Wharton Information

Wharton Estates in Sussex County, Delaware
from the Delaware State Archives Web-site

1790 Reconstructed Census of Sussex County, Delaware

The 1800 Census of Sussex County, Delaware

The 1810 Census of Sussex County, Delaware

Wharton Records In The Orphans Court of Sussex County, Delaware

From Richard E. Stevens' Web-site
Sussex County, Delaware Orphans Court Records 1770-1830

Baker Wharton, dec'd, dated 1793, (Lib. E fol. 8) land in Baltimore Hundred, "...one old log house seventeen feet by twelve covered with pine bords much rotten as well as the Logs of said house is much rotten...one hundred and ninety two panels of sorrow fence supposed to be five good rails to each panel also we find one peach tree..." Annual value £0.40.0

David Wharton, dec'd, dated 1791, (lib. E fol. 6) land in Baltimore Hundred, "...neither House nor orchard, & but 288 pannels of worm fence 8 fails to a pannel, & 150 of water fence..." Annual value £0.45.0

Isaiah Wharton, dec'd, dated 1816 & 1820, (Lib. L fol. 384 & Lib. M fol. 20) land in Dagsborough Hundred & Baltimore Hundred, children; Woolsey, Mary, Lydia B. & Joshua Wharton, mannor plantation containing 400 acres, "...One Mansion House 39 by 19 feet two Story high three rooms on the lower floor, two brick Chimneys well finished and in good repair..."

Jonathan Wharton, dec'd, dated 1796, (Lib. F fol. 265) land in Baltimore Hundred, child; John C. Wharton, "...one Fraim'd Dwelling House about 25 feet sqare in Bad Repair, one other fraim'd Do about 15 feet Square in Middling order, one Kitchen bout 20 by 17 feet in Middling Repair, one Fraimed Barn 20 by 16 feet in bad Repare, one Small meat House in Midling Repare, one Milk house 5 feet square in bad repare, one Garden Badly Inclosed One good Corn Cribb Likewise there is 1019 pannels of worm fence about 6 good rales to the pannel 35 peach Trees, & 39 old apple trees..." Annual value £30.0.0

Jonathan Wharton, dec'd, dated 1803, (Lib. IJ fol. 224) land in Baltimore Hundred, child; David Wharton, "...seven hundred pannells of wormd fence seven rails to each panel out side fence--Also of cross fence. We find one hundred and fifty four panels of worm fence four rails to each panel, Also thirty one old scrube apple trees, also thirty six peach trees Also one Old dwelling house twenty five feet square much out of repair, Also one old Kitchen framed with brick chimne twenty feet by fifteen much out of repair-- also one old barn in bad repair twenty feet by sixteen; also one good milk house seven feet by five; also one old smoke house eight feet square out of repair, also one old dwelling house twenty by fifteen feet with brick chimne, about thirty pole of the above mentioned dwelling house much out of repair..." Annual value $24.00

Wrixham Wharton, dec'd, dated 1796, (lib. F fol. 346) land in Dagsborough Hundred, children; William, Elisha & Wrixham Wharton, "...One framed dwelling House Storyed three rooms below and the Chamber much out of repair fourteen Hundred and fifty three pannells of fence on said lands five Hundred pannells thereof Computed at Seven rails to the Pannell & the remainder at five rails to the pannel there is on the Said lands One Hundred and thirty very Ordinary Apple two Peach and one Pare tree..." Annual value £3.0.0

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