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 > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html > -- "....And so it is with life: What we see while watching others, depends on the purity of the window through which we look." anonymous "Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow" ~ Lawrence Clark Powell To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html