DANIEL RAMSEY WILL - Augusta Co., VA ----------------------------------------------------------- File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Marge Ramsey Davis tmdavis@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/1717/ram.htm July 1997 USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data 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. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. ------------------------------------------------------------ DANIEL RAMSEY In the name of God amen I Daniel Ramsey of Augusta County and colony of Virginia being sick of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory praise be therefore given to almighty God I do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say first and principally I commend my soul into the hands of the living God hoping that through the merit of death and passion of our savior Jesus Christ to have fully and free pardon and forgivness of all my sins and to inherit everlasting life and my body I commend to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named and as touching the disposition of all such temporal estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I give and dispose as followeth First I will that my debts and funeral charges shall be paid and discharged Item I give unto my mother as much of my moveable property and negros by adding it to her own part mentioned in my fathers will as well amount to half of the negroes and movable property that is in the appraisement bill of the estate of my father deceased to her and her heirs forever and the whole of the rest of my movable property I give as followeth to my brother John Ramsey, Andrew Steele, Alexander Ramsey, Andrew Ramsey, William Ramsey, George Ramsey and John Ramsey the son of James Ramsey deceased to each an equal proportion to them and their heirs forever Item I give unto my brother Andrew Ramsey the whole of my lands that I now possess to him and his heirs forever and that he the said Andrew Ramsey shall pay and obtain an equal proportion of the sum of three hundred pounds to the legatees above named to them and their heirs forever and as to the lands that is willed to me at my mothers death I will that James Steele, William Finley, William Gelespey and John Finley or any two of them shall appraise land and that my brother Andrew shall have the land to him and his heirs forever if he chooses to it at the appraisement paying and obtaining an equal proportion of said appraisement to the legatees as above mentioned to them and their heirs forever and if John Ramsey the son of James Ramsey should die before he becomes of full age his proportion of the said estate to fall to his brother Alexander Ramsey Item I will that Andrew Steele John Ramsey and Andrew Ramsey be full and sole executors of this my last will and testament in witness thereof I the said Daniel Ramsey to this my last will and testament do set my hand and seal in the year of our lord God this first day of September one thousand seven hundred and eighty three. If any suits of law or damages of any kind should be advanced against the said land the whole legatees to bear an equal share of the law Test John Black Martha Black Samuel Black Court held for Augusta County June 15 1784 This last will and testament of Daniel Ramsey deceased was presented in court by Andrew Steele John Ramsey and William Ramsey the executors therein named and proved by the oath of John Black unto Samuel Black the subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded whereupon the said John Ramsey and Andrew Steele acknowledged their bond in the sum of five hundred pounds for due execution of said office having taken the oath required by law (Andrew Ramsey having personally in court refused to take upon him the burden of the said executorship)