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The Virginia Genealogist Volume 4, 1960 [John Frederick Dorman]
1713-1734 Middlesex County, Virginia Will Book, [Virginia Genealogist-John Frederick Dorman]; Pages 263-65.
Will of Thorns. Smith of the County of Middlesex in the parish of Christ Church, being sick and weak of body, dated 9 March 1722/3.
All my dividend of land whereon I now live to my dear and loving wife Ann Smith during her natural life and after her decease to my son Gregory Smith.
All my dividend of land in Essex County to my 2 sons Gregory Smith and Thomas Smith to be divided by a branch between the old plantation and the plantation where John Billips lived, the upper part of the said land to my son Gregory Smith and for want of heirs to my son Anthony Smith.
If John Smith the son of my loving sister Francis Smith dyes without heirs then the said land in Essex which I gave unto my son Gregory Smith, I give unto my son Ant. Smith and for want of heirs to my son Thomas.
The lower part of the said dividend to my son Tho. Smith and for want of heirs to my son Anthony Smith and for want of heirs to my son Gregory Smith.
Unto my son Anthony Smith £200 sterling and a Negro boy Bob, who is to be bound to a carpenter.
Unto my daughter Martha Smith £150 sterling with Negro girl Bellir when she comes to age of twenty one years or marrys.
To my daughter Ann Smith £180 sterling and one Negro girl Gimm when she comes to age of twenty one years or marrys.
My loving wife Ann Smith now going with child if she be delivered of a boy unto him £150 sterling and a young Negro fellow Tom who is to be bound to a trade, which legacy at age of twenty one. If delivered of a girl then to her £100 sterling and a young Negro girl about the age of fifteen years.
To my loving wife Ann Smith five Negroes Tom, Nan, Harry, Sam and Marquis during her life and after to my two sons Gregory Smith and Thomas Smith equally.
My father's last will be exactly ,complied with concerning my brother John Smith Junr.'s estate and if a countryman that I send for from England doth not arrive by this shipping that one be forthwith sent for or hired to learn one of the Negro boys to mow and dung ground and to be kept constantly at it as far as necessary for the maintenance of the large stock.
My sister in law Mrs. Francis Smith do continue on the plantation I now live on with my wife Anne Smith if she thinks fitt.
Unto the said Frances Smith and Jane Price my loving sisters twenty shillings each to buy them a mourning ring.
To my kinsman Lewis Day all my wearing apparell.
All the rest to my sons Gregory Smith and Thomas Smith equally when they come to the age of 21.
All my sons and my sister's son John Smith have liberal education bestowed upon them.
My loving wife during her widowhood and my loving friends Messrs. John Price, Thom. Waring and Matthew Kemp executors until my son Gregory Smith shall come to the age of 21 years. I give them £5 current money for their trouble.
Thos. Smith
Wit: Isaac Giles, George Wortham, Edward Smith.
Codicil. If any of my younger children dye before they arrive at age, their estate shall go to my son Anthony and that my wife now goes with child with.
4 June 1723. Presented in Court by Anne Smith and Thos. Wareing. Proved by George Wortham and Edward Smith.
3 Dec. 1723. Proved by Francis Smith.
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