estate ...the East end of the Barn and part of the Roof is in Need of Repair as also the Seller Dore and Wellcerb. Wee alow that a new roof on the frunt side of the Dwelling house is nessecaray, and as there is but two Apple Trees...Wee think that fifty Apple Trees of grafted Frieute wood be of Advantage...if planted in the Nor East Fieald... annual rent £13.00.0 Samuel's estate ...a new Roof on the Kitchin, an Uvin to bee built & fiftay Apple Trees planted in the Field laying on the East Side of the Lean that leads from...the Dwelling house to the great Road... annual rent £16.00.0 BALL, WILLIAM/HIRAM/JEREMIAH/JOSEPH JR. (minors) L-90 (1821) Mill Creek Hundred (Joseph - 1798,1804, 1816*) 116 acres ...one large dwelling house, part log and part stone, occupied as a Tavern, One stone Barn, stone stable and sheds, stone blacksmith Shop and spring house, one small log tenement, the buildings in tenantable repair, an indiferent Orchard...fencing in good repair... annual value $190.00 BALL, WILLIAM (minor) M-1-265 (1827) Christiana Hundred Village of Newport No. 1 - 24 acres, 6 lots ...a two story stone house nearly new 30 by 18 feet with two Rooms below and three above with Cellar complete, the East parlour of which wants 6 lights of glass in the Windows and two Doors to the Cupboard, The West parlour wanting one cubboard door, two windows and a trap Door wanting in the Garrett a stone Kitchen adjoining one and a half stories high 15 by 16 feet, a well at the door nearly dry a frame Barn 30 by 18 feet with stabling below in bad order...a garden and stable yard...fences very much out of repair a young thriving Apple Orchard of about fifty trees, together with some Peach, Pear & Cherry trees... annual value $60.00 No. 2 ...a two story Brick house 23 by 17 feet, two Rooms below and three above to which is attached a garden of about one quarter of an acre. Also a brick house adjoining one story high 23 by 20 feet, three Rooms below with a Garden of about a quarter of an acre. A Well of Water for the use of both houses adjoining - a Joiner's Shop contiguous about 16 feet square and a shed adjoining the whole of the last mentioned buildings in bad repair... annual value $35.00 BANTAM, AMELIA/BENJAMIN/JOSIAH (minors) I-1-295 (1800) St.Georges Hundred (Sarah Bantam's estate - 1798, 1804*) ...a house in good repair the fruit trees almost decayed... annual value £60.0.0 BARLOW, JOHN (child-Ann/Bathsheba) K-1-301 (1816) Appoquinimink Hundred (1782, 1796, 1804*) ...one log dwelling house one corn crib one stable all in verry bad repair... annual value $100.00 ...one log dwelling house and kitchen one corn crib all in bad repair... annual value $80.00 BARLOW, MARY G-1-339 (1792) unknown hundred ...one logg dwelling house a partition through the same plank floors above and below, two brick chimneys, one logg meet house one logg barn all the buildings in bad repair about twenty apple trees, some peach, damson and cherry trees... annual value £6.0.0 BARLOW, NICHOLAS (child-Ann) K-1-301 (1816) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796, 1804*) ...one dwelling house and kitchen one meathouse two corn cribs in good repair three store houses for grain (two in good repair and one in bad repair) one carriage house in good repair, one barn and two stables in very bad repair, one apple orchard and one small peach orchard... 21 acres ...one small dwelling house in reasonable repair one stable in bad repair one small peach orchard... annual value of both parcels $36.00 BASSETT, JOHN (child-Egbert) G-1-241 (1791) Appoquninimink Hundred (1782*) ...one old dwelling house out of repair, one good kitching, one good stable, one good corn crib, some apple trees, good peach orchard... annual value £30.0.0 BAYARD, JOSEPH A. (child-Edward) L-159 (1822) St. Georges Hundred No. 1 280 acres, 4 fields of 60 acres each tenant - Isaac Hanson ...fence in tolerable repair...a small frame dwelling house, adjoining to which is a log kitchen, one half of which...should be new roofed, there is a log Granary, log Meat house, log Stable, log Corn Crib all in bad repair small garden enclosed with an old post fence. A declining Apple Orchard with other fruit trees...about One hundred and sixty trees. A declining Peach orchard containing about Two hundred trees... annual value $325.00 No. 2 650 acres, 3 fields of 200 acres each tenant - E. Masden ...a small frame dwelling house with kitchen adjoining, Granary and two Corn Cribs all under one roof at the end of which is a stable and carriage house, also a small Meat house all in pretty good repair, also a small paled garden... annual value $500.00 minor has 1/10 share Pencader Hundred No. 3 115 acres, 3 fields of 75 acres each tenant - John Biggs ...a log dwelling house, weather boarded and log Kitchen adjoining, small log barn and stable, small log meat house, small garden, the whole in want of repair... annual value $90.00 minor has 1/5 share BAYARD, JOSEPH A. (child-Henry M.) L-160 (1822) St. Georges Hundred No. 1 400 acres, 5 fields of 60 acres each tenant - Henry Templeman ...a small frame dwelling house with log kitchen, a log stable, Granary with carriage house under the same roof, log Corn Crib, small meat house, the whole in want of repair, small garden with post fence around it out of repair, a declining apple and peach orchard, containing about thirty trees each... annual value $325.00 No. 2 & No. 3 - see Bayard L-159 BEESON, EDWARD (child-John/Henry) G-1-84 (1789) Brandywine Hundred ...there is a dwelling a barn and a shop all much out of repair, a draw well likewise which wants repairing the fenses also is all in very bad repair...we allow guardian to have the buildings repaired and fenses put in repair... annual value £40.0.0 ...an orchard on sd. land a plantation & a house and barn but the barn is much out of repair the fences likewise... annual value £34.0.0 BEESON, JONATHAN (child-Jane/Thomas) K-1-332 (1817) Brandywine Hundred ...one brick dwelling house & kitchen in good repair one small tenants house also a spring house with a dwelling over head one apple orchard... annual value $750.00 BELLACH, JOHN (child-Hetty Ann/Edward T./Joseph T.) M-42 (1825) Brandywine Hundred 70 acres - on Brandywine River tenant - William Thistletwait 8 acres of marsh on Cherry Island ...one stone Dwelling house, stone barn and milk house and one frame barn...fencing and building wanting repair... annual value $400.00 Borough of Wilmington lot on Orange Street 5 1/2 acres annual value $25.00 lot on Market Street tenant - H & E Hoopes annual value $12.00 ...1 Brick & 1 frame house on Shipley Street... annual value $100.00 ...One old frame stable on Orange Street (very delapidated)... annual value $5.00 corner of Orange and [ ? ] Streets ...Two old frame houses little worth... annual value $16.00 Brandywine Hundred farm at Naaman's Creek 50 acres ...one good brick house, frame stable one frame house and a large frame barn...in good order... annual value $280.00 farm at crossroads, Blue Ball Tavern near Hook 40 acres no buildings annual value $80.00 BELVILLE, JOHN (child-John/Mary/Thomas) I-1-285 (1803) St. Georges Hundred ...a dwelling house with a cellar underneath a wheelwright's shop in the garden on the premises stands a few fruit trees... annual value $50.00 BENNETT, JOHN/LYDIA/RACHEL/NICHOLAS (minors) L-203 (1823) St. Georges Hundred 118 acres tenant - Isaac Clevers 6 acres mapel swamp 12 Acres maple swamp ...a Log House, one Story & half high with Two rooms on the lower floor and a milk house attached, all in ordinary repair...fencing in tolerable order...a Granary and Corn Crib should be built... annual value $175.00 house & lot in Port Penn ...the house is a frame two story high with two rooms below and two above stairs, wanting sundry repairs to windows, doors, &c.... annual value $25.00 30 acres meadow on St. Georges Creek annual value $90.00 BETTS, BENJAMIN (child-Sarah/Benjamin) M-93 (1825) Borough of Wilmington lot on the North side of Broad Street, between Shipley and Orange Streets ...a two storied brick Messuage of about 20 feet front by 33 feet deep with a small one storied frame Kitchen...in Ordinary repair... annual value $80.00 BIDDLE, SAMUEL F. (minor) N-205 (1829) St. Georges Hundred (1804*) ...dwelling house, outhouses, fences &c...some of the fences have been made new since [1825]...about one hundred pannels of fence more are required...are all of Cedar Rails. - The outhouses are very indifferent,.. a granery of about Twenty by Thirty feet in size embracing two Corn Cribs is actually required a shed attached to the same building for a stable we would also recommend...no orchard...exception of seven or eight old apple trees. - The dwelling house does not require any improvements... annual value $165.00 BILLERBY, ISAAC E-1-47 (1775) Red Lion Hundred ...one log dwelling house with a shed on the back part and likewise at the end with a Seller under said house. one old log Kitchen one brick oven one meat house one corn crib one garden - one cart house one granary one log stable one chair house one log barn thre barracks one old granary one small orchard with about fifty trees one small tenement with an old log house thereon about five acres of swamp meadow...following repairs should be made we do order Door cheeks to the cellar and steps and as to the log kitchen we allow to be taken down the duftails to be cut off and put up anew covered with oak shingles - one upper floor to be laid with pine boards and a brick chimney put therein Doors Windows &c. that may be needful - the oven to be covered - the garden to be paled anew - the granary to be underpinned - the old one not worth repairing - the chair house wants some small repairs which we order done - the barn to be covered with oak shingles and the gavel ends to be weather boarded with oak, the log tenement in midling repair - there is on said tract one small peach orchard - the fences in midling repair...upon a further view and consideration of the shed on the back part of the dwelling house we think it will be necessary to cover with oak shingles... annual value £65.0.0 BILLERBY, ISAAC F-1-263 (1779) Red Lion Hundred ...to new roof the dwelling house with cedar, to make new cheeks and door to the cellar, to splice the sill under the back part of the house as far as is judged necessary & to case the two north & west corners of said house, as also to cover the front part of the roof of the granary with oak shingles... BINES, DR. ROBERT(child-Mary/Margaret/Maxwell/Thomas/Sarah/ Elizabeth/ Robert) E-1-64 (1776) Mill Creek Hundred ...one Ancient fraim dwelling House thereon with a Cellar under said House both in indifferent repair also a log Room and a log Kitchen joining to said House both in tolerable repair, one other old log dwelling House in tollerable repair, one old out House in bad repair, one old log Barn in indifferent repair, one Barrock with Stabling under the same in good repair, an Orchard containing about one hundred Apple Trees and sundry peach Trees, a Garden in indifferent repair . . . 4 fields--west side of Lime Stone Road 4 fields--east side of Lime Stone Road field--south side of Mill Road field--north side of Mill Road annual value £25.0.0 BLACK, MARGARET/MARY JANE/SAMUEL (minors) N-206 (1829) Pencader Hundred mantion farm ...a large brick Dwelling, a Kitchen, Smoke house &c. also of Brick and in good repair; a frame Stable, Carriage House &c. in tolerable repair, also a tenant House of log, a frame Barn, stables &c. in tolerable repair, also a large apple orchard of thrifty trees, a small peach orchard on the decline and the fencing in tolerable order... annual value $160.00 Village of Glasgow tenant - Samuel McRoy ...A small Tennament...in tolerable repair... annual value $20.00 Village of Glasgow ...a small tennament...in like repair... annual value $20.00 N.B.: examiners state that Margaret Black is now dead; having died in childhood, intestate, her share goes to her brother and sister N.B.:valuation for Charles Henry Black - N-206 (1829) - is identical to above BLACK, WILLIAM/ANN (minors) G-1-357 (1789) White Clay Creek Hundred (Ann - 1798*) plantation ...one log dwelling house and kitchen in good repair, one old smoak house and one old barn much out of repair...a few old apple trees... annual value £40.0.0 ...a small house and lott in Belltown...much out of repair... annual value £3.10.0 BLACKISTON, BENJAMIN (child-Elizabeth) I-1-531 (1807) Appoquinimink Hundred (1804*) ...One log dwelling House and Kitchen One fraim Barn Meet House Spinning House Stables and Corn Crib all in bad repair except the Barn One small Apple Orchard... annual value £55.0.0 BODLE, EDWARD (child-Edward/Margaret/Charlotte) L-242 (1823) Borough of Wilmington lot of land on French Street ...a two storied frame house with a Kitchen and a small shed...in a tolerable State of repair and inclosed with a board fence in good order... annual value $50.00 BOLE, BENNETT (child-George/Mary Ann/Bennett) K-1-235(1816) New Castle Hundred (1816*) ...a log house dwelling wether borded in good order a log kitchin in bad order a frame barn in good order one log stabel in midling Order one log meat house in midling order one spring house in midling Order of log - one log corn house wants a roughf...a apple orched plant about six years and just begin to bare 77 trees a fue ould apple trees... annual value $300.00 BOLE, MARY ANN/BENNETT (minors) M-195 (1826) New Castle Hundred (1816*) ...a frame dwelling house and Kitchen adjoining, a frame barn, log stable, carrage house, smoak house and spring house, verry much out of repair; an apple and peach orchard of sixty trees... annual value $150.00 BOOTH, THOMAS (child-Margaret/Elizabeth) H-1-85 (1793) St. Georges Hundred ...the kitchen being inconveniently and dangerously situated may be removed to the back of the old house opposite the back door thereof and the new addition of building made in consequence of former view to be painted ...the two sides and south east end of the barn want to be new weather boarded, a new oak roof is wanted on the granary with the north west and southwest sides thereof new weatherboarded. The barn granary and stable to be underpinned with stone twenty four pannel of pailing is wanted for the garden in the southeast end of the old house. Two window sashes and shutters wanting and front windows shutters of same wanting... BOSTICK, SAMUEL (minor) M-40 (1825) Appoquinimink Hundred 40 acres ...sixteen green apples Trees...One Granary, both floors very muchbroken and eat by worms, otherwise in tolerable repair, an old Cedar Corn Crib and a stable against the granary newly put up of sawed slabs... annual value $35.00 BOWMAN, CHARLES (child-Hannah/Susannah/Mary) I-1-610 (1809) unknown hundred ...a small Dwelling House, wanting a new Roof, Weatheboarding underpinning and a new sill, an Old Log Kitchen wanting a new Roof, sills, underpinning, and some repairs to the Chimney, an old Log Stable wanting weather boarding and which will in two or three years, want a new Roof, also an Old Corn House wanting a new Roof...about twenty five Old Apple Trees... annual value £25.0.0 BOWMAN, PETER (deceased) I-1-473 (1806) St. Georges Hundred 300 acres ...a frame Dwelling House and Kitchen in tolerable repair, a frame Barn wanting a new Roof, a frame Granary wanting a new roof on the east side a log smoke House wanting a new roof, an old Garden wanting new pailing an Apple Orchard of about two hundred trees and about sixty peach trees (scattering) and some on the decline... annual value £150.0.0 BOWMAN, PETER (deceased) K-1-20 (1811) St. Georges Hundred 296 acres ...a frame dwelling house and Kitchen thereon the house wanting a new roof, a frame barn in good repair, a frame granary and corn crib wanting a new roof, a log meat house wanting a new roof, a paled garden in good repair about one hundred and sixty apple trees in thriving condition and about twenty Peach trees... annual value $400.00 BOWMAN, PETER (child-Mary) K-1-98 (1813) St. Georges Hundred 290 acres ...one frame dwelling house and kitchen wanting a new roof to the house new floor to the porch and weather bording to the gable end of the Kitchen one log meat house wanting a new roof one frame granery in good repair one carriage house and corn crib in good repair one frame barn and shed the shed wanting a new roof and weather bording paled garden in good repair about one hundred and sixty apple trees in there prime a few peach and cherry trees on the decline... annual value $400.00 BOWMAN, PETER (child-Nancy) I-1-474 (1806) St. Georges Hundred 295 acres ...a frame dwelling house and kitchen in tolerable repair, a frame barn and log smoke house wants new roofing, also a frame granary the east side wants a new roof. Old garden that wants to be enclosed with new posts and pailing...a young apple orchard of about one hundred and twenty trees, with about forty young peach trees... annual value $400.00 BRACKEN, ADALINE/ELIZABETH/MARGARET (minors) L-57 (1821) Mill Creek Hundred ...a new stone House unfinished, a Kitchen in tenantable order for a small family there is no Orchard...some fencing will be necessary, and a Kirb and Windless put to the Well... annual value $38.00 BRADLEY, WILLIAM PATTERSON (minor) [father - Thomas?] N-205 (1829) Pencader Hundred 210 acres ...clear land is poor...a log dwelling house in good repair, a log Kitchen and Smoak house in bad repair, a log barn two log corn cribs, and two frame sheds all in bad repair - the fencing is in tolerable repair, an apple orchard containing about seventy five bearing trees, a paled garden in good order... annual value $200.00 BRIAN, THOMAS H-1-213 (1794) Appoquinimink Hundred (1804*) ...a small log building with an oak roof thereon unfinished and also without an apple orchad or any kind of fruit trees whatsoever... BRINCKLE, JOHN, late of Kent County (child-John/Anne/Mary/William/Charles) F-1-333(1784) White Clay Creek Hundred lot of land at Christiana Bridge adjoining land of Dr. William McMechen and land of George Adams ...a Brick Messuage, now occupied as a Tavern, and divers Out-Houses... 12 acres New Castle Hundred 24 acres land and cripple White Clay Creek Hundred BRINCKLE, JOHN (deceased) F-1-351(1784) White Clay Creek Hundred lot at Christiana Bridge ...a Brick House...in tenantable Order... annual value £37.10.0 24 acres of marsh annual value £24.00.0 12 acres New Castle Hundred annual value £9.00.0 BRINCKLE, JOHN (deceased) F-1-483 (1787) White Clay Creek Hundred lot in Christiana Village ...Messuage...Stable and other improvements... annual value £575.0.0 BROWN, JAMES (deceased) F-1-262 (1783) Brandywine Hundred 82 acres Borough of Wilmington lot of land on the east side of Shipley Street ...a brick Messuage or Tenement... lot of land on the west side of Market Street ...an old Wooden Messuage and frame Shop... total annual value £972.10.0 BRYAN, ANDREW F-1-11 (1789) St. Georges Hundred ...the dwelling house we find in good repair; one new log granary to the east of and next to the dwelling house we find in good repair also, the garden and pump also in good repair, a new log store house, meat house, smoak house, and end shade for a carriage all in one in good repair to the south of the dwelling house - one chaff and corn house next the barn of loggs in good repair, the barn with one stable at each end, in good repair, only each stable wants a door, one stable next the old saw mill dam in good repair, the kitchen next the dwelling house wants a new roof and some new side loggs, one hen house wants a new roof - about thirty old apple trees, a young apple orchard [over 100 trees], one young peach orchard [also about 100 trees]... annual value £110.0.0 BRYAN, ANDREW F-1-443 (1789) St. Georges Hundred ...the stable on the hill to be new shingled the granary underpinned the north side and east end of the cornhouse to be shedded or weatherboarded, the barn new roofed & two barn stables to be new covered, and the windows of the dwelling house ought to be all glazed... annual value £120.0.0 BRYAN, ANDREW G-1-238 (1789) St. Georges Hundred ...repairs are necessary...new cheeks and steps to the sellar, glass in all the sashes of the dwellinghouse, the granary to be underpinned, one of the shed stables [?] new roofed and the other repaired with new logs the corn cribs to be repaired in the best manner Wm Cole may think the cheapest and most convenient... BUCKSON, JAMES (child-Abraham) K-1-271 (1816) Appoquinimink Hundred (1816*) ...one log dweling one meat house one stable and corn crib all in bad repair a few fruit trees... annual value $60.00 BUCKSON, JAMES (child-Abraham) L-1-27 (1820) Appoquinimink Hundred (1816*) ...The dwelling House is of one story built of Logs and covered with oak shingles, and seems to require not only to make it comfortable but habitable a Roof, sills, a floor and repair of the gable ends. The Kitchen is a small hut built of logs but without a chimney a good cover, a safe gables. The corn Crib is of logs, destitute of a safe roof and without a door an good gables. The two last buildings have been erected by...the Guardian...The Orchard is old and declining with but a half dozen trees... annual value $75.00 BUNKER, BENJAMIN (natural child-Bantim/Elizabeth) H-1-291(1797) unknown hundred ...old House in bad repair the Fruit trees almost decayed...a new House ought to be built and an Orchard of fifty Apple-trees ought to be planted... annual value £45.0.0 BUNKER, WILLIAM (child-Levi/Jesse) I-1-508 (1807) Pencader Hundred 1/2 acre Town of Glasgow ...a single story log House in very bad repair... annual value $16.00 1/2 acre ...a small log House and a Taylor's shop...all in good repair... annual value $27.00 BURGESS, JOHN (child-Hester) H-1-130 (1794) St. Georges Hundred ...new flood gates are wanting and that the same Gates should be erected and the breach which was occasioned by the Storm of the fourth of July Inst. to be stopped as soon as convenient may be that the running Gears of the Mill which are considerably out of order be as soon as may be put in good Repair...all the old part of the Mill wants to be newly weather boarded except the West End which wants patching the North East end also wants patching, the underpinning of the South side wants mending and the Gully on said side to be filled up, that the dwelling House is in good repair and a small House adjoining the Garden in tenantable order that the Kitchen is in very bad repair & necessary to have something done to it as soon as conveniently may be that a new Stable is wanted and also a new Oven, that the Meat House wants a new Roof with three or four new Logs near the bottom of the same...that a small Bank or Mound should be erected beginning about Twenty feet North from the upper head to run a South East course around the East end of the Mill above mentioned that one pair of Bur Stones belonging to said Mill are in good order and a pair of Country Stones not anything worth... annual value £85.00.0 until repairs are made on land & dwelling house - annual value £10.0.0 BURGESS, PETER (child-Martha/Eliza Ann/George Outten/Sally Ann) L-1-28 (1820) Appoquinimink Hundred 230 acres ...an old framed dwelling House And log Kitchen adjoining, The dwelling house in bad repair; requires a new roof and some other repairs - The Kitchen in good repair, a granary, with shed stabling and carriage house all in bad repair, requires new roof and other repairs, a Smoak house and poultry house in bad repair requiring new roof - a framed Barn of little value, not worth repairing unless taken down and reduced to a less size - a Well Walled with Brick in good repair, a brick oven in good repair - a few apple trees and some other fruit trees of but little value, a pailed garden in good repair... annual value $200.00 BURGESS, PETER (child-George/Sally Ann M-193 (1826) Appoquinimink Hundred 230 acres ...a small frame dwelling house with a shed room attached; a log Kitchen; log granary two frames of shed stables, a carriage house and meat house all of which are in a state of delapidation. No orchard...A well walled with bricks near the door in ordinary condition; fence in very bad repair... annual value $160.00 BURGIN, JOHN (child-Sarah) F-1-75 (1779) unknown hundred ...one old dwelling house which we order to be new roof'd...the whole in very bad repair... annual value 50 bushels of wheat BURNS, PETER (child-Mary) K-1-301 (1817) unknown hundred 6 acres ...one small log dwelling house in bad repair... annual value $20.00 BUTCHER, ALEXANDER (child-Joseph/Sally Ann) I-1-690 (1809) New Castle Hundred Town of New Castle No. 1 house and lot on Market Street ...a two story frame house, and one story frame Kitchen with a lot adjoining and garden about thirty five feet...the house in good repair but the Kitchen in bad repair... No. 2 house and lot adjoining No.1 ...a brick and frame house...with a Kitchen, the house one story high about seventeen feet front on Market Street...in but midling repair and wanting a roof over oven... No. 3 a lot on Orange Street ...about thirty five feet front on said Street...whereon is erected a frame stable and chair house not in good repair... total annual value $120.00 BUTCHER, JOHN/WILLIAM/ALEXANDER/JOSEPH/SARAH ANN/MARTHA JANE (minors) I-1-477 (1804) New Castle Hundred Town of New Castle ...an old Brick dwelling House and stable, and a new Frame dwelling House situate on the westerly side of Market Street...which are in tolerable good repair... annual value $140.00 CABLE, DANIEL (child-Ann/John/Jacob/Daniel/George) I-1-158 (1801) Brandywine Hundred ...a log tenement with two rooms on a floor, two story high with a small log shed building adjoining Also a young orchard of about fifty apple trees - some of which are beginning to bear... annual value £16.15.0 CABLE, DANIEL (child-Ann/John/Jacob/Daniel/George) H-1-128 (1794) Brandywine Hundred ...one Log dwelling House in tolerable good repair a few young Apple Trees... annual value £12.0.0 [CABLE] KABLE, DANIEL (child-Ann/John/Jacob) H-1-350 (1790) Brandywine Hundred ...a log house out of repair with a small shop or stable adjoining with about 50 small appletrees... annual value £15.0.0 CALDWELL, THOMAS (child-Ezekiel/John) K-1-190 (1815) lot on Market Street Town of New Castle ...two small frame tenements and small old wheelright shop wanting great repairs... lots in Christiana Hundred lots in Village of Newport lots in Borough of Wilmington 102 acres Appoquinimink Hundred ...an old cabbin wanting a roof... total annual value $633.00 N.B.: Identical valuation for Betsy Caldwell K-1-191 (1815) CALDWELL, THOMAS (child-John/Eliza) N-226 (1829) Christiana Hundred No. 1 - farm near the Village of Newport bounded by land of Aaron Paulson, John Caldwell, and John Whiteman and the Newport & Lancaster Turnpike Road 100 acres tenant - Kendal Blizard ...a Two Story weather boarded loghouse (cellared), Twenty four feet long & fifteen feet wide, in tolerable repair except the roof which is bad - A frame stable twenty nine feet long & seventeen feet wide, in tolerable condition - A Barn, part Frame & part Stone, fifty three feet long & thirty six feet wide with stables beneath the same; in good repair - A log house part of the front weather boarded one & an half stories high, twenty four feet long & eighteen feet Wide in very bad repair...a sufficient Orchard, and a well of water to each house - The fences are in but tolerable repair... 3 lots of marsh - Conrads Cripple annual value $300.00 No. 2 - 1 acre lot in Newport bounded by Christiana Turnpike road on the North & lands of John Nebuker &c. ...enclosed by tolerable Hedge & Post & rail fences... annual value $5.00 No. 3 - 1/6 acre ...a frame shop thereon twenty five feet long & twenty feet wide, in bad repaire, as also the fences enclosing sd. lot... annual value $2.00 No. 4 tenant-Robert Smith ...A two story frame dwelling house...twenty six feet long & eighteen feet wide, with a cellar - to sd house is attached a brick kitchen, one & an half stories high, Eighteen feet long & twelve feet wide - both house & kitchen are in bad repair as well as the fences enclosing a garden back of the kitchen - there is a well of water in the yard...a frame stable, two stories high, twenty five feet long & twenty Two feet wide, adjoining the stable, two small sheds - and a corn crib twenty five feet long & eight feet wide, all in bad condition... annual value $33.00 No. 5 - lot on the west side of Tatnall Street Borough of Wilmington ...a Two Story brick dwelling house...Twenty four feet long & sixteen feet wide, in good repair except the roof, which wants repair; with a garden fifty feet in front & eighty four feet deep enclosed by good board fences... annual value $36.00 No. 6 Town of New Castle ...one old two story frame dwelling house thirteen feet long & twelve feet wide in bad repair, to which belongs a small enclosed garden a few yards back of sd house, another two story frame dwelling house eighteen feet long & fifteen feet wide; one side of which has fallen out & the rest fast delapidating attached to the latter mentioned building...two sheds of but little value and a frame tenement sixteen feet long & ten feet wide, now occupied by Negroes - sd Tenement is in tolerable repair & has attached to it a very small garden back & another in front... annual value $22.00 CAMPBELL, SUSAN JANE/LEWIS (minors) M-264 (1826) Pencader Hundred farm tenant - John E. Guthrey ...a frame dwelling house with a log barn and stable all in bad repair...a few old and decayed Apple Trees... annual value $200.00 farm tenant - Thomas Darnum ...a log Dwelling House and kitchen, with Corn Crib and Stable in tolerable order a young Apple Orchard of about Fifty trees... annual value $100.00 Town of Glasgow house and lot tenant - Jacob Whiteman ...with stable and Granary in tolerable order... annual value $50.00 house & lot tenant - Russum ...building of logs new and in good repair, no orchards... annual value $20.00 CANN, JOHN (child-William) F-1-229 (1778) Pencader Hundred ...the mansion house in middling repair the barn & stabling but in bad repair the orchard not good... annual value £32.0.0 CANN, RACHEL/ANNA/EMELINE/CHANDLER (minors) N-225 (1829) Pencader Hundred 1 acre ...half the Dwelling House Wants a New Roof, the Smoke House wants a roof the fences are in want of Repair...no Orchard... annual value $25.00 CARLISLE, WILLIAM (child-Mary Neilson/Jane Brackenridge/James Collins/ William Hunter Neilson/Rachel Macelroy) N-207 (1829) Borough of Wilmington No. 1 - lot at corner of King and Washington Streets ...one new Brick two story house... annual value $65.00 No. 2 - lot on French Street between Broad & Hanover Streets ...one other Brick House...(two Story)...wanting repair... annual value $45.00 No. 3 - lot on North side of Market Street between Dickenson & Elizabeth Streets ...one other one story old Frame building... annual value $30.00 CARPENTER, SAMUEL (child-William) F-1-20 (1778) St. Georges Hundred ...one logg dwelling house two stories high wants some repairs such as two hearths layed and twelve sash lights in the windows, one logg kitchen in good repair one draw well a pailed garden in middling order one meathouse in good repair one smith's shop in repair one logg stable and hen house in middling repair one corn crib one large frame barn wants some repairs on the southend struck with thunder otherwise in good repair one young apple orchard containing seventy seven trees one logg house not tenantable... annual value £200.0.0 CARTMILL, THOMAS (child-Thomas) I-1-450 (1806) Brandywine Hundred (1782, 1798, 1804*) 1 3/4 acres ...an old Mansion House of logs and Stone kitchen an old log Barn much out of repair, one other small log tenement and a small stone House which is unfinished and has been erected by the Widow since the death of the said Thomas Cartmill...also a tolerable Orchard... annual value $200.00 CARTWRIGHT, SARAH/LYDIA/STEPHEN/WILLIAM/JACOB (minors) I-1-613 (1809) Appoquninimink Hundred (Jacob's estate -1804*) ...one new Log house Eighteen by twenty four and one and half Story high unfinished one old Log house in bad repair one Corn Crib unfinished and a few fruit trees... annual value $100.00 CARTWRIGHT, SARAH (minor) K-1-45 (1812) Appoquinimink Hundred (Jacob's estate - 1804*) ...one new log hous eighteen by 24 one and a half story high unfinished one old log house in bad repair one corn crib not finished with forty nine apel trees eleven chare trees and five damsen trees... annual value $85.00 CAULK, BENJAMIN (child-Benjamin/Lydia/Mary/Thomas) I-1-220 (1802) Appoquinimink Hundred 1782*) 200 acres ...one Frame Dwelling Hous one Log Kitchin one Log Meat Hous, one Log Corn Hous one Log Grenery all to be Repair'd One frame Barn in good repair And fifty Apple Trees all baring... annual value £90.0.0 CHANCE, ALEXANDER (child-Edmund) F-1-240 (1779) Appoquinimink Hundred ...a brick dwelling hous and Kitchen under the same meat house a garner two stables two cart houses and corn hous all in good repair a new log barn to be built twenty feet by twenty five a new garding to be pailed in theare is on said farm a small apple and peach orchard... ...two dwelling houses one of which wants a new roof and some other repairs a small out hous and corn crib... CHANCE, JOHN F-1-138 (1788) unknown hundred ...do find but one house which is the dwelling house which is much out of repair and about 20 apple trees... annual value 50 bushels of good wheat CHANDLER, JESSE (child-Jesse) F-1-528 (1788) Christiana Hundred 70 acres ...a parte of a Stone House in good Repair with a log Kitchen wanting a new Roof, a new frame Barn & a small share of old log ditto, A share in a Stone Spring house wanting new Roof...& a small Orchard... annual value £22.10.0 small lot of land Borough of Wilmington ...a new Brick Kitchen thereon... annual value £7.10.0 CLARK, GEORGE (child-George Brandling/Ann/Charlotte/Westley/Suzanne) K-1-119 (1814) Brandywine Hundred (1798, 1804*) ...one new Stone house finished all but plastering and a Stone barn on one part and on the other part an old log house and stone stable and small frame barn all in midling good repair with tolarable good Orchards at each place... annual value $175.00 CLARK, HENRY (child-Hester/Isaac/Henry/George/Colesberry) I-1-668 (1811) Pencader Hundred (1798, 1804*) 177 acres ...an Old Dwelling House in very bad repair, a new log Barn and Shed Stable at the end of it, in good repair except the Barn floor to be Jointed and laid, There are several other Old Buildings such as small Stables Corn Cribs &c very little worth, a small Apple Orchard of Chiefly Old Trees and some Cherry and Peach Trees... annual value $100.00 COCHRAN, DANIEL (child-Mary/Rebecca/James/Jane) G-1-241 (1791) unknown hundred ...a small log house about 16 feet front with a back shed occupied as a kitchen, and a small garden, all in good tenable repair... annual value £4.10.0 COLESBERRY, HENRY (child-John/William) I-1-533 (1807) New Castle Hundred (1798, 1804, 1816*) ...a two Story Brick Mesuage Piazza and log kitchen Frame Barn and small log tenement all in bad repair... lot of marsh in Bosman Creek Company lot of marsh in Fern Hook Company ...a small Apple Orchard on the land... annual value $220.00 COLLINS, JOHN (child-Samuel/Stephen/William) I-1-507 (1806) No. 1 200 acres Red Lion Hundred ...one large old Brick House much out of Order and one log Barn...to Weatherboard and the Dwelling House to be well repaired a new Corn Crib and smoak House to be built, One hundred apple trees... annual value £70.0.0 No. 2 400 acres St. Georges Hundred ...One Brick Dwelling House in tolerable repair except the Windows above and below which wants repairing both shutters and lights, One frame Barn, with shed Stables adjoining all of which wants repairing, One Carriage House and Corn Crib in good Order, One Grainery in good order, one other Corn Crib in tolerable good order, about Twenty (old and young) Appletrees a good Well of Water...to put up about Two hundred pannel of Post and Rail fence along the Road, leading from the Trap to the River... annual value $450.00 COLLINS, JOHN (child-Peter S./John M./Morris/Abraham H.) M-194 (1826) Appoquinimink Hundred No. 1 18 acres near Taylor's Bridge tenant - Benjamin M. Newell ..ean old fram dwelling house in verry bad repair, attached thereto is a new fram house with one room on the lower floor, which has a bar standing in it, being occupied last year as a tavern, the said new appartment might be made a comfortable house if it ware filled in with brick or lathed and plastered neither of which has been done. - there is adjoining this room a small shed Kitchen not lathed or plastered or filled in with brick. Nearby stands a small one story Ceder Log house also occupied by said Newell as a house for retailing goods, wars & merchantdise which is in good repair. - near to this stands an old log house now used as a grenary in bad repair, a small ruff carriage house attached to the chimney end of the old house afsd. which is built by putting small Ceder Posts in the ground and weatherboarded and roofed with white pine boards, one end being entirely open, an old wall of a house with some roof on it stands verry near the marsh apparently useless, an old well on the premises that has had hogsheads in it, but have fell in, is now in a misarable condition, water not fit to use. - a small Ceder log smoke house in good repair, except wanting weatherboarding, a Ceder log Stable in good repair with the same exception. - And near to the above buildings stands a small one story log house with a frame shed attached to each end thereof, all in an unfinished situation, the middle part of the building is an old house moved there and those sheds put up as if intended for two tenements, the work has progressed so far as to have two floors in the old part and one Chimney; their does not appear to be shutters for doors or windows and the roof of the old part seems to be injured by having been taken off and put on again, no drinking water...no orchards... annual value $70.00 No. 2 87 acres tenant - John Caulk ...one old log dwelling house and Kitchen, old smoke house all in verry bad repair, the chimney of the dwelling likely to fall down, no weell...a few scruby apple Trees; a small proportion of fence, a great many rails wanted to keep the farm in a tenantable condition... annual value $42.50 No. 3 3-4 acres at Chambersville ...a one story log house and frame shed Kitchen at one end thereof in tolerable repair except the house is not weatherboarded, this house...is not occupied, no well, no orchards... annual value $20.00 No. 4 250 acres on Blackbird Creek ...an old log dwelling house and Kitchen in verry bad repair, one old grenary or ware house on the Creek in bad repair, two lumber landings, a few old Apple Trees standing on a Common near by...verry little fence and that indifferent... annual value $6.42 CONNER, JOHN (child-John/Mary Ann) I-1-252 (1803) Appoquinimink Hundred (1804*) ...hewed log dwelling house, granary, meat house, corn house, stable all in good repair, an old kitching in bad repair, a small orchard... ...one small log dwelling house, meat house, cornhouse and stable in good repair... total annual value $162.67 COOCH, THOMAS (child-Francis/Thomas) G-1-70 (1788) New Castle Hundred Plantation on Christina Creek 400 acres ...a messuage or dwelling house Kitchen Barn two stables smoke house Spring house corn crib and an old bake house in midling repair except the bake house - that there are a tollerable good orchard upon this premises... annual value £52.10.0 ...messuage & buildings formerly of Thomas More which is cut off from the plantation above specified by the New Castle Road with a small orchard.. annual value £7.10.0 COOK, MICHAEL (child-John/Sarah) I-1-287 (1803) unknown hundred 10 acres ...one hewed log dwelling house, kitching smoke house and corn house all in bad repair also one log stable in good repair, an old orchard... annual value $160.00 COOMBS, THOMAS H-1-164 (1793) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796*) ...one new log dwelling house one old log ditto one new log corn crib a small peach orchard and some apple trees... annual value £7.8.6 old plantation ...one old log dwelling house one small log Kitchen one old log barn all very much out of repair and one old apple orchard... annual value £20.0.0 bridge place ...one old frame dwelling house out of repair one new log store house one carriage house one old barn and stable very much out of repair one new log wheat store house standing on a new wharff by the creek side not finished and one small apple orchard... annual value £6.0.0 London place ...one log dwelling house and weavers shop and the hull of a new log house all wanting repair... annual value £9.0.0 COOPER, HUGH (child-Elizabeth/William) I-1-531 (1807) Pencader Hundred (1804*) No. 1 12 acres No. 2 9 acres ...25 Apple-trees of little value, and an old Farm dwelling House with 3 Room & a kitchen on the first story, and two rums on the second all out of repair... No. 3 10 acres No. 4 3 acres ...that the Windows in front of the House be repaired the back Windows in the Second Story closed up and the roof repaired the shed rooms adjoining the lower Story and the front door of the House to be repaired and hung the well to be repaired the Amount of repaires not to exceed $50... annual value $45.00 CORBIT, DANIEL (child-Abigail/Daniel/Joseph/Jemima/John/Lydia/Maryann) G-1-121 (1789) Appoquinimink Hundred ...with two dwelling houses thereon - the mansion house part thereof brick and part frame - the brick part wants a new roof - a barn with two shed stables adjoining thereunto a new corn house a chair house and a stable which wants weatherboarding. an old orchard upon the decline and also a young orchard a small peach orchard a paled in garden which wants repairing. the other dwelling is a small log building in tolerable good repair... annual value £70.0.0 CORBIT, ISRAEL (deceased) I-1-23 (1800) St. Georges Hundred Cantwell's Bridge 1/2 acre ...one Two Story Stone Dwelling House, one Log one and half story House adjoining both in bad repair one old Log Stable not worth repairing Garden fence and other fence in Bad Repair... annual value £20.0.0 CORBIT, THOMAS (child-Sarah C./Mary P.) L-116 (1822) St. Georges Hundred Cantwell's Bridge No. 1 25 acres (5 lots) tenant - William B. Cochran ...the Dwelling house is part of stone and part frame the stone part is two storeys high with a very small shed Kitchen, adjoining, the house wants new roofing with some repairs to doors and floor smoke house in tolerable repair, Carriage house, granary and stable all under one roof in good order, a good pump of Water in the Yard, the garden well enclosed... fencing in bad order... annual value $150.00 No. 2 ...an old building not worth repairs... annual value $5.00 No. 3 tenant - M. Hays ...a right during the life of Mary Corbit, to a corner two story brick house...with garden, carriage house and one half of a brick stable, house in tolerable order, carriage house and garden fence in bad order... annual value $75.00 No. 4 ...a small frame house and garden... annual value $20.00 No. 5 tannery tenant - Daniel Corbit (guardian) ...Brick beam house in tolerable order, Frame currying shop in good repair, Brick bark house and stable, under one roof, the Bark house wants a new roof, 28 laying away vats, 8 Handlers wanting repairs, 2 new latches one pool and two bules in bad order, 3 limes in tolerable order stone mill in very bad order, new pump of Water in the yard... annual value $120.00 No. 6 small lot (8-10 acres) Appoquinimink Hundred annual value $5.00 No. 7 6 acres Appoquinimink Hundred No. 8 1/6 part of the undivided property of Thomas Corbit (deceased) tenant - William Polk ...a brick dwelling house and garden, with a brick store house adjoining...wanting some repairs... annual value $18.00 No. 9 6-8 acres adjoining No. 6, property of Thomas Corbit, deceased annual value $1.00 No. 10 Appoquinimink Hundred 8-10 acres adjoining John Corbit's land - property of Thomas Corbit, deceased annual value $2.00 No. 11 Appoquinimink Hundred 6 acres property of Thomas Corbit No.12 300 acres Appoquinimink Hundred (5 fields of 40 acres each) farm formerly the property of John Clark Esq (deceased) ...a Brick dwelling house and a frame kitchen attached, a Granary, stable and carriage house attached, a corn crib, a smoke or meat house, an oven and ash house and a good pump of Water in the yard and shed over it, all which said buildings are in good order, with two or three old log buildings in bad order and not of much account... annual value $250.00 CORRIE, JASPER (child-William/George/Jonathan/Christopher Weaver) K-1-67 (1812) Appoquinimink Hundred No. 1 175 acres ...a one Story frame dwelling house (no Kitchen) a smoak house, milk houes and corn crib all in bad repair, an old Barn, not worth repairing pailed garden and fencing generally in bad repair, an orchard containing about forty old apple trees... annual value $200.00 No. 2 150 acres ...a small log dwelling house thereon in good repair... annual value $20.00 No. 3 2 1/2 acres in Noxon Town ...a two Story dwelling house and kitchen adjoining in bad repair a small log dwelling house in middling repair an old log stable not worth repairing - a Grist mill with two run of stones dirt dam and wooden gates the mill house stones Gears &c all in bad repair - a new saw mill erected by the Guardian (in place of an old one) which is not yet covered... annual value $200.00 St. Georges Hundred No. 4 18 acres ...a two story framed dwelling house and Kitchen adjoining in bad repair - a Stable and carriage house in good repair - a pailed garden in good repair an apple orchard containing about fifty trees, a grist mill with two run of stones, dirt dam and wooden gates, the stones good one only excepted which is nearly worn out - the water wheel and log wheel new and gears mostly in good order which with a new pier head and some other improvements was done by the Guardian...at the south end of the dam is an old log dwelling house in bad repair - the mill house is also in bad repair perhaps not worth repairing... annual value $240.00 No. 5 1 1/4 acres Village of Cantwell's Bridge ...a two story frame dwelling house, Kitchen and smoak house adjoining also a two story framed store house adjoining said dwelling house, a stable and carriage house a well walled with bricks all in good repair, a garden enclosed with board fence in bad repair... annual value $180.00 No. 6 12 acres Village of Cantwell's Bridge ...an old dwelling house and kitchen not worth repairing a small log dwelling house in bad repair a wharf and grain Store thereon in bad repair... annual value $160.00 COX, THOMAS (child-Catharine/Esau) I-1-105 (1801) Borough of Wilmington lot on the northwest corner of French and Hanover Streets ...a Brick tenement not finished... another lot on northwest corner of French and Hanover Streets ...a frame Tenement in tolerable repair and a new Three Story Brick tenement about half finished...Brick tenement Ought to be finished by the Guardian within this present year... 8 acres of pasture ...a Brick Yard lot containing about One acre... total annual value £90.0.0 CREED, EDWARD (child-Jane) F-1-382 (1782) New Castle Hundred Town of New Castle ...the dwelling house, the slaughter house & lot of ground...are very much out of repair. the floors, windows and partitions of the dwelling house are in bad order, and the fence about the garden, and several other things necessary to be mended... annual value £12.0.0 CROSBY, JACOB (child-Elizabeth) I-1-337 (1804) unknown hundred 72 acres ...a Tenement thereon part made of Wood and part thereof of Stone unfinished, and some stabling, and a small young orchard thereon... 6 acres 7 acres (Newport Marsh) 5 acres (Deer Creek Marsh) 18 acres annual value $120.00 CROSSAN, JOHN (child-Mary) K-1-159 (1815) Mill Creek Hundred 69 acres ...a smallish old logg building with a small log shop at the end of it, and no orchards... annual value $50.00 CROW, SAMUEL (child-Henry T./Sarah/Thomas I./Mary B./Louisa Ann) K-1-117 (1814) St. Georges Hundred ...one large...brick house and brick kitchen in bad repair, one small log granery old and in bad repair, two lathe corn cribs with chair or cart house between and under one roof in tolarable repair one old frame barn so bad as not to be worth repairing, a small log tenement worth very little and in our opinion an injury to the lands in the way of firewood. Pailing round Garden and yards chiefly gone there is a thriving apple orchards of one hundred and fifty trees of good fruit in their prime... annual value $350.00 CROW, SAMUEL (child-Mary R./Louisa Ann) L-113 (1822) St. Georges Hundred ...a Brick Dwelling house wanting some repairs to doors, windows &c. There is two Corn Cribs a Carriage House and grainery wanting thorough repair, There is also a large old Apple Orchard, containing about Two hundred Trees, on the decline... annual value $250.00 CULBERTSON, JOHN (child-Samuel/Benjamin) D-1-482 (1774) St. Georges Hundred ...the side of the shed joining the dwelling house to be weather boarded as high as the sills of the windows. the well to be walled from the ground and a new curb. The granary to be new silled raised from the ground and a new roof and weather boarded, the barn and stables adjoining to be weather boarded where necessary. The orchard to be filled up with young apple treees where wanting. The cellar door to be hung & one upper step... annual value £26.13.4 Pencader Hundred ...the cellar wall under the shed room to be built up with a 14 inch wall, new steps and doors, a new window upstairs in the end of the house. The paint-house to be put up in its proper place, a new kitchen to be built 18 feet by 16 of logs & hew'd down covered with oak shingles & a brick chimney. The barn floor to be finished & a new stable to be built at the southwest end, the well to be walled from the ground & a new curb, the apple orchard to be filled up with young apple trees where wanting, a swamp in the clear land to be cleared out... annual value £20.0.0 CULBERTSON, THOMAS (child-Thomas) N-54 (1828) St. Georges Hundred 4 acres ...a log house one and a half story high with a cellar under and a shed attached to the same, a stable, smoak house and crib all needing repair a paled garden in bad repair...a well in bad condition...must be supplied by digging a new one... annual value $60.00 DAVIS, BENJAMIN (deceased) I-1-193 (1802) St. Georges Hundred ...One small two Story Brick house and kitchen one Log Stable Cooper Shop all in very bad repair, and are of opinion the Dwelling house and kitchen must have a new Roof. Window frames sashes and Glass, the Stable a new roof on one side, there is a few scattering Apple Treees... annual value £10.0.0 DEAKYNE, BAYMON (minor?) M-150 (1826) Appoquinimink Hundred (*) 4 fields ...One log dwelling house in tolerable repair except the roof &c. an old log Kitchen very bad repair, a smoke house in bad repair, a small Barn in tolerable repair, two stables in bad repair, a small Corn Crib in very bad repair, a few small and young Apple trees... annual value $60.00 DEAKYNE, GEORGE (child-George/Bayman/John) I-1-578 (1809) Appoquinimink Hundred (1782, 1796*) ...one Dwelling House in bad repair Onee kitchen in bad repair One Milkhouse in good repair one Corn Crib in good repair one Barn in bad repair one Stable in good repair no Orchard... annual value $88.00 DEAKYNE, JOHN (child-George/Thomas/John) F-1-86 (1779) Appoquinimink Hundred (1782, 1796*) ...two dwelling Houses Chitchen and milk Hous Barn and Stable all in but indiferent Repair some few appletrees... DEAKYNE, JOHN (deceased) I-1-23 (1799) Appoquinimink Hundred ...one Dwelling House in midlin repear one Grannary in Good repear, a Corn Crib in good repear an old Kitchen old smok hous old Stable out of Repear a Good Spring hous two small Teniments Apple Orchard about two hundred Trees... annual value $214.00 small plantation left to Catharin ...one Dwelling hous in midlin repear two Cabbins... annual value $38.00 DEAKYNE, JOHN/GEORGE (minors) I-1-287 (1803) Appoquinimink Hundred 160 acres ...One Log and frame dwelling House the Log part in decay and the Frame unfinished One Log Corn Crib one granary One old Log Kitchen and Log out House all very much out of Repair About 80 Apple Trees and fifteen peach trees... annual value $214.00 DEAKYNE, JOHN (child-John) F-1-430 (1786) Appoquinimink Hundred (1782*) ...one log Dwelling House that one Brick Corner Chimney be built therein, and Two thousand Five Hundred Sedar and Oak Rails necessary for the Improvement thereof, and also a Corn House built and the upper floor to be laid of the Dwelling House... annual value £18.0.0 DEAKYNE, JOHN (child-John) I-1-552 (1808) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796*) ...one Dwelling Hous one Granery One Corn Crib all in bad repair and one hundred and fifty apple-trees... annual value $200.00 DEAKYNE, JOSEPH (child-Joseph/William/Letitia/Mary/Ann/Elizabeth) G-1-338 (1792) Appoquinimink Hundred (1782*) ...two old dwelling Houses one old Kitching one old smoke house all in bad repair one good log barn one small Apple Orchard and one good Stable... annual value £47.10.0 DELAPLAIN, JAMES (child-Mary/Nehemiah/Susannah/James/Jane) I-1-63 (1800) Christiana Hundred (1796, 1804*) ...a stone dwelling house in middling repair, a stable and barrack in bad repair, no Barn, a frame spring-house the roof in bad condition... joint property of James & Samuel Delaplain - 1/2 belongs to James' heirs annual value £33.0.0 DELAPLAIN, JAMES (child-Mary/Nehemiah/Susannah/James/Jane) I-1-342 (1804) Christiana Hundred (1796, 1804*) 180 acres ...a Stone dwelling House and old Stable both in bad repair and the fencing likewise in bad condition... annual value $88.00 ...and one small Lot in the Village of Newport without any buildings on it... annual value $5.00 joint property of James & Samuel Delaplain DELAPLAIN, SARAH/ELIZABETH/JOSEPH/LYDIA/MARY (minors) I-1-476 (1804) Christiana Hundred (1796, 1804*) 180 acres ...a Stone dwelling House and an old Stable both in bad repair, and the fencing likewise... annual value $88.00 one small lot in Town of Newport - no improvements annual value $5.00 DEPUTY, JOHN (child-Samuel) M-41 (1825) Red Lion Hundred ...a two story brick dwelling house, log smoke house, log barn, lath corn Crib and an Apple Orchard... annual value $150.00 DERRICKSON, WILLIAM (child-Jacob/William) G-1-71 (1789) Brandywine Hundred ...a log House & a Stone Shed thereto much out of repair, a log Barn almost totally down and about sixty or seventy old bearing Apple-trees... there should be twenty five Lights of Window Glass put into the Windows of said House and a new Roof to be put on the Stone Shed...the Post and some Logs to build a Barn about twenty feet long & fifteen feet broad with the Remaind of the old Barn may be got or cut on the Land...there should be Well Kirb and a new Back to Chimney & new Sellar Doors... annual value £8.00.0 DEVOUE, DAVID I-1-20 (1800) New Castle Hundred ...a frame Dwelling House, in which is wanting necessary repairs That there is an old Orchard of but small value...that they repairs done to the House should be such as under pinning and finishing the uper story. Also that it is necessary that a Gardin should be made and its size not to exceed one rood to be pailed in... annual value £20.0.0 DICK, JAMES (deceased) I-1-340 (1804) White Clay Creek Hundred (1798, 1804*) 32 acres ...a log Dwelling in bad repair... annual value $20.00 DINGEE, JACOB (child-Mary) I-1-617 (1809) Borough of Wilmington lot on French Street, between Third and High Streets ...a Two Story Brick Dwelling house, and frame Kitchen...almost New, the fence in good repair, their will be some small Improvement to be done in the Back Yard, to prevent the Water from going into the Cellar, and also the front pavement Must be laid... annual value $50.00 DINGEE, JACOB (child-Mary Ann) K-1-333 (1817) Borough of Wilmington lot fronting on French Street ...one two Storied brick messuage or tenement in good repair and frame kitchen the roof of which is in bad repair... annual value $70.00 DIXON, JACOB (child-Mary/Rebecca/James) I-1-689 (1811) Mill Creek Hundred (1804, 1816*) 80 acres ...a Stone Dwelling House and Log Kitchen Stone Milk House and a Log Barn, the Barn and Kitchen out of Repair and a Young Orchard containing about One hundred Trees... annual value $60.00 DIXON, JOHN (child-Sarah/Phebe/Isaac/Ann) G-1-385(1791) Mill Creek Hundred ...a good brick dwelling house a good log barn a Shade on the South East corner necessary to be covered one old hay barn in bad repair not worth repairing except some little repairing of the roof a Shade along the front of the hay barn not worth repairing and an old work shop a few old apple Trees and about sixty young ones and we think it necessary that sixty more young ones should be planted... annual value £50.00.0 DIXON, JOHN A/SARAH ANN/ROSS W/MARIA JANE/MARY ANN/WISTER T/JULIANA (minors) L-161 (1822) unknown hundred 260 acres ...a house and barn nearly new, a Workshop, Smoke House & tenement in good repair, also an apple orchard containg about fifty trees in a thriving condition...the said land has been raised by lime, from barrenness to fertility, and that all such land so far as we have been able to judge from observation & experience greatly deteriorates and decreases in value by cultivation, unless the use of lime be in some degree continued...the premises ought to receive annually at least a kiln of lime of six hundred bushel, the wood to burn the same to be taken off the farm and which expense would be seventy five dollars...to deducted from the above rent... annual value $375.00 DIXON, MARTHA (minor) F-1-380 (1785) unknown hundred ...a log Dwelling House in good Repair with a frame Barn log Stable & a small Granary all in bad Repair with an old orcherd chiefly gon to Decay with a young orcherd of about 100 Trees beginning to bare... annual value £20.0.0 DIXON, ROSS W./MARY ANN/WISTAR T. (minors) N-56 (1828) unknown hundred 158 acres ...The fences are all of Post and rale, and worm nearly all of which want considerable repair...a small apple orchard much on the decline...a large and commodious dwelling house and barn, a smoke house, chair house and work shop, the latter two adjoining, all of which are in tenantable repair... annual value $275.00 DIXON, SILAS (child-Hannah/Ann/Phoebe/Martha/Samuel/Mary) I-1-669 (1809) unknown hundred ...a good Stone House, a log and frame Barn, a Tenement, a Wheelright Shop and Stone Spring house all in good repair, likewise a small Orchard... annual value $135.00 DIXON, WILLIAM (child-Alexander Hamilton/Mary/Selina/Ethan Allen) K-1-268 (1816) Mill Creek Hundred ...a stone dwelling house not in very good repair, no barn nor outhouses that are worth mentioning A small young Orchard not yet bearing... annual value $100.00 DOUGLASS, ARCHIBALD (child-Sarah) I-1-578 (1809) St. Georges Hundred 227 acres ...two old log dwelling houses, one old log Barn with Shed and Stable Joining thereunto,one small log Granary and log Stable Joining thereunto, one small log out House used for a stable all of which buildings are in very bad repairs...One hundred Young Apple-trees and about Seventy Peach-trees...Dwelling Housee...should have the North side new-roofed with Oak Shingles and the East end of said House weather boarded and the kitchen Joining thereunto new roofed with oak Shingles and one other Dwelling House also new roofed... annual value $120.00 DOUGLASS, ARCHIBALD (child-Sarah) I-1-608 (1809) St. Georges Hundred 227 acres ...Two old Log Dwelling houses one old Log Barn with shed and Stable Joining thereto, and one small log Granary and Log Stable joining the same one small log outhouse used for a stable, all of which Buildings are in very bad repair...about One hundred Young Apple Trees and about seventy Peach Trees much diseased...the Dwelling House...should have the Northside new Roofed with Oak Shingles and the east End weatherborded and Kitchen Joining New Roofed with Oak Shingles and the other Dwelling house also new Roofed with the same kind of shingles... annual value $120.00 DOWNES, BENNET (child -Mary E/Thomas F./Sally Ann/James M./Richard E/Henry E/William B) L-91 (1821) New Castle Hundred ...a two story brick dwelling house and brick Kitchen, in good repair, a brick barn, stableing Granary, corn cribs, carriage house and a log tenement, all wanting repair a pailed garden, and a young apple and peach orchard of about one hundred trees, also a few scattering fruit trees... 14 acres marsh - Toms Creek Marsh annual value $400.00 DRUMMOND, MARY/EMILINE/JAMES R/JOHN (minors) M-303 (1827) unknown hundred ...a log house in tenantable repair...Hay-barrack and stable wanting a roof: a small Apple Orchard... annual value $50.00 DULANEY, WALTER (child-Mary/Sarah/Grafton) I-1-577 (1807) Appoquinimink Hundred (1816*) ...one small log Dwelling House, One kitchen, two Corn Cribs and meat House all in bad repair, on Apple Orchard and one Peach Orchard... annual value $65.00 ...one small log dwelling house one old kitchen and Meat House all in bad repair one Stable in good repair a few old Appletrees... annual value $40.00 ...one log dwelling house one old kitchen and Corn Crib all in bad repair a few old Apple tree... annual value $50.00 ...one log Dwelling House and old kitchen in bad repair and a few old Appletrees... annual value $60.00 ...one log Dwelling House in good repair one log Dwelling House one kitchen two Corn Cribs one Stable and meat house in bad repair a few old Apple trees.. annual value $200.00 DUSHANE, ANTHONY (child-Benjamin) D-1-496 (1774) unknown hundred ...one sawed Log dwelling House and Shed in Tolarable good repair One small frame Barn wants new Sills the lower part of the South end wether boarded One small apple Orchard pretty good the Fences in middling repair no Garden fenced in therefore we think necessary to have one paled eight panels Square... annual value £17.0.0 DUSHANE, ANTHONY (child-Elizabeth/Samuel) G-1-85 (1789) St. Georges Hundred (1782*) ...a Dwelling House and Barn both in bad Repair, and also a few fruit trees, there are no Stables thereon nor any other Out Houses worthy of notice... annual value £45.0.0 DUSHANE, JESSE (child-Elizabeth/Mary/Jesse) F-1-82 (1779) St. Georges Hundred ...one frame dwelling House the old apartment in bad Repair one frame Barn and shed Stable the Barn wants new sleepers under the floor the Stable weatherboarding the west Side & a new door one Garden paled in good order One Well wants some Repairs One Granary wants covering weatherboarding and to be raised from the Ground two Corn Cribs wants covering One Meet House in bad Repair, One Oven in midling Repair...One Apple Orchard containing about One Hundred Trees one old Hen-House... DUSHANE, JESSE (child-Jesse) G-1-339 (1792) St. Georges Hundred ...the frame dwelling House and do kitchen frame Barn and Stable and sawed log granary all in very bad repair there is an old Apple Orchard of about seventy trees...that the Barn and Stable should be repaired generally and the granary to be new roofed with Oak that the Kitchen Chimney should be mended and wants weather boarding as also the dwelling House and that a small new pailed Garden be made also a new Celler door and new Sash lights for a dormant Window... annual value £35.0.0 DUSHANE, MICHAEL (child-Cornelius/Elizabeth/Mary/William) (Anthony-not minor) E-1-11 (1775) St. Georges Hundred mansion house & plantation ...one brick dwelling house in good repair - one frame house and shed in midling repair, one [?] log kitchen in good repair, one oven, Garden and draw-well in good repair. One large frame barn in bad repair One Granary wants covering which we order done with Cedar Shingles and wether boarded with Oak clapboards - one log thatched Stable in repair, One log dwelling house not worth repairing - one log storehouse in midling repair, one Chairehouse Stable and Corn Crib new builded, & meat house repaired, by the Guardian before the view - one Hen house in good repair - one Orchard pretty good One other Orchard but indifferent - the fences in good repair... annual value £120.0.0 St. Georges Town ...one brick dwelling house...in good repair except the Glass & Back Porch which we think necessary to be put in good order belonging to sd house and lot one Storehouse wants new Sills and wetherboarding - one frame stable and Garden in midling repair... annual value £20.0.0 St. Georges Town tenant - Adam Nuttle ...one frame dwelling...in middling repair One stable wants some repairs One Garden in good order... annual value £7.0.0 Red Lion Hundred ...one sawed log dwelling house situate in Coxes Neck...in midling repair... annual value £20.0.0 DUSHANE, MICHAEL (child-Mary) F-1-92 (1779) Red Lion Hundred 128 acres total Coxes Neck 35 acres ...One Messuage & Lott... Village of St. Georges ...one brick dwelling House... EAKIN, JOSEPH (minor) N-52 (1828) St. Georges Hundred No. 1 plantation near the Village of Port Penn ...one two story dwelling House, Barn, Stable and corn crib, all frame buildings and in about a middling state of repair ... annual value $112.00 No. 2 dwelling house and lot in Port Penn ...with a stable & meat house thatched all of wood in indifferent repair, the dwelling wanting eighty lights of glass... annual value $40.00 No. 3 dwelling house and lot in Port Penn ...with a small stable both of wood in but indifferent repair... annual value $23.00 EAKIN, ROBERT (deceased) I-1-159 (1798) New Castle Hundred 150 acres land on east side of public road leading from Christiana Bridge to the Redlyon Inn ...one Small Log Messuage not finished which the said Guardian should have it compleated and Also to Put up a new Shed building at the end of the said Messuage in order to make the same convenient for a tenant and the more valuable in the yearly Rents... without the new shed erected annual value £37.10.0 if new shed put up annual value £42.10.0 EAKIN, ROBERT (child-John) I-1-563 (1808) New Castle Hundred 150 acres ...a small log House and a shed room adjoining in tolerable repair, Corn Crib and Stable in bad Order, no other buildings whatever, and no Orchard...on road to Redlion Tavern and road from Bear-Tavern to Hamburg... annual value $90.00 ECCLES, SAMUEL (child-Joseph/Samuel) I-1-190 (1802) Pencader Hundred ...a log Dewling house and Kitchen, also a Water, Corn and Grist Mill all in good repair, one old Stabel in bad repair, also the Frame and Gates of the Waterways old and out of order Thare is no Orchard...a Garden and Yard has been Inclosed since the the death of the late Samuel Eccles... annual value £65.0.0 EDWARDS, ELIZABETH (minor) I-1-288 (1804) Appoquinimink Hundred (Andrew's estate 1796, 1804*) ...No. 1 An old Log dwelling house No. 2. A Log dwelling with a house adjoining as a Store house and a small kitching And No. 3 an old log Dwelling House all in bad repair, a young Orchard of about ninety apple trees... annual value £67.10.0 ELLIOTT, CLOUD (child-Anna M/Susannah M/Isaac S/John C/Eliza Jane) M-99 (1825) Brandywine Hundred No. 1 Mansion place 55 acres ...Two Story house, with Kitchen attached, Barn and shed, Chair house and Slaughter house all of stone: Frame Corn Crib: all which buildings are in good repair...fences in good order... annual value $200.00 No. 2 2 lots of marsh on Cherry Island 7 acres annual value $40.00 No. 3 property late the estate of McKee 30 acres on Concord Turnpike Road less than a mile from Brandywine Village ...a two story stone house...fences are nearly gone down...also 5 acres of marsh on Cherry Island... annual value $10.00 Cloud Elliott's share =7/19 ELLIOTT, JOSEPH (child-Mary) F-1-240 (1792) Brandywine Hundred (1798, 1804*) ...one small log dweling House and Shop adjoyning thereto... annual value £18.0.0 ELLIOTT, MARY (minor) G-1-11 (1788) Brandywine Hundred (1798, 1804*) ...One small logg Dwelling House the fences in bad repair... annual value £10.0.0 ENOCH, BENJAMIN (child-David/Mary/Andrew) D-1-361 (1772) Borough of Wilmington lot on southeast corner of Second & Market Streets tenant - William Buchanan ...a Brick house and Kitchen...in bad repair... annual value £14.00.0 lot to the south & east of Market Street ...a small Frame House and Kitchen...in very bad repair... annual value £5.00.0 lot west of Third Street, between King and French Streets ...frame House...in exceeding bad Repair... annual value £4.10.0 ERWIN, SAMUEL (child-Charles/Henry/Letitia/Mary) I-1-476 (1806) Borough of Wilmington lot on the corner of High and French Streets ...Two Brick Houses...two Stories High, with back buildings thereto, wanting some repair, such as painting the outside of the said Buildings and a new Cellar Door to the Corner House... annual value $180.00 lot on High Street ...One other House two Stories High and back buildings...in good repair excepting the Cellar Windows and Gate... annual value $120.00 ERWIN, SAMUEL (child-Henry) I-1-616 (1809) Borough of Wilmington lot on the north corner of French and High Streets ...a Brick Messuage... another lot fronting on High Street ...Two other Brick Messuages...in reasonable good repair...with some outhouses... total annual value $280.00 (Henry receives 1/5 of values) EVANS, ALEXANDER (child-Levi/Alexander) K-1-118 (1813) St. Georges Hundred ...One weatherboarded log house two Storey now out houses now orchets... annual value $50.00 EVANS, CASER (child-Timothy/Eli/Lorenzo/Israel) K-1-118 (1813) St. Georges Hundred ...one weathered boarded log house two storey now outhouses no orchets...the hole in teanentable repaire except a wele to be walled... annual value $55.00 EVANS, GEORGE G./WILLIAM D./MARY C. (minors) N-398 (1829) unknown hundred 50 acres ...a two Story Brick mansion House, large Brick Barn and Stabling, brick work Shop and carriage house, all new and in good repair, a good paled garden...Fences in good repair... annual value $200.00 89 perches ...a new brick dwelling house and Store, a Frame Barn and Stable and a paled Guarden all in good order and under good fence... annual value $100.00 lot on the Nottingham Road - 13 acres ...a small frame dwelling house in good repair, an old Barrick and Stable fencing but indifferent... annual value $40.00 EVANS, JOHN (child-John/Isaac) F-1-105 (1779) Pencader Hundred (Isaac's estate - 1798*) ...one large log House part of it not finished the rest in good Repair, one log work Shop not half finished, The Fences in tolerable good Order... annual value £125.0.0 ...there is a small Tenement on one corner of the Land... lease of six yrs annual value £4.0.0 EVANS, NATHANIEL (child-Thomas/Ann) D-1-285 (1771) Pencader Hundred plantation tenant - John Muldrach ...the fencing in good repair, an old Barn much decayed & twenty old apple trees and a new log house not finished... annual value £25.0.0 plantation tenant - Nathaniel Patterson ...great part of the Fencing out of repair & 90 old apple trees & old log Barn with the Roof decayed, & an old Stable & an old log dwelling house much decayed and not Tenantable... annual value - first year £30.0.0 after the first year £50.0.0 plantation tenant - William Thompson ...fencing in good repair, with 12 young apple Trees a good Log barn & log house... annual value £4.0.0 1 year lease plantation tenant - John Stuart ...the fencing in good repair, with 15 young apple-trees, an old log Barn & good log house and kitchen... annual value £7.10.0 6 year lease plantation tenant - David Martin ...fencing a little out of repair, with an old log house also out of repair... annual value £5.0.0 4 year lease tenant - Elizabeth Bowen ...one small Tenement...and an old log house out of repair... annual value £3.0.0 plantation tenant - Matthew Greaves ...fencing in good repair, a good log Barn, & an old log house a little out of Repair... annual value £12.0.0 4 year lease tenant - Christopher Hickey ...One other Small Tenement...fencing a little out of repair, with an old log house much decayed... annual value £3.0.0 plantation tenant - John Henderson ...fencing in good order, an old Barn much out of repair, 40 old apple-trees and a log house not finished... 5 year lease - first year at £10.0.0 second year at £12.0.0 last three years at £15.0.0 plantation tenant - Edward Ginn ...the fencing out of repair, 100 old apple-trees, a large Frame Barn a little out of repair, a good Frame dwelling house & a log Kitchen with two small log Tenements...a little out of repair... annual value £18.0.0 tenement tenant - James Read ...the fencing a little out of repair, with an old log house... annual value £8.0.0 4 year lease plantation adjoining David Barr's land no tenant ...the Fencing out of repair, an old log house not Tenantable & 20 apple Trees... annual value £8.0.0 EVANS, THOMAS (child-Thomas/Elizabeth) H-1-260 (1796) Pencader Hundred plantation willed to Thomas ...a dwelling house and Kitchen, granary chair-house, smoke-house, hen-house, corncrib and milch-house all in good repair; a barn and Stable in middling repair; and four small log tenements in tolerable repair... annual value £100.0.0 farm willed to Thomas (north of plantation) ...a small log dwelling house and a small young apple orchard in bad repair, and a small log barn in middling repair... annual value £45.0.0 farm willed to Elizabeth (east of plantation) ...an old log dwelling house in very bad repair and a log Barn and Stable in good repair... annual value £45.0.0 EVANS, DR. THOMAS (child-Eliza) I-1-446 (1805) Pencader Hundred 12 acres ...One Dwelling House part log building with bad roof and part frame in Tenantable Order log Kitchen very bad order not worthy repairs frame Barn requiring new floor, log Stable adjoining in very bad Condition, One Granery requires Weatherboarding and all other out buildings in bad Condition except Milch House in tolerable good repair...about Two hundred and fifty young Apple trees beginning to bear...Three small log tenements ...One...in very bad condition, no out buildings or fruit trees...[2 acres] ...One...in tenantable order no out Houses or fruit trees...[2 acres]...One ...in bad order no out buildings...[3 acres]...one other log Dwelling House and Stable in good repair...[1 acre]... annual value $250.00 farm to northeast adjoining above property ...One log Dwelling House and Kitchen and log Stable in tolerable good order, One log Barn wanting new Roof, One Corn Crib in good Order, a small Orchard of Apple trees not productive... annual value $ll0.00 farm lying east of first farm 2 1/2 acres ...One log Dwelling House Kitchen and Stable in good Order, One log Barn wanting One side and one end Weatherboarded... annual value $120.00 EVES, JOHN (child-John/Elizabeth/Susannah) D-1-424 (1773) New Castle Hundred tenant - James McCally ...the plantation on the old road leading to Christiana Ferry...one framed dwelling house and barn, also that in the field adjoining the lands of Colesberry...another small log house and barn...there are two Orchards ...about half of the fencing...is in very bad repair...that the first mentioned dwelling house should be repaired as follows...the cellar to be bricked up, the floors to be put in good order and the outside of the house to be weather boarded with Cedar Boards...that the Roof of the first ...Barn should be repaired and a new floor laid therein and that the logs should be righted, that the said log house should be also repaired with a new roof and the logs of the same righted, that the said orchards should be pruned... annual value £60.0.0 ...the plantation lying on the river Delaware...one new brick dwellinghouse one barn and an orchard...said brick house should be finished...barn should be repaired...an house of Office should be built... annual value £45.0.0 ...the Lots, Bank and House at Christiana Bridge are in such bad order as to be worth little or nothing, at present but if repaired... annual value £12.0.0 ...the cripple adjoining Ann Clay's land is of no yearly value at present... EVES, SUSAN M./MARY C./ELIZA JANE/JOHN CROW(minors) M-301 (1827) St. Georges Hundred No. 1 120 acres (2 fields of 60 acres each) tenant - Thomas Fountain ...a new frame dwelling house and kitchen not finished...fence...in tolarable repair... annual value $120.00 Red Lion Hundred No. 2 320 acres (4 fields of 260 acres each) tenant - Edmund Newell ...a two story brick dwelling house and Kitchen, new frame corn crib, granary and stables with two old buildings of no value. The Garden enclosed on three sides with a board fence the other side a very old and indifferent Pail fence.--The Rooff on the Dwelling house and Kitchen in considerable decay...an old Apple Orchard containing about seventy trees much on the decline... annual value $320.00 No. 3 2 lots (3 acres) Town of New Castle ...an old frame house nearly in ruins...no annual value in present state... EWING, JOHN (deceased) H-1-178 (1795) New Castle Hundred (1798*) tenant - Margaret McCormick ...one Brick Messuage and lot of Ground with a Kitchen Belonging thereto...a new Roof on one side of the House Appears to be Necessary... annual value $45.00 FERRIS, JOHN (child-John) K-1-333 (1817) Borough of Wilmington lot on Shipley Street ...a messuage or tenement in midling repair... annual value $90.00 lot on Shipley Street ...a frame stable in bad repair... annual value $10.00 FERRIS, ZIBA (child-Ziba) I-1-192 (1802) Borough of Wilmington 1) lot on Market Street ...One Dwelling house...will shortly require to be new Roofed, which ought to be procured... annual value £45.0.0 2) lot on corner of Shipley & Third Streets ...One Other Messuage or Dwelling House... annual value £40.0.0 3) lot on Shipley between Third & High Streets ...One Other Messuage or Dwelling House... annual value £30.0.0 4) lot on Shipley between Second and Third Streets ...One Other Messuage or Dwelling House... annual value £18.15.0 5) lot on Shipley adjoining #3 ...a Chair house thereon... annual value £0.30.0 6) lot on Shipley between Second & Third Streets ...a Stable thereon... annual value £4.10.0 7) 9 acres in Deer Creek Marsh annual value £26.5.0 total annual value £166.0.0 FIELDS, HENRY (child-Benjamin/Henry) H-1-314 (1798) Appoquinimink Hundred ...a two story frame dwelling house log kitchen and frame Barn and log Stable in good order a pail in garden in bad repair about Twenty Apel trees and twenty Peach trees... annual value £17.0.0 this land joins that of William Fields and also the main state road leading from Middletown to Blackbird FIELDS, ALLEN (child-Casson) H-1-351 (1799) Appoquinimink Hundred plantation on Blackbirds Creek ...a Dwelling House and a Kitchen adjoining, and a out house in the yard in Middling repair there is an old Barn and a old Corn house in bad repair and there is an old out house at the end of the lane in bad repair which will be as well to let go down, a small paled Garden about Fourty young Apple trees a few Peach trees... annual value $80.00 FIELDS, ALLEN (deceased) I-1-218 (1803) Appoquinimink Hundred ...Dwelling House wanting some repare and Kitchin in repare Barn and Stable in repare Apple Orchard about 35 Trees Small Peach Orchard... annual value £25.0.0 minor also has land of Elias Naudain through his mother Mary Fields (deceased), daughter of Elias Naudain ...one brick Dweling house and Kitchin two cribs Stable in repare and old Barn out of repare and old Apple Orchard... annual value £100.0.0 FIELDS, ALLEN (child-Benjamin) K-1-159 (1815) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796, 1804, 1816*) 50 acres ...one dwelling house one meat house and two out houses all in very bad repair about twenty seven old apple trees... annual value $60.00 FIELDS, JOHN (child-Lewis/William) I-1-509 (1807) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796*) ...a Small log Dwelling in bad repair and about Twenty acres of clear land ... annual value $21.00 FISHER, ANDREW (child-Matilda/Samuel) I-1-446 (1805) Pencader Hundred 350 acres ...a good Two Story Brick House and Brick Kitchen, a large frame Barn, log stabling smoke House and Corn Crib in good repair, a good bearing Apple Orchard...a Merchant Mill with two pair of Burrs - the running Geers of which - Husk Boulting Cloths, screen &c are in good Order - some part of the Wall of the lower Story of the Mill wants rebuilding - the roof of said Mill in part requires to be make new - the lower floore also, wants repairing and the Peer head is rotten and requires to be rebuilt...a small log House...in bad repair - and another old log House by the Mill in bad repair... annual value $400.00 306 acres ...a very old log House in bad repair, so much so, that we are of opinion (as there are logs that were brought to the spot by Andrew Fisher before his decease for the purpose of building a large kitchen) it will be now more proper to build a comfortable small Dwelling House than repair the old one no smoke-House - the Barn in tolerable good order the stabling and Corn Crib wanting some repair...an old log House...in bad repair...an old Orchard... annual value $200.00 FISHER, ANDREW (child-Samuel) K-1-19 (1811) Pencader Hundred ...a good brick house kitchen stable barn corn cribs and smoke houses in good repair...an Apple Orchard - and one other small tenement... annual value $133.33 FISHER, ANDREW (child-Matilda) K-1-19 (1811) Pencader Hundred ...a log house - stable - barn & corn cribs in very bad repair...an old apple orchard... annual value $100.00 FITZGERALD, PHILIP (child-James/Mary/Thomas) D-1-303 (1771) unknown hundred ...that a Milk House on the premises may be moved and added to the dwelling house as a Kitchen... FITZGERALD, PHILIP (minor) G-1-102 (1789) unknown hundred ...One old dwelling House very much of of Repair no out-houses or any orchard... annual value £30.0.0 FOOTE, JOHN (child-William/David/Benjamin) L-335 (1824) Mill Creek Hundred (1804*) 12 acres ...a dwelling house in two appartments, of log in bad repair, one half wanting a new roof also a small stable in bad order; that their are also on said land one frame shop used as a shoemaker shop in good order and one Cooper Shop, a frame building in good order, an orchard of one hundred trees in a thriving state...house wanting a new roof amediately to render it suteable to live in... annual value $60.00 FRANCIS, WILLIAM (deceased) I-1-614 (1809) Appoquinimink Hundred (1804*) ...a Dwelling House and Kitchen wanting some repair, and old Barn in bad repair, a new Stable, Grannery, and Corn Crib Built within the last year, an old Corn Crib in good Order, a meat house in bad Order an old hen house and a few Fruit Trees... annual value £100.0.0 FRANCIS, WILLIAM (child-John) L-1-27 (1820) Appoquinimink Hundred (1804*) ...one dwelling Kitchen, Stable, Corn Crib Barn & Meat hous all in bad repair One Apple Orchard containing Twenty two trees... annual value $120.00 GEST, HENRY (child-William/Kezia/Thomas/Joseph/Sarah/John/Clemson) K-1-270 (1816) Brandywine Hundred Mansion Farm 76 acres ...a stone dwelling house, two stories high, requiring one half of the roof on the west side to be made new - A frame barn with a cellar underneath, which will require no repair within three years. A cider house and Granary in good repair, as also a spring house and a tenant's house in like order...a good and sufficient Orchard of apple and other fruit trees... annual value $145.00 farm bounding on Delaware River 33 3/4 acres ...a stone dwelling house two stories high in good repair. A frame barn in good Order except the floor, which requires laying and some weather boarding done to the Sides. A sufficient Orchard... annual value $80.00 lot of ground in Cherry Island marsh 6 acres annual value $35.00 lot of woodland 13 acres annual value $6.00 GIBSON, ANDREW (child-Jacob/Hannah) K-1-137 (1813) Brandywine Hundred (1782, 1796*) ...one stone house and Small stone kitchen the house in midling repair except the cellar doors and poarch which is wanting new ones in their places the kitchen little good for one stone spring house partly down and useless one small frame barn in midling Order except one half the roof which is wanted to be made new...the Orchard is not very large... annual value $140.00 GIFFIN, AMELIA (deceased) H-1-300 (1797) Mill Creek Hundred 20 acres ...One old small log dwelling House... annual value £108.18.0 GIVEN, JAMES (child-Sarah) I-1-338 (1804) Christiana Hundred (1804*) 72 acres ...a small Stone House of Two Story and a Log Kitchen, some log stabling and hay house, and a small young orchard theron...houses...in tenantable repair... 6 acres 7 acres (Newport Marsh) 6 acres (Deer Creek Marsh) 19 acres annual value $120.00 N.B.: See also Crosby, Elizabeth/James, I-1-337 GLASGOW, JAMES (child-James/William) G-1-114 (1789) White Clay Creek Hundred ...One Log dwelling House A Kitchen Smoakhouse Stable One Tanyard and Tanhouse and Curry Shop...at the Northwest Side the Great Road leading from Christiana Bridge to Head of Elk...allow it necessary to have a Beamhouse built five new Tats made and ten moved Shop Chimney repaired drying Shed underpinned with Stone...put about One Hundred and fifty Pannel of Post & Rail Fence - some Pannels two and some three Rails... annual value £28.0.0 GLASGOW, JAMES (child-James/William) I-1-64 (1800) White Clay Creek Hundred ...a Dwellinghouse, Barn, and other out Houses all in bad repair, two Orchards one old and the other Young trees... annual value £4.15.0 GOODING, WILLIAM (deceased) H-1-180 (1795) Red Lion Hundred Coxes Neck ...a dwelling house that wants to be new Covered with Oak Shingles the Shingles being ready made a kitchen Joining the same that wants a Chimney in it and some other repairs a Sawd Log Corn house to be Covered and some other repairs a meet house in repair no Garden or Oven nine old Appletrees... annual value £45.0.0 plantation Appoquinimink Hundred ...a Dwelling house of Sawd Logs wants to be raised a Storry and to be Covered with Cedar Shingles and two winders to be made on Each side of the uper Storry the said Storry to be weather boarded and other repairs that may appear to be Necessary to the said house a Barn of sawed Logs the said Barn to be underpinned with Stone in ten places and the East end and Each side to the doors to be weather boarded with Boards and the other Corner to be Box'd a Stable covered with Oak Shingles and some other repairs that may be Necessary a Chairhouse wants New Doors a Corn House wants raising and some other repairs a meet house in repair a old pailed Garden a New well to be Sunk and walld with Bricks within the first year a small young Orchard of Apple trees and some Cherry trees... annual value £55.0.0 GORDON, EDWARD/MARY JANE/SAMUEL (minors) M-305 (1827) Pencader Hundred No. 1 farm tenant - John E. Guthrie ...an old frame dwelling house and log Kitchen both in bad repair, also a small old barn also in bad repair, a log stable a log meat house, both without a Roof; also a few old Apple Trees, the remains of a former orchard... annual value $165.00 No. 2 ...Frame house and Kitchen, log stable and corn house in tolarable repair; also a small thrifty young Apple Orchard of between thirty and forty trees... annual value $75.00 No. 3 Town of Glasgow ...Log dwelling house and Kitchen with a frame store house and log stable... annual value $50.00 No. 4 house & lot in the woods near Janes' Saw Mill ...log house and stable nearly new and not quite finished... annual value $20.00 GROSE, ELLEN (minor) L-286 (1824) St. Georges Hundred (Philip's estate - 1816*) ...one Frame house one and an half story high in tolerable repair... annual value $75.00 GREENWALT, CHRISTIAN (deceased) K-1-189 (1815) Mill Creek Hundred 47 acres ...a log house sixteen by twenty feet two stories high in tolarable repair, and an old log barn 18 by 36 feet wanting considerable repair; also a young orchard of about 50 or 60 trees and an oald orchard much on the decline... annual value $75.00 GREGG, ANN/ELIZABETH (minors) F-1-325 (1784) unknown hundred ...a Stone House thereon with a Log addition thereto, a Log Barn and some small Out Houses, all in good Repair, a good apple orchard... annual value £42.10.0 GREGG, SIMON (child-John/William) E-1-49 (1775) unknown hundred ...a small Barn now wanting Repairing and an old Stable in very bad Order or Repair...the East Room on the Lower Floor in the dwelling House and all the Loft and Garret in the same / the South West Room upstairs excepted / the two thirds of the Breadth of the Cellar at the West Side thereof, to extend within four foot of the Outside or South Door thereof, belonging to said Minors. Together with their Privilege of the said four Foot at the Outside Cellar Door, to extend said four Foot from said Door lengthways of said Cellar and two thirds of the Breadth of the same at the West Side thereof; one third of said Cellar's Breadth at the inside Door thereof, as wide as said Door now is; said two Doors and the two outside Doors of the dwelling House afsd and the Common-Way to go up-Stairs, the Water Spring South of said House and the Way usually used to go to and from the same, and the little Lane at the Northside of the said Dwelling House. [all to remain in common use between the boys & their mother]...Said dwelling House and Cellar in tolerable good Repair, the inside Cellar Door Way and the Front Door Way of said House only wanting to be finished or amended... annual value £10.10.0 GREGG, SIMON (child-John/William) G-1-134 (1790) unknown hundred ...Houses Outhouses and Orchards in midling good Repair, except a paint House necessary to be made to the Barn... annual value £12.0.0 GRIFFIN, DAVID (child-Martha/Jacob/Sarah/Eleanor) G-1-320 (1792) Appoquinimink Hundred ...Mention House and Plantation...one old hewd Log House that wants a flore in it with a new hewd Log Room to the end of it not quite finished with a old Citchen joining to the old mentioned House with a Meat house and a Small new Sawd Lodg House in the Yard Two Corn Cribs and a large old frame Barn that wants repairing with a large old Apple Orchard with a few Peach Trees with a new pailed Garden not finished with on sd place a New Saw Mill... annual value £100.0.0 GRIFFITH, HANNAH/MARY (minors) H-1-171 (1795) Pencader Hundred (Griffith's estate - 1798*) ...one log dwelling house two rooms on the lower floor in good repair except one cill much decayed with one log shed kitchen at the east end thereof in good repair one small log barn with a log chair house at the west end both in good repair one log stable in good repair and an old corn crib there is thereon a few old apple trees the remains of an old orchard... annual value £30.0.0 GRUBB, ADAM (minor ?) M-96 (1825) Borough of Wilmington lot on Front Street ...a brick house and Kitchen...no fire place in house down stairs and upstairs in the house part has never been plastered... annual value $65.00 GRUBB, JAMES (child-Wellington) N-53 (1828) Brandywine Hundred 99 acres 13 fields = 87 acres ...one stone mansion house, log house, frame barn, frame stable and granary, frame cider house, three old orchards, the buildings are in good order except the barn which wants a new roof... annual value $175.00 GUTHRIE, WILLIAM (child-Margaret/Martha) L-158 (1822) Mill Creek Hundred 70 acres ...a log house one & a half stories high, in but a midling state of repair, one other small outhouse one story high, part stone and part log in bad repair, also one log Barn in bad repair...all the fences...are in a tolerable state of repair...a Young Bearing apple orchard of about one hundred and twenty Trees... annual value $70.00 GUTHREY, WILLIAM (child-James/William/Nehemiah/Mary/Margaret/Martha) I-1-635 (1809) Mill Creek Hundred ...two small Log Dwelling Houses in tenantable Repair one small log Barn in much of a decayed State, one small Corn house or Granery one small Young Orchard supposed to be about beginning to bear... annual value $80.00 HADLEY, SAMUEL (child-Phoebe/Sarah/John) I-1-24 (1799) Mill Creek Hundred ...an antient two storry frame House with a sellar underneath part of the wall near falling which we think will be necessary to pull down and rebuild, putting therein a new sellar door also an old Log Kitchen wanting a new roof and other repairs - a log Barn with a throshing floor in midling order except a few logs that are rotten and will require to be replaced with new a stone spring house the wall much cracked and wants a new roof - A number of Apple Trees... annual value $50.00 HALEY, WILLIAM (child-William) F-1-249 (1778) unknown hundred near Cross Roads Stores ...one small log dwelling House thereon and now wants to be new covered as all the Repairs as is now wanting and small log Kitching and a log smoake House with sum scattren apple trees and peach trees... HALL, JOHN ESQUIRE (child-Lydia/Charlotte) K-1-40 (1811) White Clay Creek Hundred Christiana Bridge ...a Brick Dwelling house, Kitchen and smoke house and a frame stable & all in good Order... annual value $150.00 HALL, JOHN ESQUIRE (child-John/Aaron/William) K-1-40 (1811) White Clay Creek Hundred Christiana Bridge ...A Brick dwelling house Kitchen smoak house frame stable & all in good repair... annual value $150.00 Christiana Bridge ...one small frame house...in verry bad repair... annual value $12.00 ...a frame house and lott in newy house in good repair fence bad... annual value $30.00 ...two tobacco shops which in their present state would produce but little rent but if the Guardian were permitted to build chimnies etc might be rented as dwellings... HALL, JOHN ESQR (child-Margaret Charlotte) L-157 (1822) White Clay Creek Hundred ...One Brick Tenement & outhouses, all in tenantable repair... annual value $225.00 minor has 1/5 share $45.00 HAMBLY, RICHARD (child-Richard/Thomas) I-1-445 (1805) St. Georges Hundred 180 acres ...a log Dwelling House Kitchen and framed shed adjoining with cellar under the shed all in bad repair, a Well of Water Walled with Brick the Curb of which in bad repair, a Brick Oven in good repair, two log Corn Cribs, one in good, and the other in bad repair, a log Stable in middling repair, a log Granary in middling repair, a framed chair House in bad repair, a framed Barn with Stone stabling underneath; the Barn in good and the stabling in bad repair, a Garden inclosed with Pales in bad repair, an Apple Orchard Containing about One hundred and thirty young trees, one log smoak House in bad repair...following repairs...new sills, new lower floor new roof and some weather boarding to the Dwelling House, some repairs to the cellar walls under the shed, also some repairs to the kitchen, some new logs to be put in the front of the Smoak-House, a new Curb to the Well, a new Corn Crib, to replace the one in bad repair, new Doors and weather boarding to the Chair-House, an entry to be erected through the Stable under the barn, Mangers Racks to be moved to the entry the Walls of the Stable to be pointed with lime mortar the Garden to be closed with new pales... annual value $300.00 HANBY, JOHN (child-Benjamin F./Rachel M./Charity) N-452 (1830) Brandywine Hundred 80 acres ...an Orchard with about Seventy apple trees in their prime; there are also peach and other fruit trees to no large amount; the mansion house is of log with a Stone addition, one and an half stories high, cellar under one room, on the first floor, two chambers and garret above pretty well finished; also a log and frame barn;...a tenement part log and part frame, with a Garden pailed in; also a good Stone Spring house all in good repair. The fences...are generally out of order... $30.00 required for repairs HANCE, JAMES (child-Hannah) F-1-528 (1787) unknown hundred ...a Log dwelling house & Kitchen, a Log Barn and smoak-house, all in tolerable good Repair; a young bearing Apple Orchard of about Ninety Trees and a small thriving Peach Orchard... HAND, GEORGE (child-Parsons/George C./Louisa) K-1-137 (1814) New Castle Hundred plantation 300 acres ...a brick dweling house in good repair, except a leak in the roof, also a large brick barn and stables in good order except the roof which wants some repairs, there are also an ice house and poultry house that want a small repair one peach orchard containing about one hundred and fifty trees in a decaying condition, one apple orchard containing about eight hundred young trees, many of them broke down by cattle... annual value $750.00 Town of New Castle ...A large brick house...occupied as a Tavern with the wharf and frame store house thereon and the stabling belonging to the same...wants some small repairs... annual value $1000.00 ...One half of a house and store house...in bad order and wants repairing... annual value $50.00 ...A small house & Shop...in good repair... annual value $50.00 HANSON, JOHN (child-James/Mary/Margaret/Rachel) I-1-338 (1804) St. Georges Hundred No. 1 the mantion farm or Plantation - 150 acres ...one & half framed dwelling House & Kitchen adjoining in Middling repair,two small corn cribs in bad repair, a Carriage House and granary in good repair, a Barn with sheded stabling in bad repair, a Poultry house in bad repair, an Apple Orchard containing about Fifty old Trees and a small Peach Orchard of Young Trees, a Well walled with Bricks in bad repair, also one small log Dwelling House & Kitchen adjoining, in one of the Fields afsd in good repair... No. 2 12 acres ...One undivided Moiety of a Log dwelling House and Lot...and a Blacksmith Shop, a framed well in bad order, the Dwelling house and shop in Middling repair... No. 3 ...One two story Log Dwelling House and a small Gardin in good repair... No. 4 2 1/2 acres ...one, one and half story log Dwelling House and Kitchen adjoining late repaired...as also a new two story framed Store House cellared under the same adjoining the last mentioned Dwelling House, a new Carriage House and Granary, which said Store House, Carriage House, and Granary were erected...since the decease of John Hanson...a pailed Garden in good order and a Well in bad order... No. 5 8 acres ...One Lot of Meadow ground within the Augusteen Banks... ...following repairs...to be done...the Wells mentioned in No. 1, 2 & 4, also some repairs on the shed room adjoining the Mantion House... annual value $426.67 HANSON, JOHN (child-James/Mary/Margaret/Rachel) I-1-414 (1805) St. Georges Hundred 10 acres ...A log Tenement...Blacksmith Shop thereon the Tenement in bad repair and Shop in good repair...the Guardians should be permitted to dig and wall a Well and repair the Roof of the Dwelling House... ...A Two Story Log Tenement and Shed Kitchen and Garden in bad repair... 3 acres at the Trap ...a Two Story framed store House, a Dwelling House and Kitchen adjoining said Store, a Carriage House, Granary, and Stable all in good repair, the Stable excepted it being in bad repair... mansion farm 150 acres ...a one and half story framed Dwelling House, Shed and Kitchen adjoining in middling repair, a Smoak House, Carriage House and Granary in Good repair, two Corn Cribs one of which in bad the other in good repair, a Barn and Shed Stable in middling repair about fifty old Apple-trees and a Young Peach Orchard Containing about Sixty trees a fram'd Tenement and Log Kitchen... 7 acres ...meadow ground on Augustine Creek... annual value $344.00 HANSON, NATHANIEL (child-Mary/Hance/Ingebar/Susannah/Nathaniel) D-1-285 (1770) Red Lion Hundred ...the dwelling house in the possession of the widow Elizabeth Hance & Thomas Murphy does want a new Cellar Door and 12 panes of Glass otherwise in Tenantable repair, a Kitchen needing some repairs, a Barn and stable wanting a new Roof, the Barn to be cased at the end to preserve the Duftales, a SmokeHouse, Cart House & two Crips in Tenantable repair... annual value £60.0.0 (first year) £90.0.0 (afterwards) plantation ...the dwelling house wanting repair, the Wells to be walled, the Barn and fences in repair... annual value £12.0.0 HANSON, JOHN (child-Rachel) K-1-334 (1812) St. Georges Hundred 128 acres ...a log house and kitchen in tolrable repair with eight or ten peach and a few cherry trees... annual value $100.00 HANSON, TIMOTHY (child-Samuel/Thomas) I-1-156 (1801) Borough of Wilmington house and lot on Second between Market & King Streets tenant - Charles Watt ...One three story Brick House with back Building compleat and in good order... annual value £45.0.0 lot on Second between Market & King Streets tenant - Hannah Nichols ...One Three Story Brick House with back Buildings compleat and in good order... annual value $45.00 lot on the corner of Second & King Streets tenant - George Young ...One Frame Shop...in good order... annual value £7.10.0 lot on King between Second and Third Streets tenants - Boyd and Jonathan Sturgis ...Two Frame Tenements adjoining each other...Old and in bad condition... annual value £30.0.0 ...One Lot of Marsh in Deer Creek Marsh... annual value £4.10 HANSON, WILLIAM L/MARY/HANNAH (minors) M-306 (1827) St. Georges Hundred 12 acres ...a small log house in tolarabel repair, log Kitchen and...log shead attached to house in very bad repair. - A frame stabel and granary wanting sum repairs...verry bad fencing...no orchard... annual value $45.00 HARDEN, PETER (child-Ann Peterson) I-1-510 (1806) Borough of Wilmington lot on the corner of King and Front Streets ...a Brick House of about eighteen by twenty five feet, three stories high and in good repair, without any kitchen or other buildings attached thereto... annual value $65.00 lot on corner of King and Water Streets (adjoining the above lot) (about sixteen feet front by forty feet back) ...a two Story frame House with a frame kitchen thereto...in indifferent repair, and will hereafter be liable to considerable repairs... annual value $65.00 HARLAN, ABIGAIL/JAMES/GEORGE (minors) L-157 (1822) Christiana Hundred ...a stone dwelling house in poorish repair, no barn nor outhouses, no orchard... annual value $40.00 HARLAN, JOSHUA/MARY/MARGARET (minors) L-113 (1822) unknown hundred ...farm with house and barn thereon... annual value $80.00 ...lot with two log houses...in bad order and wants a general repair... annual value $40.00 HARLAN, AARON (child-Lydia/Elizabeth/Abigail/James/George) K-1-272 (1816) Christiana Hundred 20-30 acres ...an unfinished stone dwelling house not in good condition... annual value $30.00 HARMAN, ABRAHAM (child-John) G-1-29 (1788) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796*) ...one log mensition Hous one old log Kitchen and log Barn and Shed Stable thareunto...House to be new coverred a small Corn Crib to be built and about fifty good winter frute Apple Trees to be planted... HARP, HENRY JAMES/ENOS/SARAH JANE (minors) L-285 (1824) unknown hundred 12 acres ...a small log house and Kitchen, a small Barn and a few Apple Trees ...garden & fencing in need of some repair... annual value $50.00 HARRIS, JOSEPH (child-Jacob) F-1-77 (1779) Appoquinimink Hundred (Jacob - 1796*) ...one dwelling Hous which is to have a new Ruff and no Orched thearon... annual value 90 bushels of wheat ...one dweling Hous which is to have some new Logs put under the Hous and some Repairs don to the Well no Orched thearon... annual value 16 bushels of wheat HARRIS, JOSEPH (child-Sarah/Joseph) H-1-164 (1793) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796*) ...one frame dwelling house wanting a new roof and the seller and chimney repaired one log meet house in good repair one frame spring house wanting weatherboarding one frame barn in good repair also about 110 old apple trees... annual value £50.0.0 HARRIS, JOSEPH (child-Sarah/Joseph) H-1-350 (1799) Appoquinimink Hundred (1796*) ...One frame dwelling House and log kitchen, one spring house and Barn all in bad repair, a small Orchard... annual value £32.10.0 HART, GARRET (child-James/Alfred/William/Catherine/Garret) F-1-38 (1779) Appoquinimink Hundred (James - 1796, 1804 *) ...a large Mentision House of frame and Kitchen theareunto and large fream Barn with Sundry Stables and Wheat Greannere therein and also good darey House Meat House and Hen House pail'd Garden and Yard a Yo