1793 - Jameson to Cupid - York Co, VA
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Date
07/22/1793
Manumitter
Manumitted
Number of Persons
2
Text of Freedom Document
In the name of God Amen. I David Jameson of Yorktown being of sound mind, but at present of indifferent health do make, constitute & appoint this as my last will & testament.
I give & bequeath unto my nephew John Jameson one moiety of my estate both real & personal of which I may die possessed to him the said John & his heirs forever.
I give the other moiety of my estate that I may die possessed of both real & personal to be equally divided between my two nephews David Jameson of Culpepper & David Jameson of Caroline County to them & their heirs forever. Witness my hand & seal this 14th day of October 1792.
Sign’d, seal, published and declared David Jameson (seal)
to be the last will of David Jameson
& we subscribed our names as witnesses
thereto by his desire
Wm Reynolds
Wm Cary
Mary Minnis
Memo on the 21st day of May 1793. Wr David Jameson of York desire me to add by way of codicil to his will that Cupid & Frank two of his slaves should at his decease be emancipated the last mentioned to be bound out to some trade by the Administrators of his will, and that Grace a girl at present about the house should be given to Mrs. Mary Mennis.
Wm. Reynolds
At a court of Hustings held for the Corporation of Yorktown the 22nd day of July 1793.
This will was proved by the oaths of William Reynolds and William Cary, witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of John Jameson, David Jameson, and David Jameson Jun’r the legatees mentioned in the said will, administration with the will annexed is granted them and certificate for obtaining a probate thereof in due form they having made oath thereto and given bond in the sum of thirty thousand pounds with William Goosby, William Cary, and William Reynolds their securities according to law, and a memorandum in the handwriting of William Reynolds Esquire being produced to the court containing some requests of devisees of the said decedent by which a negro man named Cupid is to be set free, a negro girl named Grace is given to Mrs. Mary Minnis & a mulatto boy named Frank to be set free and directed to be bound by his administrator to some trade, which memorandum was proved by the oath of the said William Reynolds and the said administrators being well satisfied that the said bequests were the desire of their testator desires to comply therewith agree & request that the said memorandum may be annexed and recorded as a codicil to the will.
Teste,
Thomas Newman C.C.
I give & bequeath unto my nephew John Jameson one moiety of my estate both real & personal of which I may die possessed to him the said John & his heirs forever.
I give the other moiety of my estate that I may die possessed of both real & personal to be equally divided between my two nephews David Jameson of Culpepper & David Jameson of Caroline County to them & their heirs forever. Witness my hand & seal this 14th day of October 1792.
Sign’d, seal, published and declared David Jameson (seal)
to be the last will of David Jameson
& we subscribed our names as witnesses
thereto by his desire
Wm Reynolds
Wm Cary
Mary Minnis
Memo on the 21st day of May 1793. Wr David Jameson of York desire me to add by way of codicil to his will that Cupid & Frank two of his slaves should at his decease be emancipated the last mentioned to be bound out to some trade by the Administrators of his will, and that Grace a girl at present about the house should be given to Mrs. Mary Mennis.
Wm. Reynolds
At a court of Hustings held for the Corporation of Yorktown the 22nd day of July 1793.
This will was proved by the oaths of William Reynolds and William Cary, witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of John Jameson, David Jameson, and David Jameson Jun’r the legatees mentioned in the said will, administration with the will annexed is granted them and certificate for obtaining a probate thereof in due form they having made oath thereto and given bond in the sum of thirty thousand pounds with William Goosby, William Cary, and William Reynolds their securities according to law, and a memorandum in the handwriting of William Reynolds Esquire being produced to the court containing some requests of devisees of the said decedent by which a negro man named Cupid is to be set free, a negro girl named Grace is given to Mrs. Mary Minnis & a mulatto boy named Frank to be set free and directed to be bound by his administrator to some trade, which memorandum was proved by the oath of the said William Reynolds and the said administrators being well satisfied that the said bequests were the desire of their testator desires to comply therewith agree & request that the said memorandum may be annexed and recorded as a codicil to the will.
Teste,
Thomas Newman C.C.
Record Location
Hustings Court Records 1787-1793:39
Document Type
Last Will & Testament
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Collection
Citation
“1793 - Jameson to Cupid - York Co, VA,” Manumission Project, accessed July 14, 2026, https://manumissionproject.omeka.net/items/show/2548.