Person:James Wills (16)

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James Wills
  • HJames Wills1740 - 1821
  • WMary _____Bef 1747 - 1768
m. Bef 1764
  1. Judith B. Wills1764 - 1853
  2. Mary Elizabeth WillsBef 1768 - Bef 1842
  3. James WillsBef 1768 - Abt 1813
m. Abt 1770
  1. John Wills1776 -
  2. Lawrence Wills1778 - 1831
  3. Rebecca Wills1782 -
  4. Nancy Wills1783 -
  5. Catlett Wills1792 - 1846
Facts and Events
Name James Wills
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1740 Amherst County, Virginia
Marriage Bef 1764 to Mary _____
Marriage Abt 1770 Augusta County, Virginiato Mildred Catlett
Death[1] Feb 1821 Nelson County, Virginia

Nelson County, VA Deeds

  • "Yr. 1807, John Thompson, Judith his wife, James Wills, Mildred his wife, all of Amherst Co., sell to Hawes Coleman for 1000 pounds, two tracts of land on bracnches of Naked Creek, being lands John Thompson & James Wills purchased of Martin Bibb & Tandy Johnson. One tract of 200 acres, corner of James Bibb & John Loving, touches lines of James Wills, Sr. Wm Bibb, dec'd. etc."
  • Another tract containing 200 acres being land, "James Wills bought from Tandy Johnson and joins land of Wm. Bibb, dec'd., John Loving, Wm. Loving, Wm. Hollingsworth, Parmanes Bryant and estate of Conyers White, dec'd"


Notes

Last Will and Testament of James Wills, Sr., can be found Nelson Co., VA, Will Book B, pages 176 -178), dated 29 Sept 1820. Probated 26 Feb 1821.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
  2.   Nelson County Heritage Book Committee (Nelson County, Virginia). Nelson County, Virginia heritage, 1807-2000. (Summersville, West Virginia: S.E. Grose and the Nelson Book Committee, c2001 (Walsworth Publishing Co.)).

    Image:James Wills Family from Nelson County VA Heritage.gif