SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - Robert Gilliam, 11 Mar 1787
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Robert Gilliam of Southampton County and state of
Virginia being in perfect health & of a disposing ming & memory but
remembering the mortality of my body & that it is appointed for all men once
to die, I do make this my last will & testament & with what worldly goods has
been pleased to endow me with I give & dispose of in manner as followeth.

Item: I give & beequeath to my son John Gilliam the land & plantation whereon
I now live to a certain dividing line with all the land contained therein to 
him his heirs & assigns forever.

Item:  I release to my daughter in law Penelope Gilliam one half the 
remaining part of my land (in) her natural life the other halfe I give to
& bequeath to my grandson John Gilliam, son of Joseph Gilliam, to be his at
the age of eighteen years with one half the profit of the orchard & at the
death of his mother, the whole of my land undisposed of viz. to the aforesaid
dividing line to him & his heirs and assigns forever.

I constitute and appoint my son John Gilliam and Jacob Turner my whole and
sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eleventh day
of March 1787.

                                                   Robert Gilliam (seal)
Jacob Barrett
    his
Exum X Everitt
    mark
    his
Nathan X Britt
    mark

               At a Court held for the County of Southampton
                      the 13th day of June 1793

This Will was presented in court by John Gilliam, one of the Executors
therein named (liberty being reserved for the other to quallify
hereafter) was proved by Jacob Barrett & Exum Everitt, two of the
witnesses thereto & ordered to be recorded.  And on the motion of the
Executors who made oath according to law, Certificate is granted him
for obtaining a Probat giving security whereupon &c &c.

                                                  S. Kello, Cl.
Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book 4, 1783-1797
Southampton Co, VA
Reel 17, page 561-562

Note: Paragraphing and some punctuation was added by transcriber
for ease in reading. There are no paragraphs in the original.


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