YORK COUNTY, VA - WILLS - Lucy Powell, 17 May 1784
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Source: York County, Virginia,  Deed Book  23, Pages 351 -  352
Written: May 17 1784
Recorded: July 19 1784


York County, Virginia,  Deed Book  23, Pages 351 -  352
Transcribed by Mary Jean Medlock Zimmerman

	IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN ~ I  LUCY POWELL of York County being very 
sick but of perfect mind and memory do make this my Last Will and Testament 
that is to say~
First, I give my soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it me and my 
Body I recommend to the Earth, to be buried according to Christian Burial and 
my worldly estate which it hath pleased Almighty God whose great Goodness to 
give unto me in the World, I give and dispose of in Manner and form following~
	Item: I give and bequeath unto my Grand daughter LUCY ROBERTS one 
Negro woman named Suckey, one Negro girl named Sall to her and her heirs 
forever~
	Item: My will and desire is  that my Negroes Isam, Easter, Billy, and 
little Isam to be equally divided between my Grand daughters FRANCES ROBERTS, 
ELIZABETH ROBERTS, NANCY ROBERTS AND MARY ROBERTS when the first comes of age 
or married, if either of them should die before they come of age or married, 
to be equally divided among the survivors~ I give them to them and their Heirs 
forever and I do hereby constitute and appoint my SON, WILLIAM MOSS and  
BENJAMIN POWELL, my whole and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament.
	In Witness whereof I hereby set my hand and seal this seventh day of 
May 1784.
~Signed Sealed and Published              	LUCY POWELL<Seal>
  in Presence of } 
 HARWOOD BURT, SR., HARWOOD BURT, JR., GERARD ROBERTS

	At a Court held for York County the 19th day of July 1784~ This will 
was proved by the oaths of Harwood Burt Sr, Harwood Burt Jr and Gerard 
Roberts.  Witness thereto sworn to by WILLIAM MOSS one of the Executors 
therein named and ordered to be recorded and certificate for obtaining a 
Probate thereof in due form was granted to the executor, he having given Bond 
with Harwood BURT and Allen CHAPMAN his securities in the Penalty of Fifteen 
Hundred Pounds conditioned as the Law directs.  Liberty being reserved to 
BENJAMIN POWELL the other executor named in the said will, to join in the 
Probate when he shall think fit.  Teste:  R. Waller, DCYC


Additional Comments:
Surnames: Powell, Roberts, Burt, Chapman, Waller


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