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Facts and Events
Will of John Arnold
- John Arnold will:
- Item - I leave and bequeath to my well beloved wife Hannah, the use and benfit of all my estate real and personal for and during her natural life and at her decease to return to my Executors to be disposed of by them as follows.
- Item - I leave all my proberty of every name and nature to be sold to the highest bidder and the money arising from the sale there of after paying my just debts and funeral expenses to be equally divided amongst my three daughters, Sarah Hart, Phebe Groves and Amelia Hall(Wall?) them and their heirs forever.
- Item - I give my oldest son Andrew Arnold one dollar to him and his heirs forever.
- Item - I give to my second son John Monroe Arnold one dollar to him and his heirs forever.
- Item - I give to my third son Richard Arnold Thirty Three Dollars and Three cents to him and his heirs forever.
- Item - I give and bequeath to Hannah Pugh's several children whose names follow to wit: to Catherine Pugh Five Shillings, and to Sarah Trowbridg and Jesse Pugh, Michael Pugh, Mary Pugh and Hannah Pugh to each of them Eighty Seven Cents to them and their heirs forever.
- Item - I leave and bequeath to my so Levi Arnold the lands whereon I now live containing two hundred acres be the same more or less with all its appurtances to him and his heirs forever he will yielding and paying Richard Arnold the above mentioned sum of Thirty Three Dollars and Thirty (?) three cents, within three years after the decease of his mother and yielding and paying yearly and every year after he comes into possession of the land to his sister Phebe Groves the sum of twelve dollars in money or such property as she in her necessity may require and if he should sell the land and his sister
- Phebe Groves should then be alive to pay into the hands of my Executors the sum of One Hundred Dollars to be by them appropriated to her wants as long as she remains in her present disabled state as her necessity may require, and lastly I constitute appoint and ordain my sons Sndrew Arnold and John Monroe Arnold my whole and sole Executors of this my last will and Testament in witness--where of I have set my hand and affixed my Seal this sixth day of June in the year of our Lord 1816.
- Attest:
- Michael Pugh
- Abraham Cresswell
- Jesse Pugh
- John Arnold (Seal) Proven 6/14/1819
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Vol. 2 - Nixon vs. Nixon--O. S. 13; N. S. 5--Bill filed in Hampshire 14th March, 1794, by George Nixon, son of William Nixon, deceased, against George Nixon, son of George Nixon, deceased. Summons dated 12th December, 1793, to summon George Nixon, infant, by Francis White, his guardian. Many years ago, previous to marriage of orator's deceased father, with Hanna, mother of orator, George Nixon, father to William and grandfather to orator. George gave land to William on the Great Capecapon. Orator's grandmother died and then George (grandfather) made an unfortunate marriage by which he had several children, among them, defendant George, to whom he devised the land. Copy of will of George Nixon, of Hampshire County: Wife Rachel, son George, son Joseph, son William, grandsons George and Levi Nixon, granddaughter Rhoda Thomas, son Jonathan, daughter Elizabeth Webb, granddaughter Molly Nixon, daughter of Jonathan, (William, George and Joseph are infants), daughter Hannah, daughter Nancy; dated 15th February, 1793; proved 10th April, 1793. George gave the land to son William in 1768. Rees Pritchard says he was born in 1744. William Nixon (father of complainant) married Benjamin McDonald; Hannah Nixon was Hannah Park; Elizabeth Webb was daughter of George Nixon (grandfather) and wife of Benjamin); John Arnold was related to George, Sr., by marriage, i. e., George Nixon's first wife was Arnold's sister; Arnold is 62 years 6th of last September, 1797.
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