MADISON COUNTY, VA - Will Book 2 (partial)

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Will of Ann Rennolds
Madison County, Virginia
Will Book 2, Page 267-268
Proved: October 25, 1810 & December 2, 1810

     In the name of God Amen; I Ann Rennolds of the county of Madison &
State of Virginia being in my right mind & memory for which I desier to
thank & prais almighty god for & calling to mind the certainty of death &
the uncertainty of life & beleveing that I in a littel time must bid a final
due to all time things and appear before that grate & glorious god of all
natue who will Judge the world in righteousness & render to every one
according to his eternal Counsil, doe with the worldly goods that he has
been pleas'd to bestoe on me, dispose, leve & give in manner & form
following that is to say after my bodey is desently buried by my Executors
my sole to that god that gave it me & my Estate to those hereafter named.
     Item, My will and desier is that after my deseas all my Estate be sold
to the highest bidder on a credit of twelve months the purcher or purchers
giveing bond with good securety bearing interest from the date if not paid
to the day.
     Item, My will is that the money ariseing from the sale of my Estate
after paying my just debts be devided in the following manner, towit, with
all money that shall be due to said Estate at my death from my children that
has had part of my Estate in property at certain prices which I here incert
in the fase of this my last will an Testament, also all legeceis that I
shall give to my gran children my will is that they be duely attended to.
     Item, My son Henry Rennolds has had two tracts of Land recorded to him
of my purchase & for which I paid the sum of thirty four pounds for one
tract to Frances Gibbs which said Land my son Henry now lives on.  The other
tract of land I purchased of Joshua Lindsey for which I paid the sum of
fifty two pounds ten shillings to said Lindsey.  For certain reasons they
never was recorded to me, but to him, the tract last mentioned purchased of
Lindsey I now live on & was to live on it dureing my natural life rent free
& he the said Henry Rennolds was not to pay to my Estate aney interest for
the above purchase money of ninety one pounds ten shillings for the above
two tracts of Land untill after my deseas and then it comes under the same
head as the rest of my Estate & is to come out of his part.
     Item, My son Thomas Rennolds has had a Negro girl of my Estate by the
name of Ginney for which he is to give fourty pounds which is to come out of
his part but is not to pay interest for the same.
     Item, My son John Rennolds haveing a parcel of Negrows now in his
percession which his Father let him remove to his Hous & at the death of his
Father he willed them to certain other persons which records will shoe & he
the said John Rennolds refuseing to give up said Negrows & a suit is
commeced & now depending in the District Cort and undetermed now if he the
said John Rennolds shuld by virtue of Law obtain & keep the Negrows now at
law for then he the said John Rennolds is by this my will to have no part of
my Estate, but if he the said John Rennolds shuld by virtue of law be forst
to give the said Negrows up then he the said John Rennolds his heirs shall
inherit an equal moite with the rest of my Children.
     Item, My two Grandaughters towit, Nancy Emmons wife of Charles Emmons
and Nancy Loyd wife of Simon Loyd, these two grandchildren which I have
named my will is that each of them have half a childs part of my Estate so
that the two be made equal to one of my children and that ten pounds is to
be taken out of Nancy Loyds part & my will is that it be put at interest
till my Grandson Willis Rennolds, son of Henry Rennolds arive to the age of
twenty years old and then he receive the same.
Item, My will is that twenty pounds be taken out of my son Reuben Rennolds
part and given to Salley Stockdale a supposed child of my son Reuben
Rennolds.
     Item, I now name all my children by name towit, John Rennolds, James 
Rennolds,  William Rennolds, Thomas Rennolds, Reuben Rennolds, Henry Rennolds, 
Betty McGee, Sarah Loyd, Pattey Pettis, with my two Grandchildren before nam'd 
which makes ten in all & if my son John Rennolds shuld by virtue of law as 
before named keep the Negrows now in his possession then my Estate will be 
divided in nine parts, but if not it is to be divided with the addition that 
shall come from him to my Estate in ten parts.
     Item, My will is that after the before namd legecies is taken out with
a strict attention paid to fullfil each Seperate part & condition before
made that the residue of my Estate be equally devided among all my children
with my two Grandaughters before named as before directed & forthwith
declare that I lend it to them during their natural life & after their
deseas I give it to their heirs forever lawfully begotten.
     Item, Lastly I appint my dear son Henry Rennolds with by dear friends
William Booten and Churchill Gibbs Executors of this my last will &
testament revokeing all others made by me & this is to be taken for my last.
In Witness whareunto I have set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of May
in the year of our lord Christ one thousand eight hundred & eight.

                                        Ann Rennolds    (Seal

Signd seald deliverd
In the presence of
Benjamin Anderson
Larkin Harvey
John Bayne
Leeroy Canaday

     At a Court held for Madison County the 25th day of October 1810
This last Will and testament of Ann Rennolds deceased was exhibited into
Court and proved by the oath of Leeroy Canady one of the Witnesses thereto.
And at a court held for the said County the 2nd day of December 1810 was
fully proved by the oath of Larken Harvey a second witness thereto and
ordered to be recorded and William Booten and Churchill Gibbs are appointed
Curators to the said estate, whereupon they qualified and gave bond and
security according to Law. At Court held for Madison County the 2nd day of
January 1811. On the motion of William Booten and Churchill Gibbs two of the
Executors named in the Last Will and testament of Ann Rennolds deceased
Certificate of probate thereof is granted them in due form, whereupon they
qualified and gave bond and security according to Law.

                     Teste Benjamin Cave CMC

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Ann Rennolds was the wife of Thomas Reynolds, d. 1804. Ann moved to Madison
County from Carolne County. See Craig County archives for Thomas' will.
(Author's Note)
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