Person:Alice Smoot (2)

Research Notes

• Additional evidence to support the surname SMOOT is desired.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Will Transcript of Alice Stretchley, in Lancaster, Virginia, United States. Lancaster County Will Book No. 8, 1690-1709.

   [Lancaster County Will Book No. 8, 1690-1709, p 210]
   [ STRETCHLEY, ALICE. Lancaster Co. Will: 29 Aug 1701. Probate: 8 Oct 1701.]

   Alice STRETCHLEY of the parish of St Mayries, White Chapell in the Co. of Lancr made her will, "being sick & weak of body & sound and perfect in mind & memory praise be therefore given to Almighty God doe make and ordain this my present last will & testamt in manner and form following that is to say first and princably I comend my Sole into the hands of Almighty God hoping through the Merrits death and passion of My Sav Jesus Christ to have full and free pardon and forgivness of all my sins and to inherit everlasting life and my body I committ to the earth to be decently buried at the descretion of my Exr hereafter named and as touching the disposall of my temporall estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I give and dispose as followeth. ...Debts and funeral charges be paid & discharged. ...

   ... give unto my Daughter Ann FOX three silver Spoons the great Silvr Tankard marked AS and one Silvr Tumbler of the middle size and all my wearing cloaths that came out of England this year from Mr ELLIS and my Plush Sadle.

   I give unto my Daughter Cathrine HEAL all my Stock of Cattle hoggs and sheep that is upon my plantation that my husbabd Mr. Jno STRETCHLEY bought of Mr William TOMLYN Except four Cowes and Six Sheep which I give to my Sister Dorothy DURHAM.

   I give unto my Daughter Cathrine HEAL one of the smallest silver Tankards & one of the smallest Silvr Tumblors and three Silvr Spoons and one hundred fourty and five pounds Sterling being due to me and in the hands of Mr Tho ELLIS Merchant of London and one negro woman named Sue of Short Stature and one negro man named Jack and one black mare Runeny at Morratico Point branded on the rear Buttook and shoulder with JC. I give to the sd Cathrine HEAL two featherbeds with ruggs & blanketts and four pare of sheets three pillows and six pillow cears six pewter dishes tow pewter Basons one Doz of plases one doz. wooden ditto and one pewter Chamber pott six Leather Chairs out of the new house Chamber and one suit of my best wearing cloaths Excepting them before given to my Daughter Anne FOX this being in Lieu and full satisfaction of her portion left her by her father Mr Jno CHIN and of the legacy left her by her father in Law Mr Jno STRETCHLEY she the sd Cathrine having noe other Right or Claims from my estate.

   I give unto my Son in Law Capt Wm FOX all the rest residue & remarnder of what money is of mine in the hands of Mr Tho ELLIS of London Mercht Excepting and Reserved to the use of Edward AUDLEY [ * ] one hundred pounds Sterling left him by my husband Mr Jno STRETCHLEY which I will that my sd Son Wm FOX see him paid of the sd money in ELLIS his? hands and in case of his death then the sd hundred pounds I give to my sd son Wm FOX as also all the rest of the money in his the sd ELLIS his hands Except what is bereby before bequeathed in full Leiu of and in full Satisfaction of any futher claims or Chalange to any other part or parcell of my sd estate.

   I give to my Sister Tomasin MARSHALL as much black Crap(e) as will make her a gown and peticoate. I give to my Sister Dorothy DURHAM one Christian Servt named Anne BUCKLEY or as much Tobbaco as will buy a Cervt which be that is my Cxr shall please to lett her have and all the Remander of my cloaths except which is before hereby given. I give unto my Cousin Mary DODSON as much black crape as will make her a mourning suit.

   I give and bequeath unto my Son Rawleigh CHIN all my money in the hands of Mr Jno PEMBERTON Mercht in Liverpool and all my Slaves Servts Cattle sheep hoggs horses and mares and all and singular the rest residue and Remarndr of my sd estate of what nature or quality soever or wheresoever and of this my last will and Testamt do Constitute and appoint my Son Rawleigh CHINN my whole and sole Exr Revoking all other wills by me heretofore made and doe publish and declare this to be my last will and Testamt in witness whereof I here unto put my hand & seal the 29th day of August 1701 signed sealed and published in presence of Joseph TAYLOE.
   

   Signed Alice STRETCHLEY.
   Wits. Lewis PUGH, David SMITH.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Will Transcript of John Stretchley, in Lancaster, Virginia, United States. Lancaster County Will Book No. 8, 1690-1709.

   [Lancaster County Will Book No. 8, 1690-1709, p 172]
   [ STRETCHLEY, John. Lancaster Co. Will: 6 Dec 1698. Probate: 14 Dec 1698.]

   In the name of God Amen. I John Stretchley of the Co. of Lancaster in Rappa & praised be God In good & perfect memory do make & ordaine this my Last Will & Testament in mannor & form following.

   Imp I bequeath my soul to God as? gave it me my Maker & Reedeemr in full assurance of the pardon & Ramission of all my sins through the death & merrits of my Savr Jesus Christt and my body to the ground from whence it come to be decently Interd and my Worldly Estate my just debts & funerall rights first discharged I give and devise as followeth -

   Item I give & Devise my Land & Plantation in Richmond Co. which I bought from Mr Wm Tomlyn to my Loving wife Alice Stretchley during her natural life & after her desese to my Daughter in Law Katherin Chin & her heirs for ever.

   Item I give unto my two Daughters in Law Anne Chin and Kathrin Chin fourty pounds sterling a piece.

   Item I give unto my Sonn in Law Rawleigh Chin my Trace of Land that I took up adjooynin upon the plantation I now live on containing a hundred and eighteen acares more or less to him & his hiers forever.

   Item I give unto my sonn in Law Rawleigh Chin seventy pounds sterling.

   Item I give unto my cousin Edwd Audley on hundred pounds sterling.

   Item I give unto my sister Sarah Bainbridge five pounds sterling in full of all Right title or intrest of any part or parsell of my Estate whatsoever.

   Item I give unto my loving wife Alice Stretchley all the residue of my estate wherever found or being not before hereby given.

   Item I hereby nominate and appoint my Loving wife Alice Stretchley my sole Exetr of this my Last Will and Testament to (Art C dev)? all things - in fact ordering and disposing the Estate According to the true Intent and meaning thereof hereby revoking all former wills & declare this to be my Last Will & Testament by witnessing the same with my hand & seal this 6th day of December 1698 signed and sealed in the presence of

   William Ball
   

   Richd Ball
   John Stretchley, sign his seal
   George Heale
   

   Probate fuit humoi Testamt in Cur Co. Lancaster 14 die Decamb Ano Dom 1698 per s_crem + Eilielmi Ball et Georgg Heale Jurat in Cur teste Jas Tayloe et Recorded per sd?

   Probat fuit humo Testmt in Cur Con Lancast pr Saemt

   James Tayloe, Clerk of Lanc Co

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   [Caution: Transcript not verified.]
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   [Identifies her as wife of John Stretchley.}

3. ↑ Family Recorded, in Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800 : marriages and marriage references for the counties of Lancaster, Northumberland, Old Rappahannock, Richmond, and Westmoreland. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2003)
   75.

   CHINN, John & [SMOOT], Alice; unk; bride was Jn. CHINN's 2nd wife & a dau. of Wm. & Jane SMOOT; she mar. (2) Jn. STRETCHLEY (d. LC 1698); bride was, acc. to MRC:250, a sis. of the wives of Thos. DURHAM and Abraham MARSHALL; (LC WB 8:87, 106; MRC:250; Chinn:1, 3, 5, 8-11; Dodson:4)
   
   [where LC WB = Lancaster County Will Book]
   [where MRC = King, George H.S. 1964 Marriages of Richmond County Virginia 1668-1853, Fredericksburg, Virginia (King provided several pages of corrections to this in 1969; a copy is in the James Lewis col., NCHS.]
   [where NCHS = Northumberland County Historical Society, Heathsville.]
   [where Chinn = Dillon, Ruth Wilson and Marguerite Relyea Lewis. 1972. The Chinn Book. cottonport: Polyanthus (This book containes much useful material on Northern Neck families, but it must be used with caution. The dates are often transposed or otherwise incorrect.]
   [where Dodson = Williams, Mrs. Sherman. 1988. The Dodson (Dotson) Family of North Farnham Parish, Easley, SC:Southern Historical Press.]