On 18 April 1732, On the peticon of John Edmondson & Mary his wife late Mary Boughan one of the Daughters of John Boughan late decd against William Wortham & Dorothy his wife late Dorothy Boughan for their third part of the negroes & their increase and the psonal estate of the sd John Boughan decd the last Order of this Court (for Capt William Brooke, Capt Benja Winslow & Mr Robert Parker to State & Settle the sd William & Dorothys account of the estate of the sd John Boughan decd and Set apart & deliver to the sd John and Mary their due Share of the sd decedts estate) is continued and it is also ordered that the sd William, Benjamin, & Robert report their proceedings therein to next Court. [Essex County, Virginia, Order Book 1729–1733, page 232.]