LOUDOUN COUNTY – WILL OF ISSACHAR BROWN ~ 1840

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Will of Issachar BROWN 
signed 19 May 1840 
found in Loudoun Co., VA Will Book Z, Page 273 


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Be it remembered that I Issachar Brown of the County of Loudoun and State of 
Virginia, reflecting on the uncertainty of this life and being of a sound and 
disposing mind and memory, do this 19th day of May in the year of our Lord 1840 
make and publish this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following: 

1st, I do direct my Executors hereinafter named to pay all my just debts and 
funeral expenses out of the proceeds of my personal estate as soon as may be 
after my decease.

2nd, I do direct and order my Executors to place out at interest $1,000, and the 
interest thence arising to go to my beloved wife yearly during her natural life 
or her marriage, and I order and direct that she have a room in any house for 
her to remain and to keep her goods in until she may have sufficient time to 
settle elsewhere and I direct that she shall have her firewood cut and haled to 
her door and one years provision found out of my estate and likewise pasture for 
her two twin heifers which I have given to her. I do furthermore give to my wife 
Margaret a good watch and her bed and beding, two coverlids, two blankets, two 
sheets out of my bed cloaths and a bureau, her walnut able and also return to 
her all the household goods she brought with her at our marriage.

3rd, After the decease of my wife I do will and direct that the $1,000 so placed 
out as aforesaid, the same be equally divided amongst my five children, namely 
Thomas, William, Giles and Craven Brown, and Mary Gregg, wife of Thomas Gregg.

4th, I will and direct that my executors due make sale of the whole of my estate 
both real and personal at such time and on such terms as they may deem 
expedient, but as soon as practicable after my decease, except what I have 
already disposed of to my wife, I devise that the proceeds of the sale of my 
said estate together with cash and bonds on hand at my death be distributed 
amongst my heirs as follows:

5th, I bequeath to my son James Brown's children $100 each to be paid to them as 
they come of age.

6th, I bequeath to Mary Jane, daughter of my son, Samuel Brown $100 to be paid 
to her as she comes of age, or if she marries before she is 21 years old my 
executors are at liberty to pay her, and if any one of the children of James and 
Samuel Brown above named should die before they arrive at age, I desire his or 
her part to be equally divided between my sons William, Thomas, Giles and Craven 
and my daughter, Mary Gregg, equally.

7th, I bequeath to my son Joel $100.

8th, I bequeath to Edith M. Mullen $10.

9th, I desire and direct my executors after the payment or after receiving the 
means of payment of the foregoing legacies to divide the residue of my estate 
equally among my children namely, William, Thomas, Giles and Craven, and my 
daughter, Mary Gregg, equally. I omitted to state above and now accept the wish 
that my executor provide out of my estate a head and foot stone to be placed at 
the grave of my deceased wife, Hannah, also a head and foot stone for myself and 
also for my present wife, Margaret. My large bible I leave to William Brown.

10th and lastly, I constitute and appoint Craven Brown and Mason Chamblin 
executors of this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all wills by me at 
this time made. Witness: Philip Griffith, Enos Persel. At a court held for 
Loudoun County, July 10, 1830, this paper to be the Last Will and Testament of 
Issachar Brown, dec'd, was this day presented to the court proved by the oaths 
of Phillip Griffith and Enos Pursel, two of the subsiding witnesses.