CULPEPER COUNTY – WILL: PHILIP HOOP, 1761

Contributed by: Von Mings Stachon  <vonstac@comcast.net>

********************************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE 
All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the 
contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright 
Laws and Regulations.  In keeping with our policy of providing free information 
on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal 
research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and 
submitter information is included.  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced 
in any format for profit.  Any other use, including copying files to other 
sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other 
sites.  The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the 
file permanently for free access.

http://www.usgwarchives.net
********************************************************************************


Will: Philip Hoop, Culpeper Co, VA (1761)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, the 21st day of Aprill one thousand seven hundred sixty 
and one, I philip Hoop of Culpeper County being of perfect mind and memory and 
knowing that it is appointed once for all men once to die do make and ordain 
this to be my last will and testament and as touching my worldly estate which it 
hath pleased God to bless me in this life, I give and dispose of the same in the 
form and manner following:

Item: I give unto my belov'd Elizabeth that land and plantation I had of Robert 
Hutcheson on the top of Greens and Moors Mounting and all the grain that growing 
on the same.

Item: As for my personal estate my desire and will is that it be equally devided 
between my belov'd wife Elizabeth and my four children , that is: George Hoop, 
Battus Hoop, Philip Hoop, Elizabeth Hoop.

My will is that my belov'd wife Elizabeth and Henry Eaylor be the whole 
Executors of this my Last Will and Testament revoking all former Wills and 
Legacies before made and this only to be my Last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixt my seal the day and year 
above written.
                                                   Phillip Hoop  (LS)
Signed, sealed and pronounced
in presence of:
    his
James  X  White
      mark
Robert Stuart
John Dillard
                       At a Court held for the County of Culpeper
                          Thursday, the 15th day of October 1761

This Last Will and Testament of Philip Hoop being exhibited to the court by 
Elizabeth Hoop & Henry Ayler, the Executors therein named and was fully proved 
by the oaths of Robert Stuart & John Dillard, two of the witnesses thereto and 
ordered to be recorded and on his motion, Certificate is granted them for 
obtaining a Probat thereof in due form, they having first sworn to the same and 
given bond & security as the law directs.

                                                      Teste:
                                                      Roger Dixon, Cl.Cur.
Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book A, 1749-1770
Culpeper Co, VA
Reel 31, pages 264-265

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.