Person:Edwin Conway (5)

1 CONT From: Cynthia Claytonroberts <CynthiaCR@sbcglobal.net> 
Subject: [VACULPEP] Will of Edwin Conway written 19 March 1698 
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:36:39 -0600 
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Does anyone have a copy of the original from Richmond? I typed this from Hayden's "Virginia Genealogies" and I'm wondering, in the last item: is this correct? Did the transcriber mean Mr. Edwin Conway? Or mean Mr. Edwin Thacker twice?

NOTE By CMK: Will Book 1 1692-1698 for Richmond County is no longer extant. This transcript was made by Rev. Hayden in 1895 and published in his Virginia Genealogies. _________________________

• In the name of God, Amen.

I, Edwin Conway, of the County of Richmond, being very sick of body, but of sound mind, and perfect memory, Praised bee God, doe make and ordain this my last will and testament, in manner, as forwith, first and most principally, I give and bequeathe my soul to God that gave it. In certain hope, notwithstanding my unworthiness, to receive pardon for all my sins through the blessed merits of my dear Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ, & by no other way or manner, whatsoever, doe I hope for my pardon, and my body, I commit to the earth to bee buried in my burying ground in Lancaster, by the left side of my dear wife Sarah, dec'd, at the discretion of my Brother-in-law Mr. Henry Fleete, and Mr. Andrew Jackson, in certain hope, thro the merits aforesaid, that soul & body will have a joyful meeting, at the resurrection of the just. Item, I give and bequeathe unto my son Francis, seven hundred and six acres of land in the county of Essex, being that land I bought of Mr. Henry Ceyton. The saide land, do I give to my saide sone, and to the heirs of his body lawfully to bee begotten; and for the want of such heirs, the saide land to fall to the child or children whereof my wife now goeth withall, and to the heirs of their body lawfully to bee begotten; and for want of such heirs, to my sone Edwin, to him and his heirs forever. I also give to my sd sone Francis, three negroes, Sam & Kate & Frank, their child, to him, the said Francis, and his heirs as aforesaid, and for lack of such heirs, to the child or children, whereof my wife now goeth withall to them and their heirs forever. Item, I give unto the child, or children, whereof my wife now goeth withall, the crop of sweet scented tobacco that is now below at my lower plantation, to be put into the hands of Henry and Edwin Thacker and sent for England, and when money is made from the sale of the same, They, to buy two negroes, such as in their discretion they shall think fit, and to bee delivered to their mother, for the saide child or children. Item, I give to my sone Edwin, all that estate, both real and personal, which I formerly gave him by deed of gift, recorded in Lancaster Court, with all and every part and parcel of my estate in Lancaster County, not before given, except one negro man named Jack. Only I hereby oblige saide sone, to pay unto his sister Mary the cattle formerly given to her by deed of gift. I also give to my saide sone, my bay Mare, and all my wearing cloths, and all my mathematical instruments and bookes, and all the cloth and stuff sent for to England, when please God they doe arrive. I doe hereby also make my saide sone full and sole executor of all this legacy hereby given to him. Item, I give unto my daughter Mary all that estate, both real & personal, I formerly gave her by deed of gift recorded in Lancaster Court, and my brown Mare, and all the clothing I sent for out of England, when please God they doe arrive. Item, I give and bequeathe unto my dear and loving wife Elizabeth Conway, all my estate real and personal not hereby given away before. All and every part and parcel that may or can be found in Virginia, England, or elsewhere, and I doe hereby make and ordain my saide wife Elizabeth, full and sole executrix of all hereby given to her. Requesting her to pay all my debts. Item, I nominate and appoint my trusty friends and kinsmen Mr. Andrew Jackson, Mr. Samuel Fox, Mr. Henry Thacker and Mr. Edwin Conway [CMK: sic, THACKER], to bee overseers of this my last will and testament, Desiring my sd overseers, to carefully advise and instruct my children by my first wife, in their persons and estates. And to bee assistant to their power, to my dear wife Elizabeth. And if it should please God, to take away my dear wife during her childrens minority, then I commit their care and tuition of them, and their estates, to my saide kinsmen Mr. Henry Thacker, and Mr. Edwin Thacker, for witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal, this nineteenth day of March, in ye year of Our Lord God One Thousand Six Hundred, Ninety and Eight. Edwin [Ye Seal] Conway Signed and Sealed in ye presence of Alexander Spence, John Size.

At a Court held for Richmond County on the 7th of Sept 1698. This will presented by Elizabeth Conway and proved in Open Court by the oathes of Alexander Spence and John Size, and ordered to bee recorded. (See Min. of R'd Court.) ____________________________________

1. ↑ James Mason Grove. Genealogical Charts of James Mason Grove.
2.   Hayden, Horace Edwin. Virginia genealogies : a genealogy of the Glassell family of Scotland and Virginia: also of the families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and others, of Virginia and Maryland. (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: E.B. Yordy, printer, 1891)
   p. 229, p. 231 ff..