While the possibility of Elizabeth having remarried in 1822 is very real (she must have been fairly young), reading the will I think the marriage of Nancy in Jan 1822 may very well have been the catalyst for the inventory.  Some courts only sat quarterly, so it may be that the family (likely pushed by Nancy's new husband) had to wait awhile after the marriage to ask for the inventory to settle the estate.  The court would have appointed the people to take the inventory and then they would have reported back at the next court.  It easily could have taken until the November court to file the inventory.  Start looking in the court order books in March.  By the by, is the actual date the inventory was taken Nov 1822, or was that the court at which it was presented?

A personal observation:  this is one of the more generous wills I have seen in that Jeremiah allowed Elizabeth the use of her 1/3 even if she remarried.  Most wills of the time stipulated that the use terminated if she remarried and everything be given to the children.  Kudos to Jeremiah for being a good man.

Kathy in Charlotte County



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