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Facts and Events
Acquisition of Land in Prince William County, VA
Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1742-1775, Vol. 2:
- F-275: William Tacquet of Prince William County, 142½ acres including 21 acres surplus in Prince William county. Surv. Mr. James Genn. See 274 above. On Cedar run, adj. Philemon Waters, Philemon's Branch. 29 Aug. 1747. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, pg. 15].
Will Transcript
- Will Book G, Page 197---Prince William County, Virginia-- 30 June 1782
- In the name of God Amen. I, William Tackett of Pr. Wm. County & Parish of Dettingen being in perfect health of body & perfect mind and memory Thanks be given to God calling into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed once to die and after that the judgement, do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament. First of all I desire & commend my soul to the care & protection of the Almighty God my worldly goods as follows.
- Item---I desire that my wife Elizabeth Tackett have one half of the house I now live in. The third of my land and orchard, one feather bed and furniture, one sorrell mare, one cow and two ewes, one pot, one large chest & large table during her life & after her death to belong to my son Lewis Tackett.
- Item: I give and bequeath to my son Lewis Tackett all my land after my wife has the third of it & half the house I now live in, one negro girl named Pat, one feather bed & furniture, one bay mare and colt, one cow & calf, fore sheep, one sow & pigs, one ____, one desk & six plates to be delivered to my son Lewis when he arrives to the age of Eighteen years & my desire is that my son Lewis Tackett shall have a --(Affrica?) boy by the name of Joseph Buchanan to his own use at my death--further my desire is that I leave one negro woman named Mary and as the rest of my estate except one heafer, one gel ( gelding ?) & ewe I give to my Grandaughter Mildred Reno for the maintance of my wife & my son Lewis Tackett and at the death of my wife the whole to fall to my son Lewis Tackett & the whole I have left him to him & his heirs forever & if he dies without heirs lawfully begotten of his body to be equally divided between my son Wm. Tackett, Mary Hodges & Elizabeth Reno. I further devise that the part of the estate of Thos. Stamps dec'd due me at the death of Mary Stamps his wife I having some part be properly settled by my executors & his and the balance due me to be equally divided between my fore (4) children Wm. Tackett, Lewis Tackett, Mary Hodges & Elizabeth Reno & I likewise ordain, constitute and appoint William Tackett, Jr. & Lewis Reno my sole executors of this my Last Will & Testament. In witness whereof I have set my hand and seal this thirtyeth day of June one thousand seven hundred eighty two.
- (Signed) William Tackett
- Witness: John Leewright, Jr, Peter Garrat, Bobby Leeright.
- At a court continued & held for Pr. Wm. County the 8th day of April 1783 the above will was proved.
Estate Records
- At a Court continued and held for Prince William County the 8th Day of April 1783
- Tackett’s will
- The last will and testament of William Tackett deceased was present to the County by the Executors.
- Who made oath to the same according to law and being proved by the oaths of John Langfitt
- Do appraisal
- An inventory and appraisement of the estate of Wm Tackett deceased was [illegible] to the court and admitted to record.
- Harrison vs Tackett
- The same } plaintiff
- William Tackett, Lewis Renoe executor of William Tackett deceased
- }defendant } on petition
- Judgment is granted the plaintiffs against the defendants for the sum of one pound seven shillings and four pence and their costs by them in that behalf laid out and expanded.
- Source: Prince William County, Virginia, Court Orders 1783-1784
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