HENRY HINES - Will - Charlotte County, Virginia

     Submitted by Tillie Smith O'Kelley" (wcok@bitstorm.net) April 1998

                       Henry Hines - Will
                    (Book number not stated)

	“In the name of God, Amen.  I, Henry Hines of the County
Charlotte, and the Parish of Cornwall, being weak in body but of
perfect mind and memory, thanks be given unto God, calling unto
mind the mortality of my body, and that it is appointed for man
once to die, do make and ordain this, my last will and testament,
that is, to say, principally and first of all, I give and
recommend my soul unto the hands of the Almighty God that gave
it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a
Christian manner at the direction of my executors, believing and
nothing doubting, at the general resurrection, I shall receive
the same by the power of Almighty God and as touching such things
as it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life I give
demise and dispose of them in the following manner and form, viz:
Item, I lend to my beloved wife, Elizabeth Hines, during the term
she may remain my widow, and no longer, the third part of my real
and personal estate, out of the profits of which it is my desire
that my four youngest children, namely, Simeon, Barbara, Nancy,
and Walton Hines, should have a genteel education, and at the
decease or intermarriage of my wife, the same is to return to my
other estate and to be equally divided between my youngest
children, namely, Simeon, Barbara, Nancy, and Walton Hines. 
Item, I give unto my son, John Hines and to his heirs forever the
sum of fifty pounds, to be paid out of my general estate by my
executors.  Item, I give and bequeath unto my son William Hines
and to his heirs forever the sum of fifty pounds to be paid him
by my executors.  Item, I give and bequeath unto my son, Henry
Hines and his heirs forever the sum of fifty pounds to be paid
him by my executors.  I give and bequeath unto my daughter
Tabitha Parsons, one negro woman, named Tener, also, I give her
five pounds a year for her support as long as she lives, to be
paid her out of my estate by my executors.  I also give unto my
three grandsons, namely, John, Thomas, and William Parsons, the
sum of twenty-five pounds each, to be paid out of my estate by my
executors.  But, if either of the three boys should die before
they have lawful heirs of their bodies, the above sum of
twenty-five pounds shall return and be divided between the
surviving children.  Item, I give and bequeath unto my daughter,
Polly Adams, wife of William B. Adams, the sum of one silver
dollar to her, and her heirs forever.  Item, I give and bequeath
unto my son James, and to his heirs forever, one silver dollar,
and no more.  Item, I give and bequeath unto my son, Thomas Hines
and to his heirs forever, one silver dollar, and no more.  Item,
I lend to my daughter, Elizabeth Hines one horse at the value of
fifty dollars, also a good saddle and bridle, also a feather bed
and furniture, but should she die without a lawful heir of her
body the same shall return to my general estate.  Item, I lend to
my son Kelly Hines and to his heirs forever a gelding or mare at
the value of fifty dollars, also a good saddle and bridle, also a
feather bed and furniture, but should the said Kelly Hines die
without a lawful heir, the above horse and saddle, bed and
furniture is to return to my general estate and be divided with
the rest of my estate, and be it remembered, that if any of the
above legatees should die without lawful heir to their estates,
it shall return and be divided equally among the surviving
legatees, but be it also remembered, that it is my desire that
all my just debts be paid before any of the above legacies come
out of my estate, and I do hereby constitute, make and appoint
the following executors, to this, my last will and testament,
viz: John Chappell, John Franklin, John Hines and Henry Hines,
Jr., and I do utterly disallow, revoke, and disannul all and
every former testaments, wills, legacies, bequests and executors
by me before, in any wise named wills and bequeathes ratifying
and confirming this and no other to be my last will and
testament.  In witness whereunto I have set my hand and seal this
fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord God 1810.
									Henry Hines, L. S.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of us, George
Berkley, John Mullings, Susannah Austin, Thomas Adams.
At a Court held for Charlotte County the 5th day of November,
1810, this last will and testament of Henry Hines, deceased, was
presented in Court in order to be proved, and William B. Adams
appeared and opposed the proof of said will, whereupon it is
ordered that the sheriff summon John Chappell, John Franklin,
John Hines and Henry Hines, Jr., the executors named in the will,
to appear on the first day of December Court next, to prove the
said will, and also that the sheriff summon Simeon Hines, Barbery
Hines, Nancy Hines and Walton Hines, infant children of the said
Henry Hines and Elizabeth Hines, who is appointed Guardian to
these infant children, for the special purpose of defending the
same, to appear here also on the first day of December Court next
for that purpose.

At a Court held for the said County the 3rd day of December,
1810, this will was again offered in order to be proved. 
Thereupon, the said William B. Adams appeared and opposed the
proof of the said will; whereupon diverse witnesses were sworn
and examined, and the said William B. Adams and the said
Elizabeth Hines, Guardian for the said infant children were by
their counsel fully heard; on consideration whereof it is the
opinion of the Court that the said Henry Hines was of sound and
disposing mind and memory at the date of the said will, and John
Mullings, Susannah Austin, and Thomas Adams, three of the
subscribing witnesses, made oath that the said Henry Hines
acknowledged the same as his last will and testament, in their
presence and that they subscribed their names thereto, in his
presence, and believed that he was then in his perfect senses and
memory.  ORDERED, that the said Henry Hines and that the said
William B. Adams pay to the said Elizabeth Hines, Guardian of the
said infants, her costs in behalf expended, and John Chappell,
one of the executors named in the will, renounces in open court
the burden of the execution of the said will.

					Truly Records,   Thomas Read, Clk

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