Wills: James Shockley, 1796: Pittsylvania Co. VA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Bruce Clift ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Pittsylvania Co. VA probate records, Vol. 10, p. 368 In the name of God Amen then twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninty five, I James Shockley Seniour of Pittsylvania County and State of Virginia being weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God therefore calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body. And knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, and touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give Devise and dispose of the Same in the following manner and form, it is my Will and I do order that in the first place all my Just Debts be paid and Satisfied, first I give to my Loving Wife Margrat for the term of her Life this House wherein I now Dwell with all the Furniture and Land and Chattels thereunto belonging, And after her Death to two of my Sons Charleton Shockley and James Shockley Junior to hold to them their Heirs and Assigns for Ever as by Deeds which I made to Each one of them doth more fully appeare, also after our Decease I give and Bequeath to my Beloved Son Charleton two two year old Heifers one a red colour and the other a brown And also one Bead. Also I give to my Beloved Son James Shockley Junior one Bead together with all my other moveable property. Also I give to my Son Levi the Sum of one Shilling Lawful money of Virginia. Also I give to my Daughter Elizabeth the Sum of one Shilling of like money. Also I give to my Son David the Sum of one Shilling. Also I give to my Daughter Nancy the Sum of one Shilling. Also I give to my Son Salathael the Sum of one Shilling all good and Lawful money of Virginia and no more of my Estate whether Rale or Parsonal. Also I give and demise to my Daughter Peggy all that all that piece, parcel or Tract of Land which She now holds and possesseth Lying and being in the County of Pittsylvania and Both Sides of the Long Branch and bounded as follows viz Beginning at my Corner White Oak thence new lines North Eighty five Degrees West one hundred and thirty poles Crossing the long Branch to a red oak South twenty two degrees West forty poles to pointers, South forty nine degrees West Ninty five poles to a white oak in Coplins line, thence the same South fifty and an half degrees East fifty six poles to pointers in the said line, thence a new dividing line North forty one degrees East sixty eight poles to a Spanish Oak North Seventy seven degrees East on ehundred and twelve poles to pointers North twenty six Degrees East fifty three poles to the beginning containing Seventy two Acres more or less, which said Land and premisses I give to my said Daughter Peggy during her neatural life, then to her Children their Heirs and assigns for ever. Lastly I do make and constitute my Son Charlton and my Son James Executors of this my last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the day and year first abov written. Sealed and delivered } his in the presence of } James III Shockley LS mark John Peck, Joshua Stone } At a Court held for Pittsylvania County the 18th day of William Atkins, Jesse Peek jr. } April 1796. The within written last Will and Testament David Peck of James Shockley deceased was exhibited into Court and proved by the Oaths of two of the witnesses thereto and Ordered to be recorded By the Court Teste Will Tunstall C.