Albemarle County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Wills.....Kosciuszko, Thaddeus, 1819 
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Albemarle County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Wills and Estates 
     Thaddeus KOSCIUSZKO, will, dated 5 May 1798, presented 12 May 1819 

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[p.] 42)) 
     Kosciuszko 
           }Will 
     Thaddeus 

I Thaddeus Kosciuszko being of just in my departure from America do 
hereby declare and direct that should I make no other Testamentary disposition 
of my property in the United States, I hereby authorize my friend Thomas 
Jefferson to employ the whole thereof in purchasing Negroes from among his 
own or any others and giving them Liberty in my name, in giving them 
in [sic] education in trades or otherwise and in having them instructed for 
their new condition in the duties of morality which may make them 
good neighbours good fathers or moders, husbands or vives [sic] and in their 
duties as citizens, teaching them to be defenders of their Liberty and Country 
and of the good order of society, and in whatsoever may make them happy 
and useful, and I the said Thomas Jefferson my executor of this 
5th day of May 1798                     T.Kosciuszko 

At a Circuit Court held for Albemarle County the 12th day of May 1819 
                  This Instrument of writing purporting to be the last 
will and Testament of Thaddeus Kosciuszko deceased was produced into 
Court & satisfactory proof being produced of its being written entirely in 
the hand writing of the said Thaddeus Kosciuszko the same is ordered, and 
thereupon Thomas Jefferson the executor therein named refuses to take upon 
himself the burthen of the execution of the said Will 
                                                  Teste. 
                                                       John Carr  C.C. 
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[Thaddeus Kosciuszko (1746-1817) was a Polish hero, who also fought in 
 the Revolutionary War.  For more information, see Wikipedia article on 
 "Tadeusz Kosciuszko": 
 Tadeusz Kosciuszko. (2008, December 10). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 
 Retrieved 14:57, January 4, 2009, from 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko&oldid=257106062] 

[Wills in the Circuit Court Books are not included in the General Index.] 

Albemarle Co., VA, Circuit Court Will Book No. 1, 1798-1844, p. 42 
The Library of Virginia, Albemarle Co. Microfilm Reel 45