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Facts and Events
Will Transcript
- In the Name of God Amen I Orlando Jones being in perfect health of body make this my last will & Testament hereby Revoaking all other wills by me heretofore made first I will & devise Order& appoint my house & two lotts in Williamsburgh be sold by mv execr"hereafter named towards payment of my debts legacies &funeral charges & out of the produce thereof I give to my loving wife Mary Jones one hundred pounds sterl[ing] with what other legacies are hereinafter given to her are in full Compensation & recompense for her Dower or full share of my Estate
- 2dly I give to my Sd wife my best feather bed & furniture & riding horse
- 3dly I give to my Daughter Frances Jones my next best feather bed & furniture Item I give to my 8d Daughter Frances Jones & her heires forever all my land joyning upon John's creek in King Wm County Item I give to my sd wife her trunk & all in it
- Item I give to my Daughter Frances Jones the trunk that was her mothers & all in that.
- Item I give to my loving wife Mary Jones &to her heires forever my molatto woman Slave named frank with all her increase from this date Item I devise that my Sd Wife may have the tuition &bringing up my Sd Daughter till she comes of age or is married
- Item I will & desire that when my sd house & lots shall be sold that if it should not produce as much as will pay the hundred pounds Sterl &my debts that then my Toboshiped & now to be shipped or the produce thereof with what other personal Estate I have & my debts owing to me I desire may be appropriated for that use & to Supply that defect
- Item I give to my son Lane Jones & to his heirs forever the following Slaves vizt. Hannah, Ned, David, Sarah, Selton, great Jenney, Warwick, Jenney Old, Jack at Cohokesmy sert will Canaday.
- Item I give to my Sd Daughter frances the following slaves viz Nanny Cohoke Jenny Gabriel Poll Johnny Dinah late &her Girl Jenny to her &her heirs forever & John Bird
- I give my great Silver Tankard to my son Lane Jones
- I give my Caudle Cup to my Daughter Frances & six Silver spoons of the best in the House likewise I give her my negro Man Dick to her & her heirs forever
- Item I give to my so wife the use & Occupation of all my household stuff & my stock of cattle now here as long as she shall live here with my children a widdow & perform this my last will & Testament together wth my sheep & hoggs & then to my son Lane Jones & his heirs forever,
- Item I desire my two friends Mathew Peirce & Baldwin Mathews may be overseers or coadjutors to assist my wife in performing this my last will.
- Lastly I appoint my loving wife Mary Jones &my friend Baldwin Mathews to be Execrs of this my last will & Testament contained in two half sheets of paper
- Witness my hand & seal June the 4th anno Dom. 1719
- Also I order my brother Wm Macon to be tutor to my son Lane if he will accept thereof.
- [Signed] ORLANDO JONES.
- Published before us & also signed & sealed
- Tho. Crisp X Mary Brathwaitch John Brathwate. mark.
- At a Courtheld for York county Novr 16: 1719 This last will & testament of Orlando Jones deed was presented in court by Mary Jones one of the exrs therein named (Baldwin Mathews the other exeer having relinquished the exershipp) who made oath to it &being proved by the signatures of all the witnesses thereto is admitted to Record.
- Test PHI. LIGHTFOOT, Cl Cur
- Source: The William and Mary Quarterly, 1900 / 04 Vol. 8; Iss. 3
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