Try Orphans Court records, as they should have overseen the division of any land. Elizabeth In a message dated 1/10/2009 5:54:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, joslake@sbcglobal.net writes: John Lyon and/or listers: The elongated subject line above probably is it's own answer, but in the context of John Lyons' response re Richard Lockwood, what reaction would result from a 1741 Ssx Co will which omitted the usual "bad health but sound mind" terminology; first named two executors; then phoenetically spelled an unintelligible spouses name; named 5 children; briefly mentioned "tenements and real estate" but omitted any & all ID of same, and that was about it. For what purpose? There was an Inventory submitted (now virtually unreadable due to time) but that would have resulted in any event from an intestacy. I have never found land deeds which could be tied to this will (altho they may be there, somewhere; perhaps in later generations ?). No records found which indicate the executors did anything other than the inventory. Thus the will wasn't a semi-religious document; it didn't dispose of any real estate (it did say the heirs were to share equally); I suppose it could be said it filled some of the purposes of a will, but naturally it certainly leaves many genealogical questions unanswered. Few, if any, speculations would have any validity but one wonders if the testator had anything more in mind than "All my buddies "do" wills, so I'm gonna' do one". :-) :-) Any ideas anyone? Joe Lake On 1/10/09 John Lyon wrote: > Alas, you've found one of those rare properties that seems to be unidentifiable by > any of my devices. I recall coming across this one years ago and spending a little > time trying to unravel the mystery, to no avail. Richard Lockwood appears in no > land records context up to the point of his will and the tract title appears > nowhere except in the Debt Book, in any land or probate reference of any kind up to > the Revolution. Trying to edge in on the tract name by the possibility it was an > alias for a part of a larger survey title yields no fruit. Using geographic fixes > by by mapping triangulation against the tax lists offered nothing likely, and I > abandoned the field. > > How Lockwood came by it, in any event, is not explained. You might consider the > possibility that he did not actually own it, but was conveying in his will the > rights to an unrecorded lease. This does turn out to be an occasional answer in > similar situations. > > But I just don't know. This is one of those for which the surviving data doesn't > seem to be enough. > > John > *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)