Person:John Lightfoot (19)

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John Lightfoot
b.7 Feb 1712 St. Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia
d.Bef 17 Jun 1735 Orange County, Virginia
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m. 5 Nov 1707
  1. Anne Lightfoot1708 -
  2. John Lightfoot1712 - Bef 1735
  3. Goodrich Lightfoot, Jr.1712 - Bef 1778
  4. Mary Lightfoot1717 -
  5. William Lightfoot1720 - 1805
  6. Elizabeth Lightfoot1722 -
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Name[1] John Lightfoot
Gender Male
Birth[1] 7 Feb 1712 St. Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia
Death? Bef 17 Jun 1735 Orange County, Virginia


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Will of John Lightfoot

  • Page 3. Will of John Lightfoot being sick and weak, undated.
To my beloved brother Goodrich Lightfoot Junr. two Negroes, one a woman named Bess, the other a man named Dalphin, and I give him all my wareing cloaths.
I give my beloved sister Mary Lightfoot one Negro woman named Janey.
To my beloved brother William Lightfoot one Negro man named Tanyeard and I give him all the tract of land and plantation whereon I now live together with all the stock of joggs and cattle.
To my beloved sister Elizabeth Lightfoot two Negro children named Sarah and Peter.
To my hon[ord]d father Goodrich Lightfoot Senr. two tracts of land lying in Orange County, the one being the tract of land I purchased from Charles Stevens on Permunkey River and the other lying in the little or south fork of Rappadan River to sell or dispose of as he shall think proper, he paying for the two new Negroes I bought of Colo. william Beverley and Mr. James Garnett. I also give him my gun. I also give him four hundred acres of land more, it lying ajoyning to the land mentioned before in the fork of the Rappadan. I also give him two horses call[e]d Old Blaze and Wanton.
To Mrs. Martha Chew one young gray natural pacing horse colt.
I do appoint my hon[ore]d father Goodrich Lightfoot my hole and sole executor to deliver the said legacies above mentioned when my brothers and sisters comes to age or maries and also give my father all and aney part of my estate that I have not mentioned.
(signed) John Lightfoot.
Wit: Thos. Chew, John Howard, Isaac Smith.
17 June 1735. Presenated into Court by Goodrich Lightfoot. Proved by Thos. Chew, John Howard and Isaac Smith. [Orange County Virginia Will Book 1, Dorman, pg. 1]. (Note: this has the distinction of being the first will recorded in Orange County Virginia Will Book 1).
  • Page 9. John Lightfoot, Inventory. 16 Sept. 1735. Includes six Negroes and one white servant boy called Wm. Barron. Signed by G. Lightfoot. 16 Sept. 1735. Inventory of estate of John Lightfoot, Gent., returned by Goodrich Lightfoot, Gent. [Orange County Virginia Will Book 1, Dorman, pg. 3].
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gretchen Bellman. Lightfoot GED Bellman: Mayes-Klein. (Gencircles.com, Downloaded September 21, 2004).
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