If the estate was too small, the orphan was to be apprenticed unless a relative or some other charitable person provided support. These orphans were to be maintained and educated according to their estates and taught a trade. The 1704 act stated that, when the executor or administrator inventoried the personal property of the estate, two next of kin and two creditors of the deceased were required to be present, with two sworn appraisers, all of whom were to sign the document to indicate their presence and approval. The law gave executors and administrators three months to file an inventories. Realty and Personalty .
Personalty means personal property.
The 1715 act provided that a widow could within 40 days of probate file a renunciation, releasing everything left to her in her husband's will and taking instead a third of his personal property and her dower interest in his real property, the same as if he had died intestate. If she wished, she could separate real and personal property.