Botetourt County, Virginia   Will Abstract of Redmon Eakin, 1781

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Submitted by Lee Eakin <EakinArkiv@aol.com>

Redmon Eakin's will from Virginia Soldiers of 1776, Vol. III, 
compiled and edited by Louis A. Burgess, Richmond Press, Inc., Richmond, VA, 
1929, Pg. 1396.  Redmont "Eakin", Soldier of the Revolution. 
         A memorandum of Redmant Akin's will made and uttered the 17th and 
18th  August, 1781, in the presence of Robert Hutchison, Jonathan Martin and 
Thomas Martin, at which time he set out to join the Army in order to perform 
his Tower of Duty, where he took sick and died 3 days after he returned home.
         The said Redmont Akins allowed his wife the plantation whereon he 
lived during her life, then to his eldest son William Aikens.       
          His land in Ken. to his daughters Jean and Isbell, Samuel Aiken to 
act as guardian; his other three daughters, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Elinor.
          Botetourt Co. Court, 1781.  This document presented in court as a 
noncupative will was allowed and recorded upon oaths of the witnesses, Tho. 
Martin, Robert Hutchinson and Jonathan Martin.  Copy teste, David May, Clerk. 
 Recorded Book A., P. 132, 1780-1784.  Copy of this will is contributed by 
Mrs. Mary H. Headman, Haddonfield, N.J.  (10-23-98 Flo Eakin had same report 
with addition of month of Nov. from Wills and Deeds of Botetourt Co.)