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 of John Washington, &pound;377; and of John Pritchard, &pound;476. In addition, the personalty of the latter included in the form of debts due him &pound;30 and 101,307 pounds of tobacco.

The largest personalty appraised in Middlesex County by order of court was that of Robert Beverley; it consisted of property amounting in value to &pound;1,531 4s. 10d. To this sum, there are to be added the debts due him in the form of tobacco, 331,469 pounds, and in the form of metallic money, &pound;801. This would mean that Beverley was in the possession of a personal estate that would be equivalent to &pound;5000 at least, or in modern figures perhaps to about one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, rating tobacco at two pence a pound. The personal estate of Corbin Griffin was valued at &pound;1131, and that of Robert Dudley at &pound;548.

The personal estates appraised in Henrico previous to the close of the century were comparatively small. The personalty owned by Francis Eppes, who combined the trade of a local merchant with the business of planting, was probably as large in volume as that of any citizen in this county; independently of the value of the contents of his store, which at the least added as much again, it amounted to &pound;302. The personalty of Thomas Osborne was inventoried at &pound;208; of William Glover, at 23,500