SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY – WILL: JOHN HOWERTON, 1791

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Will: John Howerton, Spotsylvania Co, VA (1791)

IN THE NAME OF GOD, amen I John Howerton of the County of Spotsylvania being 
sick and weak in body but of sound and perfect memory, thanks be to God for the 
same, and knowing the uncertainty of this earthly life do make and declare this 
my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following, viz: Revoking and 
making void all Will or Wills by me formerly made.

First, I recommend my soul to almighty God in whom and by the merits of Jesus
Christ I trust and believe to be saved and my body to be buried in such decent
and christian like manner as my Executors hereafter named may think fit and as
for my temperal estate and whatever else God hath been pleased to bestow upon 
me I give and bequeath as follows:

Imprimis: I give and bequeath to my gran daughter Frances Car sixty acres of 
land be the same, more or less, beginning at a corner black oak in William 
Gaineses line on his spring branch thence down the said branch to the fork 
thence to Cager Coxes line thence along Coxes line to Lewises Pineres line 
thence along Pineres line to Jacob Wades line thence along Wadeses line to 
Graneces line thence along Graneces line to the beginning, likewise all my 
household stuff and also one cow and calf.

                                                              his
                                                         John  X Howerton
David Partlow                                                 mark
Samuel Partlow
Samuel Partlow Jr.                                     April the 27th 1791


Source: Library of Virginia,
Wills Book E, 1772-1798,
Spotsylvania County, VA,
Reel 28, page 1171

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