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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last Will and Testement of Charles Pearsey In the Name of God Amen I Charles Pearsey of the County of Orange, state of Virginia being sick and weak in body but of sound mind and memory Do make this my last will & testament Viz I Recomind my soul to God who gave it and my body to the earth To be Decently buried at the Direction of my Executor hereafter Named and as to my Temporal Estate that it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I Disposes of in manner and from following I ______ I give unto my son Charles Piercey his heirs and assigns for ever the Land and plantation I now live on Item I give unto my grandson James and acre which I leave against his Mother Sarah bearing Date 1792 Item my will is that all and every part of my personable Est be sold for the payment of all my Debts except one Debt now owing to Capt. May Burton which my will is that my son Charles pay his equal part of said Debt with my two Daughters Item my will is that my grandson James live with my son Charles Pearsey until he arrives to lawful age and lastly I Do appoint Capt. May Burton and My son Charles Pearcy Executors of this my last will and testament Revoking All other wills or bequests heretofor made & allowing this and no other to be my last will and testament In witness whereof Thereunto set my Hand and Seal this 15th day of July 1792 Test Robert Miller Charles Piercey (SS) John Miller At a court Held for Orange County the 24th September 1792 This last will and testament of Charles Pearcey Decased was presented into Court by May Burton Junr. & proved by the oaths of Robert Miller & John Miller Witness thereto y ordered to be recorded and on the Motion of May Burton Jr. Certificate is granted him for obtaining aprobate thereof In due from whereupon he with John Miller his security entered into and acknowledged their Bond for the same in the sum of fifty pounds Current Money Teste James Taylor C O C Orange County, Virginia Will Book 3, p.264 An Inventory of Estate of Charles Pearcy Deceased appraised by the subscribers in obediance To an order of the worshipfull Court of Orange County Dated September 24, 1792 One feather bed bedstead & furniture L 5 0 0 One bedstead at 1 6 One feather bed furniture & bedstead 3 One lot of old pewter 13/ one bason & spoons 7/ 1 0 6 One box Iron 2/6 one pot and hooks 12/ 14 6 One dutch oven & hooks 6/ two flax wheels 12 18 Three old books 2/6 one pail 1/ a lot of old Iron 1/6 5 Two Iron wedges 5/ two pair old Cards 3/ 8 Two old axes 6/ one Cotton wheel 3/ four hogshead 16/ 1 5 Two old bariels of salt gum 2/ four killing hoes 10/ 12 One lot of old Iron 4/ one bedstead 3/ one Mair L6 6 7 Five hogs L 3.5 one ditto 10/ one bell 6/ 4 1 One Cow L 2.8. one Cow and Calf L 2.5 4 13 One steer L to 13. Two sheep 12/ 2 10 Corn in the field L 4-10. Fodder in the field L1 5 10 We have since the day of appraisment L 36 5 6 Valued a lot of Hogs at 2 14 Robert Miller George Price George Argabright At a court held for Orange County the 24th of September 1792 ordered that Robert Miller, George Thornton, George Argabright and George Price or any three of them they being first sworn do appraise the estate of Charles Pearcy Decd. & make return of the same according to ___ copy. Teste James Taylor C O C Orange County Virginia Will Book 3, p.281 The Estate of Charles Pearsey, Decd., in accot. With May Burton Junr., Execr 1792 L S D To account with David and James Blair 9 10 8 1/2 To May Burton Junr. 1 8 0 July 12 , 1792 To Burton and Jurdon 4 10 March 6, 1792 To 7 Quarts of Brandy at appraisment & sale of estate 14 To Johnson Ballard for making of Coffin 12 To Belfield Cave for Tax 5 10 1793 May 6 To John Leat___ W- acct. 17 9 Octr 26, 1793 To Belfield Cave for Land Tax 2 1794 June 27 To Robert Miller W. Acct. 8 Oct 12 To the clerk for Recording Inventory, and appraisement 5 5 To Bakener for Bond to Henry Fields Estate 7 15 Dec 10 To Belfield Cave for land tax 2 To Recording Will and Copy of do 70 tax 2 9 To Timothy Green Printing for advertisement 7 6 1795 April 11 To Benjm. Winslow Tax for 83 and 85 3 12 4 1/2 To Charles Pearsey Junr. 9 18 3 To the Executor his trouble 1 18 4 ______________ 1792 Nov 6 By amount of the Estate this day add at six months 38 8 9 Wm. White B. Cave Robert Miller At court held for Orange County on Monday the 28th of Feb. 1795 This administrators accomplt of the Estate of Charles Pearsey Deceased being Returned is Ordered to be Recorded. Teste James Taylor C O C Orange County, Virginia Will Book 3, p.343