1791 - Stewart to Soloman & Anaky - Greensville Co, VA

1791 - Stewart to Soloman & Anaky - Greensville Co, VA

02/24/1791

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In the name of God Amen. I Thomas Stewart of Greensville County in my perfect senses and memory. I do acknowledge this to be my last will and testament annulling all other wills before written and as it is appointed for all men once to die and after death, judgment in the first place, I give my soul to God that gave it me and my body to be buried in a decent manner and all my just debts to be paid and the remainder of my estate both real and personal I give as follows. Item. I give and bequeath to my loving wife Crecy Stewart her natural life in all my lands including my mother’s life in it as a home if she chooses to live with my wife and the plantation whereon I now life if she so pleases to continue by paying the rent for two years. I give to my wife forever my small Bay mare four first choice of my stock of cattle, two steers, four grass, twenty bushels wheat, fifteen hundred wt. net pork, one feather bed and furniture, three plough hoes, three axes, three weeding hoes, forty barrels of corn to be taken after Christmas, one stack of oats, fifteen shoots, one sow, a first choice of my flock of sheep, all my cotton and flax, and twenty pounds cash, four bushels salt. My will is to lend my wife as follows, until my son Henry Stewart comes to the age of twenty one years, one gray horse, my other bay mare, for the time of two years, and then return to my estate, sold and divided. I now mention what my will is of landing my wife part of my estate until my son Henry comes of age as follows: my cart wheels all my spinning wheels and cards, loom, and three feather beds, and furniture, all my pots, Dutch oven. I lend also two negroes to wit, Soloman and Anaky to continue with my wife six years to be treated well and at the expiration of the six years my will is their liberty forever, them and their heirs without any restraint by heirship to enslave them again. The part of my estate given and lent to my beloved wife is to maintain my children on their schooling. She is to draw from my estate not yet mentioned, also my wife is to draw from my estate not yet mentioned, also my wife is to draw from the said estate two pounds a year to maintain my mother as long as she lives with her. Item I give and bequeath unto Aaron Newsom ten pounds in cash. Item I give and bequeath to my sons Henry & Paton Stewart all my lands to be equally divided with them after their mother’s death, if either should die without heir, it is to return to the living son, to him & his heirs forever, if neither dies to them and their heirs forever, and if they both die without heir to be equally divided among my living children to them and their heirs forever. I further desire that all my hogs should be fatted from one year old and upwards. Item My will and desire is that the residue of my stock and all my estate that is not given or lent above, I leave to be sold the money arising therefrom, including all moneys by me or due on bonds, accounts, and just demands to be equally divided among my five children Rebecca, Henry, Sally, Paton and Nancy Stewart to them and their heirs forever, if either should die without heir to return to those that are living or their heirs, and all my estate before lent I leave to be equally divided as I just above mentioned at the arrival of son Henry’s twenty one years. My desire is that James Batte, William Batte, and Crecy Stewart for my Executors. Witness my hand this fourteenth day of October 1790.
Sealed & assigned in Thomas Stewart (seal)
the presence of us
Jesse Grigg
Willie Clarke
Richmond Sterling

At a court held for Greensville County the 24th day Feby 1791. This will was proved according to law by the oaths of Willie Clarke and Richmond Sterling, witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of James Batte one of the Executor therein named who made oath thereto according to law and with William Batte, and Peyton Harwell his securities entered into and acknowledged their bond in penalty of one thousand pounds conditioned as the law directs, certificate was granted him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form. And the other Executors refused to join in the burden of the execution thereof.

Test, P. Pelham C&Cur

WB 1:181

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