From Kim:
Last Will & Testament of Samuel Brockman, Orange County Va, 1762
Inventory of enslaved persons at his death (1766):
George (bequeathed to wife Mary)
Benjamin
Dinah (bequeathed to son Samuel, Jr.)
Phillis (beq to son William)
Peter (beq to daughter Rachel Rogers)
Hack
Winney/Ninney/Jinney ("negro child" beq to dau Elizabeth Street)
David
Judy
Lewis
Final settlement of Samuel Brockman's Will at wife Mary's death, 15 Jan 1776:
Enslaved persons:
Jinney (beq to Anthony Street)
Dinah (Samuel, Jr.)
Molley (John Webb)
Fan (Samuel, Jr.)
Bach (John Haley)
Rueben (son William)
Selah (son William)
Lewis (son-in-law John Henderson)
In Samuel Brockman, Sr's will (1762) he mentions a slave named Hercules, who he bequeaths to daughter Sarah Henderson. Hercules does not appear on the 1766 inventory, however.
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