Person:Peter Dingess (1)

Will Transcription

Will of Peter Dingess;;;"

In the name of God Amen. I PETER DINGESS of the County of Giles and State of Virginia being in a low state of health but thanks be to God of Perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men are to die do make and confirm this my last will and Testament (viz)

First, I give and recommend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God who gave it and my body to the grave to be buried in decent Christian burial at the discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the General resurrection I shall receive thos by the mighty Power of God and touching thoes wordly Good wherewith it has pleased God to bless in this life I dispose of bequeath and devise of in the following manner and form towit.

I give unto my dearly beloved wife MARY my dwelling house and one half of the proceeds of all my land for five years or during the minority of my son CHARLES as likewise all my household and kitchen furniture also one sorrel horse and one bay mare all my stock of cattle not otherwise devised and all my hogs sheep and Geese and after the death of my wife the house is to be the property of my two sons JOHN and CHARLES and all the other property to be the property of my wife and to be disposed of as she may think proper.

I also give to my wife my negro woman Jude as her own property. I also give to my daughter ELIZABETH SMITH two dollars out of my estate I also give my daughter SUSANNA SMITH two dollars out of my estate.

I also give to my two sons WILLIAM DINGESS and PETER DINGESS two dollars each out of my estate.

I also give my daughter MARY FRENCH two dollars out of my estate.

I also give to my daughter NANCY HENDERSON two dollars out of my estate.

I also give to my two sons JOHN DINGESS and CHARLES DINGESS all my farming utensils and also my still and tub my waggon and Gears also one Cow each I also give to my daughter PEGGY DINGESS two dollars out of my estate I also give to my daughter SARAH two dollars out of my estate.

I also constitute and appoint my wife MARY and my son JOHN DINGESS and my son in Law DAVID FRENCH my Executors to this my last Will and Testament and confirm this and no other as my last Will and Testament Given under my hand and seal this 2nd day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and nine.

(Signed) PETER DINGESS (Seal)

Signed subscribed and acknowledged before

John Toney, Benj H. White

Peter X Blankenship, Shadrack X Blankenship

At Giles November Court 1809.

This last Will and Testament of PETER DINGESS decd was proven in Court by the oath of John Toney and Peter Blankenship, two of the Witnesses thereto subscribed and ordered to be recorded

Test DAVID FRENCH CGC

Records in Virginia

• Peter Dingess was in William Christian's Company of Virginia Militia in 1764. According to records, he was paid 61 days service during the period 22 June 1761 to September 1764.

• Chalkley's Vol. 3, Page 1440: Peter Dingess, resident of Botetourt County, Virginia after division from Augusta, served in Trigg's Battalion as an artilleryman with LaFayette's Corps.

• ANNUALS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA by Lewis P. Summers: Page 679: (Montgomery County) Peter Dingess and Michael Woods security for Leah Gatliff, administrator of the estate of Esq. Gattliff. (Court held at Fort Chiswell, Wednesday, April 2, 1777).

• Page 754: Montgomery County court, November 7, 1781 -- Col. William Preston acquires improvements on land from Peter Dingess.

• Pages 780-781: Montgomery County Court, February 22, 1785, Peter Dingess and others ordered a road view.

• Page 937: August 6,1799 - Christian Snidow granted to William Dingess (son of Peter) 112 acres on East River. Christian Snidow granted to Charles Neil (husband to Peter's daughter Elizabeth) 160 acres on East River. Christian Snidow granted to Charles Neil and William Dingess 297 acres on Brush Creek, a branch of Bluestone River.

• Montgomery County, Virginia Records Entry Book A, page 137: 1782 -- Peter Dingess enters 100 acres on a branch of Back Creek to include improvements.

• October 16, 1782. Survey. PETER DINGESS, 54 acres on New River, Montgomery county.

• 1782. PETER DINGESS enters 100 acres on a branch of Back Creek, also to include the improvements. (Montgomery Co VA Entry Book A, page 137.)

• Montgomery county, VA 1782-1784. List of men under the command of Capt. Mayes: PETER DINGESS. (1782?)

• Giles County Deed Book 1, page 18: Peter and Mary Dingess to Lewis Ford -- Land on the North side of East River Mountain at head of Kenaman's Stillhouse Branch, 1806.

• Giles County Deed Book 1, page 130: Peter Dingess, Sr. to Charles and John Dingess -- (for Charles and John to feed and clothe Peter and Mary Dingess, their father and mother) land crossing Five Mile Fork below the Rockhouse. Wit: John Toney, Peter Blankenship, William Smith, Benjamin H. White, David French, 1809.

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   http://www.alaskahunts.net/appalachians/html/nti00110.htm

2.   Geni.com: (not a reliable primary source).

   https://www.geni.com/people/Johannes-Peter-Dingess/4005422051340072389