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Subject: [VACHESTE] Thanks for help on Will Assessment
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:49:32 EDT

I want to thank all of you who provided a ready answer to the question of
what the three figures "Value lbs 1219/11/10" meant in a 1762 inventory. One
individual suggested a pound in 1750 was the equivalent of $65.00; he was
very wealthy (FYI, I descend from one of his grandsons, who was the fourth
and probably the fifth son.)

The answer is British sterling lbs (I CANNOT find the key to making the pound
symbol)/schillings/pence. This is also an accounting of assets, exclusive
of land.

The John Baugh whose inventory was valued above also had at least 350 acres
of land on the Appomattox in Chesterfield. Anyone have any idea what land
was worth then?

Thanks again to you all.

Janet (Baugh) Hunter

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