Submitted by Raymond C. Beaty, Ph.D.
Director, Beatty Project 2000



LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN BEATIE

In the name of God, AMEN.  I, John Beatie of Washington County, Virginia,
being at present though weak of body yet of perfect mind and memory and
calling to mind the unvertainty of this life and that it is appointed for all men
once to die and after death to come to judgment do make and ordain this my
last Will and Testament in the manner and form following first and principally
I recommend my Soul to Almighty God who gave it and my body the  the earth
from whence it was taken to be buried in a Christian like manner at the discretion
of my Executors hereafter mentioned and as for such worldly things as it has pleased
 God to bless me with in this life I give and bequeath as follows viz Imprimus

I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Elenor One hundred pounds in
cash to be paid her six months after my decease together with her choice
of one of my horses or mares her saddle and bridle all her wearing apparel two
feather beds with their furniture all the linen that is in my house her choice of
two cows of my stock and as much of my shelf and kitchen furniture as she
shall choose forever.  I will also that she shall hold my dwelling house during
her natural liife and she shall be found sufficiency of bread and meat for
herself and said negro together with sufficiency of wood cut hawled and her
fires put on in a commodius manner with sufficiency of flax seed sewed for her
each year to be done by my son William out of the benefits of the estate I
now live on during her natural life together with my large bible.

Item I give and bequeath to my son William all that Tract of Land I now live
on with its appurtenances together will all my farming utensils my two negro
men Peter and Joshua all my work horses except my wife shall choose one
of them together with the residue of my household and kitchen furniture to
him and his heirs and assigns forever.

Item I will that tract of wood land lying and being in said  County adjoining
lands of Jonas Smith and Francis Beatiie it being part of the original Tract
I now live on together with a smaller tract adjoining the latter and lands of
James Kincannon may be sold to the best advantage of my Executers to help
to discharge the legacies herein given and bequeathed.

Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Agnes Dysart fifty pounts to her only
use and behoof forever.

Item I give and bequeath to my two granddaughters Ellenor and Martha
Gilmore six pounds ten shillings each to purchase them saddles and bridles
in two years after my decease.

Item I give and bequeath to my son David twenty pounds.  Also I give and
bequeath to my son in law David Sawyers the sum of twenty pounds.  I will
also that my wearing apparel may be equally dividied between my two sons
David and William and that all my grain hay and my stock of hogs that may be
in my possession at my decease shall be and remain to the only use and
behoof of my said son William and further my Will is that after all my just
debts funeral charges and legacies are fully paid and satisfied the overplus
whatever it may be may be divided among all my children namely my two
sons Daviid and William and my four sons in law David Sawyers, James
Logan, James Dysart and Matthew Ryburn who shall be all equal shares
in said overplus only my son Williams share shall be only one half as
much as any of ther others share.

And lastly I do make constitute and ordain and appoint my two Sons in Law
James Dysart and Matthew Ryburn Executors to this my last Will and
Testament revoking and making void all former Wills by me made
certifying this and this only as my last Will and Testament and those my
Executors as witness my hand and seal this eighteenth day of August
one thousand seven hundred and ninety.

Signed sealed and published by the)               John Beaty       L.S.
Testator as his last Will and             )
Testament in the prences of us        )

Francis Beatty
John Stuart
James Duffy

As a Court held for Washington  County the 14th day of September 1790.
The last Will and Testament of John Beatie decd was proved in Court by
the oath of Francis Beatie John Stuart and James Duffey subscribing
witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded.

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