PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY, VA - WILLS - Nathaniel Ayers, 3 Sep 1776
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Last Will and Testament of Nathaniel Ayers
Signed 3 September 1776 and proved 22 May 1777
[The clerk did not indicate the date on which this entry was recorded.]

Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Deeds & Wills Book Number 5 (1767-1780), 
page 435:

In the Name of God Amen.  I Nathaniel Ayers of the County of Halifax and
Colony of Virginia do make and appoint this my last Will and Testament
prohibiting all other Wills or Testaments before the date hereof and First I
do Recommend my Soul to God who Gave it and my Body to the Dust to be burried
in decent & Christain Order, and for my Worldly Estate to be in the following
Manner at my Decease.  I do Will that all my moveables and Lands that I have
Shall be Sold for Money and I do Dispose of it as Followeth among my Children
to my Eldest Son Thomas Ayers I give forty pounds in Lue of all my Lands that
he may inherit none of my Land and to my Son Moses Ayers I give Forty pounds
which I own my self Justly indebted to him, and to my beloved Wife Rhody Ayers
a Third part of all the Rest of my Estate and what shall Remain Over and above
her Thirds I do dispose of as followeth and first I Give and bequeath to
Patience Jones my Grand Daughter five pounds and also I Give and bequeath to
Mary Ayres the Daughter of Moses Ayres Ten pounds and also I give and bequeath
to my Son Rogimalich Baker Ayres Twenty five pounds and the rest of my Estate
to be Divided in Ten Equal parts and I Give to Moses Ayres two parts and also
to my Son Daniel Ayres two parts more out of the Ten parts and the Six parts
that Still Remain shall equally be divided between my Daughter Yanake Payne
and my Son Regimalich Baker Ayres and Thomas Ayres my Eldest Son and my two
sons Thomas Ayres and Moses Ayres Whom I appoint Ex'ors of this my Will in
Trust to make to my Son Daniel Ayres a Good and Lawful Rite at my Death to a
Certain piece of Land Containing Eighty & Six acres and an half Lying as
followeth above the upper Double Creek Joining and Runing with Spurlocks line
and to be Divided from the Rest of my Land by a Line Runing the Same Course of
Spurlocks line that I Join, Which Land I have Given to him in Satisfaction for
a plantation which he hath made for me and for the performance of the Rite of
the said Land I have Given

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my Son Daniel Ayres a Bond of five Hundred pounds penalty and I desire that 
the Executors above mentioned do se that this my Last Will and Testament be 
done and performed according to the True intent and Meaning thereof In Witness 
whereof I the said Nathaniel Ayers have Set my hand & Seal to this my Last 
Will and Testament this Third Day of September in the year of our Lord God 
1776

Signed Sealed and delivered by the      )
Said Nathaniel Ayres as and for his     )
Last Will and Testament in presents of  )      Nathaniel Ayers L S.
us who were present at the signing and  ) 
Sealing thereof                         )
John Jones Jun'r  William Lynch         )
Charles Barnett                         )

At a Court held for Pittsylvania County the 22d Day of May 1777 The Within
Last Will and Testament of Nathaniel Ayres Deceased was Exhibited into Court
by the Ex'ors therein named and proved by the Oaths of two of the Witnesses
thereto and Ordered to be Recorded and on the Motion of the said Ex'ors who
made Oath according to Law Certificate is Granted them for Obtaining a probate
thereof in due form of Law.  Giving Security Whereupon they Together with
David Terry and William Lynch their Securitys entered into Bond and
acknowledged the same according to Law.
                             Test
                               Will Tunstall  Clk


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