Bland Co., VA - Amos Thompson Will - 1870

Transcript of Amos Thompson's Last Will and Testament.  
[Bland Wills, page 374,  April 18, 1870.]

   Know all men by these present that I, Amos Thompson of Walker Creek 
in the County of Bland and Sate of Virginia (Farmer) being in feeble 
health and of sound & disposing mind & memory, do make & proclaim this 
my last will & testament hereby revoking all former wills by me at any 
time heretofore made.  And as to my worldly estate & all the property 
Real Personal or mixed of which I shall die seized & possessed or to 
which I shall be entitled at the time of my decease.  I devise bequeath 
and dispose thereof in the manner following to wit:   First, my will is 
that all my just Debts & funeral expenses out of my personal property be 
paid.   Item, I give devise & bequeath to my son Andrew G. Thompson all 
of my land on which I now live being two hundred & fifty five acres, be 
it the same more or less, with all that pertain thereto with the 
following conditions to wit: First that he in my old age & infirmity, 
maintains provides for & decently supports me and at my death has me 
decently buried, secondly, that he pays to each of my other heirs the 
following sums, that is, to my sons, James Thompson, Josiah M. Thompson, 
Joshua B. Thompson, David R. Thompson, Francis M. Thompson, John F. 
Thompson, Elisha G. Thompson, & my daughter Ann Hutsel, Eighty five 
Dollars each & to my Son Harvey G. Thompson Forty Dollars, Provided 
however that the said Andrew G. Thompson shall have five years to pay 
the above named sums of money after my death and the same is to draw no 
interest.
   And I further appoint my Friend [no name listed] Executor of this my 
last will and testament, to see that the same be carried in effect.
   In testimony whereof I the Said Amos Thompson have subscribed my name 
and affixed my seal this 18th day of April, in the year of our Lord One 
Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy.
                                        his
                                    Amos X Thompson
                                        mark

Signed Sealed published & declared by the said Amos Thompson, as and for 
his last will and Testament, in the presence of us who at his request 
and in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed 
our as interpreted thereto
                                      A. J. Muncy
                                      Jacob Muncy
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