Elizabeth City Co., VA Wills Elizabeth City Co., VA Will Augustine Moore, 1736 CAPT AUGUSTINE MOORE ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY, WHO PROBABLY MARRIED MARY WOOLLEY, SINCE HIS WIFE MARY IN 1677, IN A DEED IN LANCASTER COUNTY, CALLS GEORGE WOOLLEY "BROTHER . THIS IS THE WILL OF AUGUSTINE SON OF CAPT AUGUSTIN HAMPTON COURTHOUSE, HAMPTON, VA BOOK 1 WILLS 1701-1859 PG 9 WILL OF AUGUSTINE MORE MARCH 24, 1736 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I AUGUSTINE MORE OF THE COUNTY OF ELIZABETH CITY IN VIRGINIA BEING INF--------- OF BODY BUT OF SOUND AND PERFECT MIND AND MEMORY, THANKS BE TO ALLMIGHTY GOD, DO MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND FORM FOLLOWING. ITEM....... I GIVE MY SOUL UNTO THE HANdS OF ALLMIGHTY GOD AND MY BODY TO THE EARTH FROM WHENCE IT WAS TAKEN, TO BE BURIED AT THE DISCRATION OF MY EXC HEREAFORE NAMED AND TO --------------THE DISPOSITION OF SUCH TEMPORAL ESTATE AS IT HATH PLEASED THE ALLMIGHTY GOD TO BESTORE UPON ME. I DESPOSE THEREOF AS FOLLOWETH. ITEM....... I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY LOVING BROTHER JOHN MORE THAT TRACT OF LAND WHEREON HE NOW LIVES TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER. ITEM....... I GIVE UNTO MY SAME BROTHER JOHN MORE, MY NEGRO MAN TOM TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER. ITEM....... I GIVE AND BEQUEST TO MY NEPHEW AUGUSTINE MORE, SON OF MY BROTHER WILLIAM MORE (DECD.) THE PLANTATION I NOW LIVE ON, TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS OF HIS BODY, LAWFULLY BEGOTTEN FOREVER. ITEM...... I GIVE TO MY SAME NEPHEW FIFTY ACRES OF LAND WHICH I BOUGHT OF JAMES TOSMER??? TO HIM AND THE HEIRS OF HIS BODY LAWFULLY BEGOTTEN FOREVER BUT IN FAILUE OF SUCH I ----------- GIVE THE SAME FIFTY ACRES OF LAND TO MY LOVING BROTHER MERRITT MORE AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER. ITEM...... MY --------------- WILL IS THAT MY SAME BROTHER MERRITT MORE SHALL HAVE THE USE OF THE SAME FIFTY ACRES OF LAND UNTILL MY SAME NEPHEW SHALL ARRIVE TO THE AGE OF ONE AND TWENTY YEARS. ITEM...... I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SAME NEPHEW AUGUSTINE MORE MY NEGRO GIRL EASTER AND MY NEGRO BOY GEORGE TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER. ITEM...... I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY NEICE ELIZABETH MORE, DAUGHTER OF MY SAME BROTHER WILLIAM MORE (DECD.)MY NEGRO GIRL CALLED WHITTE AND MY NEGRO GIRL CALLED LUCEY TO HER AND HER HEIRS FOREVER. ITEM...... MY ------------AND WILL IS THAT MY SAME NEPHEW AUGUSTINE MORE AND MY SAME NEICE ELIZABETH MORE, SON AND DAUGHETER OF MY BROTHER WILLIAM MORE (DECD.) BE PAID THEIR EQUAL PARTS OF THE ESTATE OF MY SAME BROTHER WILLIAM MORE (DECD.) BY MY ESTATE HEREAFTER. NAMED FREE FROM ANY CHARGE AS TO DEBTS DUE FROM THE SAME ESTATE OF MY SAME BROTHER WILLIAM MORE (DECD.) ITEM...... I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY SAME NEPHEW AUGUSTINE MORE MY SEAL RING AND SNUFF BOX AND THIRTEEN SILVER SPOONS TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER. ITEM...... I GIVE UNTO MY LOVING SISTER MARTHA DIXON THE SUM OF FIVE POUNDS. ITEM...... I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY LOVING BROTHER DANIEL MORE THE SUM OF FIVE POUNDS. ITEM...... I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY LOVING BROTHER MERRITT MORE MY NEGRO MAN CALLED CLINKUSSIS, MY NEGRO MAN CALLED CESAR AND MY TWO NEGRO WOMAN CALLED FRANK AND SARAH, TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER. ITEM...... I DO GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY LOVING BROTHER MERRITT MORE ALL AND SINGULAR MY WHOLE ESTATE THAT HAS NOT IN THIS WILL BEEN HERETOFORE GIVEN. ITEM...... I DO NOMENATE AND APPOINT HIM MY BROTHER MERRITT MORE, SOLE EXXTR OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT REVOKING ALL OTHER WILLS HERETOFORE WRITTEN BY ME ------------ ------------------ -------------------- ----------------------- OF I HAVE HEREFORE SETT MY HAND AND AFFIXED MY SEAL THIS 24TH OF MARCH 1736. SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED AUGUSTINE MORE IN THE PRESENTS OF JOHN TABB THOMAS TABB WILLIAM MERRITT????? ************************************************************************** Elizabeth City Co., VA Will Augustine Moore, 1793 THIS IS THE WILL OF AUGUSTINE, SON OF WILLIAM WHO WAS SON OF CAPT AUGUSTINE BOOK 3 WILLS 1701-1859 PG 308 WILL OF AUGUSTINE MOORE NOV. 7, 1793 PROVED JUNE 26, 1795 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN-------I AUGUSTINE MOORE OF ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY BEING IN PERFECT HEALTH AND MEMORY, THANKS BE TO THE ALMIGHTY GOD FOR THE SAME, DO MAKE AND ORDAIN THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTEMENT IN THE FORM FOLLOWING. ITEM..... I LEND UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE THE PLANTATION I NOW LIVE ON WITH THE PURTINANCIES ???? DURING HER LIFE AND AFTER HER DECEASE, I GIVE UNTO MY SON WILLIAM MOORE AND HIS HEIRS FOREVER, THE PROVISION THAT HE WILL GIVE TO MY SON AUGUSTINE MOORE THE FIFTY ACRES OF LAND I FORMALY GAVE HIM, BE IT MORE OR LESS WITH THE PURTENANCES ???? THERE UNTO BELONGING AND IN CASE MY SON WILLIAM MOORE WILL NON COMPLY WITH THIS MY REQUEST, THEN I GIVE MY SON AUGUSTINE MOORE THE AFORESAID PLANTATION, LENT TO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE DURING HER LIFE, TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS WITH THE PROVISION HE WILL PAY TO MY SON MERRITT MOORE THE SUM OF FIFTY POUNDS CURRENT MONEY OF VIRGINIA, AFTER MY DECEASE. ITEM..... I LEND UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE, ALL MY NEGROES THAT I SHALL DIE POSSESSED OF, DURING HER LIFE AND AFTER HER DECEASE AND MY DEBTS ARE PAID THE REMANDER TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY SON MERRITT MOORE, MY SON JOHN MOORE AND MY DAUGHTER ANN MOORE (KING) AND MY DAUGHTER JANE MOORE (SWENEY) ITEM..... I LEND UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE ALL MY PERSONAL ESTATE WHATSOEVER DURING HER LIFE AND AFTER HER DECEASE TO GO TO THE PAYMEN OF ALL MY DEBTS. LASTLY... I DO HEREBY NOMONATE AND APPOINT MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE TO BE MY EXECUTOR AND MY SON WILLIAM MOORE AND MY SON MERRITT MOORE TO BE MY EXCUTORS OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT HEREBY REVOKING AND MAKING VOID ALL FORMER WILL OR WILLS HERETOFORE BY ME MADE. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I HAVE HEREUNTO SETT MY HAND AND AFFIXED MY SEAL THIS NINTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, ANNO DOMINI, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINTY THREE. SIGNED,SEALED, PUBLISHED AUG. MOORE AND DELIVERED BY THE TESTATOR TO BE HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN PRESENCE OF ROSCOW PARSONS JENNY PARSONS MARY PARSONS ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY COURT JUNE 26TH 1795 THIS ----------------------AND PRESENTED IN COURT AND PROVED BY THE PRESENTS OF ROSCOW PARSONS AND JANE PARSONS TWO OF THE WITNESSES AFORESAID THERE UNTO I ORDERED TO BE RECORDED. ****************************************************************************** Elizabeth City Co., VA Will Ann Moore, 1801 THIS IS THE WILL OF ANN MOORE, WIFE OF AUGUSTINE, SON OF WILLIAM WHO WAS SON OF CAPT AUGUSTINE. BOOK 3 WILLS 1701-1859 PG 366 WILL OF ANN MOORE FEB. 9, 1801 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I ANN MOORE SEN. OF ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY, BEING OF SOUND MIND AND DISPOSING MEMORY DO MAKE THIS INSTREMENT OF WRITING FOR MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT REVOKING ALL FORMER WILLS THERETOFORE MADE BY ME, CONFERMING THIS AND NONE OTHER TO BE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT. ITEM..... I LEND TO MY DAUGHTERS ANN KING AND JANE SWEENEY THE WHOLE OF MY PROPERITY OF EVERY KIND WHATSOEVER, TOGETHER WITH WHAT I MAY BE ENTITLED TO FROM MY SON MERRETTS ESTATE AGREABLE TO HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN THAT ----------------MADE AND PROVIDED, TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THEM, AND AT THERE DEATHS I GIVE THE SAID PROPERTY SO LENT TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED AMONG THEIR CHILDREN. ITEM..... I GIVE TO MY SON WILLIAM MOORE WHATEVER MAY BE DUE TO ME FROM HIM FOR THE RENT OF THE PLANTATION WHEREON HE NOW LIVES, IF NO ACCOUNT SHOULD BE EXHIBITED BY HIM AGAINST MY ESTATE AND IF THERE SHOULD BE ANY ACCOUNT EXHIBITED BY HIM, IT IS MY WILL AND DESIRE THAT MY EXECUTOR HEREAFTER NAMED SHOULD RAISE AN ACCOM--------- AGAINST HIM FOR THE RENT OF MY PLANTATION FROM THE YEAR 1796 TO THE TIME OF MY DECEASE, AT THE RATE OF THIRTY POUNDS PER YEAR. ITEM..... I NOMINATE AND APPOINT MICHAEL KING TO BE MY EXECUTOR TO THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN WITNESS WHEREOF I HAVE HEREUNTO SETT MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 9TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 1801. SIGNED SEALED AND ACKNOWLEDGED ANN MOORE IN PRESENCE OF JOHN MOORE ************************************************************************* Elizabeth City Co., VA Will John Moore, 1762 THIS IS THE WILL OF JOHN MOORE, SON OF CAPT AUGUSTINE.> WILLL BOOK 1, PAGE 127 WILL OF JOHN MOORE SEPTEMBER 1762 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I JOHN MOORE OF ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY IN THE PARISH AFORESAID, BEING SICK AND WEAK IN BODY, BUT OF PERFECT SENSE AND MEMORY, DO THEREFORE MAKE AND ORDAIN THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND FORM FOLLOWING, I GIVE AND BEQUEATH MKY SOUL TO ALLMIGHT GOD WHO GIVES IT TO ME AND MY BODY TO THE EARTH TO BE -------------BURIED AT THE DISCRETION OF MY EXCT ---------FORE NAMED. ITEM..... I LEND UNTO MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH MOORE, THE USE OF ONE HUNDRED ACRES OF MY LAND IN COO(INK SPOT) NECK, WHERE DANIEL SICLEY NOW LIVES RUNNING ALONG TUCKER AND CREEKRES LINE, TO THE HEAD OF MY LAND INCLUDING ONE HUNDRED ACRES, DURING HER NATURAL LIFE AND IN CASE MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH MOORE SHOULD INTERMARRY AND HAVE A MALE HEIR, THEN I GIVE AND BEQUEATH THE AFORE MENTIONED ONE HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND UNTO THIS MALE HEIR LAWFULLY BEGOTTON OF HER BODY ---------TORN----- IN THE SAME MANNER AS MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH MOORE BEFORE MENTIONED. ITEM..... I LEND UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE THE USE OF ALL THE RESIDUE AND REMAINDER OF MY LANDS DURING HER NATURAL LIFE. THEN I GIVE AND BEQUEATH TO MY NEPHEW AUGUSTINE MOORE, SON OF WILLIAM MOORE, THE ABOVE MENTIONED LAND TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS LAWFULLY BEGOTTON. ITEM..... I GIVE UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE MY NEGRO WOMAN CALLED ------------AND MY NEGRO GIRL CALLED SANDOR TO HER AND HER HEIRS. ITEM..... I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO ANN ARMISTEAD, WIFE OF JAMES ARMISTEAD MY NEGRO BOY CALLED NED TO HER AND HER HEIRS LAWFULLY BEGOTTON. ITEM..... I GIVE UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE THE USE OF MY TWO NEGRO MEN JUPITER AND GEROGE DURING HER NATURAL LIFE AND AFER HER DEATH I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH MOORE THE SAME TWO NEGRO MEN JUPITER AND GEORGE TO HER AND HER HEIRS AND IN FALURE OF SUCH HEIRS IN MY DAUGHTER, THEN I GIVE THE SAID JUPITER AND GEORGE TO MY NEPHEW AUGUSTINE MOORE TO HIM AND HIS HEIRS LAWFULLY BEGOTTON. ITEM..... I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH MOORE MY TOW NEGROS------------ AND FRANK TO HER AND HER HEIRS LAWFULLY BEGOTTEN FOREVER. ITEM..... I GIVE UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE MY CART AND WHEELS AND TWO YORK OF OXIN AND THE REMAINDER OF MY STOCK OF -------------- AND CATTLE. I GIVE TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY WIFE ANN MOORE AND MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH MOORE AFTER MY DEATH-------------- ARE PAID OUT OF THE ESTATE. I ALSO GIVE UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE --------------MARE AND MY HOGGS AND SHEEP. ITEM..... I GIVE UNTO MKY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH MOORE ONE GOOD BED AND FURNITURE AND THE -------------------------------AND THE REMANDER FURNITURE, I GIVE UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE. ITEM..... I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER ELIZABETH MOORE SIX BARRELS OF CORN ITEM..... I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE ALL ---------------WRITTING FROM BACK OF PAPER HAS BLEED ONTO THIS PAGE AND I CAN NOT READ------------. LASTLY I DO HEREBY NOMINATE AND APPOINT MKY LOVING WIFE ANN MOORE TO BE MY ESCT AND MY NEPHEW AUGUSTINE MOORE, JAMES ARMISTEAD AND JOHN WHITEHURST????? MY EXCT OF THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, HEREBY REVOKINTG AND MAKING VOID ALL OTHER WILLS HERTOFORE BY ME MADE. IN WITNESS WHEREFORE I HAVE HEREUNTO SETT MY HAND AND AFFIXED MY SEAL THIS THIRTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO. SIGNED SEALED ------------AND DECLARED BY THE TESTATOR JOHN MOORE TO BE HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN ------------- SARAH COWPER JOHN WHITEHURST??????? JAMES ARMISTEAD ********************************************************************* Elizabeth City Co., VA Will Merritt Moore, 1798 THIS IS THE WILL OF MERRITT MOORE, SON OF AUGUSTINE, SON OF WILLIAM WHO WAS SON OF CAPT AUGUSTINE BOOK 3 WILLS 1701-1859 PAGE 346 WILL OF MERRITT MOORE APRIL 25, 1798 I MERRITT MOORE OF ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY IN VIRGINIA DO -------------MAKE AND CONSIDERATE THIS TO BE MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT IN MANNER AND FORM AS FOLLOWS. ITEM..... MY WILL AND DESIRE IS THAT MY JUST DEBTS BE PAID ITEM..... MY WILL AND DESIRE IS THAT AFTER MY JUST DEBTS ARE PAID THE REMAINDER OF MY ESTATE I LEND TO MY MOTHER DURING HER NATURAL LIFE AND AFTER HER DEATH MY WILL AND DESIRE IS TAHT MY NEGRO WOMAN RACHEL SHALL BE FREE FROM SERVETUDE. ITEM..... IT IS MY FERTHER DESIRE THAT WHAT EVER PROPERTY IS IN THE POSSISSION OF MARY WISE, NOW ON THE PLANTATION----------------------CONSISTING OF HOGGS, ONE COW AND CALF, ONE YOKE OXON AND SOME HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, I GIVE TO HER FOR THE SUPPORT OF HERSELF AND CHILDREN. I DO HEREBY NOMINATE AND APPOINT MY BROTHER WILLIAIM AND JOHN MOORE MY EXECUTORS TO THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT HEREBY REVOKING ALL FORMER WILL OR WILLS MADE BY ME. MADE WITNESS WHEREFORE I HEREUNTO SETT MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 25TH DAY OF APRIL 1798. THE IN---------------- ------------------- MADE BEFOR SIGNING SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED M MOORE IN PRESENCE OF AUGUSTINE MOORE JR ANN MALLORY MOORE AT A COURT HELD FOR ELIZABETH CITY COUNTY 27TH DECEMBER 1798, THIS WILL WAS PRESENTED IN COURT PROVED BY THE OATH OF AUGUSTINE MOORE JR, ONE OF THE WITNESSES THERTO SUBSCRIBED. ORDERED TO BE RECORDED. 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