At a court held for Buckingham County at the Courthouse on Monday the 9th day of January 1837.

On the motion of Poindexter P. Smith who made oath as administrator together with Albert Hudgens, Geo. W. Dowdy, Robert Hudgens, Henry Bagby, Benjamin Hudgens and James F. Hudgens his securities, (who beingsworn to justify) entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of $10,000 conditioned as the law directs, certificate is granted him for obtaining letters of administration de bonis non on the estate of Thomas Hudgens dec'd in due form. Ordered that William A. Miller, F. Boatright, Cary Duncan, William P. Boatright, Drury Woodson and William Woodson or any three of them being first sworn before a justice of the peace, do truly and justly appraise in current money the personal estate of said decendent and return an inventory and appreaisement thereof to this Court.
The following is a copy of the bond given by the administrator

Know all men by these presents that we Poindexter P. Smith, Albert Hudgens, George W. Dowdy, Robert Hudgens, Henry Bagby, Benjamin Hudgens and James F. Hudgens are held and firmly bond unto John T. Bocock, Edmund Glover, Sanderson Moseley and John M. Harris, gentlemen justices of the Court of Buckingham County now setting the sum of ten thousand dollars to the payment whereof well and truly to be made to the said justices and their successors, we bind ourselves and each of us, our and each of our heirs executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by there presents Sealed with our seals and dated this 9th day of January 1837. The Condition of the above is Such, that if the said Poindexter P. Smith administrator of all the unadministrated good chattels and credits of Thomas Hudgens deceased, do make a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the said unadministered goods chattels and credits of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of him the said Poindexter P. Smith or untointo the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him, and the same so made do exhibit unto the said County Court, when he shall be thereto required by the said Court, and such goods Chattels and credits do well and trulyadminister according to law; and further do make a just and true account of his actings and doings therein when thereto required by the said Court, and all the rest of the said goods chattels and credits which shall be found remaining upon the account of the said administrator, the same being first examined and allowed by the Justices of the said Court for the time being, shall deliver and pay unto such persons respectively as are entitled to the same by law, and if it shall hereafter appear that any last will and testament was made by the deceased and the same proven in Court, and the executor obtained a certificate of the probate thereof, and the said Poindexter P. Smith do in such case, being required render and deliver up his letters of administration. Then this obligation to be void else to remain in full force.

Sealed and delivered open Court in the Presence of

P.P. Smith Albert Hudgens Geo W. Dowdy Robert Hudgens Henry Bagby Benj'a Hudgens James F. "his mark" Hudgens

Inventory and appraisement of the personal estate of Thomas Hudgens deceased taken in complaince with an order of the County Court of Buckingham made January Court 1837

Two dozen table plates Three dishes 9t one carter 12t one water 4 tumblers and 2 wine glasses Half a dozen table spoons and two salt cellars one small pine table Six butter pots $2.00 2 candlesticks & one muffler 75 cts One tea pot 50 cts 1 coffee pot 25 cts One tea board, sett china and 8 tea spoons Two common bowls and candle moulds Two tin basins and one bucket One old walnut chest Two pitchers 50 cts one sugar dish bottles and vials 50 cts One painted pine cupboard one milk churn One knife box tin knives and 11 forks One tea kettle and tribelts 75 cts two flat irons 50 cts And irons shovels and tongs One feather bed, bedstead and furniture One Do " small Do One Do " large do One Do " do do One Do " do do 8 chairs one walnut desk One lot books 30 cts one small trunk 25 cts One small pine table One folding walnut table One do with broken leg One looking glass One pine chest One jug and iron bound cask one flax wheel and hatchet one country seal Five pole axes and 2 chopping ditto Two wedges and 1 small piece bar iron one lot of old tools hand saw augers chisels etc. One ox chain Four hilling hoes 3 grub hoes rake and frow Two seythes and one reap hook Three coalter plows devices and pins One cultivator 4 cary plows and 7 swingle trees one cutting box 2 sets plows gear collars hames traces one lot corn supposed to be between 20 & 30 barrels one lot flax one ox cart Nine sheep one bay mare (young) one mouse coloured mare colt one old bay mare One yoke of oxen One peded steer 4 cows 4 young yearlings 3 stacks of sheaf oats 1 lot wheat straw 1 lot top fodder and shucks 2 stacks blade fodder 1 loom $4 two spinning wheels $2 2 trays and 1 sixter 1 lot of tubs and pales 3 pots 2 ovens 1 skillet 4 pair hcks & 2 pot racks 1 lot pork supposed to be 800 pounds at $12 The crop of tobacco supposed to be 5000 pounds Negroes - Man Tom Woman Lucy & her two youngest children Henry and Mandy Boy Frederick girl Charlotte about 9 years old Boy Charup " 5 do Boy Carter " 8 do girl Lucy Ann " 5 "

$ 3.00 3.50 ..50 1.50 ..75 2.75 ..75 3.00 ..50 ..50 1.50 1.00 4.00 ..25 2.00 1.25 1.00 20.00 7.00 20.00 20.00 20.00 10.50 ..75 ..25 7.00 1.50 ..25 1.00 1.00 3.00 ..37 3.00 ..75 ..50 1.50 2.50 1.00 1.00 ..75 10.00 1.50 2.00 [no entry] 16.50 88.50 30.00 12.00 45.00 17.00 40.00 8.00 75.00 10.00 2.00 25.00 6.00 ..50 ..50 4.00 96.00 [no entry] 800.00 700.00 600.00 400.00 300.00 400.00 250.00 _______ $3650.00

We the undersigned being first duly sworn for the purpose have appraised the personal estae of the late Thomas Hudgens deceased agreeably to the above inventory and in obedience to an order of the County Court of Buckingham to us directed - Given under our hand this 11th day of January 1837

Wm. P. Boatright Thos Boatright Cary Duncan

At a Court held for Buckingham County the 13th day of February 1837 - This inventory and appraisement of the estate of Thomas Hudgens dec'd was this day returned and ordered to be recorded.

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