Person:William Janes (11)

Will Abstract (excerpts)

75 acres on Straight Creek adjoining to Weeks land”,

191 acres, lying in the forks of Straight Creek below the plantation where I now live,

I bequeathe unto my wife Margaret her third part of the plantation whereon I now live

a tract of land lying on Straight Creek, which formerly has and does now in part belong to the heirs of George Evick Sen.

2nd. I give and bequethe unto my wife Margaret her third part of the plantation whereon I now live, during her life, also one negro woman named Luce. Also all my household furniture, three milk cows, and her choice of one breeding mare out of any that I may have at the time of my decease…

4th. I give unto my son William and his heirs forever, the plantation whereupon I now reside containing ___ acres, also two other small tracts of land adjoining to the plantation where I now live on the North and Northwest side containing ___ acres.

I give unto my son William and his heirs forever one Negro boy named David…12th.

I give unto my son William for his use and the use of my wife Margaret all my plows, harness and all my other farming utensils…”

(Signed) William Janes

25 Apr 1801.

[Source: Pendleton County, Wills, pages 352-356].

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   William JANES IV was born in 1746; died BEF 20 Oct 1801 in Pendleton, WV; buried in Pendleton,WV.
   
   William JANES IV married Margaret SEYBERT in 1770. They had the following children: Henry JANES (b. 1771),Eleanor JANES (b. 1773), John JANES (b. 1777), Samuel JANES (b. 1779), ♥ William JANES V (b. 9 Apr 1780), Edward JANES (b. 1783), Elizabeth JANES (b. 1785), Margaret JANES (b. 1787).
   
   http://4dtraveler.net/2011/08/02/william-janes-iv-and-margaret-seybert/

2.   Morton, Oren Frederic. A history of Pendleton County, West Virginia. (Franklin, West Virginia: O.F. Morton, 1910)
   pg. 396.

   Militia Companies as Ordered by the First County Court (1788) and the Officers assigned to them:
   
   Crabbottom Company: Captain, Adam Hull; Lieutenant, William Janes; Ensign, Jacob Gum.
   
   Officers of the Forty-Sixth Regiment in 1793.
   
   Company Officers of First Battalion - Captains: James Patterson, Jacob Hoover, William Janes, Robert McCoy. Lieutants: Adam Harper, Thomas Hoover, Adam Arbogast, John Armstrong. Ensigns: George Dice, William Ward, Jacob Hull, Paul Summers.