SURRY COUNTY, VA - WILLS AND ESTATES - Mary Bedingfield, 14 Jun 1800
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I, Mary Bedingfield of Surry County, being of sound mind and memory do make
and ordain this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following:
First, if provided I leave an heir or heirs and that (heir) should live to
arrive at the age of twenty one years, if a son or eighteen if a daughter, I
give to him or her which ever it may be my negro woman Patte and her child
Eliza with all my other estate of every kind to him or her as it may be and
his or her heirs forever.  

2nd, But if I leave no such heir or that (heir) should die under the age above
mentioned, I leave my negro woman Patte to be free, that no person under me
may claim any wright or property to her person or property that she may
hereafter acquire but that she may fully enjoy her freedom.  I also give her
five dollars cash to be raised out of my estate.  And provided she shall have
a child or children and I leave no heir that shall arive to the age or ages
above mentioned, then the child or children that she, the said Patte, may
hereafter have, I leave to be free at the usual age of people free born.

3rd, I leave my negro girl Eliza to Martha Atkinson, wife of Robert, untill
she arive to the age of eighteen years, provided I leave no such heir as above
mentioned and then under the same provisors I leave her the said Eliza to be
free, that no person under me may have any claim to her person or property but
that she may fully enjoy her freedom.

4th, Provided as above, I leave no heir to arive to the age above mentioned, I
give to my brother James Bedingfield one feather bed & furniture to him and
his heirs forever.

5th, Under the above proviso I give to my sister Jann? Bedingfield one cow to
her and her heirs forever.

Lastly, I nominate and appoint Robert Atkinson my whole and sole Executor of
this my Last Will and Testament.

IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourteenth day of
June 1800.
                                                      her
                                                 Mary  X  Bedingfield (seal)
                                                      mark 
Joshua Bailey
Suey Hart
Ann Hart

6th Under the same proviso recited within, I give all the residue of my
property to be equally divided between my brother James Bedingfield and Jann
Bedingfield which I give to them and their heirs forever.
                                                      her
                                                 Mary  X  Bedingfield (seal)
                                                      mark 
Signed, sealed in presence of:

Joshua Bailey
Lucy Hart
Ann Hart
                               Memorandum

If Martha Atkinson should not live until Eliza left to her, doth arive to 18
years, my desire is that her daughter, Ann Hart, should have her until she
comes of age.

               At a Court held for the County of Southampton
                      the 18th day of October 1802

This Will was proved by the oaths of Joshua Bailey, Lucy Hart and Ann Hart,
thre of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.  And on the motion
of Robert Atkinson, the Executor therein named who made oath according to law,
Probat is granted him on giving bond &c.
                                                   Samuel Kello, Cl. (clerk)
Source: Library of Virginia,
Will Book 5, 1797-1804
Southampton Co, VA
Reel 17, pages 354-355

Note: This Will is filed in Southampton Will Book 5, as I have listed,
however, the first line of the Will says Mary lived in Surry County. Spelling
was not corrected.Paragraphing and some punctuation were added by transcriber
for ease in reading. There are no paragraphs in the original.


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