SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - Jeremiah Tyler, 4 Feb 1789
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Wills: Jeremiah Tyler, St. Lukes Parish, Southampton Co, VA (1789)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Jeremiah Tyler of  the Parish of St. Lukes
and County of Southampton being very sick of body tho of sound and 
perfect sense and memory do hereby make constitute and ordain this
my last will and testament in manner and form as follows, viz:

Imprimis: The land and plantation that I purchased of William
Jarrell which I have not got lawfull title to and if he should
asume to make a title when he arrives to the age of twenty one
years, I desire that what money I have advanced to him toward paying
of him for the said land may be received back into my estate and by
my Executors laid out in the purchasing of another tract of land
which is to be considered as part of my estate and for the use of
my loving wife Elizabeth Tyler and my children, viz: William Jarrell
Tyler, Martha Kinchen Tyler and the one my wife is now big with and
after the death of my wife Elizabeth Tyler the land to be equally
divided between my son William Jarrell Tyler and the one my wife
is big with provided it should be a son but if it should be a
daughter, for my son William to have the land forever.

Item: I desire that all my just debts may be paid out of my
estate and that my wife Elizabeth Tyler keep the remainder part
of any estate of whatsoever kind in her possession for her to make
use of as she may think proper for the maintenance of herself
and family untill my son William Jarrell Tyler shall arrive to
the age of twenty one years and then I desire that my whe? estate
the land credited may be equally divided between my wife Elizabeth 
Tyler and what children I shall then have living and on the death
of my wife Elizabeth Tyler I desire that her part may also be
divided equally between my surviving children but if it should so 
happen that my wife Elizabeth Tyler should enter marry before my
son William Jarrell Tyler should arrive to the age of twenty one
years that then my will is that my wife Elizabeth Tyler have one
third part of my estate during her natural life and the remainder 
part to be equally divided between my surviving children aforesaid.

I lastly constitute and appoint my wife Elizabeth Tyler Executrix and
my father Edmund Tyler Executor to this my Last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal 
this fourth day of February one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

                                                 Jeremiah Tyler (seal)
Signed, sealed, published and
declared in presence of:

John T. Blaw Junior
Robert Willins
William Blau

              At a Court held for the County of Southampton
                       the 10th day of December 1789

This Will was presented in Court by Elizabeth Tyler and Edmund
Tyler, the Executors therein named, proved by the oaths of
John T. Blau, Robert Willins and William Blau, witnesses thereto
and ordered to be recorded and on the motion of the said
Executor who made oath according to law, certificate is granted
them for obtaining a Probat thereof in due form giving security
whereupon &c.

Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book 4, 1783-1797
Southampton Co, VA
Reel 17, pages 345-346

Note: Spelling is as shown on original.  Paragraphing added by 
transcriber.for ease in reading and some punctuation.  There are 
no paragraphs in the document.


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