CULPEPER COUNTY – WILLS: SAMUEL BALL, 1751

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Will: Samuel Ball, Culpeper Co, VA (1751)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Samuel Ball being weak in body but of perfect sence & of
memory, thanks be to God for it, calling to mind the mortality of my body & know it
is appointed for all men to die, I do make & ordain this my last will & testament in
manner & form as following:

Item: I give to my loving wife Anne Catherine Ball the use of one negro man Adam
during the time she lives as a widow & after wards to my son William Ball & his
heirs forever.

Item: I give to my son William Ball all my land & negros by name: Daniel, Kitt,
Cloanday, Rose, Rachel, Rose?, to him & his heirs lawfully begotten of his body
forever, and for want of such heirs, then as followeth:

Item: I give to my daughter Margaret Ball five negros by name: Jasn?, Murriah,
Mille, Kittener, Will, & a feather bed & furniture & a mear fille & her colt and
my horse Batchatt, & if in case my son William should die without heir lawfull
begotten of his body, then I give four hundred acres of land which as already
bounded to my said daughter Margaret Ball & her choyce of two negros belonging
to her brother, part to her and her heirs forever and the rest to be equally
divided amongst the three sisters.

Item: I give to my daughter Judith Flackley, two negros by name Cate, Jack, to
her & her heirs forever & two hundred & sixty acres of land to her & her heirs
forever, in case her brother should die as aforesaid and the other part of the
land if it should happen, with her brother & sister Margaret as aforesaid.

Item: I give to my daughter Mary Green twenty shillings.  The reason I (do not?)
give her more is because she has had her part already.

Item: I give to my son William Ball all my estate that is not mentioned already
to him & his heirs forever.

Item: I give to James Pollard five acres of land bounded thus beginning at
a spanish oak, the south side brooks run along close by the run mentioned to
a red oak thence along the old line northward up the branch to a wite (white?)
oak thence southward to the beginning more or so?, to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I do appoint my son William Ball & my two sons in law John Harkley, Robert
Green to be hole & sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS whereof I have set my hand and seal this sixteen day of August in
the year seventeen hundred and fifty one.
                                                     Samuel Ball (L.S.)
(witnesses)
      his
Paul PH Howell
     mark
William  X Rains
    mark
It is my desire that my estate not be appraised.

                    At a Court held for the County of Culpeper
                      Friday, the 15th? day of November 1751

This Last Will & Testament of Samuel Ball, dec'd, was this day proved by the
oath of William Raines, a witness thereto.

And                  At a Court held for the County of Culpeper
                      Thursday, the 10th day of April 1752

The said Will was further proved by the oath of Paul Howell, another witness
thereto and ordered to be recorded, being sworn to by John Harkley, one of
the Executors therein named and on his motion, Certificate is granted him for
obtaining a Probat thereof in due form, he giving security according to law
and liberty was reserved to the other Executor therein named to joyn in the
Probat when they shall think fit.

                                                       Teste:
                                                       Roger Dixon, Cl.Cur.
Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book A, 1749-1770
Culpeper Co, VA
Reel 31, pages 60-61

Note: Spelling errors were not corrected.  Paragraphing and some punctuation were
added by transcriber for ease in reading.  There are no paragraphs in the 
original.