LOUDOUN COUNTY – WILL OF MARY JACKSON ~ 1854

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Will of Mary JACKSON 
signed 17 May 1854 
found in Loudoun County, Virginia Will Book 2I, Pages 255 and 256 


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I, Mary JACKSON, of the County of Loudoun and State of Virginia do hereby make 
and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following that it 
is to say, I give my trunk and wearing apparel to my granddaughter Sarah Ann 
JACKSON. I hereby release my children Giles JACKSON and William JACKSON from the 
payment of all debts due by them to me and authorize Charles B. BALL trustee in 
a deed from said Giles JACKSON dated 22nd day of November 1845 conveying his 
interest in certain negroes for the purpose of securing to me payment of the sum 
of $230.95 to release the property therein conveyed or so much thereof as 
remains unsold. I give to my son William JACKSON the interest in certain negroes 
which he conveyed to me by deed dated 4th of June 1840. If I leave any interest 
in certain negroes now in my possession besides what I am entitled to under the 
deeds from my sons Giles and William then I give such interest to said Giles and 
William equally to be divided between them I direct the following described 
property. Viz: A house and lot in the Town of Leesburg also the personal 
property consisting as far as recollected of one bedstead and bedding one 
trundle bedstead, one table, kitchen stove, 1/2 dozen chairs, ovens, jars, 
buckets and in the house occupied by son William JACKSON and 1/2 dozen chairs, 
one walnut table, one bedstead and one pine table in the house of my son Giles 
JACKSON to be sold by executors hereinafter named and the proceeds after the 
payment of my just debts and funeral expenses to be equally divided between my 
sons William and Giles JACKSON. I give to my sons Giles JACKSON and William 
JACKSON and all property that I may be entitled to not herein before disposed 
of. I hereby appoint John M. ORR executor of this my last will and testament. In 
testimony of the foregoing, I hereby set my hand this 17th day of May 1854. 

Mary (X) JACKSON

Witness 
John W. WOOD 
Geo W. RUPP 
F.W. SHAFER

At a Court held for Loudoun County, August 14, 1854, a paper purporting to be 
the last will and testament of Mary JACKSON dec'd was presented to the Court 
proved by the oaths of John W. WOOD and F.W. SHAFER two of the subscribing 
witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And in the motion of John M. ORR 
the executors therein named who made oath is such together with Giles JACKSON 
his security who justified entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty 
of eight hundred dollars conditioned as the law directs certificate is granted 
him for obtaining a probate thereof in due form and the said bond is ordered to 
be recorded.

A Copy Teste: P. Saunders