1809 - Bowe to Mahala - Hanover Co, VA
Manumission Item Data Item Type Metadata
Date
12/27/1809
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
2
Text of Freedom Document
Dear Sir,
I am about starting down the Country and never having made a will should anything happen, to permit my making one.
My wish and desire is that William, the son of Nancy Tinsley shall be entitled to fifty Virginia bank shares standing in my name on the notes of the said bank. The first dividend arising from the said fifty shares I wish given to Nancy Tinsley the next four dividends I wish my Admr to lay out in the purchase schooling, clothing & having emancipated a mulatto girl named Mahala now the property of Col Thomas Tinsley the two next I wish laid out in schooling and clothing a mulatto girl that was purchased of Wm Bowles & emancipated in Hanover Court.
The eighteen tenth & twelfth the same as the first dividend provided she is living at the time of their coming due, the tent, eleventh and thirteenth to be equally divided between the two mulatto girls before mentioned. The balance of the dividends and the interest of the money arising from said [illegible] I wish applied toward clothing, schooling & boarding, Wiliam the son of Nancy Tinsley as so much thereof, as shall be necessary. If the said boy William should die before he gets married or shall arrive to the age of twenty one or die without an heir, the fifty shares or the money arising from them shall be divided amongst my relations, agreeable to law as all the rest of my estate will of course be.
Yours Respectively,
John Bowe
I wish Nath Bowe Benj Brand of Hanover Town or yourself be appointed guardian to the boy Wm.
J. Bowe
At a court of monthly session held for Hanover County at the Courthouse on Wednesday the 27th of December 1809.
This writing purporting to be the last will and testament of John Bowe deceased, was offered for proof by John W. Ellis whereupon the said John W. Ellis & Samuel Richardson were sworn & examined 7 the said John W. Ellis declares that the deceased in his lifetime delivered the said writing to him sealed & informed him that it was his will & the said Ellis further declared that he verily believes that the same was wholly written & signed by him the said deceased and the said Samuel Richardson also declared that he believes that the same was wholly written & signed by him the said deceased. And the court being well acquainted with the handwriting of the said deceased and believing that the said handwriting was wholly written and signed by him do thereupon order the same to be recorded as his last will and testament.
Teste,
William Pollard C.H.C.
A copy Teste
Philip B. Winston C.H.C.
I am about starting down the Country and never having made a will should anything happen, to permit my making one.
My wish and desire is that William, the son of Nancy Tinsley shall be entitled to fifty Virginia bank shares standing in my name on the notes of the said bank. The first dividend arising from the said fifty shares I wish given to Nancy Tinsley the next four dividends I wish my Admr to lay out in the purchase schooling, clothing & having emancipated a mulatto girl named Mahala now the property of Col Thomas Tinsley the two next I wish laid out in schooling and clothing a mulatto girl that was purchased of Wm Bowles & emancipated in Hanover Court.
The eighteen tenth & twelfth the same as the first dividend provided she is living at the time of their coming due, the tent, eleventh and thirteenth to be equally divided between the two mulatto girls before mentioned. The balance of the dividends and the interest of the money arising from said [illegible] I wish applied toward clothing, schooling & boarding, Wiliam the son of Nancy Tinsley as so much thereof, as shall be necessary. If the said boy William should die before he gets married or shall arrive to the age of twenty one or die without an heir, the fifty shares or the money arising from them shall be divided amongst my relations, agreeable to law as all the rest of my estate will of course be.
Yours Respectively,
John Bowe
I wish Nath Bowe Benj Brand of Hanover Town or yourself be appointed guardian to the boy Wm.
J. Bowe
At a court of monthly session held for Hanover County at the Courthouse on Wednesday the 27th of December 1809.
This writing purporting to be the last will and testament of John Bowe deceased, was offered for proof by John W. Ellis whereupon the said John W. Ellis & Samuel Richardson were sworn & examined 7 the said John W. Ellis declares that the deceased in his lifetime delivered the said writing to him sealed & informed him that it was his will & the said Ellis further declared that he verily believes that the same was wholly written & signed by him the said deceased and the said Samuel Richardson also declared that he believes that the same was wholly written & signed by him the said deceased. And the court being well acquainted with the handwriting of the said deceased and believing that the said handwriting was wholly written and signed by him do thereupon order the same to be recorded as his last will and testament.
Teste,
William Pollard C.H.C.
A copy Teste
Philip B. Winston C.H.C.
Record Location
Old Wills:57
Document Type
Last Will & Testament
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Collection
Citation
“1809 - Bowe to Mahala - Hanover Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed November 13, 2025, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/1782.