INQUISITION Indented and taken at the township
of Cumru in the county of Berks and state of Pennsylvania
the twenty sixth day of March - in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and eighty nine; Before Jacob Bower Esquire
High Sheriff of the county aforesaid, By Virtue of a Writ from the
Orphans Court to me directed and to this Inquisition Annexed;
by the oath of Nicholas Lotz, Nicholas Dick, Godfrey Baker, John Fry,
Christian Barranstin, Isaac Feather, George Merkel, John Zerby, George "Blanke-
beeles"(SP, Nicholas Mosser, Peter Hoshar, & Solemn affirmation of George Thephart____
Twelve honest and lawful men of the said county, upon their oath
and solemn affirmation respectively do say that they went to the
Real Estate or lands and tenements in the said writ mentioned
whereof Elias Retaay (sp) in the said writ mentioned died seiz'd
and then and there did find that the same could not be parted
and divided to and among the parties in the said writ named
without prejudice to or spoiling the whole thereof; Therefore
they have valued and appraised the said real estate or
lands and premises with the (illegible) at three
Hundred pounds -------- in gold or silver coin
now current in Pennsylvania Subject to all monies, In-
trest or encumbrances now due as recoverable for the same
premises. In Testimony whereof as well the said sheriff as the
Inquest aforesaid have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and
seals the day and year aforesaid. ---------------