Essex Co., VA
Will of Susanna Davis, 1699

Deed and Will Book 10, page 65, Essex  Co. VA:

Will of Susanna Davis of Essex County, Va.  IN THE NAME 
OF GOD AMEN, I Susann Davis being sick and weake yet of 
perfect sense and memory do make, constitute, and appoint 
this to be my Last Will and Testament, revoaking all other 
Will or Wills by me formerly made Either Verball or 
otherwise. 
Imprimis:  I give my Soule into the hands of Almighty 
God that gave it my body to ye Grave decently to be 
interred with such Christian buryall as time and place 
will afford.   As to my Worldly Welth I give in manner 
as followeth - Item - I give unto my Sonne Job Wirgitt 
twelve pence.  My feather bed in the outer room with ye
boulster rugg & one blankett I give unto my Sonne Thomas 
Meadoes and the Table and three chaires in the outer 
Roome.  Likewise to my daughter Elizabeth Ship I do 
give my Warming pan my boy and my trunk & all my weareing 
cloathes & all the rest of my Estate both Goods & 
Chattels within dores and without that apperteyneth 
unto me I give to my Sonne William Davis and further 
my Will is that my Sonne Thomas 
Meadoes be Sole Executor of this my Last Will & Testament 
as Witness my hand and 
Seale this fifteenth of Febr. 1699   

   _________ Susanna Davis  (Seal)

Teste:
William Gannocke               Prov'd by the oaths of 
                               ye Wittnesses hereto in
    his mark                   Essex County Court ye 30th 
                               of Febr 1700
Wm  Short                      & truely recorded
   his mark
                               Teste
                               Francis Mereweater  Cl. Cur.
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Note:  Susanna was married four times: 1st, Job Virgett; 2nd, 
John Meaders; 3rd, Thomas Brooks (my ancestor); and 4th ___Davis.  
 


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