Rappahannock County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Wills.....Mott, George March 31, 1674
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Source: George Mote Will (31 March 1674); Wills, Deeds, Etc. No.1 1665-1677: 157-161, Rappahannock County, Virginia (fhl Microfilm 0,033,649).
Written: March 31, 1674
Recorded: May 27, 1674

	Will of George Mott
	
	In the name of God. Amen. I, George Mott, of the Parish of 
Sittingbourne in the County of Rappahannock, being sick & weak of body, but in 
perfect sense & memory, blessed be to God, do make this my last will and 
testament in manner & form following. First, I commit my soul to Him that gave 
it to me and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of 
my surviving friends.
	
	And for my part of the divident of land on the north side of the 
Rappahannock River granted to my brother John Mott and I by patent dated at 
James City, the seventeenth day of October 1670, my will is that my well 
beloved wife Elizabeth Mott shall enjoy one-third part thereof during her 
natural life, and that the land be equally divided among my children, viz: 
Elizabeth, Margaret, Anne and Ellen. And if it should happen that my wife be 
with child at my death and the child lives, that it shall have an equal part 
with the rest. But if it be a son, my will is that if any one of my daughters 
aforesaid depart this life before she becomes of age or marries, then the son 
shall enjoy her part of the land, and in case more of my children dye, my will 
is that the survivors bee joynt heirs.
	
	Then as for my personal estate,my will is that my well beloved wife 
have any enjoy one third part thereof forever to be at her disposal, and the 
other two-thirds to be equally divided among the children to be delivered in 
kind as in respect of age and quality, either when they marry or come to the 
age of seventeen years. And whereas my brother and I have joyntly given to the 
children some certain sheep cattle, my desire is that they may be 
distinguished by a marke and that they with their increase bee by my wife 
improved to the children's best advantage.
	
	And I doo make and appoint my well beloved wife to be my sole 
executrix of this my Last Will and Testament. And I doe desire that my well 
beloved brother John Mott would bee assistant to her in management of the 
estate and for the performance thereof my desire is that an inventorie may bee 
taken of all the personal estate pertaining to my brother and I, and that noe 
division be made thereof, but that they would live together upon the 
plantation with the estate joyntly, as my brother and I have formerly have 
done, onely dividing the cropp yearly & each to have the disposal of their 
partat their own discretion. But if it should happen that any inconvenience 
should arise, that they shall see cause to divide the estate and live apart, 
that then my brother shall have half of the profitts of the orchard during his 
life. And I do further give liberty to my Executrix and my brother to sell one 
thousand acres of the divident of land abovesaid before the division thereof 
betwixt them, and to divide the produce thereof betwixt them equally, and the 
remainer of  the land to be eually divided betwixt my brother and my children.
	
	And whereas there was an instrument of writing betwixt my brother and 
I , under our hands & seals on purpose to destroy joynt tenancie betwixt us, 
bearing date the 10th of October 1671, wherein mention is made of certain 
parcells of land conveyed and to bee conveyed to several persons as allso 
2,000 acres of lamd sould & acknowledged in Court to Mr. William Thornton, 
therefore it is my will that if my Executrix or any of my children shall act 
or do anything to the contrary to the true intent & meaning of our several 
agreements with these parties, then the damages arising thereby shall bee made 
good out of their or any of their part of my estate.
	
	And I do likewise constitute and appoint my well beloved wife 
Elizabeth Mott to be my Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Mr. 
Solomon Martin and do desire that my said wife having the consent of my 
brother John Mott (if living) to dispose of the increase of the estate given 
to my children by the said Solomon Martin, as also of the estates abovesaid 
already in their possession to the use and benefit of my children & to no 
other purpose.
	
	And I do by this Will & Testament revoke all other wills and 
testaments. As witness and seal this last day of March 1674.
	George Mott(seal)
	Witnesses:
	James Harrison
	John Bowsier
	Henry (his mark) Hackery.


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