JOHN NUTTER WILL, 1808, HARRISON COUNTY, WV
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John Nutter Will
1808 Harrison County (W)Va

I John Nutter of Harrison County and State of Virginia do hereby make this my last
will and testament in manner and form following that is to say first of all I desire 
that all of my Just debts and funeral Expences be paid. Secondly after the payment of my 
debts and funeral Expences I give to my wife Esther Nutter the plantation I now live 
on to gatther with all my personal Estate for and during the term of her natural 
life and after her decease I give the same to my Children herein after mentioned 
and to be Enjoyed by them for Ever. Thirdly I give to my Son Christopher Nutter three 
hundred acres of my four hundred acres tract of land laying on Coon Creek of the 
lower end of that survey only what the aid Christopher has paid me for.  That land 
shall stand good to my Estate but the land I give to him and his heirs for ever. 
Fourthly I give to Sarah Glaspy my daughter one hundred acres of land 
[about 5 words indecipherable] I now live and the upper end ajoining John Webb 
to her and her heirs forever. Fifthly at the decease of my wife Esther Nutter I 
give to my son John Nutter the Remaining part of the tract of land I now live on 
to gatther with all my movable Estate not hereafter other ways directed to him and 
his heirs for ever. The said John Nutter shall pay [ten] pounds to Esther [Unsel] 
when she comes of age. Sixthly I give to Esther [Unsel] an orphan girl who now lives 
with me the Remaining fifty acres of the four hundred acres tract on Coon Creek and at 
the decease of my wife I give to Said Esther Unsel my wife's bed and bedding to gatther 
with all her wearing Clothes to her and her heirs for ever --- and lastly I do hereby 
Constitute and appoint my friend Benjamin Webb Executor of this my last will and testament 
hereby revokeing all other or former wills of testaments by me heretofore made in witness 
whereof  I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty eighth of April in 
the year of our lord one thousand Eight hundred and Eight.

Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of us

Moses Starr						

John Webb					John	X	Nutter		(seal)
Edward Goodwin						
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