WillAbstracts

Wills of Isle of Wight County, Virginia
Miscellaneous Abstracts

The following abstracts are from my own research in the Isle of Wight County records. I encourage you to submit any wills you have, abstracted using the format below. Wills probated after 1800 are of special interest since those prior to that date have been published in Blanche Adams Chapman's "Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800". All submissions, comments, (or complaints ) may be directed to me

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Joyce Whitehead

NAME: ALLEN, William
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 454
DATE OF WILL: 11 Oct 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Dec 1801
LEGATEES: Everything to Elizabeth Wilson, but if she dies, return to her sister, Holland Wilson
EXECUTOR(S): Thomas Jones
WITNESSES: John Wrenn, Charles Wrenn, Herbert Jones
NOTES:

NAME: ALLMOND, William
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 8
DATE OF WILL: 29 Dec 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Feb 1809
LEGATEES: Daughter, Nancy Allmond; wife (living but not mentioned by name); Children: Wilson, Sally, Rhody and William Allmond and Patsy Tolar.
EXECUTOR(S): Friend, RobertWilliam Tynes
WITNESSES: Drewry Driver, Robert Driver, John Jolly
NOTES:

NAME: BARLOW, James
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 243
DATE OF WILL: 2 Apr 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Jun 1806
LEGATEES: "Beloved wife, Mary; daughter, Frances Maria Barlow.
EXECUTOR(S): Wife and Thomas Gibbs
WITNESSES: Thomas Jordan, Sr., Joel Hollaway, Jordon Goodson
NOTES:

NAME: BATTIN, Samuel
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 402
DATE OF WILL: 21 Feb 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Apr 1801
LEGATEES: Wife, Patsey Battin; children; (his land lying on the back of David Whitley's land to pay just debts.)
EXECUTOR(S): Wife and Allen Johnson
WITNESSES: Andrew Gale, Jesse Bracey; Mills Bracey
NOTES:

NAME: BEALE, James L.
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 238
DATE OF WILL: 2 Nov 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Dec 1806
LEGATEES: Sally Dukes, the plantation where I now live; Children: James Dukes, Bartholomew Dukes, Sally Dukes, Albert Dukes.
EXECUTOR(S): None named
WITNESSES: John Everitt, Thomas Gale, Andrew Gale, William Jordan
NOTES:

NAME: BOYKINS, Francis Sr.
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 91
DATE OF WILL: 7 Oct 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Apr 1805
LEGATEES: Daughter, Nancy Boykins (to receive his Currowaugh Plantation); son, John Boykins; son Francis M. Boykins;
EXECUTOR(S): Son, Francis Boykins
WITNESSES: William Chapman, Daniel Whitley, Samuel Bracey
NOTES:

NAME: BRACEY, Champion
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 109
DATE OF WILL: 20 Feb 1802
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Jun 1805
LEGATEES: Loving wife, Rebecca Bracey; son, John Bracey; son, Hezekiah Bracey; daughter, Patsey Bracey; daughter, Betsey Bracey; son, Jesse Bracey; son, Shadrack Bracey; son, Mills Bracey.
EXECUTOR(S): Wife, Rebecca
WITNESSES: James Wills, Jacob Parkerson
NOTES:

NAME: BRACEY, James
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 760
DATE OF WILL: 3 May 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 July 1803
LEGATEES: Loving wife, Mary; son, (?)
EXECUTOR(S): Wife, Mary Bracey
WITNESSES: Isaac Vellines, Isaac Moody, William Ballard
NOTES:

NAME: BRANTLEY, Wilson
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Pg 96
DATE OF WILL: 21 Nov 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Apr 1805
LEGATEES: Daughter, Mary Glover; daughter, Sarah Moody; daughter, Winney Wilson; Elizabeth Brantley, daughter of James Brantley(dec'd); Sarah Brantley, daughter of James Brantley (dec'd); Robert Glover; Wilson Moody, son of Ismael Moody.
EXECUTOR(S): Robert Glover, Ismael Moody
WITNESSES: James Barlow, Sr., Thomas Goodson, Joseph Goodson, William Ward
NOTES:

NAME: BROCK, William
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 401
DATE OF WILL: 20Jun 1807
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Sep 1807
LEGATEES: "My loving wife"; daughter, Susannah Cofer; son, Benjamin Brock; son, Robert Brock; son, John Brock; support for son, Thomas Brock, an idiot.
EXECUTOR(S): Son, Benjamin Brock
WITNESSES: Benjamin Brock, Elizabeth Hall
NOTES:

NAME: BROWN, John
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 788
DATE OF WILL: 31 Mar 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Dec 1803
LEGATEES: Wife, Temperance Brown; all his children
EXECUTOR(S): Wife
WITNESSES: George Lawrence, John Reynolds, Emetius Fly, Sally Fly
NOTES:

NAME: CASEY, John
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 194
DATE OF WILL: 14 Feb 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Apr 1806
LEGATEES: Everything to wife
EXECUTOR(S): Henry Casey (brother)
WITNESSES: Benjamin Bidgood, William Deford, Henry Casey
NOTES:

NAME: CHAPMAN, Allen
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 203
DATE OF WILL: 1 Feb 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Jun 1806
LEGATEES: Hardy Chapman (land adjoining William James Bridger and Thomas Pierce and Thomas Hancock); Sally Chapman; Harrison Chapman.
EXECUTOR(S): Hardy Chapman
WITNESSES: John Montgomery, Daniel Sumner, Pheraby Smith
NOTES:

NAME: CHAPMAN, Hardy
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 259
DATE OF WILL: 3 Dec 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Jan 1807
LEGATEES: Son, Neddy Chapman; son, Hardy Chapman; daughter, Molly Crocker Chapman; daughter Sally Chapman; wife, Sally Chapman.
EXECUTOR(S): Richard Chapman
WITNESSES: John Montgomery, Lewis Johnson, Kinchin Turner
NOTES: Land bequeathed to him by Alan Chapman, to be sold.

NAME: CHAPMAN, Richard
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 282
DATE OF WILL: 6 Jan 1807
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Jun 1807
LEGATEES: "Loving wife", Polly Chapman; daughter, Nancy Chapman; son, Herah(?) Chapman.
EXECUTOR(S): Joseph Westray
WITNESSES: Harrison Chapman, John Vellines, John Montgomery, Kinchen Turner
NOTES:

NAME: CHAPMAN, William Sr.
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 73
DATE OF WILL: 21 Dec 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Jan 1805
LEGATEES: Son, Robert Chapman; four youngest children: Fanny, Peggy, Samuel and Robert Chapman; son, Richard Chapman; son, Hardy Chapman; daughter, Sally Jordan; daughter, Temperance Powell
EXECUTOR(S): David Whitley
WITNESSES: Barthlomew Lightfoot, Joseph Westray
NOTES:

NAME: COUNCILL, Miles
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 253
DATE OF WILL: 8 Dec 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Jan 1807
LEGATEES: "Loving wife", Perinah Councill; son, Hardy Councill; son, Eley Councill; daughters, Cherry Councill; Dolly Councill; Elizabeth Council; Ann Councill.
EXECUTOR(S): Wife and John B. Eley
WITNESSES: Robert Vaughan, William Lester, James Vaughan
NOTES:

NAME: CROCKER, Joseph
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 722
DATE OF WILL: 25 Mar 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Apr 1803
LEGATEES: "My negro woman Edy, and her child Lucy, be emancipated". Brother William Crocker's son, John;
EXECUTOR(S): Brother, William Crocker
WITNESSES: William Morrison, Thomas Norsworthy, Will Johnston
NOTES:

NAME: CUTCHIN, Joseph
SOURCE: Will Book 15, Page 351
DATE OF WILL: Dec 1819
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Mar 1820
LEGATEES: "Beloved wife", Penelope; niece, Nancy Lightfoot; Penelope Holladay; William J. Green (son of William Green).
EXECUTOR(S): Wife and Bartholomew Lightfoot
WITNESSES: William Campbell, James Meadow, William Crumpler
NOTES: Wants a tombstone engraved with his name and age, and one acre where he now lives for a family graveyard where he wants to be deposited. Frees his slaves, but if they do not want to leave Virginia to enjoy their freedom, then they may choose the following to belong to: Nancy Lightfoot, Matilda Grun, Polly Gray or Penelope Holladay. His watch to William J. Green.

NAME: DARDEN, Dempsey
SOURCE: Book 11, Page 289
DATE OF WILL: 21 Oct 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Dec 1803
LEGATEES: Loving wife, Polly Swann Darden; daughter, Nansey Darden; daughter, Betsey Darden; daughter, Susanna C. Darden; daughter, Livinia Darden
EXECUTOR(S): Robert Eley, Horatio Eley
WITNESSES: Henry Saunders, Susanna Eley, Holland Darden
NOTES:

NAME: DARDEN, Jacob
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 444
DATE OF WILL: 28 Dec 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 11 Apr 1808
LEGATEES: Son, John; son, Jacob; son, Samuel; daughter, Molly, that intermarried with Thomas Philips; son, David;
EXECUTOR(S): Friend, William Jordan; son, John Darden; son, David Darden.
WITNESSES: John Newby, Samuel Babb
NOTES:

NAME: DARDEN, John
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 9
DATE OF WILL: 30 Dec 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Feb 1809
LEGATEES: Son, Benjamin Darden (land and plantation devisor bought of William Gay); son, Soloman Darden (land and plantation where he now lives); daughter, Jinny Darden; daughter Polly Darden.
EXECUTOR(S): Son, Benjamin Darden and cousin, Mills Darden
WITNESSES: ? Beal, Jeremiah Bradshaw, John Rose
NOTES:

NAME: DAUGHTREY, Elisha
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 445
DATE OF WILL: 18 Jan 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Apr 1808
LEGATEES: "Everything to loving wife during her life to raise and school my children. At death of my wife to my sons, Jacob Daughtrey and Edwin Daughtrey". Daughter, Martha Daughtrey; daughter, Louisa Daughtrey; daughter, Elizabeth Daughtrey; daughter, Rina Daughtrey; daughter Levina Daughtrey;
EXECUTOR(S): Wife; Joseph Duck
WITNESSES: Dempsey Beale, Elizabeth Beale, Joseph Duck
NOTES:

NAME: DAUGHTREY, Richard
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 16
DATE OF WILL: 14 Sep 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Apr 1804
LEGATEES: Daughter, Elizabeth and her son John Councill Daughtrey; son, Hardy Daughtrey (and his children Patty, Treacy, Susannah, James and Edwin); daughter Patty Holland; daughter Honour Daughtrey (and her children Eli and Mary); son, Richard.
EXECUTOR(S): John Councill
WITNESSES: Theophelus Daughtrey, Absalom Daughtrey, Solomon Daughtrey.
NOTES: Property devised: All the lands bought of David Eley and Benjamin Baker.

NAME: DAVIS, Isham
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 225
DATE OF WILL: 12 Jul 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Oct 1806
LEGATEES: Beloved wife; son, Arthur Davis (land where Molley Davis lives); daughter, Betsey Forrest; daughter Nancy; sons, William Davis; son, James Davis; daughter Sally Davis.
EXECUTOR(S): Benjamin Chapman, Thomas Davis
WITNESSES: A. Wooley, Samuel Wooley, Henry Crocker
NOTES:

NAME: DOWNING, James
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 13
DATE OF WILL: 17 Feb 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Apr 1804
LEGATEES: Sally Wills, daughter of Gen. Emanual Wills; mother, Martha Downing; James Meador Combs; Mills F. Wills; Nephew, James Meador; Edwin M. Edwards;
EXECUTOR(S): Gen. Emanual Wills
WITNESSES: Isaac Moody, Mills F. Wills, Joseph Moody
NOTES: Property is land lying on the East side of Black Water Road, adjoining Armstrong Edward's land to the land of William Whitley, then Easter Michael's line to the Broadwater Road, containing 100 acres.

NAME: DRIVER, Joseph
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 7
DATE OF WILL: 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Feb 1809
LEGATEES: Wife, Priscilla Driver; Children: Polly Whitfield Driver; Mills Driver, Nancy Driver, Joseph Driver
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: John Holladay, Jeremiah Lawrence, Willis Corbell
NOTES: Plantation bought of Josiah Mills

NAME: DUCK, Robert
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 226
DATE OF WILL: 10 Oct 1791
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 May 1806
LEGATEES: Beloved son, William Duck; son-in-law, William Owen; beloved wife, Unos Duck; daughter, Mary; daughter Salley; daughter Milley; daughter, Julia.
EXECUTOR(S): Friend, John Duck
WITNESSES: William Wrenn, John Darden, Samuel Johnson
NOTES:

NAME: EDMUNDS, Soloman
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 740
DATE OF WILL: 1 Nov 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Jun 1803
LEGATEES: Beloved wife, Charity Edmunds; son, John Edmunds; son, William Edmunds; daughter, Anne Edmunds; daughter, Betsy Edmunds; daughter, Pheraphy(?) Vaughan; daughter, Sally Edmunds
EXECUTOR(S): Sons, John and William Edmunds
WITNESSES: Soloman Butler, Willis Lankford, Abasalom Beal, John Carr
NOTES: His property bounded by the Beaver Dam Swamp and Land of John Carr.

NAME: EDWARDS, John
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 192
DATE OF WILL: 12 Dec 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Apr 1806
LEGATEES: Loving wife, Patience Edwards; son, John Edwards; son, Jonaz Edwards; daughter, Holland Edwards;
EXECUTOR(S): Son, John Edwards; friend, Francis Boykin
WITNESSES: William Whitley, David Edwards, Elias Edwards
NOTES:

NAME: EDWARDS, Elizabeth
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 309
DATE OF WILL: 26 Mar 1800
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Apr 1801
LEGATEES: Son, Robert Pully; son of John Pully of the town of Smithfield (lots in Smithfield) formerly the property of Stephen Smith who sold and conveyed to James Smith, my first husband;
EXECUTOR(S): Robert Gaddy, John Pully
WITNESSES: Francis Young, Robert Nicholson
NOTES:

NAME: ELEY, John
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 53
DATE OF WILL: Jul 1809
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Nov 1809
LEGATEES: "Beloved wife, Sally"; son, Mills; son, Merit; son, Zebulon; son, Hartwell; son, Willis
EXECUTOR(S): Friend, Godwin Councill
WITNESSES: John Lawrence, Mills Darden, Joseph Duck
NOTES: Certain property division to be made when son, Mills, attains his 21st year.

NAME: ELEY, John B.
SOURCE: Will Book 17, Page 99
DATE OF WILL: 19 Jun 1823
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Jan 1825
LEGATEES: "Beloved wife, Dorothy Eley"; Son, Robert; son, John; son, Samuel; son, Elbert; son, Exum; daughter, Polly (wife of Josiah J. Watkins); daughter, Nancy (wife of Mills Whitfield).
EXECUTOR(S): son, Robert Eley; friend, Exum Eley
WITNESSES: Charles Fulgham, Hartwell Powell
NOTES: Property devised: Land and plantation purchased from Samuel Bridger; 20 acres adjoining an Old Orchard near where James Bridger now lives;

NAME: ELEY, Robert
SOURCE: Will Book 14, Page 148
DATE OF WILL: 2 Apr 1816
DATE OF PROBATE: 16 May 1816
LEGATEES: wife, Polly; son, Lawrence; son, Benjamin; son, Gilbert; son, Edwin, daughter, Peggy; son, Mills; daughter, Patsy.
EXECUTOR(S): John B. Eley
WITNESSES: Charles Fulgham, Meriam Eley, John B. Eley
NOTES: Property devised: The manor plantation; a place called Barrets(?) which was purchased of William Holsfoot; plantation bought of Mathew Johnson.

NAME: ELEY, Robert Sr.
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 143
DATE OF WILL: 16 Apr 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: Sep 1805
LEGATEES: Loving wife, Susanna; sons, Archibald, Cary, Robert and John; daughter, Penina Eley; son, Horatio Eley; other daughters not mentioned by name.
EXECUTOR(S): Wife, Susanna; son, Horatio Eley
WITNESSES: Robert Eley, Hezekiah Laundey, John Roberts, Sr.
NOTES:

NAME: ELEY, Susannah
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 425
DATE OF WILL: Aug 1814
DATE OF PROBATE: Dec 1814
LEGATEES: Son, Cary; son John
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: James Roberts, Katy Roberts
NOTES:

NAME: ELEY, Stephen
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 171
DATE OF WILL: 9 Nov 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Jan 1806
LEGATEES: Wife, Elizabeth; daughter Catherine W.; daughter, Sally; Daughter, Nancy
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: Joseph Moody, Jordan Parr, Wilea Langford
NOTES: Children not yet 21. If all should die, estate to be divided among brothers and sisters after the death of his wife.

NAME: ENGLISH, J. Ruthie
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 1
DATE OF WILL: 5 Aug 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Dec 1808
LEGATEES: Peggy Redd; Nancy Redd; Sally Joyner, daughter of Robert Joyner; Mary Underwood; Patience Butler; Priscilla Redd; Patience English; Sally Joyner; more to be divided between Josiah Redd's children
EXECUTOR(S): Josiah Redd
WITNESSES: John Eley, Alan Luter
NOTES:

NAME: ENGLISH, Patience
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 43
DATE OF WILL: 31 Jan 1809
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Sep 1809
LEGATEES: Josiah Redd and his wife Priscilla; Andrew Redd; Margaret Redd; Nancy Redd; Polly Redd; Edy Redd; Panina Redd; Elvey Redd (Male); William Redd; Patience Butler; Nanny Underwood; Henry Joyner; Joseph Joyner; Sally Joyner.
EXECUTOR(S): Josiah Redd
WITNESSES: Mills Darden, Margaret Redd
NOTES:

NAME: FEARN, Nancy
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 10
DATE OF WILL: 27 Aug 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Dec 1808
LEGATEES: Sister, Lucy Young's four children: Sally, Betsy, James and John; Mathew Fearn, Sally Young, Betsy Young, James Young and Jack Young; Susan Segar, daughter of Polly Segar.
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: John Saunders, Peter Thivers
NOTES:

NAME: FLOYD, Samuel
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 483
DATE OF WILL: 9 Mar 1802
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Apr 1802
LEGATEES: Aunt, Martha Reynolds; Sabra Chapman Reynolds, daughter of Randall Reynolds
EXECUTOR(S): Friend Randall Reynolds, Jr.
WITNESSES: Edmund Pedin, Charles Rowntree, Mary Waile
NOTES:

NAME: FULGHAM, Charles (of Town of Smithfield)
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 237
DATE OF WILL: 17 Oct 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Dec 1806
LEGATEES: Pleasant Jordan, who married my daughter; John Derring, who married my daughter Jane Fulgham; grandchild Sally, the daughter of Jane Fulgham; daughter, Patsey, who intermarried with John Goodson; James Robert Hubbard; daughter, Polly Fulgham; son, Robert Tynes Fulgham.
EXECUTOR(S): Son, Robert Fulgham
WITNESSES: Nathaniel Young, John H. Purdie, James D. Southall
NOTES: Son, Robert Fulgham, inherits land known as the Williams Plantation, bounded by Thomas Gibbs, John Murrey, Wilson Brantley, and the Mill Swamp.

NAME: GARNER, Charity
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 267
DATE OF WILL: 20 Oct 1800
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Feb 1807
LEGATEES: Son, James Garner (property that she has from the death of her son, Jesse Garner).
EXECUTOR(S): Son, James Garner
WITNESSES: Dolphin Driver, William Matthews
NOTES:

NAME: GAY, William Sr.
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 68
DATE OF WILL: 6 Feb 1798
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Dec 1804
LEGATEES: Son, John Gay; son, William Gay; daughter, Elizabeth Loe; daughter, Milley Butler; son, Elias Gay; daughter, Sarah Hedgepeth; Martha Rayford; son, Mills Gay (not 21 as of date of will)
EXECUTOR(S): Loving friend, Phillip Rayford, Martha Rayford
WITNESSES: James Johnson, Thomas Bowden, John Bowden
NOTES:

NAME: GODFREY, William
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 88
DATE OF WILL: 13 Sep 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Feb 1805
LEGATEES: Beloved wife, Martha Godfrey; daughter, Elizabeth Godfrey; daughter, Anne Godfrey
EXECUTOR(S): Nathaniel Wills
WITNESSES: Richard Reynolds, George Murphey
NOTES:

NAME: GODWIN, Bartlett
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 264
DATE OF WILL: 31 Mar 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Feb 1807
LEGATEES: Mother (plantation adjoining Willis Wills); nephew, Thomas Flint; niece, Charlotte Godwin Flint.
EXECUTOR(S): Charles Rowntree
WITNESSES: Joseph Chapman, Joseph Crocker, Bartholomew Lightfoot
NOTES:

NAME: GODWIN, Hannah
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 7
DATE OF WILL: 17 Oct 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Feb 1809
LEGATEES: Grandson, Alexander Godwin; Sons, John Godwin and Josiah Godwin; daughter Dolley Pitt; Elizabeth Pedin and Nancy Pedin; Elizabeth J? Godwin; Susannah Jeannet; Mills Godwin;
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: Henry Mills Applewaite, Henry King
NOTES: Should grandson die, property to be divided between Hannah Wills, Nancy Wills and Edmund Pedin.

NAME: GODWIN, Joseph
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 160
DATE OF WILL: 16 Oct 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Dec 1805
LEGATEES: Mother, Hannah Godwin; nephew, Alexander Godwin (not yet 21); Dolly Godwin; Elizabeth Clark Godwin (my daughter in law); Susannah Jennet; Eliza J. Godwin and her sister, Susanna Godwin; Thomas Borland; friend, John R. Todd; Edmund Pedin; Milly Godwin.
EXECUTOR(S): Milly Godwin
WITNESSES: William Gibbs, Elizabeth Pedin, Hannah Wills
NOTES:

NAME: GODWIN, Rachel
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 694
DATE OF WILL: 2 Apr 1802
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Jul 1802
LEGATEES: Brother, James Godwin; Sister, Mary Applewhaite
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: Cary Godwin, Richard Corble
NOTES:

NAME: GODWIN, William Best
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 415
DATE OF WILL: 22 Jan 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Feb 1801
LEGATEES: Uncle, James Godwin; aunt Rachel Godwin; aunt, Mary Applewhaite
EXECUTOR(S): Uncle, James Godwin
WITNESSES: William Gibbs, Mary Kinchen Read
NOTES:

NAME: GRAUTHAM, Thomas
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 794
DATE OF WILL: 12 Nov 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Jan 1804
LEGATEES: Father, Stephen Grautham; well beloved wife, Rebeccah; At Rebeccah's death, his property equally divided between William Gautham's children and my sister, Susannah Collier's children.
EXECUTOR(S): Wife
WITNESSES: Joseph Atkinson, Nathaniel Young, Thomas Purdie
NOTES:

NAME: GREEN, Ann
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 227
DATE OF WILL: 1 Feb 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Nov 1806
LEGATEES: Daughters, Nancy, Polly, Betsey; son, William
EXECUTOR(S): Daughter, Nancy; son, William
WITNESSES: Josiah Gray, Weston Hawkins, Sylvia Godwin
NOTES:

NAME: GREEN, Betsey
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 786
DATE OF WILL: 21 Apr 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Dec 1803
LEGATEES: Entire estate to loving mother, Anne Green
EXECUTOR(S): Mother
WITNESSES: Selgea(?) Godwin, Nancy Green, Josiah Gray
NOTES:

NAME: HALL, James
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 303
DATE OF WILL: 9 Nov 1800
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Jan 1801
LEGATEES: Daughter, Mary Garner; daughter, Ann Hall; daughter Sally Hall; sons George, James, John and Thomas Hall.
EXECUTOR(S): George and James Hall, sons
WITNESSES: John Barradale, Baraba Beal
NOTES: Property Description: Mentions Parnell's line, Wills Branch, Philip's Line

NAME: HAMILTON, William (of town of Smithfield)
SOURCE: Will Book 11. Page 703
DATE OF WILL: 28 Apr 1802
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Sep 1802
LEGATEES: Maximillian Maxwell, Francis Oliver
EXECUTOR(S): Maximillian Maxwell
WITNESSES: Bartholomew Lightfoot, David Nelms, Thomas Goodrich
NOTES:

NAME: HARRIS, James
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 44
DATE OF WILL: 23 Feb 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Sep 1804
LEGATEES: Loving wife, Salley Harris; son Benjamin Harris
EXECUTOR(S): Wife, Salley Harris; brother, Burwell Harris
WITNESSES: Lewes Harris, Matthew Edwards, Robert Marshall
NOTES:

NAME: HARDY, Marcella
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 1
DATE OF WILL: 2 Apr 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Jan 1809
LEGATEES: Grandson, Samuel Hardy; Should Samuel leave no issue, then to his sister Elizabeth Crawley Atkinson. Grandaughter, Elizabeth C. Atkinson; Grandson Thomas H. Hardy; Friend and relative, James Atkinson.
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: Phillip Holt, Richard ?, Rebecca ?
NOTES: To grandson, Samuel Hardy, mill (seated on the breakwater of Lawnes Creek and known as the Hardy Mill) which devisor inherited from her son, George Hardy.

NAME: HEATH, Edmund
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 693
DATE OF WILL: 16 May 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Jul 1802
LEGATEES: Son, James Heath; son, Babel Heath; son Edmund Heath; wife, Elizabeth. After wife's death, money to be equally amongst her five children: Major Heath, Thomas Heath, Tegle Heath and Josiah Heath and Stephen Heath.
EXECUTOR(S): Friend Thomas Carrell, James Heath
WITNESSES: Thomas Uzzell, Jr., Abel Garrison, Margarett Garrison.
NOTES: Land ajoins Uzzell's land

NAME: HOLLOWELL, Scott
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 730
DATE OF WILL: 12 Jan 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Jun 1803
LEGATEES: Brother, William Hollowell; sisters, Courtney and Mary; brother, Thomas Hollowell
EXECUTOR(S): Brother, William Hollowell
WITNESSES: Thomas Pretlow, James Peebles, William Bailey, Sr.
NOTES:

NAME: HOLLOWELL, Thomas
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 22
DATE OF WILL: Oct 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Jun 1804
LEGATEES: Two sisters, Courtney Hollowell and Mary Hollowell; brother, William Hollowell
EXECUTOR(S): Sisters, Courtney and Mary Hollowell
WITNESSES: James Barlow, Sr., Thomas Brantley
NOTES: Date will signed would appear to be in error.

NAME: HOLLOWELL, William
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 749
DATE OF WILL: 15 Apr 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Jun 1803
LEGATEES: Sister, Courtney Hollowell; sister, Mary Hollowell; brother, Thomas Hollowell
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: William Patterson, Robert Glover, Thomas Brantley
NOTES: Land and plantation where Scott Hollowell formerly lived and "gave in his will to me".

NAME: HOLMES, Joseph
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 305
DATE OF WILL: 24 May 1795
DATE OF PROBATE: 8 Feb 1801
LEGATEES: All to his wife during her life or widowhood, Mary Holmes.
EXECUTOR(S): Wife, Mary Holmes
WITNESSES:
NOTES:

NAME: HUBARD, William (Rector of Newport Parish)
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 238
DATE OF WILL: 15 May 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Dec 1806
LEGATEES: "Beloved wife", Ann Hubard; son, James Robert Hubard; all my children: Jane McWilliams, Ann Cary Hubard, Frances Hubard, Mary Fry Hubard, Henrietta Margaret Hubard, James Robert Hubard, Annaria Hubard.
EXECUTOR(S): Wife Ann; son-in-law, Robert Driver
WITNESSES: No witnesses listed
NOTES:

NAME: HUTCHINS, Jesse
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 756
DATE OF WILL: 18 Oct 1800
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Jul 1803
LEGATEES: Son, Jesse Hutchins; daughter, Patsey Stamp; daughter, Sally Hutchins; daughter, Amy Hutchins
EXECUTOR(S): Wife, Elizabeth
WITNESSES: Thomas Smelly, Jr., Anthony Payne
NOTES: Property adjoining John Gales, Moses Hutchins and John Barber

NAME: HUTCHINS, Moses
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 281
DATE OF WILL: 23 Jun 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Apr 1807
LEGATEES: "Beloved wife", Mary Hutchins. After her death, his whole estate to Neddy Best Gay.
EXECUTOR(S): Friend, Everitt Gay
WITNESSES: Thomas Finelly, John Darden
NOTES:

NAME: JOHNSON, Thomas (of Newport Parish)
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 436
DATE OF WILL: Nov 1807
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Feb 1808
LEGATEES: Lucy Mountford; John Powell Johnson; Bicky(Betsy) Powell Johnson; Delila P. Johnson;
EXECUTOR(S): John Lawrence
WITNESSES: Robert Johnson, John Johnson, Stephen Johnson, James Johnson
NOTES:

NAME: JOHNSON, William
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 53
DATE OF WILL: 12 Sep 1799
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Oct 1804
LEGATEES: Son, John Johnson; son, William Johnson; three daughters, Elizabeth Johnson, Mary Johnson and Ann Johnson; grandchild, Delilah Johnson; grandchild, February Johnson
EXECUTOR(S): John Johnson
WITNESSES: Thomas Johnson, Jesse Whitehead, ? Powell, Matthew Carr
NOTES:

NAME: JOHNSTON, James
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 98
DATE OF WILL: 11 Jan 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Apr 1805
LEGATEES: Loving wife, Elizabeth (all his property that previously belonged to his father Dr. Robert Johnston); daughters Elizabeth Woodrox Johnston and Anne Deason Johnston; brother, William Johnston; my ward, Arthur Smith.
EXECUTOR(S): Loving wife, and friend John Eason, James B. Southall, John Goodrich, William Patrick
WITNESSES: Merit M. Robinson, Thomas Norsworthy, David Dick
NOTES: Mentions property wife, Elizabeth, is entitled to out of the estate of her father, the late Thomas Smith.

NAME: JOHNSTON, William
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 775
DATE OF WILL: 19 Apr 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Oct 1803
LEGATEES: Niece, Elizabeth Woodside Johnston; brother, James Johnston; nephew, Robert Jardine Johnston; friend, John Easson; Thomas Norsworthy EXECUTOR(S): Brother, James Johnston
WITNESSES: James Morrison, Thomas Norsworthy, John Easson
NOTES:

NAME: JONES, Benjamin
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 86
DATE OF WILL: 19 Feb 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Feb 1805
LEGATEES: Son, Abraham Jones; son, Isaac Jones; son, Robert Jones; son, Peter Jones; son, Hardah Jones; daughter Holland Jones; daughter, Silvia Jones; daughter, Caty Jones; four grandchildren: Benjamin L. Edwards, Jones Edwards, Cherry Edwards, Patsy Edwards; All his children: Rebeckah Stringfield, Caty Jones, Holland Jones, Silvia Jones, Abraham Jones, Isaac Jones, Robert Jones, Hardah Jones, Peter Jones
EXECUTOR(S): Sons, Abraham and Isaac Jones
WITNESSES: Lemuel Bailey, Frederick Gray, Charles Goodrich, Matthew Thomas
NOTES:

NAME: JORDAN, Thomas
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 432
DATE OF WILL: 4 Jun 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Sep 1801
LEGATEES: Loving wife, Polly; 4 children: Matthias, Dolly, Jenny and Nancy; son Thomas Jordan, son Josiah Jordan (land bought of William & Fanny Moody); son, Hezekiah Jordan; son, Thomas
EXECUTOR(S): Wife, Polly Jordan
WITNESSES: William Jordan, Rolbert Jordan, William Pierce, Willis Matthews
NOTES:

NAME: LAWRENCE, Robert
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 23
DATE OF WILL: 25 Dec 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Apr 1809
LEGATEES: Son, Robert Lawrence; daughter Polly Lawrence; daughter Caty Lawrence; daughters: Nancy Eley, Elizabeth Griffin, Amy and Patience Lawrence. Son Robert to take possession of the land at the beginning of 1813.
EXECUTOR(S): Hardy Lawrence
WITNESSES: Mills Lawrence, Joseph W. Ballard, John Joyner and John English
NOTES: Brother, Hardy Lawrence, to be guardian of all his children. Estate to be divided by friends, Mills Lawrence, John Eley, Sr., Joseph M. Ballard, Mills Darden, Soloman Butler and Robert Eley.

NAME: MILNER, Samuel
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 102
DATE OF WILL: 5 Oct 1788
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Jun 1805
LEGATEES: Wife
EXECUTOR(S): Wife
WITNESSES: Ernest Woods, Rachel Norsworthy
NOTES:

NAME: MINTY, Sarah
SOURCE: Will Book 11. Page 738
DATE OF WILL: 4 Sep 1802
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Jun 1803
LEGATEES: Sweeting Morriss;
EXECUTOR(S): Sweeting Morriss;
WITNESSES: Isham Jordan, Benjamin Jones, Wombell Stringfield
NOTES:

NAME: MOODY, John
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 175
DATE OF WILL: 2 Nov 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Jan 1806
LEGATEES: Wife, Christian; son, Elijah Murry Moody; five children: Polly Moody, Sally Moody, Caty Moody, Ellick Moody, Prisse Moody.
EXECUTOR(S): David Edwards
WITNESSES: John Edwards, Peter Turner
NOTES:

NAME: MOODY, William
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 200
DATE OF WILL: 4 Dec 1800
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Feb 1801
LEGATEES: Wife, Fanny Moody; daughter Betsy Moody; son, Philip Moody
EXECUTOR(S): Friend, Burwell Harriss; Fanny Moody
WITNESSES: Joseph Westray; Chrissey Westray; Nancy Bracey, James Fletcher
NOTES:

NAME: MORRIS, John
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 51
DATE OF WILL: 5 Dec 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Oct 1809
LEGATEES: Sister, Nancy Morris; cousin, Everitt Morris; Nancy Marshall.
EXECUTOR(S): Friend, Joseph Westray
WITNESSES: John Matthews, (?) Casey, Polly Matthews
NOTES:

NAME: MORRISON, John
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 417
DATE OF WILL: 7 Sep 1807
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Oct 1807
LEGATEES: Wife, Jane Morrison; All of his children
EXECUTOR(S): Thomas Joyner, Edmund Pedin
WITNESSES: John Reynolds, John Jordan, Bowling(?) Copeland
NOTES:

NAME: MORRISON, William
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 722
DATE OF WILL: 8 Sep 1802
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Apr 1803
LEGATEES: Wife, Elizabeth Morrison; sons, James and Pitt Morrison; sons William and George Morrison; grandaughter, Peggy Allmand, daughter of James Allmand; three grandsons, Elisha Uzzell , Thomas Uzzell, Morrison Uzzell; daughter Margaret Joyner, wife of Thomas Joyner
EXECUTOR(S): Sons, William and James Morrison
WITNESSES: James B. Southall, James Johnston, John Parkerson
NOTES: Mentions land purchased of Christopher Dickinson

NAME: MOUNTFORT, Wade Sr.
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 54
DATE OF WILL: Jan 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Oct 1804
LEGATEES: Beloved wife, Milley; two daughters, Lucy W. Montfort and Elizabeth Montford; sons, William Montfort; James Montfort; Wade Montfort; Joseph Montfort
EXECUTOR(S): Sons, William and Wade Montfort; Friend, John Eley (of John)
WITNESSES: Allen Jones, Arthur Fowler, ? Johnson
NOTES:

NAME: NEVILL, Amey
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 25
DATE OF WILL: 15 May 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Jun 1804
LEGATEES: Son, Robert Nevill
EXECUTOR(S): Son, Robert Nevill
WITNESSES: Dixon Pinner, Ann Hall, Willis W. Pruden
NOTES:

NAME: NEWMAN, Josiah
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 774
DATE OF WILL: 10 Oct 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Sep 1803
LEGATEES: Sister, Cloe Shivers
EXECUTOR(S): Brother-in-law, Joseph Shivers
WITNESSES: Henry Pitt, Wilson Shivers, Peter Shivers, John Jordan, Thomas Newman
NOTES: Property: Plantation which his father bought of Henry Butler (500 acres). His father gave to his nephew, Thomas, son of James Newsom

NAME: NORSWORTHY, J. Mills
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 6
DATE OF WILL: 18 Nov 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Feb 1809
LEGATEES: Nathaniel Wills (all of estate)
EXECUTOR(S): Nathaniel Wills
WITNESSES: James Tolar, Willie Gross, Nancy Bagnall
NOTES:

NAME: NORSWORTHY, J. Tristram
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 5
DATE OF WILL: 5 Jan 1808
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Feb 1809
LEGATEES: Wife, Esther Norsworthy; grandson, Lawrence Whitfield; daughter, Esther Godwin; daughter, Martha Norsworthy; daughter Mary Mills; daughter, Ann Godwin; daughter, Fanny King; son, Mills Norsworthy; grandson, John Clark;
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: Henry Whitfield, Richard Bowden, Charles Chapman
NOTES:

NAME: PARKER, Joseph
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 144
DATE OF WILL: 18 Jan 180?
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Oct 1805
LEGATEES: To my negro, Lewis, his time and freedom forever; wife, Mary Parker.
EXECUTOR(S): Mary Parker
WITNESSES: Thomas Hall, Josiah Cutchin, Thomas Hall
NOTES:

NAME: PARNELL, Elizabeth
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page ?
DATE OF WILL: 16 Sep 1793
DATE OF PROBATE: 8 Apr 1806
LEGATEES: Two daughters: Nancy Parnell, Sally Parnell; If they should die, estate to her brother, Ellis Norsworthy.
EXECUTOR(S): Ellis Norsworthy
WITNESSES: Samuel Milner, Benjamin Norsworthy, Thomas Norsworthy
NOTES:

NAME: PIERCE, William
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 787
DATE OF WILL: 11 Oct 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Dec 1803
LEGATEES: Dearly beloved wife, Susanna; daughter, Nancy Coggin; son, Arthur Pierce; son, William Pierce; son, Thomas Pierce; son, Mitcham Pierce.
EXECUTOR(S): James Bridger and wife, Susanna
WITNESSES: Everitt Turner, John Davis, Barry (?) Carr
NOTES: Chapel Swamp at the . . dividing line of Thomas Hancock

NAME: PILAND, James
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 145
DATE OF WILL: 25 Sep 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Oct 1805
LEGATEES: Daughter, Mary Carroll; son, Thomas Piland; daughter, Elizabeth Piland; daughter, Sarah Piland;
EXECUTOR(S): Richard Pierce
WITNESSES: Josiah Wrenn, Nathaniel Thompson
NOTES:

NAME: PINNER, William
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Pg 103
DATE OF WILL: 10 Jan 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Jun 1805
LEGATEES: Brother, Jeremiah Pinner; brother, John Pinner; nephew John G. Pinner; niece, Nancey Pinner; nephew William D. Pinner;
EXECUTOR(S): Brothers, Jeremiah, Dixon and John
WITNESSES: Frederick Hall, John Holliday, Peggy Powell
NOTES:

NAME: POWELL, Thomas
SOURCE: Will Book 11. Page 430
DATE OF WILL: 31 Jul 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Sep 1801
LEGATEES: Everything to wife Polly
EXECUTOR(S): Polly Powell, wife
WITNESSES: William Jordan, Thomas Elsbury, John Darden
NOTES:

NAME: PRICE, George
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 268
DATE OF WILL: Not available
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Feb 1807
LEGATEES: "Loving wife"
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: Thomas Purdie, Elizabeth Reynolds, John Goodson
NOTES: If Mrs. Hodges should outlive his wife, whatever is remaining should go to her support.

NAME: PURDIE, George (of Smithfield)
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 784
DATE OF WILL: 11 Nov 1803
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Dec 1803
LEGATEES: Loving wife (all my stock in the loan office); son, Thomas; My four children: John (Lot # 65 in Smithfield, "bought of the Commonwealth"), George, Thomas, Mary Robinson Diggs; son-in-law Cole Diggs; good and faithful friend, Mary Anne Hilton.
EXECUTOR(S): Wife and sons, George, John & Thomas
WITNESSES: Nathaniel Young. Barthlomew Lightfoot, Merritt C. Patrick
NOTES: His plantation is called "Jacobs Quarter", bought from the "Commonwealth". Also owns property in York County.

NAME: SAUNDERS, Elizabeth
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 705
DATE OF WILL: 31 Aug 1802
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Oct 1802
LEGATEES: Grandson, Joseph Saunders; grandaughter Analey Saunders;
EXECUTOR(S): Son, Thomas Saunders
WITNESSES: Robert Eley, John Saunders, Mourning Saunders
NOTES:

NAME: SEEDS, Samuel
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 23
DATE OF WILL: 5 Jul 1800
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Apr 1809
LEGATEES: Son, William Seeds; daughter Ann Seeds; wife, Patsey
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: William Baily, James Clayton, James Schill
NOTES:

NAME: SHIVERS, Jonas
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 234
DATE OF WILL: 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Dec 1806
LEGATEES: Brother, Thomas Shivers.
EXECUTOR(S): Thomas Askew
WITNESSES: William Dixon, Willis Cowling, Joseph Godwin
NOTES:

NAME: SHIVERS, William
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 197
DATE OF WILL: 14 Feb 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Jun 1805
LEGATEES: Mother; brother, Robert Shivers (not yet 21); sisters, Nancy, Sally, Charlotte, Esther, Lucy and Hannah.
EXECUTOR(S): My loving mother and Uncle Joseph Goodwin
WITNESSES: Willis Cowling, Thomas Askew
NOTES:

NAME: SMELLY, William
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 311
DATE OF WILL: 12 Dec 1800
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Apr 1801
LEGATEES: Lends land and plantation and property bought of Alexander Woodrop, to son, William Smelly until he arrives at age 28; son, John Smelly (lends property purchased from Patience Smith and half the property purchased of Robert N. Cook; son Thomas Smelly (land purchased of Stephen Butler); son John Smelly
EXECUTOR(S): Son, Thomas Smelly
WITNESSES: Everitt Gay, Charles Powell, William Jordan
NOTES:

NAME: SMITH, Susannah
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 224
DATE OF WILL: 2 May 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Oct 1806
LEGATEES: Susannah Pitman.
EXECUTOR(S): Thomas Pitman
WITNESSES: William Mahone, Thomas Womble, Esther Womble
NOTES:

NAME: SPIVEY, Joseph
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 431
DATE OF WILL: 23 Mar 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Sep 1801
LEGATEES: Wife, Mary Spivey; son Stephen Spivey; son, Allen Spivey
EXECUTOR(S): Wife, Mary Spivey; son, Allen Spivey
WITNESSES: Benjamin Powell; Jacob Spivey, John Turner, Thomas Spivey, Jethro Powell
NOTES: Land adjoining Capt. Mills Darden; Land of Jacob Spivey

NAME: STAGG, Josiah
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 414
DATE OF WILL: 6 Dec 1800
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Jun 1801
LEGATEES: Loving wife, Mary Stagg; daughter, Willey Stagg; son, Pleasants Stagg; son, Eley Stagg, son Littlebury Jones Stagg; wife now pregnant EXECUTOR(S): Wife and son Pleasants Stagg
WITNESSES: Jordan Parr, Joseph Moody, William Jones
NOTES:

NAME: STALLINGS, Joseph
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 453
DATE OF WILL: 29 Sep 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Dec 1801
LEGATEES: Son, James Stallings (land purchased of J. Barlow & Philip Moody); daughter Sally Stallings; son, Josiah Stallings; son, Solomon Stallings; son, William Stallings; Loving wife, Lucy Stallings
EXECUTOR(S): James Gwaltney (if he will not serve, Joseph Stringfield)
WITNESSES: William Gay, Everitt Gay, Thomas Pitmon, Moody Cofer.
NOTES:

NAME: STRINGFIELD, Benjamin
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 56
DATE OF WILL: 24 Nov 1809
DATE OF PROBATE: 11 Dec 1809
LEGATEES: Son-in-law, Richard Thomas; Sally Thomas, daughter of Richard Thomas; Harrison Thomas; son, Benjamin Stringfield; daughter, Mourning Outland; daughter, Anne Jones; son, Martin Stringfield; daughter, Chany Stringfield; son, James Stringfield; daughter Holland Stringfield.
EXECUTOR(S): Sons, Martin Stringfield and Wombell Stringfield
WITNESSES: James Stallings, Henry Jones, Dawford Delk
NOTES:

NAME: TALLOW, James Sr.
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 67
DATE OF WILL: 19 Jun 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Dec 1804
LEGATEES: Beloved nephew, James Tallow; "nephews", Elizabeth Eley, wife of William Eley; Nancy Webb, wife of William Webb; sister, Elizabeth Tallow
EXECUTOR(S): Nephew, James Tallow
WITNESSES: Matthew Daughtrey, David Eley, Thomas West
NOTES:

NAME: TAYLOR, Esther
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 196
DATE OF WILL: 12 Nov 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 8 Apr 1806
LEGATEES: Nancy Blair and her daughter, Peggy Blair (a lot in Smithfield); Nancy and Peggy Blair are emancipated; niece, Mary Brown; niece, Esther Gray (formerly Esther Pitt); niece, Elizabeth Baradell (formerly Elizabeth Pitt); nephew, Joseph Pitt; niece, Mary Brown
EXECUTOR(S): Worthy friend, Joseph Atkinson
WITNESSES: Nicholas Jordan, John Easson, Joseph Atkinson
NOTES:

NAME: THOMAS, Elizabeth
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 85
DATE OF WILL: 6 Oct 1802
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Feb 1805
LEGATEES: Jane Bull; Elizabeth Cook; Jane Britt; Joseph Scott Jordan; Thomas Norsworthy
EXECUTOR(S): Britton Britt
WITNESSES: Joshua Gay, William Johnson, Amelia Gay
NOTES:

NAME: THOMAS, John
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 715
DATE OF WILL: 29 Aug 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Feb 1803
LEGATEES: Beloved wife, Mary Thomas; son, Jesse Thomas; daughter Olliph Vellines; son, Jordan Thomas; grandsons Merritt and Archer Thomas, sons of my son Jordan Thomas; daughter, Nancy Hollerman; grandson, Josiah Thomas (son of Phillip Thomas); grandson, Moody Thomas; grandaughter, Sally Thomas; Elizabeth Wilson Thomas; John Barlow; grandaughter Polly Holleman; grandaughter Mary Ann Vellines; son, Jesse Thomas; grandson John Thomas (son of Jesse); Francis Wrenn
EXECUTOR(S): Son-in-law, John Holleman
WITNESSES: Andrew Wooley, Josiah Moody, Abel Garrison, John Turner, Sr.
NOTES:

NAME: THOMAS, Jordan
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 280
DATE OF WILL: 21 Feb 1807
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Apr 1807
LEGATEES: Youngest son, John Eldred Thomas (be schooled), wife, Mary Thomas (after her death his estate to be divided between two sons, Samuel E. Thomas and John Eldred Thomas).
EXECUTOR(S): John Holleman
WITNESSES: Sally Davis, John Montgomery, William Lattimore
NOTES: If his sons should die without heirs, estate equally divided between John Holleman's children and (?) Thomas' children

NAME: TURNER, Mary
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 437
DATE OF WILL: 26 Nov 1808 (?)
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Jan 1808
LEGATEES: Son, Joshua Turner; daughter, Amiatia; daughter, Martha; daughter, Elizabeth; son, John Turner; daughter, Mary Woodward.
EXECUTOR(S): None named
WITNESSES: Robert Jordan, John Parnell, Mary Parnell
NOTES:

NAME: TURNER, Unity
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 283
DATE OF WILL: 21 May 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Jun 1807
LEGATEES: "My son", Peter Turner.
EXECUTOR(S): Son, Peter Turner
WITNESSES: Jordan Parr, Joseph Moody, Isaac Moody
NOTES:

NAME: TYNES, Charles, Jr. (free negro of Newport Parish)
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 2
DATE OF WILL: 28 Jan 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Feb 1804
LEGATEES: Beloved wife, Peggy Tynes, formerly Peggy Blair, who was emancipated by John Parker; Davis Tynes, my cousin and son of my sister Nancy (half of his plantation adjoining William Blunt's land)'; Uncle Charles Tynes, Sr.; Uncle Sam Tynes; sister Jinny Tynes; sister, Nancy Tynes
EXECUTOR(S): Friend, Andrew Woodley (or Wooley)
WITNESSES: William Lightfoot, John Jordan, Scarsbrook Jolliff
NOTES: His property is the legacy left him in the will of Timothy Tynes

NAME: UNDERWOOD, Josiah
SOURCE: Will Book 13, Page 5
DATE OF WILL: 4 Sep 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Jan 1809
LEGATEES: Sister, Mary Underwood; brother, John Underwood; brother Thomas Underwood's son, Josiah Underwood.
EXECUTOR(S): Brother, John Underwood
WITNESSES: Robert Eley, Horatio Eley, James Rhodes
NOTES: To brother, John Underwood, all the land that father Sampson Underwood gave me.

NAME: UNDERWOOD, Theophilus
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 118
DATE OF WILL: 13 Mar 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Jul 1805
LEGATEES: Son, John Underwood; daughter, Sally Underwood; wife, Elizabeth Underwood; son, Josiah Underwood.
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: Dolphin Driver, John Joyner, Thomas Garner
NOTES:

NAME: VAUGHAN, Zelpha
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 404
DATE OF WILL: 4 Jan 1807
DATE OF PROBATE: 7 Sep 1807
LEGATEES: Son, Joseph Vaughan; daughter, Polly Fowler; daughter, Patsy Vaughan; daughter, Betsy Vaughan
EXECUTOR(S): Joseph Vaughan (son)
WITNESSES: John English, Thomas Fowler, Mary Fowler
NOTES:

NAME: VELLINES, John
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 284
DATE OF WILL: 22 Apr 1807
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Jun 1807
LEGATEES: Son, Joseph Vellines; Isaac Vellines; "loving wife", Olive Vellines; daughter, Rebecah Vellines; daughter Sally Vellines.
EXECUTOR(S): Brother, Isaac Vellines
WITNESSES: Armistead Vellines, Francis Vellines
NOTES:

NAME: WATKINS, John
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 162
DATE OF WILL: 29 Dec 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Dec 1805
LEGATEES: Daughter, Mary English and her husband, Jesse English; daughter, Patience Darden and husband, John Darden; daughter, Mourning Pruden and husband, John Pruden; daughter, Peggy Carr and husband, John Carr; son, Benjamin Watkins; loving wife Rebeckah; son, Johney Watkins; son, James Watkins; son, William Watkins; daughter, Rebeckah Watkins; son, Mills Watkins; son, Exum Watkins.
EXECUTOR(S): Sons, Benjamin and Johney Watkins
WITNESSES: Jethro Powell, Amos Powell, Ellen Spivey, Pierce Turner
NOTES:

NAME: WEST, John Pitt
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 1
DATE OF WILL: 28 Jan 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Feb 1804
LEGATEES: Joseph, James, Peggy and Jane Mitchell; brother, James Mitchell; Charlotte Hobbs
EXECUTOR(S):
WITNESSES: James Gray, John Wills, Easther Cook
NOTES:

NAME: WEST, Priscilla Pitt
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 18
DATE OF WILL: 14 Feb 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 2 Apr 1804
LEGATEES: Hannah Bidgood; Sally Young, Robert West; Margaret West
EXECUTOR(S): Richard Bidgood
WITNESSES: Willis Wills, Patsy Wills, Elizabeth K. Reade
NOTES:

NAME: WHITLEY, Jesse
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 72
DATE OF WILL: 10 Oct 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 3 Dec 1804
LEGATEES: Wife, Mary Whitley; two children: Keziah Whitley and Lucy Whitley
EXECUTOR(S): Wife, and Barthlomew Lightfoot
WITNESSES: David Dick, Robert Edwards, Mary Hall
NOTES:

NAME: WHITLEY, Julia
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 305
DATE OF WILL: 1 Oct 1801
DATE OF PROBATE: 1 Jun 1807
LEGATEES: "My friend", Josiah Cutchin.
EXECUTOR(S): Josiah Cutchin
WITNESSES: Joseph Godwin, Patsey Pitt, Polly Hall
NOTES:

NAME: WHITLEY, William (of Newport Parish)
SOURCE: Will Book 11, Page 310
DATE OF WILL: 12 Sep 1791
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Apr 1801
LEGATEES: Son, John Whitley; son, William Whitley; heirs of daughter, Martha Edwards; heirs of daughter, Sarah Edwards (dec'd); grandson, Solomon Whitley; heirs of son George Whitley (dec'd); Elijah Whitley (manor plantation where he now lives)
EXECUTOR(S): Elijah Whitley
WITNESSES: Francis Boykin, John Darden, Jacob Edwards, Joseph Stallings.
NOTES:

NAME: WILLIAMS, Martha
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 252
DATE OF WILL: 17 Nov 1806
DATE OF PROBATE: 5 Jan 1807
LEGATEES: Son, Thomas Williams; cousins, John Hardy, Eliza Ann Hardy (the children of Thomas Hardy); Loving aunt, Juliana Barlow.
EXECUTOR(S): George Darby, Thomas Hardy
WITNESSES: Robert Brown, James Duggins, Joseph Godwin
NOTES:

NAME: WILLIAMS, Richard
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 176
DATE OF WILL: 10 Oct 1805
DATE OF PROBATE: 6 Jan 1806
LEGATEES: Grandson, William Darby; daughter, Martha Williams; three grandaughters: Jimm(?) Hancock, Lisa Hancock, Angelina Hancock (children of John Hancock).
EXECUTOR(S): John Hancock, Joseph Goodwin
WITNESSES: Willis Groce, Thomas Hancock, Robert Nicholson, William Milby
NOTES:

NAME: WILSON, Sampson
SOURCE: Will Book 12, Page 21
DATE OF WILL: 20 Feb 1804
DATE OF PROBATE: 4 Jun 1804
LEGATEES: Wife; son, Josiah Barcroft; daughter, Mary Barcroft; daughter, Margaret Sampson; After death of Margaret Sampson; Matilda
EXECUTOR(S): Samuel Wilson, Richard Pierce
WITNESSES: John Goodson, William Ward, Joseph Person, Zacariah Womble, William Ward, Jr.
NOTES: