Greenbrier County, West Virginia - Will of James WATTS - 1810

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Greenbrier County, West Virginia - Will of James WATTS - 1810


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Greenbrier Co. (W.Va.)
Will Book 1 p. 269 and 270
James WATTS will

In the name of God amen. I James Watts of Greenbrier County and State of
Virginia do hereby make my last Will and Testament in manner and form
following that is to say 1st I desire that ll my just debts be paid 2nd 
ly I give to my well beloved wife Mary all the plantation that I now live 
on  3rdly except eight acres that I give and bequeath to my son James to 
be to him and his heirs forever the boundryes of the said eighty acres 
being well known during her widowhood to soport herself and he  Children 
and also to my said Wife I give for the same purpose all my household 
and Kitchen furniture together with all my Plantations Utentials and all 
my horses, cattle, hogs and sheep except such as I shall otherwise direct 
hereafter and with the following conditions that is to say my said Wife 
shall give to each of my single Daughters a horse saddle and Bridle of a 
midling quality two Cows and one good bed and furniture when they Mary or 
go to themselves, 4ly I give to my son John one horse his Claim and one 
year old Steer and one year old heifer also his claim, 5thly I give to 
my son Selethial Weeks one horse one cow and two yearling steers known 
to be his Claim and to my siad two sons John and Selethel Weeks I give 
and bequeath the Plantation I now live on containing two hundred acres 
after my son James gets his eighty acres to be equal between them and 
to be to them and their heirs forever  -
and lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my two sons John and 
Selethiel Weeks Exctors of this my last will and Testament hereby revoking 
all other Wills heretofore made by me. 
     In Witness I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelth day of 
Noveb one thousand eight hundred and ten (1810). 

James Watts 


Test Aaron Burr, Andw Luaington or Caraington? Carrington? , Wm. Renick

p. 270 At Greenbrier December Court 1810 

This last will and Testament of James Watts decd. was presented in Court 
and proved by the oath of the Witnesses thereto and the same is ordered to 
be recorded and there upon John Watts and Selethiel Watts Executors therein 
named took upon themselves the .... of the Execution of said Will and 
thereupon they took the oath required by law and entered into bond with 
David WATTS and William WILLIAMS their Security in the penalty of one 
thousand dollars conditional as the law directs and a certificate of 
Pa-tat is granted them in the usual form 

Teste Lewis Skeaet (?) C. G.C.(Clerk Greenbriar Ct.)

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