SUSSEX COUNTY, VA - WILLS - Anselm Gilliam, 18 Oct 1811
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[Please excuse any errors, the original (transcribed from microfilm at the 
Library of Va) is very faded and hard to read]


Sussex Co Will Bk G p 371
In the name of God  Amen I Anselm Gilliam of Sussex Co being of a sound and 
disposing mind and memory to make and ordain this my last will and testament 
in manner following: to wit Imprimeso: 
Item unto my beloved wife Sarah Gilliam during her life or widowhood a certain 
parsel of land to wit beginning at a pine tree on the road leading to Peters 
bridge from said pine tree south to a small branch from there to the spring 
band from there to the Little Swamp then up the said swamp to the road then 
down said road to the pine the beginning. Further leave my wife all of my 
personal estate of what kind or sort ever it may be found during her life or 
widowhood for the support and education of my son Matthew Gilliam. Lastly I 
nominate and appoint my wife Sarah Gilliam and William Peters Executors of 
this my last will and testament.
				October 18 eighteen hundred eleven

Signed, sealed, and witnessed in present of:

Drewry Gilliam					Anselm (X) Gilliam
Willie Magee

Item I give my son Carter Gilliam the said tract of land at the death of my 
wife Sarah Gilliam to him and his heirs forever with all my other land.

At a Court held for Sussex County the 7th day of November 1811.
The last will and testament of Anselm Gilliam was presented by the oaths of 
the two subscribing witnesses and ordered to be recorded and on the motion of 
the said Exec who ordered such and gave bond and security agreeably to law, 
certificate is granted him for obtaining probate in due from.
			J Bailey


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