Will of Thomas Williamson - 1782 - Sussex Co.VA

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Will of Thomas Williamson - 1782
(Will Book D, page 1, Sussex Co.VA.)

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I Thomas Williamson of Sussex County being 
sick and weake but of sound & perfect mind & memory Doe Make & ordain
this to be my Last Will and Testament, In manner & form as followeth,
First & principally I give my soul to God who gave it me in Humble 
hopes of a Joyful Resurrection, and my body to the ground to be Entered
in Christian Burial, and as Touching worldly goods where with it hath 
pleased Almighty God to Bless me, I bestow as followeth, First I desire
that my Debts & Funeral Expense be well & Truly paid.
ITEM: I leave all my whole Estate after paying my Debts etc. to my
Loveing Wife Mary During her life or Widowhood. But in case my said
Wife should be married I desire that two thirds of my said Estate 
should be taken from her, and sold at publick sale & the money arising
thereby to be Equally divided between my four childred namely John,
Valentine, Nancy, & Jeremiah, unless my said wife should now be with
child & if so I desire that, that child may have an equal proportion of
with my other childred, and the other third part of my said Estate I
desire my said wife may have the use of Dureing her natural life and at
her decease to be divid among my said children as aforesaid.
Lastly, I appoint my two friends Thomas Walpole & John Walpole -
Executors of this my Last Will & Testament Ratifieing & confirming this
and no other to be my said last Will & Testament in Witness where of I
have here unto set my hand and affixed my Seal this Nineteenth Day of
Aprill One Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Two.

Thomas Williamson (Seal)

Signed, sealed, published and Declared to be the Last Will & Testament
of the Testator In Presence off-
James Bell
Hartwell Seat X
John Rivers


At a Court held for Sussex County the 21st day of February 1782.
The last Will & Testament of Thomas Williamson dec'd was exhibited in
Court by Thomas Walpole one of the Executors therein named, proved by
the Oath of Hartwell Seat one of the Witnesses there to, who also
deposed that he saw the other subscribing Witnesses thereto James Bell
& John Rivers the first dead & the other absent, subscribe their names
thereto as Witnesses at the Testators Request & ordered to be recorded
& on the Motion of the said Executor who made Oath according to Law &
with Sylvanus Bell & John Judkins his Securities entered into &
acknowledged their Bond in the penalty of Five Thousand Pounds 
conditioned as the Law directs Certificate is granted him for obtaining
a probate thereof in due form.

Teste Jno. Cocke CC: Cur.


I, Gary M. Williams, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Sussex County, 
Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the
Will of Thomas Williamson, made from the original will, which is, as of
this writing, deposited in the archives of the Virginia State Library.
The record in Will Book D, Page 1, where said Will was recorded appears
to have been partially destroyed, and this copy is made and placed in
the book.
Given under my hand this 6th day of December, 1977.

Gary M. Williams Clerk

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