Person:Andrew Lockhart (2)

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Will of Andrew Lockhart November 27, 1815

In the name of God Amen: I Andrew Lockhart of Tazewell County and State of Virginia, being very weak in body but of sound mind and memory thanks be given to God and calling to mind of uncertainty of life and this certainty of my approaching disolution do hereby make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form as following:

1) I desire and recommend my soul to God that gave it, and as for my body my wish is for it to be entered in the earth in a decent Christian like burial. And as touching such worldly goods as it hath pleased God to put into my hands in this life I wish to dispose of in the following manner. And first I wish all my lawful debts to be taken of my estate and payed to my creditors.

2) I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Lockhart, do constitute and ordain her the sole heir of my estate, house, lands, tenements, stock of every kind that I -----with all appartainence whatever thereunto belonging to be at her disposal in whatever manner she shall think proper to dispose of any of the estate while she continues to be my widow.

3) I wish at her death what is left of the estate to be equally divided amongst all my children, Sarah McGuire, William Lockhart, James Lockhart, Polly McGuire, Jane Belshe and Daniel Lockhart.

And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and annul all former wills made by me at any time and declare this and no other be my last will and testament, In Witness whereof I have herein set my hand and seal, this twenty seventh day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, 1815

(Signed) Andrew X Lockhart

Signed Sealed and Delivered and Published Pronounced and Declared by Andrew Lockhart to be his last will and testament in the presence of us.

J. Goodwin

Thos. Malloy

Andrew Lockhart

Nellie X Belshe

At Tazewell Jan. Court 1816 the within will was proven by John Goodwin and cont. for futher proof, and at another Court held in said County on the 27th day of August 1816 this the last will and teatament of Andrew Lockhart Dec'd was again exhibited in Court by oath of Thomas Malloy and Nellie Belshe witnesses to and ordered to be recorded.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/56440481/person/32159044310

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find A Grave.

   Andrew Lockhart
   
   Birth: 1740
   Tazewell County
   Virginia, USA
   Death: 1816
   Tazewell County
   Virginia, USA
   
   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124844359&ref=acom