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Will Transcript
- Will of John Chenoweth, Frederick County, Virginia: dated November 3, 1770
- I will that all my just debts and funeral charges be fully paid and discharged.
- Item, I give and bequeth to my eldest sons William and John Chanoweth all my land and Plantation on Cancanon in Hampshire County to be equally divided between them to them thier heirs and assigns forever.
- Item, I give and bequeth to my three sons Absalom, Thomas and Richard Chenoweth all my land and Plantation whereon I now live to be equally divided between them to them their heirs and assigns forever. The said land not to be sold during their Mother's natural life and they to pay the following legatees; my son Absalom to pay the sum of thirty pounds Virginia currency and my said son Thomas to pay the sum of twenty five pounds like currancy money and my said son Richard to pay the sum of twenty five pounds like current money the said _____and to do the remainder to be equall divided between my three daughters Elizabeth, Mary and Rachel.
- Item, I give and bequeth to my son Arthur Chenoweth one schilling and three pence
- Item, I give and bequeth to my daughter Mary one cow and calf and one featherbed and furniture
- Item, I give and bequeth to my daughter Rachel one cow and calf and one featherbed and furniture.
- And lastly, I do hereby constitute ordain and appoint my loving wife Mary Chenoweth sole executrix of this my last will and testament revoking and making void all other former wills and testaments made at any time. Ratifying and confirming this only to be my last will and testament. It is here to be remebered that my son Richard is to have my Smiths tools to work with during his mothers natural life provided he stay and work on the Plantation and at her death the said tools are to be sold and the money to be divided between my three daughters and further my will is that after my just debts and funeral charges are fully paid and discharged the remainder of my moveable estate to be equally divided between my three daughters, Elizabeth, Mary and Rachel and in confimation of this to be my last will and testament I have hereunto set my hand and seal this third day of November 1770
- (Signed) John Chenoweth X (Seal)
- Signed sealed and acknowledged by the testators to be his last will and testament in the presence of us
- John Salisberry
- William [X] Salisberry
- M. Morgan
- Codicil to Will:
- It is here to be remebered that before signed and sealed that the said testator doth give unto his grand daughter Mary Chenoweth, daughter of his eldest son William, one heifer called the mottled heifer, one ewe and lamb provided she stay with her grandmother during her said grandmothers natural life of until she becomes to age
Notes
Immigrated before 1747 from MD to VA
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Millard Thompson. Downing GED Thompson. (RootsWeb, Downloaded January 10, 2004).
- Hiatt, Cora Chenoweth. History of the Chenoweth family: beginning 449 A.D. (Winchester, Ind.: Winchester Pub. Co., 1925)
pg. 5.
JOHN CHINOWETH OR CHENOWETH, the eldest son of the Immigrant of that name, was born in Maryland in 1706. He married Mary Smith in 1730, his name being given in the marriage record as "Chennerworth". His will, made In Frederick County, Virginia in 1770, mentions his wife Mary and nine Children, WILLIAM, John, Absolom, Thomas, Richard, Arthur, Elizabeth, Mary and Rachel. Evidently the second John removed to Virginia about 1762, when the lands were divided, since one of that name was granted two hundred and forty-eight acres of land in Frederick county in that year and three hundred and fourteen acres in 1764.
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CHENOWITH John, b. 1706, son of John Chenoweth/Mary Calvert
http://files.usgwarchives.net/wv/berkeley/vitals/birth.txt
- ↑ According to the Encyclopedia of Louisville, p. 175, John Chenoweth Jr. and his wife Mary Smith Chenoweth emigrated to Maryland from St. Martin Island off the Cornwall coast shortly before 1735.
Source: Blaine Guthrie, Jr., "Captain Richard Chenoweth: A Founding Father of Louisville," Filson Club Quarterly 46 (April 1972) 147-160
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