Westmoreland County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Wills.....Blundall, Thomas October 8, 1731 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tosca Simms tkwhsimms@hovac.com February 7, 2009, 9:39 pm Source: Westmoreland Co Will Book 8 Pp 188-189 Written: October 8, 1731 Recorded: October 25, 1732 In the name of God Amen I Thomas Blundall of the County of Westmoreland and parrish of Copeley this 8 day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1731 being sick and weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks begiven unto God therefore calling into mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing it is appointed for all Men once to Die. Doo make and Ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say, principally and first of all I Give and recommend my souls into the hands of God that gave it and my Body to the Earth to be buried in a decent Christian burial according to the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named nothing doubting but I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God And in touching Such world Estate whoever that hath pleased God to bless me. I Give Demise and Dispose in the following manner and form. IMPRIMUS I Give and bequeath unto my Daughter Susana Hollowday that plantation whereon she now Liveth with fifty one acres of Land joyning to the plantation during her Life and after her Decease I Give and bequeath the said fifty one acres of Land with the plantation to my Son Thomas Blundall to him and his heirs forever. ITEM I Give and bequeath unto my son Absalom Blundall one Malatoo Man named Dick to him and his heir forever. ITEM I Give and bequeath unto my Son William Blundall one Negro Woman named Moll to him and his heirs forever. ITEM I Give and bequeath unto my Son Thomas Blundall one Negro Girl named Bess to him and his heirs forever. ITEM I Give and bequeath unto my son Garner Blundall one Negro Girl named Lettess to him and his heirs forever. ITEM I Give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Mekenne the first Child my Son Garner’s Negro Girls lettess shall bear to her and her heirs forever. ITEM I Give and bequeath to my Daughter Jane Blundall one Negro boys named Limas to her and her heirs forever and one trunk. ITEM The rest of my moveable Estate I Give to be Equally Divided among all my Children. ITEM I leave my Son William and my Son Thomas and my Son Garner and their Estates under the Care of my Son in Law William Mekenne till they Come to the age of fifteen and then to receive their Estates themselves. ITEM I leave my Son Absalom and his Estate under the Care of my Son in Law Richard Hollowday till he comes to the age of fifteen and then to receive his Estate himself. ITEM I do Constitute make and Ordain my Son-in-law William Mekenne and my Son- in-law Richard Hollowday Executors of this last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this the day and Year above written. Thomas (his mark) Blundall Teste: James Hardwich William (his mark) Hollowday Wetmorl’d ss/ At a Court held for West’d County the 25th Day of October 1732 – This Last Will and Testament of Thomas Blundall dec’d was presented to Court by William Mckenne jun & Richard Hollowday the Executors therein named who made Oaths thereto and being proved by the Oath of James Hardwich one of the witnesses thereto is admitted to Record. Test- Recorded the Seventh Day of November 1732. Per GT,CCW G.Turberville, CCW Additional Comments: Thomas Blundall's son William dies in 1736 in Westmoreland Co. He leaves his estate including his negro slave Mol (sic) and her increase to Richard and Susanna Holliday, even though he had been left in the care of Elizabeth and George McKenne. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/westmoreland/wills/blundall433gwl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb