On 19 August 1833, Thomas Haynes, James Semple and Thomas Smith were bound $5,000 for Thomas Haynes’s administration of the estate of John W. Hoomes. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 23, pages 120–121.]

Pursuant to an order of court dated 19 August 1835, an inventory and appraisal of the estate of John W. Hoomes was made by Geo: H. Dobyns, Barnett Moss, and John L. Cox, and ordered recorded on 19 January 1835. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 23, pages 314–316.]

The estate of John W. Hoomes, deceased, in account with Thomas Haynes from 1833 to 1835 was ordered recorded on 17 May 1836. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 24, pages 26–29.]