Surry County NcArchives Wills.....London, Amos May 24, 1805
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Source: Surry County, Nc Will Book 3, Pg 77
Written: May 24, 1805

                    Amos LONDON Sr. Codicil to Will of May 24th 1805 

Transcription by Jack London, 25 Mar 2004

To my friends and acquaintances of Surry County –

I am in the 68th year of my age and the forepart of my life was agreeable and 
pleasant and as on did I live in my family with utmost content and satisfaction 
until about twenty years ago my old woman began to incur my displeasure and she 
together with her friends and children, to wit, my two sons and some of the 
BILLS has in hundreds of ways too tedious and too delicate to describe has 
impaired my feelings and fretted me to distraction. I am left without consort, 
I am reduced to almost poverty, and in particular abused and beaten by Amos, 
spit upon, frowned upon by him and his family and treated in the most 
ungrateful manner almost unheard of by a son to his father, so much repeated 
illusage that my poor old gray hairs are almost brought down with sorrow to the 
ground

I know my friends I am _____ and always was as all men are to human frailties 
from impulse of passion which has been in a great manner occasioned by the 
illtreatment of my two sons and their mother continually joining together to 
disturb my peace and happiness at home, and as my intentions were always for to 
support of my children by my industry and labor in a decent manner and 
receiving nothing in turn but abuse ridicule that would irritate any man of 
spirit this as I before mentioned being the desires of my heart such as the 
great and good will known to contribute to my familys welfare and not being 
received with kindness and tenderness that a father has a right to expect from 
his sons has made such a deep impression on my heart as to crave death rather 
than to live in a world where I no more expect any content, I therefore bid 
farewell to my aquaintences and in particular to my children and their mother 
with a request that Amos deliver to his sister Sally SUMMERS all my moveable 
effects, I shall endeavor to travel to some distant part where I hope  receive 
happiness in and thus a blessed return to Jesus Christ.

Test    Jesse LESTER     }  Jurat					Amos 
LONDON
          M ARMSTRONG}


Will and Codicil Recorded and Examined Surry County, NC Will Book 3, Page 77


Additional Comments:
Amos London was born in 1737, so Codicil was written not long after original 
will. Also mentioned are son Amos LONDON, Jr, daughter Sally SUMMERS and Jesse 
LESTER. 

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