SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - Joseph Powell, 25 Sep 1800
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Will: Joseph Powell, St.Luke Parish, Southampton Co, VA (1800)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Joseph Powell of Southampton County and Parish of
St. Lukes, being weak in body but of sound sense and memory and knowing that
it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and publish this my last will
and testament this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred.

Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Martha Powel one feather bed &
furniture, one black walnut table, one gray mare called Tan, six head of
cattle, one chest, one woman's saddle, one pewter dish, one do bason &c, six
do plates, also one large iron pott, to her & her heirs forever.

Item: I give & bequeath to my daughter, Ann Deloach, one bay horse called Jack
(or if I should sell the said horse), I give the sum I get for the said horse
to my said daughter Ann Deloach, also one cow & calf, to her & her heirs
forever.

Item: I give & bequeath to my son James Powell all the land that I am
possessed of, with this exception, that my daughters have the privilege of
liveing on & enjoying the houses on one (of) the two plantations I now possess
just as they & my son James Powell may agree on (until my daughter Sally
Powell shall arive to the years of twenty one), also three head of cattle &
one gun to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give and bequeath to my son Nathan Powell the sum of fifty pounds
Virginia currency which is now in the hands of my son James Powell, also one
sorrell mare called Lightfoot, one feather bed & furniture & one cow & calf to
him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give & bequeath to my daughter Lucy Powell & Sally Powell all the
residue of my estate of what nature or kind soever to be equally divided
between them (Lucy & Sally Powell) to them & their heirs forever.

Item: My further will and desire is that the negroes not free at my decease,
to be hired but untill they are free and the money arising to be equally
divided amongst my sons James Powell & Nathan Powell & my daughters Martha
Powell & Ann Deloach to them & their heirs forever.

Lastly, I constitute and appoint my son James Powell Executor to this my Last
Will & Testament.
                                                       Joseph Powell (seal)
Signed & published in presence of:

Edward Fisher
Jacob Porter
Drewry Powell

               At a Court held for the County of Southampton
                      the 20th day of July 1801

This Will was proved by the oaths of Drewry Powell & Jacob Porter, two of the
witnessses thereto & ordered to be recorded.  And on the motion of James
Powell, the Executor therein named, who made oath according to law, Probat is
granted him in due form giving security, Whereupon &c.
                                                    Samuel Kello, Cl. (clerk)

Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book 5, 1797-1804
Southampton Co, VA
Reel 17, page 278

Note: Spelling was not corrected.Paragraphing and some punctuation were added
by transcriber for ease in reading. There are no paragraphs in the original.


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