The Will of Peter Lyon, Sr. September 4, 1760 Albemarle County Will Book 2, p. 169 ***************************************************************** ****************************************************************** File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Compiled and submitted by Sharon Barrett Kennedy USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. Unauthorized use for commercial ventures expressly prohibited. All information submitted to this project remains - to the extent the law allows - the property of the submitter who, by submitting it, agrees that it may be freely copied but NEVER sold or used in a commercial venture without the knowledge & permission of its rightful owner. 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Of the county of Albemarle & Parish of St. Ann being sick in Body but of good & perfect Memory thanks be to almighty God & Calling to Remembrance e uncertain State of this Transitarry Life & that all Flesh must yield unto death when it shall Please God to Call; Do make Constitute ordain & declare this my last will and Testament in Manner & Form Following Revokeing & Annulling by these presents al & every Testament & Testaments, Will & Wills heretofore by me made & declared either by word or writing & this is to be taken only for my Last Will & Testament & none other now for ye Selling of my temporal Estate & Goods & Chattles & Debts as hath ple ed God for above my Desire? To bestow upon me I do order give & Dispose the same in manner and Form Following, (that is to say) First I will that all these Debts & dues as I owe in right? or account by my Death or Funeral shall be paid or ordered to be id within Convenient time after my Decease by my Executors hereafter named: First I give & bequeath unto my Loveing wife Margret Lyon her thirds of all my Estate Real & personal & that she shall have one Cow taken off the Holl for Repairing her House she now lives in & the Remainder of the said Cows price to her use, Together w h her Bed & Household Furniture she now poseseth such as her & hert pot pan & putter; & further that my son Petter Lyon shall be obligest to find his Mother wood for firing and yt. Sufficiently & fall Dureing her Lifetime if not Ten Shilling in Lew the of yearly & Son Nicholas shall be obliged for his part to find his Mother yearly three Barrels of Corn & both of them equally shall be obliged to find her yearly a Sufficient Quantity of meat. & next I give & bequeath unto my Loveing son Petter Lyon th Plantation where he now Liveth, Together with one Hundred Acres of Land now in his posesion Together with ye orchard & fields according to a Division made before Alexander Blane & John Lyon Elisha Lyon between the said Petter Lyon & Nicholas Lyon Togeth with all Movables? Now in his posesion & thirdly I give & bequeath unto my Loveing son Nicholas Lyon one Hundred & Fifty acres of Land Lying along ye Mountain now in his posesion with Houses, orchards fields Together with such part of the Movables? as e hath in posesion & fourthly I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Bealy wife to John Bealey a certain Tract or parcel of Land Supposed to be Fifty Acres of Land Lying along Alexander Blanes line & Joyning Millers line upon ye Creek Runing Down the Mouth of the Spring Branch Corners upon a poplar thence to the Head of the Spring which lyeth between both plantations thence up ye Road Road to Nicholas & Joyn his Line now in the posesion of the Said Elizabeth & John Bealy for & Dureing the said lizabeth Bealey Life & John Bealy Widdowhood & after the Experation of ye aforesaid time the said Tract or parsal of Land Given unto the Elizabeth Bailey & John Bailey is to be returned unto Peter Lyon or his Heirs with all its Improvements Cleer & free f all Debts & Incumbrances and further I will that my Stock & other Materals should be equally Devided into three Equal Parts that is to say Between my two Sons & my wife and lastly I will yt. If the said Nicholas Lyon should Dye without an Heir Lawfull begotten of his own Body that ye said Petter Lyon Bro to Nicholas Lyon shall be Heir of all his Real Estate: I do hereby constitute & ordain Petter Lyon Nicholas Lyon & George Blane for my Executors In Witness hereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal t Day & Year above written. Peter Lyon his Mark (A “P&L” in a “logo”) Signed Sealed & Delivered In the presence of us… Alexander Blane (his) Hannah H. Blane (mark) George Blane At Albemarle May Court 1764 This Will was proved by the Oaths of Alexander Blane & Hannah Blane two of the Witnesses thereto & ordered to be recorded And at a Court held for Albemarle County the Eleventh Day of October 1764 On the Motion of Peter Lyon & Nicholas Lyon who made oath according to Law Certificate is granted them for obtaining probat of the said Will in due from Given Security which they with John Lyon there Security entered into & acknowledged their Bond accordingly. Test. John Nicholas, Clerk