Kemp Hurst will, 1782, Northumberland Co., Virginiia File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Gwen Hurst gwnj@shentel.net USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material AND permission is obtained from the CONTRIBUTOR of the file. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. ================================================================== In the name of God Amen I Kemp Hurst of Wiccomoco [sic] parish in the County of Northumberland and Colony of Virginia being Sick and weak in Body but in perfect sense and Memory thanks be to god and Calling to mind the mortality of my Body do make Constitute and ordain this to be my Last will and Testament in manner and form following Imprimis I bequeath my Soul to god who Gave it me in hopes of a future reward and my body to the Earth to be Buried According to the Direction of my Exet. hereafter Named and my worldly Estate I dispose of in the Following manner and form. Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Betty Kemp Hurst my Negroe Girl Nanny to her and her heirs forever after the Decease of Loving mother or day of marriage. Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Sukey Hurst my Negroe Girl Letty to her and her heirs forever after the Decease of her Loving mother or day of Marriage. Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son Kemp Hurst my Negroe Boy Solomon to him and his heirs forever after the Decease of his Loving mother or day of Marriage. Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Isaac Hurst my Negroe Boy Emanuel to him and heirs forever after the Decease of his Loving mother or day of marriage. Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Willis Hurst my Negroe Boy Jesse to him and heirs forever after the Decease of his Loving Mother or day of Marriage. Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Hurst the Plantation I now Live on together with all the appurtenances to him and his heirs forever. Item. My will and Desire is that my Beloved wife Sukey Hurst Shall have and possess my whole Estate of Lands and Tenements Negroes and all my other Estate of what nature or (???) Dower it be that my beloved Wife Sukey Should have and Enjoy the whole use of the same During her Widowhood. Item. I give and bequeath all the rest of my Estate Except the Legacies before mentioned of Negroes and other Personal Estate to be Equally Divided between my Six Children, Thomas, Kemp, Isaac, Willis, Betty Kemp, and Sukey Hurst to them and their heirs at the Loving mothers Death or marriage. Item. my will and Desire is that my Estate be not appraised but be Inventor’d by my Extr. hereafter named. Item. I do nominate and appoint my beloved wife Sukey Hurst and my Brother Thomas Hurst Extr. of this my Last will and Testament. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and afixed my Seal this 24th June 1782. Signed Sealed Kemp Hurst (Seal) In Presence of John Sutton Chas. Lattimore Jun.r. Benjamin Bustle Isaac Hurst At a Court held for Northumberland County the 16th Day of October 1782. This Last will and Testament of Kemp Hurst deced was presented in Court by Suckey Hurst and Thomas Hurst the Executrix and Executors therein named who made oath thereto according to Law and the same was proved by the oaths of John Sutton Charles Lattimore Junr. and Benjamin Bustle Those of the Witnesses thereto and Admitted to record and on the motion of the said Executors Giving Security a Certificate is granted them for obtaining a probate thereof in due form. Teste Catesby Jones Ct. Cur.