Person:Francis McGuire (9)

Will Abstract

Will of Francis McGuire, of Brooke County in the State of Virginia, dated 23rd April 1815.

To Barbara my beloved wife all household goods & furniture and one moiety of my real and personal estate.

To niece Nancy McGuire $2,500, one moiety to be paid to her in one year after my decease and the residue in one year after the decease of my beloved wife.

To my grand-nephew William McGuire, grandson of the late Robt. McGuire dec'd, I give and devise a certain part of a tract of land now in the tenure [?] of Dennis Dorsey and Jas. McCammant containing sixty acres to be laid off on the south end of the tract adjoining Henry Hervey and Wm. Thorpe [?] as my Executor shall direct.

To my grand-niece Elizabeth McGuire and her brother Francis McGuire (children of my nephew Robt. McGuire) I give and bequeath the sum of $300 to each of them the money to be first to Interest by my Executors in one year after my decease and the principal and interest which shall accrue therein to be paid them respectively as they shall severally arrive at the age of twenty-one years, or on the marriage of my said grand-niece.

To my nephew Francis McGuire, son of Wm. McGuire, i give and bequeath one seventh part of the residue of my real and personal estate, one-seventh part of my personal estate not herein before bequeathed to be paid him in one-year after my decease and on the demise of my beloved wife, one-seventh part of the proceeds of my real estate.

To Thomas McGuire, son of Wm. McGuire, I give and bequeath one-seventh part of my real and personal estate in the same manner, as to Francis McGuire in the preceeding bequeathment.

To Robert McGuire, son of William McGuire, I give and bequeath one-seventh part of my real and personal estate in the same manner as in the preceeding bequeathments.

To my half-brother Thomas McGuire, I give and bequeath one-seventh part of my real and personal estate in the same manner as in the preceeding bequeathments.

To my half-brother John McGuire, I give and bequeath one-seventh part of my real and personal estate in the same manner as in the preceeding bequeathments.

To my half-brother Hugh McGuire, I give and bequeath one-seventh part of my real and personal estate in the same manner as in the preceeding bequeathments.

To Jane Wiggins, widow of the late Thos. Wiggins, dec'd, I give and bequeath, during her widowhood one-seventh part of my real and personal estate in the same manner as in the preceeding bequeathments, but on the marriage or demise of the said Jane, then the said seventh part to go to the heirs of the said Thos. Wiggins dec'd.

To Catherine Wilson I give and bequeath the sum of fifty dollars.

To my Negroes Mingo, Rachel, Jesse, Bett, Poll, Betty, Jack, Ann, Bill, Dick, Sam and George, I give and bequeath each $100 and to Harriott lately born I give and bequeath $100 to be paid them respectively on the demise of my beloved wife provided they severably are of the age of twenty-one years, and to such of them as shall be twenty one years of age on the demise aforesaid their freedom and such of them as shall be under the age aforesaid shall be bound to serve until they are are twenty one years old.

I do hereby order and direct my Executors to sell the residue of my tract of land, a part of which is herein before devised to my grand-nephew Wm. McGuire aldo the Moeity of my personal estate after my decease and the moiety or residue of my real estate on the demise of my beloved wife.

And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint Barbara my beloved wife and my friend Thomas Lee and Robert Marshall Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

(Signed) Francis McGuire [seal]

In the presence of:

James Marshel

Dennis Dorsey

Francis McGuire Junr.

Codicil:

A Codicil was written on 23 May 1819, clarifying some of the contents of the original will.

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

   http://person.ancestry.com/tree/41706472/person/29115476764/facts

2.   BookeCountyWVGenealogy.com.

   MAJOR FRANCIS MC QUIRE
   
   BY LUCY MCCOY
   FROM KEYHOLE--GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA.
   JULY 1996
   Thomas McGuire and two of his sons, Francis and Robert, came into Independence Township (then Hopewell) in 1772 from Hampshire County Virginia (now west Virginia), on the south branch of the Potomac River. They settled on the dividing ridge between the Cross Creek and Buffalo Creek watersheds, just on the edge of Independence Township, Washington County, and Brooke County, west Virginia. Here they built a blockhouse - McGuire's - the first in all that region.
   
   Francis bought land in Pennsylvania from the Benjamin wells estate and had several land grants in Pennsylvania, but sold his land in Pennsylvania from 1801 to 1806 and settled across the border in West Virginia. He was born around 1772 in Hampshire and died in Brooke County on September 18, 1820, age 55 years. He married, probably on a return trip to Hampshire County, Barbara Miller, who died December 29, 1835.
   
   Earle Forrest claims that he served as a major in the Continental Line, but Dr. Raymond M. Bell quotes from the Draper Manuscripts that he was a major in the militia. Forrest quotes from Joseph Doddridge's Notes on the settlement and Indian Wars that he was in a party of men who rescued a Mrs. Glass and her small son from the Indians down the Ohio River below Wellsburg and near Short Creek. Dr. Bell also quotes the Draper Manuscripts which state that Francis McGuire and his brother Robert were on Col. David Williamson's campaign to the Moravian Village at Gnaddenhutten where 96 Christian Indians were massacred on March 8, 17982, by the settlers of Washington County. Col Williamson was not in favor of the deeds of his men, but he did not seem to exert enough control over them to stop the mad killing. Francis McGuire strongly opposed the action, but his brother Robert favored it.
   
   In a small plot near Independence are found these stones: Francis McGuire died September 1(), 1820 Age 66-- Barbara McGuire died December 29, 1835, Age 81
   
   Richard Waugh bought the farm on the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border on which Mr. McGuire lived in 1804, and it was in the Waugh family until about twenty-five years ago. The Waugh's had a commercial orchard there, and the Grimes Golden Apples were a specialty developed there. The farm has since become a golf course, and that burial g round is located on top of the hill at Hole #12. Mrs. Barbara Crothers of Taylorstown as a Waugh and was raised on that farm.
   
   The story is told that the McGuire's had twenty slaves that Mrs. McGuire freed after her husband's death. But they ran away because they were afraid that some people would take time again as slaves.
   
   http://www.brookecountywvgenealogy.org/mcguire-family.html