Isle of Wight County, VA - Deed Book 1 (partial)

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Page 193

Isle of Wight, Deed book 1, 1688-1704, p 193.

Will of Will Powell

Know All Men By These Presents that I Will Powell of the Isle of Wight
County being at present very sick and weak in body but yet in perfect senses
and memory, doe, if it shall please GOD to take me out of this present life,
make this my Last Will and Testament as followeth--

First I doe give unto my loving WIFE, Elizabeth Powell, the plantation I now
live upon dureing her life (also) all the stock I have unto belonging
dureing her aforesaid life and then the said land I doe give unto my sonn
John Powell, the Broad Neck at the uper end of my line. Likewise I doe give
my sonn Nathaniell from that Neck down the Swamp to my orchard side and the
remaining part of this land unto my sonn Jacob; to them and theire heires
lawfully begotton of theire own bodyes forever.

Second I doe give unto my sonn Will Powell and my sonn Thomas Powell all my
land upon the hed of Bow and Arrow Swamp to be equally divided betwist them,
my sonn Will: to have his first choys to them and heires lawfully begotten
of theire own bodies forever.

Third I doe give unto my daughter Elizabeth, wife John Poopes that
plantation thay now live upon to them and theire heires forever this being
my Laste Will and Testament whatsoever   In witness hereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seale this eleaventh day of December in the year of our Lord
God Sixteen Hundred Ninety and Five.

Signed, sealed and delivered in
the present of us:

Thomas  Powell                                                   his mark
                        William Powell (seal)
                                     his mark

Thomas Gale
his mark

Richard Hutchins
his mark

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