Mrs. Williams is now working on Hyde County wills that span the years 1776-1818 which will be published in the future. Will Book 4 includes inventories of estates, estate sales, administration accounts, guardian accounts, year's allotment for widow's and divisions of property.
Inventories are listings of all personal property on hand at the time of decedent's death.
Most of the time these inventories did not include real estate holdings. Some of these inventories and estate sales were very lengthy and could not be included in their entirety for the web page. I did, however, list some of the buyers at the estate sales and included the date the inventory or sale took place. Administration accounts were made by the administrator after liquidating the estate. Guardians were required to submit annual accounts of their wards.