Person:Evan Thomas (27)

Will Abstract

Will of Evan Thomas, Senr. of the County of Frederick and Colony of Virginia.

I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Evan Thomas Junr. the sum of one English shilling sterling, I having before given him two hundred acres of land part of a tract of one thousand and fourteen acres granted to me by pattent loaning date the twelfth day of November One thousand seven hundred and thirty five...

I give and bequeath unto my son John Thomas the plantation whereon I now live..

I give and bequeath unto my son Enos Thomas and his heirs and assigns forever two hundred and forty acres of land on while he low lives in the County aforesaid and joyning [sic] to the aforesaid four hundred acres bequeath to my son John Thomas and being part of the aforesaid of one thousand and fourteen acres....

I give and bequeath unto my daughter Martha Thomas two hundred acres of land being part of the upar [sic] end of the said tract of one thousand and fourteen acres - which I do give and bequeath unto her the said Martha and to her heirs and assigns forever...

and lastly I do give and bequeath unto my son John Thomas all my personall [sic] estate which I have a right unto or in any wise to me doth belong after my funeral expenses and just debts be paid and do hereby constitute ordain and appoint my said son John Thomas my hole [sic] and sole Executor of this my Last will and Testament.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of the sixth month (called June) one thousand, seven hundred and fifty three (1753).

Note that is reserved to my Daughter Martha of my personall Estate which she ownas as heirs, one bay mare, a cow of a black Cotter [?] and a White Heifer.

[signed] Evan Thomas

Signed sealed, published, pronounced and Declared in the presence of:

John Gore, John Bailey, Joh. Smith

At a Court held for Frederick County on Tuesday the first day of April 1755.

The last will and Testament of Evan Thomas Dec'd was presented into Court by John Thomas the Executor therein named who made oath thereunto according to law and being proved by the oath of John Gore, John Bailey and John Smith the witness as thereto is admitted to record and on the motion of said executors and his performing what was usuall in such Cases Certificate is tranted him for obtaining a Probate thereof in due form.

Teste: J. Wood

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

   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/4033779/person/953430270/facts

2.   Society of Friends. Hopewell Monthly Meeting (Frederick County, Virginia : Orthodox), and John Walter Wayland. Hopewell Friends history, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia: records of Hopewell Monthly Meetings and Meetings reporting to Hopewell, two hundred years of history and genealogy. (Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1936).

   

3.   RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project.

   Evan Thomas was a Quaker minister who came from Wales in 1719. His son Evan Thomas, Jr. married the daughter of Alexander Rodd. [Ross?] Abraham Hollingsworth according to the Minutes of the Nottingham (Pennsylvania) Monthly meeting in 1729 was "under dealings and absent from home." Family tradition claims he paid first "a cow, a calf and a piece of red cloth to the Shawnee Indians for his land." But on November 23, 1732 he received a survey for 582 acres "within the limits of an order of Council granted to Alexander Ross." John Willson, Nathaniel Thomas, John Haitt, Jr., John Peteate, George Robinson, Robert Luna, Luke Emelen, Francis Pincher, John Frost, George Hobson and John Calvert were other Quakers who moved through Maryland to Pennsylvania.
   
   About the year 1732, Alexander Ross and Company obtained a grant from the Governor and Council at Williamsburgh in Virginia, for 100,000 acres of land near a large creek called Opeckan in the said colony, which about that time was settled by the said Alexander Ross, Josiah Ballinger, James Wright, Evan Thomas, and divers other Friends from Pennsylvania and Elk River, in Maryland, who soon after obtained leave from the quarterly meeting of Chester, held at Concord, to hold a meeting for worship, soon after which land was purchased and a meeting-house built, called Hopewell, where meetings are still held twice a week.
   
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