Person:John Boughan (1)

Will Transcript

Will of John Boughan was dated 13 February 1719: In the name of God amen I John Boughan of the parish of St Ann’s in the County of Essex, being very Sick & week in body but in perfect Sence and memory Thanks be to almighty God for the same, do hereby constitute & ordain this my Last Will & Testament in manner & form as followeth, Imprimis I Give & bequeath my Soul to almighty God that gave it me, trusting in the meditations & merrits of my blessed Saviour Jesus Christ to receive eternall bliss & happiness, and my body to the Earth from whence it came, to be interred as the will of my Executrix, hereafter menconed shall think fit; and for what wordly Goods God hath been pleased to bless me with which is more then my deserts (after my just debts are paid) I Give & bequeath as followeth viz: [illegible]; Item I Give & bequeath unto my Loveing wife Susanna Boughan The plantation whereon I now live, Including the one half of the Land I Live on to her during her natural Life, and after her decease, I give and bequeath the sd Land to my Son Augustine Boughan with all the remainder of the sd Tract of Land I live on to him & heirs for ever, Item I Give & bequeath unto my son John Boughan all the Land I have in & upon the head of Piscataway to him & his heirs for ever; Item I Leave my Loveing wife Susanna Boughan the one Third part of all my Negro’s with their increase to her during her natural Life, and after her decease the sd negroes and their increase I Give & bequeath to my four Children Dorothy Mary Augt & John Boughan’s and their heirs for ever to be equally divided, Item I Give and bequeath all the remainer of Negroe’s with their increase to be equally divided amongst my four Children Dorothy Mary Augustine & John Boughan’s & their heirs for ever in manner & form following vizt: that the sd Negro’s & their encrease be kept at work on my sd Land and that the product of their Labour be for ye bringing up & Educateing the sd four Children Dorothy Mary Augustin & John Boughan’s and that my Executrix hereafter named have the managemt thereof until one of my sd Children shall arrive to the age of Eighteen years of the day of Marriage and then all the sd negroe’s aforesd given to my sd four Children be equally divided amongst the sd four Children, or if any of them dead then amongst the Survivours and that, That Children so of age then have his or her equal part, and the remainer of the sd Negro’s remain to the remainer of the sd Children untill another of them shall arrive to the age aforsd or married and then he or she have his or her equally part as aforesd, and so the rest to remain in manner & form aforesd till all my said Children shall come to the age aforesaid or marryed, Item I Give and bequeath all the remainer of my Estate both real & personall to be equally divided amongst my Loving wife Susanna Boughan and my four Children Dorothy Mary Augustine & John Boughan’s and their heirs for ever; Lastly I do ordain Constitute & appoint my Loveing wife Susanna Boughan my whole & Sole Executrix of this my Last Will & Testament, In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 13th day of ffebruary 1719.

Signed John Boughan (Seal).

Witnesses: Jasper Cofton, Edward Moseley, Charles his C mark Higdon, Richd his + mark Barratt.

At a Court held for Essex County on Tuesday ye 19th day of July 1720—This will was presented in Court by Susanna Boughan Exx therein named who made oath thereto, and being further proved by the oaths of Jasper Cofton Edwd Moseley & Charles Higdon witnesses thereto is admitted to record— [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 3, pages 178–180.]

An inventory of the estate of John Boughan was made on 10 August 1720 by John Hawkins, Tho. Ramsey, Jno. Vawter and Robt. Parker, and signed by Susanna Boughan. Total valuation £410.10.6, including 15 Negroes valued at £287.10.0. Returned 16 August 1720. [Essex County, Virginia, Wills, Inventories and Settlements of Estates No. 3, 1717–1721, pages 200–202, as abstracted by John Frederick Dorman.]

Citation: Thomas Moore’s Genealogy Site

1.   Thomas Moore’s Genealogy Site.

   Name: John Boughan
   Birth: bef 1684
   Death: 1720
   Residence: Essex County, Virginia
   Father: Major James Boughan (~1650-~1712)
   Mother: Mary
   
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