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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ******************************************************************************** Will: Mann Page, Mannsfield, Spotsylvania Co, VA (1780) IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Mann Page of Mannsfield in the County of Spotsylvania do make this my last will and testament in manner following: First, I give and devise to my dear wife Ann Corbin Page half the profits of the plantation in Spotsylvania in where I live during life I give to my dear wife two hundred pounds per annum over and above what the law allows.  I give unto my dear wife the houses in which I live and the servants belonging to it during life & her table to be found? I likewise give her the coach chariot & horses during life and then the coach and horses to go to my son Mann & the chariot to my son Robert. I give to my dear son John all my lan? as in Glaster? with the negroes & stocks to him and his heirs forever. I give to my son my part of the Dismal in ______(blank underline) County with the negroes & stock forever, to him and his heirs forever. I likewise give to my son John my tract of land known by the name of Frying Pan or copper mine in County _____(blank) in the northern neck now in the possession of the Hon. Robert Carter Esq. of Nomony, to him & his heirs forever. I give to my dear son Mann all my lands in Spotsylvania with the negroes and stocks to him and his heirs forever, excepting eight lotts in Fredericksburg which I purchased of Csto.? Fielding Lewis, which eight lots I give to my dear son, given to him and his heirs forever.  I also give to my son Mann all my lands in the northern ___? known by the name of Bull Run with the negroes and stocks to him and his heirs forever. I give to my dear son Robert Carter Page all my lands in Hanover & King William with the negroes and stocks to him and his heirs forever, excepting the lots laid off for a town which said lots I desire may be sold to pay my just debts & legacies. I give to my dear son Matthew is one square in the town which I desire his? Rot?? brother Robert may day of death in the plot? for him, I give to my son Robert my gold watch, as it hath pleased God to deprive me of my daughter Juddith Burwell, I give to the Executors of dower? Bruwell five hundred & seventy pounds current money to make up her fortune & fifteen hundred pounds to be devided between his two daughters Judith & Alice & having? paid Mr. Burwell eight hundred pounds on his marriage & about five or six years past one hundred barrells of corn and a negro man Jack, value one hundred thirty pounds & I emagine there are some articles still to be carried to my credits.  I give to my daughter Elizabeth three negro girls, she shall chuse out of my estate one of 12, one of 18 & the others I give to my daughter Lucy Baylor after the death of my wife or Hannah that wates on her and any two girls she shall chuse out of 19 the other of half as I have not been clear enough in a former Will as to the negroes she shall have during life it is my will and intention she shall have those hereafter mentioned: Polley & any three of her grown children their giving Anger being only and expence cook Frank & Gregory, Jonny & Bob in the garden Gorden Wall Murria Sangers girl & Sarah, Mary Ann & her two daughters, Tillie, Beck & Frank (Lucy's two girls) Molley, Hannah, Jack, Harry, Tom, Matt. I also give to my dear wife the boy Billey in the house to dispose of as she shall think proper.  I give to my son Gwyn? Page any boy he shall chuse. I give to my son Matthew Page any boy he shall chuse whereas I have given all the furniture in the house after the death of my wife to my son Mann and have made no provision for my son Robert, it is my desire that the furniture & the servants, particularly belonging to the house be equally devided between them and that my son Mann have his first choice, my son Robert being accountable? for what he has had already. As to the servants that are to be devided between my two sons Mann & Robert Jettian? those particularly who wate in the house, the kitchen & lundary.  If it should please God to deprive Gwyn or Matthew of life before they arrive at age then the whole money at whatever the Executors may chuse to convert it into may go to the survivor.  I desire two hundred pounds may be p'the free? school of Abbingdone? is my mother's gift all my stock in trade I give to my two youngest sons.  I desire no legacies in interest may be demanded for the legacies Ioft? bal? that my Executors pay them off as so in as money can be raised by selling what is directed? to be sold I desire my estate may not be appraised. I do hereby constitute & appoint my three sons John, Mann, Robert and my dear son-in-law Benjamin Harrison Esq. Guardians & Executors of my two sons Gwyn & Matthew Page till they severally attain to the age of twenty one years. IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventh day of November in the year of our Lord God one thousand seven hundred & eighty.                                                         Mann Page (seal) Source: Library of Virginia, Spotsylvania Co, VA Will Book E 1772-1798 Reel 28, pages 387-389 Notes: Spelling errors have not been corrected.  Some punctuation and paragraphing have been added for ease in reading.  There are no paragraphs in the original. Difficult to read - apologies for not making sense out of some of the sentences. ***************************** Estate: Mann Page, Spotsylvania Co, VA (1781)   (partial) KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that we, Mann Page, Charles Mortimer & Harry Bartlett are held and firmly bound unto Bert Winston, William Smith, Edward Herndon & George Stubblefield, gentlemen justices of the Court of Spotsylvania County now sitting, in the sum of two million of current money of Virginia to the payment, will and truly to be made to the said justices and their successors, we bind ourselves and each of us, our and each of our heirs, Executors and Administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.  Sealed with our seals and dated this 19th day of April one thousand seven hundred & eighty one. THE CONDITION of the above obligation is that if the above named Mann Page, Esq. Executor of this Last Will and Testament of Mann Page, deceased, do make or cause to be .....                                                         (end of page) Source: Library of Virginia, Spotsylvania Co, VA Will Book E 1772-1798 Reel 28, page: 389 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. This portion of the document appeared just below the Will of Mann Page.