Mr. Drake,
Having joined this list only yesterday, I was overjoyed to find the item you 
posted last year concerning my ancestress Judith Hunt Parker.  I attempted to 
follow instructions to read the inventory, but apparently am a year too late.  
Will you please tell me which of your books you have published this inventory 
in?  

Jeannette Sosa

On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:42:33 -0600, Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>Because of her wealth and most interesting assets, I have posted the
>previously unpublished (except in my book) intestate appraisement/inventory
>of Judith (Burton?) Hunt Parker (c1630-1679), the original being in the VA
>Library. Judith married first William Hunt (1625/30-1668), by whom she had
>William Hunt, Jr., Mary, and perhaps Judith (Jr.) and others.  In late
>1668-early 1669 she married Richard Parker (c1630-1677), scofflaw, 
sometimes
>pewterer/brazier and sometimes physician, by whom she, at once, had Richard
>Parker, Jr. Judith died a wealthy widow in the summer of 1679. With arrows,
>I have noted the raw pewter left over from Richard's calling, a "pile of
>books", a "recorder, 2 flutes and a hautbois" (oboe), and also an entry for
>"billiards and pea", the presence of those instruments and the billiard game
>being most remarkable at that early date.  The inventory is worth reading by
>any student of Southside, Surry, Sussex, and Charles City counties.  It may
>be found at my website below; scroll down to and click on "Document of the
>Month", and "zoom in".
>
>Genealogy without documentation is nothing.
>                     Paul Drake JD
>                Genealogist & Author
>            <www.DrakesBooks.com>
>
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