This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abbot, Adams, Atkinson, Cowperthwaite,Dean, Elwell,Hewlings, Johnson, Kendal, Lamb, Langley, Mead, Miller, Pierce, Randolear, Sutton, Vanmeter, Whitaker Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oRB.2ACI/633 Message Board Post: Report of the Salem County Commissioners (Loyalists accounts) State Archives, Trenton, NJ; The Report of the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates Salem County :Revolutionary War Manuscript No. 10972. There are two long legal sized sheets in this file, one contains names and values of Personal estates, the other, of Real estate. I will include the real estate in my next post. Personal Estates Moses Atkinson L127..18..6 Hugh Cowperthwaite 402..19..0 Richard Mead 191..8..1 William Pierce & Phillip Adams 176..2..5 James Sutton... 56..9..3 Isreael Elwell 13..9..7 James Dean 16..13..0 Joseph Kendal 11..0..0 John Sutton 61..7..4 Thomas Sutton 186..6..5 Reuben Langley 263..0..11 Abdon Abbot Jun'r 48..7..0 Robert Whitaker 195..18..9 Christopher Randolear 39..16..7 Jacob Vanmeter 1015..11..4 Thomas Lamb 147..10..4 George Johnson 41..5..0 Joseph Hewlings 75..0..0 Michael Miller 200..0..0 total L3,269..17..6 The opposite column shows expenses, not all of the writing clear but transcribing as well as I can: By expenses paid out of the same @ vouchers NO. 1 to 39 L1040..19..10 by ditto for which no vouchers are produced viz ___ ___? 13..15..0 Isaac Collins for an advertisment 1..2..6 John Larison for droping shins(?) 1..10..0 Patrick Conner ___ ___ sold 2..6 Sam'l Brick for serving 4 salpeanas 8..0 Rich'd Brick serving 3 "" 6..0 4 1/2 quires paper 4..6..6 arbitration setting disputed rent 6..18..0 _________ 14..13..6 By their acc proper viz 1 1/2 c wt flour @ L3 furndished guard 4..10..0 1 Gall rum for ditto 6..0..0 a team 2 days carting in goods 1.10..0 drawing leafes 3..0..0 ___________ 15..0..0 commsion L3269..7..6 @ 5% 163..9..10 Bal: due the State 2021..19..4 L3,269..17..6 Bottom of the sheet; Remarks; seventy seven Inquitsitions appear to have been taken and are charged in the above accoount, tho no more than nineteen Estates are brought in the Reason given by the Commisson.