SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY – WILL: ROBERT LEWIS, 1782 Contributed by: Von Mings Stachon ******************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ******************************************************************************** Will: Robert Lewis, Berkley Parish, Spotsylvania Co, VA (1782) IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Robert Lewis of the County of Spotsylvania and Parish of Berkley, being in perfect health and of sound disposing mind and memory do hereby make my last will and testament in manner and form following: I recommend my soul to God who gave it trusting that thru the mediation or merits of my blessed redeemer, I may inherit eternal life, my body to such decent burial as my Executors hereafter named may judge proper and as for such worldly estate as it may have pleased God to bless me with, I dispose thereof as follows: I give to my beloved and only son Robert Lewis and to his heirs and assigns forever my whole estate both real and personal provided nevertheless that altho I fully intend him an absolute unconditional estate in fee simple, in case he should arrive to the age of twenty one years when he may as will by law as his own prudence dispose thereof at his free will and pleasure yet it is not my intent that my said son should have so ample and interest in my property unless he should arrive to the age of twenety one years, I hereby fully explain and declare my will to be that if my said son should depart this life under the age of twenty one years and without leaving lawfull issue, that shall arrive to that age that on either of the said contingencies happening that my whole estate, real and personal, shall be equally devided amongst all my brothers and sisters or the legal representatives of such of my brothers and sisters as may happen to die. In the mean time, that is to say, that in case of the death of a brother or sister, before the aforenamed contingency should happen, that the whole of the issue of the said brother or sister is dying shall only take as much of my estate as such brother or sister or a fair and equal reversion with the rest of my brothers and sisters would have taken in case their death or deaths had not happened. I appoint my uncle Zachary Lewis my beloved brother John Zachary Lewis and my friend Thomas Towles, gentleman, my Executors to this my Last Will and Testament. Sealed with my seal and dated and published this thirteenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty two.                                                         Robert Lewis (seal) Signed, sealed, published and declared in presence of: O. C. Towles John Westforth? Source: Library of Virginia, Spotsylvania Co, VA Will Book E 1772-1798 Reel 28, pages 505-506 Note: Spelling errors have not been corrected.  Some punctuation and paragraphing have been added for ease in reading.  There are no paragraphs in the original.