I remembered that I had put the MAS Excel file into FileMaker. A search for kitchens shows that of 30658 policies, 10930 underwrote kitchens. Some were single structures, but most were as part of a larger set of buildings. The most common appears to be a dwelling and a kitchen.
Lyle Browning
> On Jan 4, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Eric Huffstutler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> If it also helps, when our house (Capt. Charles Wills mansion) in Richmond was first insured by Mutual Assurance in January 1813, they included the Kitchen and Smoke House. On a reevaluation, the Carriage House was also covered.
> Our summer (outside) kitchen was a 2-story, 4-room brick structure. BTW, the winter kitchen in the basement still exists.
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> Eric Huffstutler
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> From: "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, January 4, 2016 11:00:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Insuring kitchens
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> The Mutual Assurance Society has more than a few. Some are part of a larger elective listing and some are individually insured structures. I have the Mary Washington Excel set that I have regularized by correcting their transliteration effort. Unfortunately, they did not put in individual structure values but rather aggregates so you would need to go to the policy copies for that info.
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> Lyle Browning
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>> On Jan 2, 2016, at 4:38 PM, James D Watkinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Has anyone seen an insurance policy for a kitchen in Virginia during the
>> early Republic?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> James D. Watkinson, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor
>> History Department
>> Virginia Commonwealth University
>>
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