SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - John Whitehead, 8 Jul 1791
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IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I John Whitehead of Virginia & County of Southampton
being sick & weak in body but in perfect mind & memory and knowing it is
appointed for all to die do make and ordain this my last will & testament
as touching such worldly estate which it has pleased God to bless me with in 
this life, I give in the following manner & form:

I give to my loving wife Meriam Whitehead one negro woman called Sylvia, also
one horse & chair to her & heirs forever.  I lend my wife Meriam Whitehead
the plantation whereon I now dwell with all the land my grandfather bought of
William Powers and two hundred acres joining Arthur Whitehead called the Nigh
Piney woods and half the profits of the orchards my mother is now possesed
with after the death of my mother, and two negros called Peter and David,
one b..t (best?) feather bed & furniture, one half dozen cherry chairs, one pair
tables and buffet with all the furniture in it during her natural life.

In consideration of the maintenance and schooling of my children, I leave
to my loving wife the use of all the residue of my estate both real and 
personal during life in widowhood or untill my eldest son shall arive to
the age of twenty one years, two certain tracts of land which I shall direct
to be sold, excepted, and then I give all my other lands to be divided
amongst my sons Masimillan Whitehead, Lewis Augustus Whitehead, Jack
Anthony Whitehead, Archer Mead Whitehead, Adolphus Whitehead, Samuel
Murder Whitehead to be allotted & set apart to them by and at the discretion
of my Executors or any two to them & their heirs forever.

I leave my land in North Carolina, Gates County, which I purchased of
James Parke & Benjamin Harrel to be sold by my Executors and a lawful title
made the purchaser by a deed assigned by my Executors and the money arising
from such sale to be applyed to the payment of my just debts and if the
aforesaid land shoud (should) not be sufficient to pay my debts then my
will and desire is that such a part of my land lying in Southampton which
was granted my father by patent dated July one thousand seven hundred & 
seventy four may be sold as aforesaid that will be sufficient to pay all my
debts or if my Executors shoud think it best to sell all the aforesaid tract,
I hereby impower them so to do & to make a title to the same as aforesaid.

I give the land which I have lent to my wife during her natural life to be
equally divided amongst my sons as aforesaid to be alotted & set apart to
them by and at the discretion of my Executors aforesaid to them & their
heirs forever.

I give to all my children (viz) Masimillan, Lewis, Augustus, Jack,
Anthony, Archer Mead, Adolphus, Samuel Murder, Sally Miteldy Lucinday,
Harret Whitehead all that part of personal estate which I have left my 
wife during her natural life to be their property at the (death) of my 
said wife.  Also all that part of my personal estate left my wife during
life in widowhood or until my oldest son shall arrive to the age of 
twenty one years to be their property at the expiration of either of the
said terms to be allotted and set apart as aforesaid of two of my Executors
shoud be then living otherwise to be divided by any three who my three
eldest children shall chose to them and their heirs forever.

I do appoint my wife Meriam Whitehead, Robert Jordan Sr, Hansel Bailey
of Surry, John Maget & Samuel Maget of STon (Southampton?) County my hole
and sole Executrix and Executors to this my Last Will and Testament
revoking all other Wills by me before made.

IN WITNESS whereof I, the said John Whitehead, hath hereunto set my hand
and seal this 8 day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred ninety one.

                                                       John Whitehead (seal)
Sign'd, seal'd, publish'd
& declar'd in presence of:

Jacob Laurence
Samuel Maget

               At a Court held for the County of Southampton
                      the 8th day of December 1791 

This Will was presented in court by Meriam Whitehead, one of the Executors
therein named, prov'd by the oath of Jacob Laurence, one of the witnesses
thereto and continued for furthere proof, and on the motion of the said 
Executrix (time being given for the other) who made oath according to law,
Certificate is granted her for obtaining a Probat thereof in due form
giving security whereupon &c. 

And          At a Court held for the County of Southampton
                      the 10th day of October 1793

This was fully proved by the oath of Samuel Maget, another witness thereto
and ordered to be recorded.

                                             Sam Kello, Cl.
Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book 4, 1783-1797
Southampton Co, VA
Reel 17, pages 576-578

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


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