CULPEPER COUNTY – WILL: ADAM WILLHEIT, 1761 Contributed by: Von Mings Stachon ******************************************************************************** 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: Adam Willheit, Culpeper Co, VA (1761) IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Adam Willheit of Culpeper County being sick & weak but of perfect sound sense and memory, blessed be God, but calling to mind the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death, do therefore constitute, make and ordain this to be my last will & testament (as follows): Imprimis:  I lend unto my beloved wife Catharine Willheit all my estate both real and personal during her widowhood but if she should marry again, then my will is that she have only a child's part of my said estate.  Which said child's part to be equally divided among my children that survive her, except she should have a child in the line of her said marriage, that then her said child's part to decend to the said child begotten in her said coverture? and to its heirs forever. Item: I give and bequeath unto my son George Willheit the plantation whereon I now live with one hundred acres of land to be laid lengthways of the tract to him & his heirs forever. Item: I give unto my sons John Willheit and Mickle Willheit the two hundred acres of land belonging to the said tract to be equally (divided) between them by a cross line and he that gets his choice of the deeds to allow my aforesaid son George Willheit the benefit of s____(possibly same) for building houses to them & their heirs forever. Item: I give & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Willheit one li___(could be linnen wheel - very faded) and five pounds current money to her & her heirs forever. Item: I give unto my son John Willheit one young black horse with a host? in his frsh? and called Edgcome to him & his heirs forever. Item: I give unto my son Michael Willheit one aright? bay mare called Beauty but if she raises a colt before my said son comes of age, that then he have his choice either the mare or colt & release the other into the estate , to him & his heirs forever. I give & bequeath to my loving wife Catherine Willheit my black horse called Jolly to dispose of as she thinks proper. Item: My will & desire is that if the mare I give my son Michael should have a colt that my son Michael as aforesaid have his choice of them & that my son George have the other and if she should not raise a colt that then I give unto my son George Willheit six pounds cash to buy him a horse with, for him & his heirs forever. Item: I give and bequeath unto my beloved children Mary Willheit, John Willheit, Mickle Willheit, Elizabeth Willheit & George Willheit, after the above legacies paid out and after my wife's death or marriage aforesaid, all my movable or personal estate to be set apart without sale of my said estate and equally devided among them.  Remember allways that if either of my aforesaid children should die without lawful heir that his or her proportional part of my said estate be equally divided among the survivors of that child to them and their heirs forever. Lastly, I constitute, ordain and appoint Adam Booyle and Jacob Broyle ,Executors of this my Last Will & Testament. WITNESS whereof I have set my hand & seal this ___(can't read) day of March ______.                                                          Adam Willheit (seal?) Signed, sealed & acknowledged in presence of us:     his John X Wayland     mark William Eastham Jacob X Broil     mark                          At a Court held for the County of Culpeper                 Thursday, the ____day of ___________(faded out - see below) This Last Will & Testament of Adam Willheit was exhibited to the court by Adam Booyle & Nicholas Broil?, the Executors therein mentioned & was proved by the oaths of John Wayland, William Eastham & Jacob Broyle, witnesses thereto & ordered to be recorded and on the motion of the said Executors, Certificate is granted them for obtaining a Probat thereof in due form.                                                       Teste:                                                       Roger Dixon, Cl.Cur. Source: Library of Virginia, Will Book A, 1749-1770 Culpeper Co, VA Reel 31, pages 338-339 Note: To assist in determing the date of this document:       Document on page 340 was entered in court on August 18, 1763.       Document on page 344 was entered in court on August 18, 1763. Spelling errors were not corrected.  Paragraphing and some punctuation were added by transcriber for ease in reading.  There are no paragraphs in the original.