>Resent-Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 17:24:02 -0600 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Sat Sep 1 17:24:02 2001 >From: [email protected] >Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 19:23:57 EDT >Old-To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] >X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 138 >Subject: [NCDOBBS] VA & MD Probate Record Link >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/626 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] >Resent-Bcc: > >While looking for a definition of some items found on an estate inventory in >1823, I found this really neat site. It has inventories for over 300 estates >from MD & VA. The site is Gunston Hall, originally owned by George Mason. >The period of time for the estates featured are during the same period Mason >was alive. It does not feature every estate inventory from the following >locales, only selected ones but they may help someone and they are >interesting. Here is what areas are covered as quoted from the site: > >"Using microfilm of original court records from Fairfax, Prince William and >Stafford counties in Virginia and Charles and Prince George's counties in >Maryland, probate inventories were selected according to predetermined >criteria. Considered to be of particular importance, these counties reflect >jurisdictions in which George Mason owned land and/or was known to have >transacted business. In addition to the counties cited, a number of >room-by-room inventories are included from the following jurisdictions: > >In Virginia: the cities of Norfolk and Fredericksburg and the counties of >James City, Elizabeth City, Lancaster, Surrey, Richmond, Frederick, Charles >City, Spotsylvania, Middlesex, Westmoreland and York. > >In Maryland: Anne Arundel County and Annapolis." > >The URL for the Probate Inventories is: >http://www.gunstonhall.org/probate/inventory.htm > >The main URL for the Gunston Hall site is: >http://www.gunstonhall.org > >Hope this helps someone, > >Billy > > >