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John Gentry, of Botetourt County, VA
Facts and Events
John Gentry was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia
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Will Abstract
- Gentry, John. Will Probate May 1779.
- Names wife Mary, and children, [number or names not given]
- [Source: Early Marriages, Wills and some Revolutionary War Records, Botetourt County, Virginia, Compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell, pg. 55].
Will Transcript
- John Gentry of Botetourt County ... very weak in body but of sound mind and memory do ...bequeath ... to my only beloved wife, Mary, land, horses cows and sheep, during her widowhood, and if she alters her way of living I allow it to be sold by way of public vendue, and equally divided among all my children ..
- I appoint my Wife Mary Gentry and Comick McCaffrey Executors to this my last will & testament ... this 20th day Oct 1778."
- Witness: Comick McCaffrey, Jean Gentry, Jonathan McNeil. Signed John (X) Gentry.
- At May Botetourt Court 1779 ... proved by Cormick McCaffrey and Jonathan McNeil, two of the witnesses.
- Ordered to be recorded, 13 May 1779.
- [Source: Botetourt County, Virginia Will Book, Book A, pg. 106]
Records in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
- Page 124.--22d March, 1768. John Cockran's estate settled--Paid John Gentry, James Maurry, Mathew McCullough, Alexander Baine.
Records in Botetourt County, VA
- 1774 - John Gentry charged twice for 1 tithe in Botetourt County; also on list of delinquents with notation "insolvent".
- 1775 - John Gentry listed for 1 tithable in Botetourt County.
- 1781 - Mary Gentry, as executor of estate of John Gentry, deceased, bought 136 acres of land on Carvins Creek [a tributary of the Roanoke River].
- 1781 - Mary Gentry on specie tax listing for Botetourt County, tax due 5 pounds.
- 1793 - Mary Gentry, as executor of estate of John Gentry, sold 136 acres of land on Carvins Creek.
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