Will of James Boggs, Greenbrier County West Virginia

SUBJECT: Will of James Boggs
SUBMITTER: Stephanie Lee
EMAIL: 4bluesky@gate.net
DATE: Aug 11, 1999
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SURNAMES: Boggs
Will of James Boggs

In the name of God Amen. I James Boggs of the county of Greenbrier & State
of Virginia being of Sound mind & disposing memory (for which I thank God.)
of caling to mind the uncertainty of human life & being desirous to dispose
of all such worldly estate as it haths pleased God to bless with. I give
& bequeath the same in manner as following that is to say...

1st item To my well beloved Wife Margret, I give & bequeath the Mill I
now occupie. With sufficent timber to keep her in order during her natural
Life. I also leave to my said wife three cows & calves to gether with all
my house hold & kitchen furniture a sufficent garden with one third part
of
all the fruit that may grow on my ___ head Also my old grey Horse all the
above cattle, horse & house hold & kitchen furniture to be at her own Disposal.
I also leave her the equal of one Hundred & twenty Dollars that is in the
hands of George Reader but if it apears to my Executors that she
need the said one Hundred & twenty Dollars in that case I leave it to her
forever but if that sum should be in her hand at her Death I leave the
same to My grand son James Boggs & my son Alexander. I also reserve as
much of my Meadow as will keep her three cows & calves but she is not keeping
more than _____ head any ______. I also leave to my said Wife four head
of sheep...

2nd item to my son Alexander Boggs I bequeath the plantation & mill I now
live on to be to him & his heirs forever with the reservation of the mill
___ to his mother as is mentioned in the first item of this instrument..

3rd item Any other property that I may be in possion of I allow to be sold
by my executors & my just debts & several expenses paid & this I do declare
to be my Last Will & testament hereby revoking all other or former will
or testaments by me before made & for the due execution of the same I do
hereby appoint my trusty friends William Rennic_ & my son Ezekiel Boggs
executors of this my last will & testament. In witness where of I have
hereun to set my hand & seal this sixth day of July one thousand eight
hundred &
three. Witness present

Peter Burr
Andrew Boggs James Bogg (Seal)
William Rennic_

At Greenbrier February Court 1806

This last Will & testament of James Boggs dec'd. Was
by the oaths of Wm Rennich & Peter Burr Witnesses thereto
and ordered to be recorded & on the motion of Ezekiel Boggs one of the
executors there in named (William Rennic_ The other executor refuses to
take upon himself the burdhen of the administration) & there upon the Ezekial
Boggs made oath thereto and together with Joseph Hannah & James Bowen his
securities entered in to & acknowledged thier Bond in the penalty of six
hundred dollars Conditioned as the law directs Certificate is granted him
for obtaining a probate there of in due form.

				 John Stuart




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