Individual Details

Death

HENRIETTA BROO KE wrote her will on 6/27/1773 and it was probated in Charles County on 6/16/1774 (Will 39:69 7). She named her four children ANN, RAPHAEL, ROGER and JAMES BROOKE and her sister ANN THOMP SON. RAPHAEL BROOKE administered his mother's estate on 4/29/1778, with a final value of £515 .14.07 (Probate 177-1780:139).

BROOKE, HENRIETTA, Charles Co. 27 June 1773
16 June 1774
To dau. Anne Brook, a Negro boy Ned son of Clare and a Negro woman Charity, horse, saddle and bridle.
To sister: Anne Thompson, riding mare, saddle and bridle and use of Negro girl Pries,
To godson Basil Brook, a Negro girl Elizabeth dau. of Terry,
To my four children: Anne Brook, Raphael Brook, Roger Brooke
and James Brooke, remainder of my estate.
Son Raphael Brook, ex.
Wit: John Lancaster, John Lancaster, Junr. 39.697

Charles County MD Will Book 1777-1780; Page 139.
Henrietta Brooks first account. Apr 29, 1778. The account of Raphael Brooke, executor of Henrietta Brooke, late of CC, decd, viz -
Debts: the inventory of the decd's estate, exhibited into the Prerogative office on (blank date' (N_B. no account of any inventory, either in the County or at Annapolis) amounting to 563 £ 15 shillings 2-1/2 pence; a crop note found in the decd's house amounting to 1045 lbs of tobacco and 704 £ 14 shillings 0 pence; the net proceeds of a hhd of tobacco shipped by the decd to London, the name of the merchant not remembered; money recd for rents of Roger and James Brook's lands, children of the decd, lying in Frederick County; money recd of John Bateman, of John Heard, of Walter Pye, of John Diggs; tobacco made the year the decd died, inspected 1775; corn and wheat with a deduction for overseas share; beans, oats, short corn, fodder; crop tobacco received of John Bateman; tobacco due from this accountant for the deed's Negroes stripping and getting ready 2000 of his tobacco, The whole amount: 990 £ 1 shillings 6-1/4 pence.
Disbursements went to: John Diggs for rent, Thos Reeves, overseer, his share of the crop made in 1774; Roger Brooke, overseer, for his share of the crop made in 1775; Henry Hamersley for the half of the rent of Cob point in partnership with Thomas Reeves, the whole 4500; Cunninghame Findlay and Co; Jno Lancaster; John Evans; Thos Reeves Jr; Anne Neal; Mary Roberts; James Gildart, merchant in Liverpool, as per account proved by John Lancaster, his factor here; Charles Bradley; William Hamersley; Catherine Jernigan; Alexander Hannan; Busigny and Asburne and Co; the estate of Robert Brooke of Calvert County as per account proved and paid by this accountant to John Brooke, executor; William Hanson, Sheriff, for 13 levies for the year 1774; ditto for 12 levies in the year 1775; Daniel Jenifer, late D. Commissary; Commissary Generals fees paid William Fitzhugh, Esq; Walter Hanson, Register; this accountant for rent of the land where the last crop was made, it being his in right of his mother, the decd ruled according to the price she paid Jno Diggs for same, Lhe whole 3250 in proportion from May 2 in the time she died 'til Christmas 2166; quit rents paid for the lands in Frederick County. Balance to be disposed of according to the decd's will: 515 £ 14 shillings 7 pence.
A further time is prayed to pass additional account by reason of an action brought against Sarah Yates on account of the estate - N.B. - No inventory to be found nor any account of it in the Deputy Commissary's Book.