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Kent County Register of Wills, Valuations and Distribution of Slaves, 1860-1895
Volume 860, Page 63   View pdf image
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day of May 1864 enter upon view and value the said real estate
as follows
                      The said estate is a farm known as Tulip Forest
with a few additions and changed made in recent years situated
on the County road between Belaer and St Pauls church in the fifth
election District of Kent County and adjoining the lands of Jos
A Harper David Derickson and others The farm which though
not highly improved is in fair condition contains four Hundred
and Twenty acres of which Three Hundred acres is arable land
the residue in wood and branch and is unequally divided into
Eight fields and two peach orchards one in full maturity the other
just coming in to fruit both appearing vigorous and thrifty  The
fencing is uniformly in good condition & The buildings consist
of a frame dwelling house two stories high the main front
being forty feet long and eighteen deep with an to forty feet by
eighteen under apart there is a small cellar

          There is also a Meat House of brick fourteen feet by twelve
a poultry House Twenty feet by twelve a Quarter (formerly the
Dwelling) Thirty Eight feet by Twenty a Granary Twenty
four feet by eighteen a Barn with stables and corn cribs
attached forty eight feet by Thirty Eight connected with
the Barn is also a shed with small stable and a left over the
Whole Thirty Eight feet long by Thirty feet wide there is an Ice
House seventeen feet square there is a garden well enclosed
with privy therin

          of those buildings the dwelling house and shed attached
to the Barn are new the other buildings old but in good
order  The farm has heretofore been cultivated so as to
assign two fields a large and a small one to wheat two to corn
and one to oats or wheat allowing three to grass and pasture
and we recommend a continuation of the same mode
of tillage   A small portion of the wood land has been cut
off and we respectfully suggest that it should be cleared
and brought into cultivation allowing the crops thereon for
three years to pay the expense

    The estimated rental value of the whole farm including
for the present year the two fields now in wheat which
was embraced in the sale of the growing crop we put at nine
Hundred Dollars deducting from this amount the widows
dower Three Hundred Dollars six Hundred Dollars will be
left of which one sixth or one Hundred Dollars will be the
portion of William T Skirven the minor

                   We find also the following named slaves belonging
to said estate and appraised by us as follows


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Kent County Register of Wills, Valuations and Distribution of Slaves, 1860-1895
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