Index to Wills - BISHOP; BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA

Volume A
A - Z
1732 - 12-31-1958
Brunswick County Virginia


A partial index of wills filed in Brunswick County Courthouse, Virginia

BISHOP:

Joseph		inventory		1764	
William		will			1773
William		inventory		1773
Harmon					1805
Matthew           will			1810
Matthew     	will			1810
John	      	inventory		1823
Martha		will			1828
Mattew		a/c sales		1830
Polly		      will			1830
Mary	            inventory		1832
Angelica J.	      will			1840
Charles J.   	will			1858
Charles J.	      inventory		1858
Harmon		will			1861
James    		will			1896
James	      	inventory		1896
James		      sales			1896
John M.		inventory		1912

Further Information:

4-10-1840
Angelica Bishop mentions: Chas. I. Bishop - one negro;
sister - R. Watkins <Rebecca?
sister - R. Ul<?> 

8-12-1771
William Bishop, St. Andrews Parish, mentions:
nephew - John Bishop, son of brother James Bishop and wife Mary>
nephew - James, son of James
sister-in-law - Elizabeth Fawn
John Lawrence, son of Ilke Lawrence
William Dunn
Jimmy <or Jeremy> Bishop

10-25-1808
Matthew Bishop, St. Andrews Parish, mentions:
wife - Martha
daughter - Lucretia Madux
daughter - Molly Bishop
daughter - Angelica I. Bishop
<all three  of these daughters were single>
son - John
son - John Mason Bishop <deceased> to his widow and children <2 sons, Matthew and Samuel> 
daughter - Rebecca Bishop
son - Harmon Bishop <deceased> had children

11-3-1823
Martha Bishop <logically widow of Matthew> mentions:
daughter - Molly Bishop
daughter - Angelica Iones Bishop
daughter - Rebecca Bishop
John Bishop's four sons: Thomas J. Bishop, John Bishop, Harmond Bishop, William W. Bishop
grandsons: Washington Maddux, Samuel Maddux, Thomas L. Bishop <executors>

7-26-1830
Polly Bishop, mentions:
daughter - Catherine Moore
John L. Moore - benefactor of slaves
sister - Angelica Bishop
sister - Rebecca Watkins
Samuel Maddux - executor
son-in-law - Andison<?> Moore

9-19-1853
Charles J. Bishop, mentions:
all property to nephew Harmon Bishop to support Aunt Rebecca and to take care of 
Charrity and all her children and not selling or trading

(There is a penciled in my notes that Rebecca is the wife of Charles J.>

10-23-1858
Harmon Bishop, mentions:
whole estate to Peter Steinback to support and maintain Rebecca Watkins

END

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Linda Russell Lewis, 
a direct descendant of John Bishop, b. 1776.

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