Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Wills.....Johnson, John, 1707 

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John JOHNSON (Sr.), will, 7 Jan 1703/4; proved 9 Aug 1707 

Isle of Wight Co., VA, Record of Wills, Deeds, Etc., Vol. 2, p. 484 


I John Johnson beinge very sick & Weak in Body but of sound perfect & 
disposing mind & memory, all thanks praise be given to Almighty God therefore; 
& calling to remembrance the frailty of human nature & certainty of death & 
incertainty of time where doe make Ordain & declare my last Will & Testam:t in 
manner followeth: that is to say: 

I Comend my Soul to God: the ffather of Spiritt, trusting & firmly beleiving 
thro ye merrit & bitter passion of my Saviour & Redeemer: Jesus Christ: to 
receive full pardon & remission for all my Sins, whensoever this mercifull 
life shall cease, And my body to be decently Interred after ye manner of 
X.tian Buriall, Att the descretion of my Ex.ex hereafter named: 

And what Worldly Estate it hath pleased God to possess me w.th, after all my 
Just debts & Funerall Charges is defrayed, I give bequeath & dispose as 
followeth: 

Item  I give & bequeath to my Daughter Martha ffifty Acres of Land I there 
showed her to her & her heires For-ever Male or Female, And all ye rest of my 
Land, w.th housing Fences & Orchard & all other ye Appertinances all w.th I 
give & to my Sonne John Johnson & his heires Forever Male or Female- 

Item  I give & bequeath all my household goods att Blackwater, to my Daughter 
Martha, & to my Sonne John to be equally devided between them two, onely two 
Dishes & two plates more to my Sonne John; then to my Daughter, and my long 
Gun I give to my Sonne John & pistolls & Holsters & Rapier & Rideing Saddle 
and all my weareing apparrell both Lynon & Woolen- 

Item  I give & bequeath to my abovesd Daughter & Sonne one shilling apeice of 
last Wifes Estate to Cutt them Off from any part or parcell of it- 

Item  I give & bequeath to my Daughter Patience Johnson Six Heiffers four of 
two yeares Ould & two of One year Ould, One feather bed & Boulster two 
Blanketts & A Rugg & ffive Sheep- 

Item  I give & bequeath to my Daughter Mary a ffeather bed furnished as it is 
now standing, & Six Heiffers, four of Two yeares Ould & two of One year Ould & 
five sheep & A Horse Colt of Two yeares Ould- 

Item  I give & bequeath all ye remaining part of my Estate to my Dear & 
loveing Wife Mary making my sd loveing Wife, my whole & sole Ex.ex of this my 
last Will & Testam:t in Testimony of all w.ch I have hereunto sett my hand & 
seal this 7th of Jan'ry 1703- 
                                                      John Johnson  *Seal* 
Signed, sealed & published & declared 
in ye p'sence of 
James Lupo  I  his mark 
Sarah Lupo  +  her mark 
Susanna Bracewell  B  her mark 

Proved in Open C't held for ye Isle of Wight County ye 9th of Aug.t 1707 by ye 
Oaths of James Lupo & Susanna Bracewell and Probate granted to the Ex.ex 
therein named. Ordered to Recorded: 
                                              Teste:  Cha' Chapman  Cl.Cur. 


The 1712 will of his widow Mary (THOMPSON RIDLEY JOHNSON) GLADHILL 
is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/wills/g434m1wl.txt 

Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Matt Harris <zoobug64@aol.com>- 
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