Howerton/Howerton Indenture, 1803 - Essex Co. VA

"This Indenture made the 31st day of Dec 1803. Between John Howerton
executor of William Howerton decd of the one part, and William Howerton of
the county of Essex of the other part, Witnesseth that the said # John
Howerton for and in consideration of the sum of six shillings to him paid by
the said William Howerton the receipt whereof he doeth hearby acknowledge,
hath granted, bargained & sold & delivered, and by these presents doth
grant, bargain & sell & deliver with the said William Howerton the following
Estate property or goods and chattels, that is to say One negro woman named
Rose and one negro Girl named Polly being that part of the estate of William
Howerton decd in the hands of the said John Howerton to which Jane
Edmondson, the wife of Edmund Edmondson, a daughter of the said William
Howerton, is entitled to subject to the payment of the debts of the said
William Howerton which are still due and unpaid to have and to hold to the
said William Howerton and his assignees the said estate, property & goods &
chattels in trust to & for the following uses & purposes & to or for no
other use, intent or purpose whatever, that is to say, in trust to & for the
only proper use thereof of the said John Howerton this assigns until such
time as all the debts due from the said William Howerton, decd, shall be
fully & completely satisfied and paid and to apply the same or such part
thereof as shall or may be necessary to the payment of the said debts and
after the said debts are fully & completely satisfied and paid then in trust
to and for the only proper use and behoof of the said Jane Edmondson, wife
of Edmund Edmondson during the joint lives of the said Edmund Edmondson and
Jane Edmondson his wife, so as that the same or any part thereof may not #
be subject to any debt or demand which now is due from the said Edmund
Edmondson or which may hereafter be contracted by him or in any manner
subject to the direction or control of the said Edmund Edmondson, and in
case the said Jane Edmondson wife of the said Edmund shall survive her said
husband then in trust to & for the only proper use & behoof of the said Jane
Edmondson, now the wife of the said Edmund & her assignees forever, but in
case the said Edmund shall survive his wife, there & in that case only, to
the only proper use of the said Edmund Edmondson this assigns forever. In
testimony whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto subscribed
their names & affixed their seals the day & year first herein written.

Jno Howerton

William Howerton

Sealed & delivered

in presence of

Richd St. John

Isaac Craeton

Edwd Covington

At an intervening court held for Essex County at Tappahannock on the 16th
day of Jany 1804 -- This decd indented between John Howerton, Executor of
William Howerton decd to William Howerton viz"

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Transcribed by Judy Edmondson Thompson on Nov. 1, 1998 from copy of original
Essex County (VA) Court Record, p. 325-326, V.?

Submitted by Judy Thompson <docksiders@sprintmail.com>

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