SILAS GILLISPIE WILL, 1795, HARRISON COUNTY, WV
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Harrison Co, WV, Will Book 1, Pages 75-76

Silas Galaspie
Last Will 1795

In the name of God Amen I Silas Gallespie of Harrison County and State of Virginia 
being Weak of Body but of Perfect Memory all praise to God Calling to mind the 
mortality of my Body and know it is appointed for all men to die do Make and put 
in order this My Last Will and testament.

Principally and first I [co]mmend My Soul to Almighty God that gave it [  ] hoping 
his acceptance of the same in Jesus the Lord Amen. My body I commend to the 
Earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the Discretion of my Executrix 
hereinafter mentioned [        ] My will is concerning the wordly Estat herewith 
it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life to dispose of it in the manner 
and form following [    ] first themy Just debts and funeral expence be paid 
Secondly I will and Bequeath to my loving wife Sarah Gallespie all my household 
and [movable] property [   ] farming utintials  Ex[cepted]for my Son Enos Gallespie 
I also will and Bequeath four Hundred acres of Land warranted and Entered Lying in 
the Narrows above John N[aneers] Adjoining his Land the Said Land being subject 
to the support of my widow during her Natural Life provided never the less that 
if my Brother Mark Gallaspie move his family from Jersy to these parts that he 
by contract of Mine with him is to have three Hundred Acres of Said Land for 
the same he is to pay to my widow the full sum of one Hundred fifty Dollars 
to be paid in Like Manner as they shall agree The one Hundred acres still to 
remain the property of my Son enos. My will is that twenty shillings be paid 
to my Daughter Mary Phillips son Andrew and twenty shilling to Sarah Greathouse 
Daughter of John Greathouse the same to be paid in property in the term of Six 
Months after my decease ------- Further my will is that My Son Richard Gallaspie 
keep the rifle Gun that he now has in possession which I Bought for him. My Will 
is that the red cow be given to be the property of my Daughter Anne Gillispie My 
Will is that my Son Enos Gillispie have the two young steers and the bull Last 
spring [      ] The other is Little Sally {there's nothing missing here, that's 
exactly the way it reads} And I do constitute and ordain my faithfull Loving 
wife Sarah Gallispie my whole and Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and 
Testament Revoking Disallowing and Making void all manner of Wills, Legacies 
and Bequeaths heretofore before this time Willed or Bequesthed by me Ratifying 
and Confirming this and none else to be my Last Will and Testament in Witness 
whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal the twent fifth Day of November in the 
Year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred Ninety & five 1795.

Signed Sealed and Published				
and Declared by 

Silas Gillispie			Silas      X  	Gillispie		(seal)
							mark

The testotor to be his last will and testament in the Presents {sic} of us 
who have hereunto set our names Witness to the same.

William Barkley
Stephen Powel
Gideon Rickey