SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - Jacob Joiner, 20 Sep 1799 --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- I, Jacob Joiner, the younger, of Southampton County being sick and weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory knowing the uncertainty of this transitory life do think proper to make this my last will and testament in manner and form following, to wit: First, I leave to my dear and loveing wife Martha Joiner for and during her natural life or widowhood for the purpose and upon the special condition that she shall maintain and educate our children agreeable to their rank and station in life, the use, profits emoluments of all my estate, real, personal or mixt in possession, remainder or reversion and after her marriage in case that should ever hereafter be, it is my will and desire that she shall have a legal dower in all my estate then remaining except the lands which I have herein devised to my son Charles. Secondly, I give devise and bequeath to my son Jacob Joiner after the death or marriage of my wife her right of dower if any therein only except the plantation lands I purchased of Doctr. Thomas Peete bounded & described as by the said Peets deed to me & a line which divides it from the first surveyed to Jesse W. Moore is expressed to him and to his heirs and assigns forever. Thirdly, I give devise and bequeath unto my son Charles Joiner after the death or marriage of my wife, the plantation and all the land that were devised to me by my uncle Bridgman Joiner, to him and to his heirs and assigns forever. Fourthly, I give devise and bequeath to my son William Joiner after the death or marriage of my wife, her dower therein only excepted, the plantation and lands whereon I now live containing all the land devised to me by my father's will and the lands I purchased of Silas Love, to him and to his heirs and assigns forever. Fifthly, I give and bequeath to my daughters Polly, Sally & Martha Joiner the sum of five pounds each and should the child my wife now goes with be a daughter, I give and bequeath to her as also to my other daughters the same sum of five pounds each to them and their heirs. Sixthly, If the child my wife now goes with should prove to be a son, I give and bequeath to him the sum of sixty pounds and the like sum to any son I may hereafter have to be paid immediately after the marriage or death of my wife, to them or to their heirs or assigns. Seventhly, I hereby nominate constitute and appoint my loving wife Martha Joiner & my brother Jordan Joiner my hole and sole Executrix & Executor to this my last will & testament hereby revoking and disannulling all other Wills by me heretofore made hereby ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will & Testament. IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand sand seal this twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine. Jacob Joiner (seal) Published & declared by the said Jacob Joiner to be his Last Will & Testament in presents of us: Samuel Stade her Peggy X Powers mark Martha X Vutching? mark Dinson At a Court held for the County of Southampton the 20th day of January 1800 This Will was prov'd by the oaths of Samuel Slader & Peggy Powers, two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of the said Executors who made oath according to law, a Certificate is granted them for obtaining a Probat thereof in due form giving bond &c whereupon &c. Samuel Kello, Cl. (clerk) Source: Library of Virginia, Will Book 5, 1797-1804 Southampton Co, VA Reel 17, page 165 Note: Spelling was not corrected.Paragraphing and some punctuation was added by transcriber for ease in reading. There are no paragraphs in the original. ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Von Mings Stachon vonstac@comcast.net ___________________________________________________________________