I can't say without looking (maybe not even then) but typically you have 
a date submitted or recorded or both and dates for individual items in 
the accounts. The dates of the items in the accounts would be when they 
were made. Sometimes it will be part of the description, i.e.  quit 
rents for 1772,1773, 1774

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On 10/9/2014 12:54 PM, Martha Katz-Hyman wrote:
> In looking over the transcription of the orphan accounts for Edward Moss, I
> realize that the accounts submitted by Thomas Smith, his guardian, go from
> 1773 to 1778. Does that mean he was still an orphan in 1778 or are these
> "catch up" accounts submitted Smith in those years?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Martha Katz-Hyman
> Curator
> Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
> Williamsburg, VA
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