Upshur County WV Archives Wills.....Johns, Robert March 30, 1864
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Source: Calendar Of Wills In West Virginia, No. 49. Upshur County (buckhannon)
Written: March 30, 1864
Recorded: February 13, 1865

Prepared by The West Virginia Historical Records Survey
Division of Community Services Programs, Work Projects Administration
Charleston, West Virginia
The West Virginia Historical Records Survey, August 1941
(43)

JOHNS, ROBERT, Upshur County, Va. (sic), 30 May 1864; 13 Feb. 1865. 

Wife PALSY, dau. MARTHA, sons DOUGLAS, ROBERT, and DAVIS K., grandson, ROBERT
JOHNS. No ex. named. 

Testator desires pmt. of debts and funeral expenses; also pmt. of note given by
testator to John Brannon for land to be pd. equally by testator's sons;
bequeaths to son DOUGLAS JOHNS, "provided he lives and gets home to occupy it,"
a lot of land "beginning on the old salt work road between J. W. Wilson and
house of testator where the Newton line crosses the road thence with the same,
crossing the Fall run and up a left hand branch to the first drain on the south
side west of the lick and up the drain southward to the top of the ridge, to
include a spring in said drain, towards the west fork to a birch and white oak,
corner of land bought of Samuel Wilson to include all the land east of said line
bought of said Wilson and Newton heirs"; if sd. Douglas does not return
preceding legacy to son 
ROBERT JOHNS, also land bequeathed to son Davis K. Johns, if he does not return,
Robert to pay heirs of Douglas and Davis K., $10 each, also to ROBERT, remaining
land after deduction of bequests and dower right of testator's widow, also 1
horse after death of sd. widow; to son DAVIS K. JOHNS, "provided he get home to
occupy it" a tract of land "beginning at the old salt work road where my line
crosses the road west of the D. K. Johns house and with the road to testator's
meadow fence so as to include a part of a good spring on Sugar Camp hollow,
thence to the line of the land purchased of the Newton heirs and with the same
to where Douglas Johns line will cross thence with the same South to a beech and
W. 0. Corner"; to grandson ROBERT JOHNS, one white mare and colt; to dau. MARTHA
JOHNS, 4 sheep and 2 milch cows; to wife PALSY, remainder of personalty and
dower right in realty bequeathed to sd. Robert and upon her death realty to son
ROBERT. 

Teste., David Bennett, James P. Friel. 
Bk. A, pp. 70, 71.

Additional Comments:
ABBREVIATIONS
Bk.               Book 
dau(s).    daughter(s) 
ex(s).     executor(s) 
pd.               paid 
pmt(s).     payment(s) 
pp.              pages 
sd.               said 
teste.        testated 

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