Hetty Balding

  Notes:

Sarah Balding wrote her will on Dec 23 1799 and it was probated in Sussex County, DE on Feb 8 1803 and bequeaths to:
1. Sarah Balding Magee --daughter of Joshua Magee and Unice, his wife
-to have 1 clock which now stands in the testatrix's house and 1 large looking glass,
5 beds and furn., with 1 suit of curtains, 4 gold rings, 5 silver tea spoons, 12 pewter
plates, 5 small pewter dishes and 1 large oval pewter dish.
-to have 3 cows and calves, 1 set of blacksmith's tools, 1 large walnut desk, 1 small
maple desk, 1 mahogany table, 1 small maple tables, 1 woolen wheel, 2 spinning wheels, 2 pine chests, 1 gum chest, 1 small tea chest, 1 small trunk, 2 dozen Blue-edged Queen's China plates, 2 dozen of the same kind shallow and 2 dozen of the same kind of ware deep plates, 1 set of Queen's China black and white, 1 set of green and red, 1 coffee pot of the same kind, of ware, 3 cream pots of the same kind of ware, 1 case with 12 bottles, 2 iron pots, 1 Dutch oven, 1 skillet, 1 large iron kettle, 1 iron tea kettle, 2 large tumblers with covers, 2 sugar dishes, 2 glass salt sellers with feet, and 1 without fee, 1 bell metal spice mortar and pestle, 4 flat irons and 1 box iron and heaters along with all the testatrix's wearing apparel
-to have all the remainder of the estate
2. Sarah Cathell Hitch --daughter of Curtis Hitch and Hetty, his wife
-to have 1 bed and furn. marked Sarah Cathell Hitch
3. Betsy Nichols
Esther Cathell
-should Sarah Balding Magee die w/out heirs, then the property to be divided among them and Sarah Cathell Hitch equally share and share alike
4. Isaac Cooper --friend
-named executor of the will
Witnesses: William B. Cooper, Covington Messick (mark), John Polk (SxW-F:100)

Hetty married Curtis Hitch, son of John Hitch and Isabell Nicholson. (Curtis Hitch was born about 1761 in Somerset Co., MD and died 05 Aug 1813-12 Mar 1814 in Somerset Co., MD.)