Will of Holliday Fort - 1773 - Sussex Co.VA

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Will of Holliday Fort - 1773
(Will Book C, page 82, Sussex Co.VA.)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN the 25th day of August in the year of our Lord
Christ one thousand seven hundred & seventy I Holliday Fort of Sussex
County being sick & weak but of sound & disposing mind & memory thanks
be to almighty God for the same & calling to mind the certainty of
death & the uncertainty of this transitory life do make constitute &
ordain this my last Will & Testament in manner following that is to say
first & principally I recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God
who gave it me, hope & believe in my blessed redeemer Jesus Christ for
Salvation and as for my body I recommend it to the earth to be decently
buried at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named and as for my
worldly goods wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with I give &
dispose of in manner following.
IMPRIMIS I give & bequeath unto my Loving Wife Lucrecy Fort one feather
bed & furniture, which bed I now lie on, one grey horse Buck one side
saddle & bridle, three head of cattle, three ewes, one sow & piggs, six
pewter plates that are now in use two pewter dishes, one flat one the
smallest kind, and the other a deep dish six pewter spoons, one iron
pott & pott hooks the least of my potts five middle sized hoggs, twenty
five barrels of corn, and all her Dunghill & other fowls on my 
plantation one chest called her's a table made for her, a box iron &
heaters all which I give unto my said Wife in full consideration of her
right of dower, in my estate.
ITEM. I give unto my loving Son Elias Fort to be made out of my 
personal estate by my Executors hereafter named the sum of twenty five
pounds current money, ten pounds of which to be paid to Jones Cornett
who is to take the care & management of my said Son and is to bring him
up to the Taylors Business, and I also give & bequeath unto my said son
Elias Fort my tract or parcel of land which I bought of Frances 
Aldridge being one hundred Acres be the same more or less, Also an 
entry I made for fifty acres adjoining the said tract of land above
mentioned, all which said land I give unto my said Son Elias Fort his
heirs & assigns forever.
ITEM. My will & desire is that all the rest & residue of my personal
estate not heretofore given & by me bequeathed, be sold by my Executors
and the money arising by the said sale (after paying the legacy to my
son Elias Fort) be equally divided amongst my other children namely,
Robert, Flake, Florina, Faithy Franky, Phillis Lena & Mason, or the
survivers of them, or the legall representatives of them.
AND LASTLY, I do nominate & appoint my loving Son Fred. Fort & John 
Fort & Nathaniel Jackson & my Loving Friend David Mason Executors of
this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking & making null & void all
former wills & bequests by me heretofore made and allowing ratifying
& confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament, In witness
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal the day & year
first above written.

Holliday(hisXmark)Fort (Seal)

Signed, Sealed, published & declared by the Testator to be his last
Will & Testament in presence of-
David Mason
James Adams
Reuben(hisXmark)Smith


At a Court held for Sussex County the 18th day of November 1773.
The last Will & Testament of Holliday Fort deced. was presented into
Co'. by David Mason & Fred. Fort Executors therein named who made oath
thereto as the law directs, and the same was proved by the oath of
James Adams a witness thereto, and by the Co'. ordered to be recorded,
and on the motion of said Executors Certificate is granted them for
obtaining a probate thereof in due form.

Teste A. Claiborne CSC

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