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10 The fencing is in very bad order. The tenant is to keep the fence in good repair at his expense but the timber must be furnished at the expense of the estate In view of the growing crop of wheat having been sold as a part of the Personal Estate of the late William Armstrong the valuation of the said real estate of the present year is Two hundred and twenty five dollars four ninths of which is Ida Armstrongs and amounts to one hundred dollars The future annual valuation has been fixed at three hundred dollars four ninths of which is Ida Armstrongs and amounts to one hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty three and one third cents ($133.33⅓) There are two basins upon the front part of the farm of very valuable land if they were not subject to floods of rain containing about three acres lessening the valuation of the farm both in producturings and appearance and at a little expense can be brought into cultivation and kept drained We therefore recommend to your Honors that an appropriation be made and the joint expenses of Dowers and minors in trust to have the said land drained and brought into cultivation Given from under our hands this twentieth day of April Eighteen hundred and Sixty one Cornelius J. Scott J. W. Ireland We the undersigned being appointed (as will appear by the above and annexed warrant) by the Hon Orphans Court of Kent County to enter upon and estimate the annual valuation of the Real Estate of the minor children of the late Thomas E. Gooding and make a return thereof In accordance with our instructions we first qualified and then entered upon the premises examined its condition and complied with the other instructions given in the said Warrant as will be found below Near and adjoining the village of Galena is a Small farm of about Eighty acres in a fair State of Cultivation but with very poor fencing Upon the said farm is a dwelling house near the Mill Pond Said house is one story high fourteen feet wide by Sixteen feet long with a kitchen which is one story high twelve feet wide and fourteen feet long with Small yard and pailings enclosing it There are two rooms on the first floor and two on the Second in good repair Near the Dwelling is a small shed stable twelve by fourteen feet in bad repair; Also one spring house five by six feet in good repair There is also one small tenant house twelve by fourteen feet one story high and in bad repair |
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Kent County Register of Wills, Valuations and Distribution of Slaves, 1860-1895
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