Will of John WIMBUSH,1796, Pittsylvania Co., VA File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Molly Shumate Will of John WIMBISH 15 February 1796 Proved: 12/20/1802 Pittsylvania Co. Deeds & Wills Book 11, p. 246 Wife: Mary - tract I now live on - 670 acres including town of Peytonsburg. Sons: John, William, Samuel Executors: Friend John Wimbish of Halifax and sons John and William Wit: James Ryburn, Jacob Anderson, Robert Tompkins Bond in the amount of $10000 provided by Clement McDANIEL, David PANNELL, William IRBY, Crispin SHELTON, John A. FOWLKES ............................................. Montgomery Co., MD Abstracts 1776-1794 Liber D, Folio 182 9/15/1788 Rec: 3/3/1789 Power of Attorney - Aden of Pittsylvania Co., VA to brother Jeremiah of Montgomery Co. - to deliver 59 1/2 acres of land to Charles Catthow ........................................................ Montgomery Co., MD Abstracts Liber D Folio 188 Date and Recorded: 3/23/1789 Sarah Gray of Frederick Co. to Benjamin and Adin Gray - "Gray's Neck" Wit: Jeremiah Gray, Samuel Eades ............................................................ Montgomery Co., MD Liber D Folio 298 11/13/1789 Rec: 12/21/1789 John Bixton to Jeremiah Gray - "Gray's Dart" 10 ac in exchange for special warrant for 7 acres. Wit: Joseph Wilson, John Holmes ............................................... Wills 40 Folio 560 Frederick Co., MD Will of MATHIAS GRAY In the Name of God Amen, I Matthias Grey of Frederick County in the Province of Maryland Planter being infirm in body but in perfect health do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner following; that is to say I recommend my Soul into the hand of God almighty that gave it, and my body I recommend to the Earth to be decently interred at the discretion of my Executrix, and touching such worldly estate which it hath pleased God to bless me with I will and bequeath in the following manner and form -. ITEM. I will and bequeath this plantation I now live on called Greys Neck unto my dearly beloved wife SARAH GREY during her natural life and after her death to my two sons BENJAMIN and ADEN GREY. ITEM. I bequeath unto my two sons WILLIAM and BENJAMIN GRAY a tract of land called Gray's Meadows to be divided between them in manner following that is sixty acres of said tract to WILLIAM and the remaining part thereof to JEREMIAH. ITEM. I bequeath my personal part of estate in manner and form following vis. One third thereof to my beloved wife SARAH GREY, one third to my son ADIN, and the remaining third to my daughter, MARY. ITEM. I bequeath unto my son WILLIAM five shillings to be raised out my personal estate. ITEM. I bequeath unto my son JEREMIAH five shillings to be raised as above. ITEM. I bequeath unto my son BENJAMIN five shillings to be raised as above. Lastly I do make and constitute SARAH my said wife Executrix of this my last Will and Testament, and I do hereby utterly, disallow, revoke and disannul any and every other testaments by me in any wise before named, willed or bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-ninth day of January in the year of our Lord God, one thousand seven hundred and seventy five. s/Matthias Gray Signed and sealed published and pronounced by the said MATTHIAS GRAY as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names. John Phillips Philip Hocker John Burton On the back of the foregoing Will was thus written viz. On the 17th day of June 1775 came John Philips and JOHN BURTON two of the subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing will and made oath on the holy evangels of Almighty God that they did see the testator Matthias Gray sign and seal the said Will and heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his Last Will and Testament and that at the time of his doing he was to the best of their apprehensions of a sound and disposing mind and memory and that also they did see Philip Hocker the other subscribing witness to the said Will sign his name as a witness thereto and that they severally subscribe their names as witnesses to the said Will in the presence of the Testator and in the presence of each other. Sworn before T. Bowles Dy Comm'r ....................................... Pittsylvania Co. DB 25, p. 66-67 8/24/1822 . . ."we, WILLIAM GRAY, JEREMIAH GRAY, and JOHN GRAY, heirs and distributees of JEREMIAH GRAY decd and NANCY GRAY widow of said decedent appoint Nathan Hutcherson, our true and lawful attorney to sue for recovery and receive all the estate both real and person to which we are entitled or shall be entitled to the estate of ADIN GRAY dec. . . etc. and ADIN GRAY being brother of JEREMIAH GRAY and other heirs . . . equally heirs with said WILLIAM, JEREMIAH, JOHN & NANCY." ................................. Jeremiah Gray - Ensign 4th Regiment of Infantry 11th Brigade, M Division, Maryland Militia - Book 30, p. 282 Court Records, Pittsylvania Co., VA ................................................................. 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. 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