Person:Jeremiah Bronaugh (1)

Will Transcript

WILL OF JEREMIAH BRONAUGH

In the Name of God Amen. I Jeremiah Bronough of the County of King George in the Parish of Brunswick being in perfect healt and memory thanks be to God therefore but calling to mind the shortness of life and certainty of death, do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following.

Impris: First, I bequeath my soul to God who gave it and my body to Christian burial at the discretion of my Executor hereafter mentioned.

Item: To my daughter Elizabeth Wright I give four ewes and no more because she has had her full share of my estate already.

Item: To my daughter Ann Chadwell I give the feather bed and furniture that stands in the room where I lodge myself and eight hundred pounds of Tobacco to be paid by my son David Bronaugh the first year after my death.

Item: To my daughter Rosamond Steward I give the feather bed and bolster which was last fild (sic) with a rugg and blankets.

Item: To my daughter Margaret Grant I give two thousand pounds of Tobacco to be paid to my son David Bronaugh the second year after my death.

Item: To my son Samuel Bronaugh I give my Negro woman named Cate and all her increase to him and his heirs of assigns forever.

Item: To my son Jere: Bronaugh I give my Negro woman named Jude and all her increase to him and his heirs or assigns forever.

Item: To my son David Bronaugh I give my Negro woman named Jean and all her increase to him and his heirs or assigns forever. I also give and devise unto my son David Bronaugh my land and plantation whereon I now live being by estimation one hundred and fifty one acres to him his heirs or assigns forever. I also give my Negro Caffe and all my other estate not before given to my son David Bronaugh, he to pay of (f) the legacies before mentioned and my debts.

And my Will and Desire is that my Estate shall not be appraised nor inventoried because my debts are vew and of small value.

I do ordain constitute and appoint my loving son David Bronaugh Executor of this my last Will and Testament.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale this 14th day of April in the year of our Lord 1836.

(Signed) Jeremiah Bronaugh (seal)

Signed Sealed and Published to be his Last Will & Testament in Presence of us...

John Coburn

William Stringfellow

John Glendining

Know all men that these presents that I Jeremiah Bronaugh of the Parish of Brunswick in the County of King George having formerly given to my son Jeremiah Bronaugh my Negro womand named Judee and her increase as in my will above and he being dead without making anywill, I do now by this present writing revoke that clause of my will and I do now give and demise the said Negro woman named Judee and all her increase to his two children Kathren Bronaugh and Benjamin Bronaugh and their heirs forever, to be equally divided between them when the said Kathren Bronaugh shall be married or come to the age of twenty one years and I do order and appoint my Executor, David Bronaugh above mentioned, to see this clause &c: schedule to my will duly executed.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 29th day of February in the year of our Lord 1747/8.

(Signed) Jeremiah Bronaugh (seal)

Signed Sealed & Published to be his act and deed in Presence of us ......

John Champe

Wm. Rowley

Anderson Doniphan

A court held for King George County on Friday, Jan. 5, 1749. the Last Will and Testament of Jeremiah Bronaugh, deceaded, has presented into Court by David Bronaugh his Executor who mad ______thereto and the same was proved by the oaths of John Champs, Gent., and Anderson Doniphan and admitted to record.

[Source: King George County, Virginia Will Book 1749/50 Pg. 228-230].

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