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Facts and Events
James Campbell was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Will Transcript
- I James Campbell of the County of Washington in the State of Virginia being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make this my last Will and Testament in the following manner viz I direct that all my just debts and funeral charges be paid. I allow my beloved wife Anne full possession of the plantation on which I now live except such part as is hereinafter devised to my son James, and three of my slaves to wit Samuel about forty years of age, Susannah and Susy during her life, also my household and kitchen furniture and all my horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs as she may desire to keep except such part of cattle as is hereinafter devised to my sons Jacob and James. I also allow my wife to have the use of the principal and interest of an obligation of four hundred dollars due from William McKee to me or such part thereof as she may stand in need of during her life. My farming utensils are to remain on the plantation for the use of my wife during her life.
- To my son George I give and bequeath my negro girl Polly. To Anne Campbell, daughter of my son George I give my negro girl Susy, child of the above named Polly and two cows and calves. To my son Jacob I give and bequeath my negro girl Patsy
- To my son James I give and bequeath my negro girl Ainsey Also a part of the plantation I now live on, the dividing line to run twenty poles east of the west end of the lane with the direction of the fence on the west end of the field on the right of line [or lane] to Jacob Hagy’s line and also with the direction of said line reversing course to Richard White line which is to exclude [poss. s/b "include"] part of my last purchase from Walker and my purchase from Dukes. Also two cows and calves.
- To my sons Robert and John I give and bequeath a tract of land the now live on containing by survey three hundred and sixty one acres to be equally divided between them also the sum of one hundred pounds to each of them.
- To my son Robert I give and bequeath my negro boy George.
- To my son John I give and bequeath my negro girl called Gin and her child named Alsy.
- To my son David I give and bequeath that part of the old plantation to be possessed by my wife during her life. Also my negro girl Susy.
- As I wish that none of the slaves which I may posses at my decease should go out of my family I hereby direct that all such not before specifically devised be equally divided among my sons according to evaluation by three disinterested men selected by a majority of them and as the division probably cannot be made in kind if that should be the case I wish such slaves to retained by some one or more of my sons as the whole may agree and that those retaining any of the said slaves pay to my other sons their proportions of their evaluation.
- All the residue of my estate I direct to be sold and the proceeds to be equally divided among my aforesaid sons. ??I hereby appoint my sons James and John as my executors of this my Will which I hereby declare to be my last.
- Witness my hand and seal this 21st day of August 1817.
- (Signed) James Campbell
- Test:
- James Campbell
- Robert Cummings
- Wiliam Eakin
- At a court held for Washington County the 15th day of February 1825 the last Will and Testament of James Campbell deceased was exhibited in Court and proved by the oath of Robert E. Cummings and William Eakin the subscribing witnesses there to and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of James Campbell one of the Executors therein named who took the oath of an executor prescribed by law and entered into and acknowledged his bond in the sum of four thousand dollars, with Robert Cummings, John Galliher, and John Sutton his securities conditioned as the law directs. A certificate is therefore granted him for the probate of the said Will in due form.
- Teste: Jacob Lynch
Records in Washington County, VA
- 8th May 1804 Washington, VA - Page 139-140., Irvin vs. Campbell--O. S. 170; N. S. 60--Spa. in Washington County, 8th May, 1804. Orator, John Irvin. Defendants are, viz: James Campbell and James Keys, executors of Jacob Campbell, deceased, Jane Campbell, his widow, and George, Jacob, James (Jr.), Robert Campbell, sons of James Campbell. Bill states orator married a daughter of Jacob Campbell and had by her several children. In 1792 Jacob gave orator a bond to give slaves to orator's children. Jacob died testate. Will dated 28th December, 1794, and devised one slave to George Campbell, son of James Campbell, after decease of Jacob's wife, Jane, who was grandmother to George; and to Jacob Campbell, son of said James, another slave; and to James Campbell, son of said James, another slave; and to Robert Campbell, son of said James, another slave. Jacob's daughter married orator between 1773 and 1777, and died in 1793 (January). James Campbell had moved Irvin from Augusta. Jacob had another son-in-law named Kennedy. James Campbell answers, says he is Jacob's son-in-law. Witnesses, Robert Ferril, Sr., and Mary, his wife; Robert Ferril, Jr., and James McKean of Kentucky, Robert Campbell of Tennessee, William Irvin of Tennessee. The bond was given the week before John Irvin moved to Kentucky. James McKee deposes in Washington County, John Irvin's son-in-law. Jane Campbell, aged 90, deposes in Washington County, 3d May, 1805, widow of Jacob Campbell. Jacob was very much dissatisfied with Irvin as a son-in-law, but some time after Jacob moved to this country, he returned to Augusta where Irvin lived, and brought them out with him. Irvin lived with Jacob about six months, when he went to Tennessee, where he lived some years, and his wife died. Jacob and Jane moved from Augusta in 1779, to Washington, and they have always lived on the same land. James Campbell, executor of Jacob, was Jacob's son-in-law . Jane and Jacob when they moved from Augusta were about 65 years old. Robert Ferril, Jr., deposes 1st January, 1806, at house of Robert Ferril, Sr., in Cumberland County, Kentucky.
References
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- Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
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