Mecklenburg Co., VA Will of Pleasant Gold  1832
 
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PLEASANT GOLD WILL

In the name of God I Pleasant Gold of the County of Mecklenburg in the 
State of Virginia do make and direct this to be my last will and 
Testament to wit.  It is my wish that my Executor hereunto named shall 
make immediate provision for the payment of all my just debts in any 
way which may appear most advisable to him.  To those of my children 
who have already married I have given as much of my property as they 
are to have until  after the death of my wife.  Those who have not yet 
married it is my will and desire that they shall in case of their 
marriages during the lifetime of their mother have allotted to each as 
they may mean = as a portion equal to what I have already given to any 
one of my married children.  It is my wish and intention that my whole 
estate shall be kept together during the lifetime of my wife, after her 
death I wish it to be equally divided between all my children or their 
legal representatives.  I hereby constitute and appoint my friend 
Colonel  Newman and my son Moore Gold my Executors to this my Will .  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and  affix my seal 
this 9th day of August 1832.

					Pleasant Gold            seal

Signed and acknowledged in presence of us
Franklin Wilkinson
William Childers
Lewis N. Yancy


		At a Court held for Mecklenburg county on the 15th day of 
October 1832.  The foregoing last will and Testament of Pleasant Gold 
deceased was this day produced in open Court and proved by the other 
subscribing witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.  Whereasfor 
Moore Gold one of the sons named in the said will having appeared in 
Court and refused to take upon himself the burden of the Executor 
thereof, on the motion of Executor Newman the other executor therein 
named who made oaths thereto and together with Thomas Owen and Elijah 
Griffin his  presenters instead take and acknowledge their bond in the 
penalty of good outstanding acending to Law, certificate is granted him 
for obtaining a probat thereof in due form.

							Teste 
								John G. Baptist