Fauquier County Wills John Crump Will 1789 ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Posted by Jim Burgess on Mon, 22 Mar 1999 USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. Unauthorized use for commercial ventures expressly prohibited. All information submitted to this project remains - to the extent the law allows - the property of the submitter who, by submitting it, agrees that it may be freely copied but NEVER sold or used in a commercial venture without the knowledge & permission of its rightful owner. The USGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** Surnames: CRUMP, UTTERBACK, WAUGH, BRANAN, LEWIS John CRUMP Will Book 2 page 148-149 Written 5 Feb 1789 and Proved 28 Sep 1789 In the name of God Amen. I John CRUMP of the county of Fauquier and parish of Hamilton being in perfect memory the low and weak in body do make this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me made declaring this to be my last will in manner and form following: Viz I recommend my precious and immortal soul to God who gave it me, hoping the merits and mediation of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to obtain full pardon of my sins, my body to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named and to what worldly it has pleased God to bless me with I dispose as follows: Item, I give unto my son George Crump five shillings and to my daughters Elizabeth Utterback and Mary Waugh, Hannah Branan, and Ann Lewis the same ?? give shillings each. Item I give to my son William and Daniel Crump one feather bed and furniture each. Item I give to my daughters Sarah and Catherine Crum one feather bed and furniture each. Item I give unto my son John Crump the land whereon I now live and all the land I am possessed with during his life if he don't take up with or mary a certain woman by the name of Mary Westall. I would with it be understood that my desire is that my said son John should possess as everything both real and personal not all ready bequeather during his life if he don't make or take up with said woman, or attempt to sell rent lease of convey the said property in any manner whatsoever. And at his death to go and belong to my Son Daniel and his heirs forever, but if my said son John Crump should do or attempt to do either the said things objected to by this will my will is that the land and property do immediately go and belong to my said son Daniel and his heirs forever. Item my will and desire is that my daughter Sarah and Catharine Crump shall have the used of Chamber room so long as they shall live single and that my son John Crump is to pay off creditors and receive my debts and to this and do for them as in my life time my will and desire is that there should be an appraisement of my estate. Lastly I constitute and appoint my brother George and Benjamin Crump, William Eustace ???? and John James Executors of this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of February One Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty Nine. Sign Sealed and Acknowledged in the Presence of John James John Crump Signed & Sealed John Shumate Mason Shumate At a court held for Fauquier County the 28th day of September 1789 this will was proved and by the oaths of John James and John Shumate witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. Test F Brooke C.C.