Don - Thank you for all of this.  I am a descendant of Thomas Crump The
Immigrant and appreciate what you have shared below.  I look forward to
looking in to it.

Shirley Cox Schroeder

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Don Trent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Here is one good online source and a few books in print, but there are many
> more than the four I have noted.
>
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~randyj2222/gendict.html
>
>
> Henry Campbell Black. Black's Law Dictionary. The 1st or 2nd editions are
> out of print, but are the best for old legal terms. It is available on CD.
>
> Paul Drake. What Did They Mean by That?: A Dictionary of Historical Terms
> for Genealogists. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, Inc. 1994.
>
> Arlene Eakle and Johni Cerny, eds. The Source: A Guidebook of American
> Genealogy Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry Publishing, 1984.
>
> Barbara Jean Evans. The New A to Zax: A Comprehensive Genealogical
> Dictionary for Genealogists and Historians. 2nd ed. (Champaign, Ill.: the
> author, 1990.)
>
> Jump out to the online site and read the description of a bond. They are
> quite common in that time period. I assume that what you have here is an
> estate settlement, which is a list of accounts receivable and accounts
> payable. You should be able to determine while reading the report which
> are:
> what is owed to the estate of the deceased, and which are debts that need
> to
> be paid. Generally they are grouped together and not intermixed, much as
> you
> might do if you were to tally up amounts that you owed to someone. It is
> always difficult to evaluate excerpts from a document, so I can only guess
> that a bill in your case is just that, an invoice. An order may be a court
> order to enforce payment of some disputed amount, but only a person reading
> the entire document or knowledgeable about the affairs of the deceased
> could
> determine what the intention is of that statement.
>
> As a side note, the William Crump that is named in your list is very likely
> the same William Crump (1783-1864) that owned Raleigh Tavern after 1800.
> He,
> along with other surnames in your list are connected with some of my Trent
> ancestors who lived in Cumberland, Chesterfield, & Powhatan Counties.
>
> "After the death of Moody, ownership of the Raleigh evidently passed to his
> daughter, Maria, married to William Crump of Powhatan county. [Virginia
> Magazine, Vol. XXXIV, p. 165] Although the will of Moody, who died in 1807,
> [Virginia Argus] was not found, this fact of ownership is established by
> Crump's advertisement of the Raleigh in 1813 and an insurance policy in
> 1815. Crump offered the Raleigh for sale through the columns of t he
> Richmond Enquirer, January 7, 1813:
>
> Raleigh Tavern, For Rent - The Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, will be
> rented for the present year, and immediate possession given, or will be
> leased for three or five years. There is a large and valuable pasture
> attached to the tavern; and several beds and other Household Furniture may
> be had with the establishment, as well as two Cooks, a male and female, may
> be obtained by purchase, by those who rent or lease the tavern.
> For terms apply to Robert Anderson, Esq. of Williamsburg, Edwd. W. Trent,
> Esq. of Richmond, or the subscriber living in Powhatan county.
>
> Wm. Crump"
>
> Source: Colonial Williamsburg's Digital History Center Archive
> The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
> P. O. Box 1776
> Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776
> (757) 229-1000
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