and seal this ninth day of September 1779.
Signed and sealed in the presence of James Jenings, Jacob
Barb and Anthony Houghman.
Signed Harbard Winegardner
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The Will was admitted to Probate October 11,1779. An
appraisal of his personal property was filed January 10, 1780 amounting to 2151 shillings
and 12 pence. The inventory consisted of the usual things needed to run a farm such as (a)
Livestock- horses, cows, sheep, calves (b) Tools -scythes, mattock, mauls, axes, hoes,
rakes, wedges, copper tools, carpenter tools (c) household articles -pots, kettles,
trammels, lantern, pans, ladles, candle stick hooks, shovels, tongs, dishes, basins,
tinware, coffee mill, trenchers, knives, forks, spice box, meal sieve, chests, beds,
table, loom, flax brake, sheets, bed tickspr. shoes, box of pipes, , stove, etc, (d)
Personal-hat, waistcoat, great coat, 2 pr. leather breeches, 4 shirts, 3 pr. trousers, 2 2
pr. spectacles, ink pott, hone and razor etc., and Miscellaneous--Bee hive, grindstone,
dough-trough, turnip stamper, sheep shears, canisters, decanters, books, shoemakers tools,
three deer skins, three bells, machinery, etc. This Inventory is found in Will book B,
page 317, Loudoun Co. courthouse, Leesburg, Virginia.
While Americans were busy making a living, many have awakened
to the fact that a majority of the old barns on family farms across the country have
disappeared and that many of the remainder are rapidly following. 'Grandfather's old barn'
seems to have always been there. We are now shocked and dismayed to find it hopelessly
tumbled down. Whatever it may represent to us, with its passing we lose a part of our
agrarian heritage that cannot be replaced. It may be too late for many of these veteran
structures, but there are those who are feverishly repairing and restoring a few that are
left. Witness this old barn, the Winegardner barn, an excellent example of the few older
ones destined to survive: This story started when Johannes Harbard Winegardner
(1713-1779), sailed on the ship "Two Brothers" from the Electorate of Palatine,
Triers, Hapsburg, Germany and landed at Philadelphia in September 15, 1752. He first lived
in Lancaster County, the Pennsylvania colony, and then ultimately settled near Leesburg in
the colony of Virginia. The patriarchal Johannes gave his Leesburg, Virginia, plantation
solely to Herbert (equiv.,