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7 we estimate at two hundred and seventy four dollars There is on the home farm a brick dwelling house 52 feet front three stories high with a porch in front the whole length of the building and seven feet wide A frame kitchen 30 feet long by 12 feet wide a part one story and a part of it two stories high A log meat house 12 by 9 feet a wagon house twenty by 12 feet and shed on both sides of the same dimensions A shed stable 26 by 12 feet A carriage house 15 by 16 feet A granary 26 by 27 feet with a corn crib on both sides 20 by 8 feet Two frame poultry houses 11 by 8 feet all the buildings on this farm are in good repair and most of them are nearly new There is a garden 150 by 80 feet enclosed by a good paleing fence in which there are 24 dwarf pear trees and a few peach all thrifty and in good condition there is also on this farm an ice house 16 feet Square in good repair This farm contains one hundred and thirty six acres one hundred and ten of which are arable the balance is in a growth of small woods and bushes About one fourth of the chared land is cultivated annually in rotation in corn and the same proportion is seeded in wheat and oats The oat and wheat land is usually seeded in clover The fences on the farm are all in good repair On the Harriss farm there is a frame dwelling house two stories high 32 by 30 feet a frame kitchen 30 by 20 feet a brick meat house 16 feet Square all in tolerable repair two old frame corn houses 20 by 9 feet an old log Stable 18 by 12 feet a frame shed stable 36 by 24 feet A frame granary 36 by 24 feet an old frame carriage House 16 by 8 feet all in only tolerable repair There is a garden 130 by 150 feet well enclosed by a good pale fence and an orchard of 36 old and fifty young apple trees and one hundred thrifty peach trees This farm contains five hundred and twenty acres about four hundred and thirty of which are arable the balance is in branch and swamp land with a small growth of wood upon it About one third of this farm is cultivated annually in rotation in corn followed by oats and clover and about one fourth of the arable land is seeded in fallow wheat The miners are entitiled to an interest in about one fourth of this farm Mrs Cacy their mother owning in her own eight seven twelefths of it and a right of Dower on the balance Their interest in the Inn Enparty which consists of a two story brick dwelling house 24 by 28 feet with a porch in front the whole length of the building a frame back building or kitchen 34 by by 12 feet in tolerable repair a log meat house 14 by 10 feet an old frame dairy 9 by 8 feet an old log corn house 22 by 14 feet and an old frame stable and carriage house 22 by 22 feet all in bad repair A garden is attached to this building 120 by 110 enclosed |
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Kent County Register of Wills, Valuations and Distribution of Slaves, 1860-1895
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