SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY – WILL: SAMUEL LUCK, SR., 1787

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Will: Samuel Luck Sr, Spotsylvania Co, VA (1787)

IN THE NAME OF GOD amen I Samuel Luck Senior of Spotsylvania County being of 
sound mid and memory do make and ordain this my Will and Testament in form 
following:

IMPRIMIS: I recommend my spirit into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ & as to 
my body, I leave it to be entered in such Christian like manner as my Executors 
hereafter mentioned shall direct.

Item:  It is my will that all my just debts be paid & in order to make payment 
for the same I hereby empower my Executors to sell the tract of land I now live 
on which I purchased of Nicholas Payne, gentleman and sell other part of my 
estate as my Executors shall direct to pay all my just debts.

Item:  I lend unto my beloved wife Mary during her natural life my negro's 
Phibbis, Pompey, Jamey, Jenney, Dick, Gillilley.  Also the one half of the 
residue of my estate not hereafter particularly mentioned & at her decease to be 
divided in manner hereafter directed.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto my son Nathan Luck one negro man named Toney, 
one feather bed & all the stock I have heretofore lent him all which are in his
possession to him and his heirs forever.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto my son Samuel Luck one negro boy named Cupid, 
one feather bed & what stock I have heretofore lent him all which are in his 
possession also my writing desk to him and his heirs forever.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto my son George Luck one negro man named Jack, one
feather bed & what stock I have lent him all which he has in possession to him 
and his heirs forever.



Item: I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Sea one negro woman named
Easther & her increase also a feather bed & cow & calf, all in her possession to
her & her heirs forever.

Item: I lend unto my daughter Ann Wilson, one negro woman named Hanah during her
natural life which said slave is now in her possession & at her decease I give 
and bequeath the said negro with all her increase to be equally devided among 
all my said daughters children to them & their heirs forever.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto my said daughter Ann Wilson one feather bed, one
large iron pott and one cow and calf, all which are in her possession to her 
and her heirs forever.

Item: I lend unto my daughter Mary Sorrill one negro boy named Charles now in 
her possession during her natural life and at her decease I give and bequeath 
the said negro to be equally devided among all my said daughters children in 
case she has any but should she die without a child then my will is that the 
said negro should revert to my estate to be devided as hereafter directed.

Item: I lend unto my daughter Sarah Morris during her natural life my negro boy 
named Andrew & at her decease I give and bequeath the said negro to be equally 
devided among all my said daughters children to them and their heirs forever.

Item: I give unto my said daughter Sarah Morris the cover of a womans saddle, 
also the feather bed & stock which she has in possession to her & her heirs 
forever.

Item: I give & bequeath unto my daughter Betsey Dillard one negro boy named Ned 
and one feather bed & the stock which I lent her all which she has in 
possession, also at my wife's death I give unto my said daughter my riding chair 
& harness to her & her heirs forever.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my son in law John Hill, one feather bed which 
he has in possession to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my grandson Garland Hill one negro boy named 
York, one feather bed & furniture & two years schooling at the expence of my 
estate at the direction of my Executors to him and his heirs forever.

Item: I give unto my grandson George Phillips Luck one steel plate cross cut 
saw to him & his heirs forever.

Item: My will and desire is that all my estate not particularly herein mentioned 
should be devided among all my linviving children in the same manner as their 
parts before mentioned described, that is to say to those of my children that 
I lent their legacies during life & those to whom I gave forever should devide 
the residue in like man. (manner?)

Lastly, I constitute and appoint my sons Nathan, Samuel, & George Luck Executors 
of this my Last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 16th day of June 
1787.

                                                      Samuel Luck  (seal)
Interlined before signing
the word linviving.

Acknowledged in presence of:

Thomas Manor
John Waller
Benjamin Waller
William Rack

Source: Library of Virginia,
Wills Book E, 1772-1798,
Spotsylvania County, VA,
Reel 28, pages 874-875

Note: Spelling is as shown on original.  Paragraphing added by transcriber for 
ease in reading.  There are no paragraphs in the original.  The reference to
interlined after Luck's seal is part of the document and was not a comment
by me, the transcriber.


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Estate: Samuel Luck (Jr), et al, Spotsylvania Co, VA

RE WILL OF SAMUEL LUCK, (SR), DECEASED

KNOW all men by these presents that we Samuel Luck (Jr), John Woolfolk and 
Thomas Dillard are held & firmly bound to Joseph Brock, Edward Herndon, Thomas 
Colson, Nicholas Payne & James Lewis, gentlemen justices of the Court of 
Spotsylvania County now sitting, in the sum of two thousand pounds to the 
payment whereof will and truly to be made to the said justices and their 
successors, we bind ourselves and each of us, our & each of our heirs Executors 
and Administrators, jointly and severally firmly by these presents.  Sealed with 
our seals this second day of October in the year of our Lord 1787 & in the 12th 
year of the Commonwealth.

THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such that if the above bound Samuel 
Luck Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Samuel Luck, deceased do make or 
cause to be made a true & perfect inventory of all and singular the goods 
chattles and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands 
possession or knowledge of the said Samuel Luck or into the hands and possession 
of any other person or persons for him & the same so made do exhibit in the 
County Court of Spotsylvania at such time as he shall be thereunto required by 
the said Court and the same goods chattles & credits, and all other the goods 
chattles and credits of the said deceased which at any time after shall come to 
the hands possession or knowledge, of the said Samuel Luck (Jr) or into the 
hands possession of any other person or persons for him do well and truly 
administer according to law and further do make a just and true account of all 
his actings & doings therein, when thereto required by the said Court and also 
shall well and truly pay and deliver all the legacies contained and specified in 
the said Testaments as far as the said goods chattles & credits will thereunto 
extend & the law shall charge then this obligation be void and of none effect or 
else to remain in full force and virtue.

Sealed & delivered                                    Samuel Luck  (seal)
in the presence of:
                                                      John Woolfolk (seal)

                                                      Thomas Dillard (seal)

An Inventory and Appraisment of the Estate of Samuel Luck, Gentleman, Deceased:

To one negro woman named Phillis                                     £  5.00.0
To one negro man named Pompey                                          40.00.0
To one negro woman named Jenny and child Rachel                        60.00.0


To one negro boy named Squire                                          10.00.0
To one negro man named Samey                                           60.00.0
To one negro boy named Dick                                            40.00.0
To one negro boy named York                                            35.00.0
To one negro boy named Andrew                                          30.00.0
To one negro girl named Milley                                         25.00.0
To one negro boy named Peter                                           20.00.0
To 14 hogs £5, To 1 yoke of corn? £10                                  15.00.0
To 4 cows, 2 earlings pabell? (not yearlings)                          11.15.0
To 3 calves                                                             1.00.0
To 1 bay mare £8; To 1 mare & colt £8, 1 sorrell calf £8               24.00.0
To 9 head of sheep & bell                                               4.10.0
To 1 riding carriage & harness                                          5.00.0
To 6 cyder casks 20s; To 1 pair cart wheels body & youk 70s             4.10.0
To 1 grind stone6s, a parcel of old iron 25s                            1.06.6
To 5 axes, 2 adzes, 1 old saw, chain & other do iron                    1.10.6


To 1 rat trap 7/6, To 1 pot dutch oven, 1 pot hooks 12/6                1.10.6
To 2 spinning wheels 12/ 4 casks 12/                                    1.04.6
To 3 pots & 1 s? pot hook, 20/, 1 pr wedges 5/                          1.05.0
To 1 brass kettle 40s, To 1 loom 25s                                    3.05.0
To 2 tubs, pails, 1 frying pan @ 10s, To 4 bee hives 24s                1.14.0
To a quantity of fodder                                                 8.00.0
To 1 steel plate X-cut saw 30s; To swaiming pan & lantern 8s            2.07.0
To 4 sides leather, old barrells & other old lumber                     1.10.0
To 1 desk & 2 small trunks 24s, To 15 chairs 3s, 1 gun 36s              4.10.0
To 1 mans saddle & bridle 30s, 1 pair steelyards, Osword 20s            2.10.0
To 1 table & trunk 30s, To 1 chest & sundry slayys & harness 25s        2.15.0
To some casks baskets & other lumber                                       6.0
To 2 beds and 1 bed stead                                              10.00.0
To 2 pair cards 7s, To 4 pair hinges 8s, To 1 spice meter & other       1.01.6
To a parcel of books 12s, To sundry pewter medicines 2s                 1.00.0
To 1 box iron & heaters, a mug bowl slate & other things                  13.6


To 2 chests 15/, To 1 bed bedstead & furniture £5                       5.15.6
To 2 rugs 50s, To 1 bed & furniture 60s                                 5.10.6
To 1 looking glass brush & 5s, To 4 sheets 30s                          1.15.6
To 1 corker cupboard & a parcel of earthen ware 50s                     2.10.6
To 1 pail stand & 6s, To 3 jugs bottle & 10s                            2.16.6
To 1 table & trunk 15s, To 1 safe table @ 10s                           1.05.6
To 1 wine wive peck and pan 7/6                                         1.07.6
To a parcel of pewter a bedles pot @ 10s, 1 pr fire tongs 2s             .12.6
To 4 dishes and other pewter knives forks @ 30s                         1.10.6
To 1 1 no many vace of asedele? 15s a piece of wool 8s                  1.03.6
                                                                       _________
                                                                     £458.06.0

In obedience to an order of Spotsylvania County Court dated October the 2nd 
1787, we the subscribers being first duly qualified have appraised all the 
estate of Samuel Luck, gentleman deceased as was shown to us by Samuel Luck, his 
Executor as above appears given under our hands this 13th day of October 1787.

                                                     Thomas W. Tinas
                                                     Waller Lewis
                                                     Benjamin Waller
Source: Library of Virginia,
Wills Book E, 1772-1798,
Spotsylvania County, VA,
Reel 28, pages 876-880

Note: Spelling is as shown on original.  Paragraphing added by transcriber for 
ease in reading.  There are no paragraphs in the original. Numbers may not add 
properly due to my inability to read some of the numbers.