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12 Nov 1693 Middlesex Co.,Va., Will of Elizabeth Wormeley, Rec. 5 Mar 1693:
Mother:Mrs. Elizabeth Spencer;
Sister: Million Downman;
Brother: RawleighTravers;
Brother: Giles Travers;
Children of sister Million Downman: Wilmoth Downman, Million Downman the younger, Elizabeth Downman,
Husband: Christopher Wormeley,
His children: Judith Wormeley, Thomas Wormeley, William Wormeley.
(Hopkins, Middlesex Wills & Inv. 1673-1812, p.54).
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1690-1694 Middlesex County, Virginia Order Book 2, [Antient Press]; Page 679)
Court 5th day of March 1693/4
- MRS. MILLION DOWNMAN, one of the Executors of the Last Will & Testament of MADAM ELIZA: WORMELEY, deced., (late Wife of the Honble: CHRISTOPHER WORMELEY, Esqr.) produceing the same in Court which was sufficiently proved by the Oaths of Mr. WILLM: CHURCHHILL and the Wittnesses therein mentioned & is by this Court ordered to be recorded. Mr. ROBT: BRENT Attorney for Mrs. DOWNMAN. Mr. PRESTON, Mr. AVREIT & Mr. WILLIAMS, Attorneys for CHR: WORMELEY, Esqr
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Old Rappahannock Co Va Deeds & Wills - 1665-1677; Page 202-205
IN THE NAME OF GOD Amen this 26th of June 1675 I JOHN HULL being well in body and of good and perfect memory thanks be to Almighty God & calling to remembrance the uncertainty of this transitory life & that all flesh must yeild unto death when it shall please God to call do make constitute and declare this my last Will & Testament in manner & form following & first being penitent and Sorry from the bottom of my heart for my Sinns past most humbly desireing forgiveness for the saime I give and commit my Soule to Almighty God my Saviour and redeemer in whom & by the merritts of Jesus Christ I trust and believe assuredly to be saved, & to have full remission & forgiveness of all my Sinns and that my Soule with my body at the general day of resurrection shall rise again with joy & through the merritts of Christ death and passion possess & inherit the Kingdom of Heaven prepared for his elect & chosen and my body to be buried where it shall please my Executrix hereafter named to appoint and now for the setling of my temporall Estate & such lands goods chattels & debts as it hath pleased God farr above my deserts to bestow upon me I do order and give and dispose the same in manner and forme following that is to say
first I will that all those debts due to any manner of person or persons shall be well contented & paid by my Executrix hereafter named
Item My Will and desire is my Son in Law JOHN CARTER be paid his five hundred pounds due to him for his Wives Dower according to Specialty but if it should so fall out that what inquests & debts & returnable goods will not pay it without disposeing of my Wifes plate and Jewills then my will is that part of the land be sold to pay it
Item I give unto my Son JOHN CARTER & his Wife each of them a Ring of forty shillings price
Item I give unto my loveing Wife ELIZABETH HULL all the plate & Jewills I die possessedof
Item I give & bequeath to my Son ROGER HULL & his heirs forever all my land I die possessed of
Item I give & bequeath unto my loveing Wife ELIZABETH HULL & my Son ROGER HULL all my monies goods & chattels I die possessed of my debts & legacies being first paid equally to be divided between them
Item my will is that my Loveing Wife ELIZABETH HULL may have any of my Plantations with the land & houses belonging to the same that she will make choice of during her life & then returne to my Son ROGER HULL or his heirs
And I do appoint my loveing Wife ELIZABETH HULL Executrix of this my Last Will as Witness my hand & Seale the day & year above written
Signed sealed & acknowledged
in presence of us THOMAS COLLINS JOHN HULL seale
THO: SMITH
The Within named THOMAS COLLINS aged 22 years &THO: SMITH aged 22 years or thereabouts sworn & examined that they did see the within named Li Coll. JOHN HULL sign seale & publish the within mentioned as his last Will and Testament & that he was in perfect sence & memory at the signing & sealing thereof to the best of your Deponts.
Judgments and further saith not
THOS. COLLINS
THO: SMITH
Jurati THO: COLLINS et THO: SMITH in Cu Com Rappa 3 die Maii 1677
Probatr p Scratment THO: COLLINS & THO: SMITH et recordatr x8 die Junii
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1687-1691 Lancaster County, Virginia Order Book 3, Part 2; [Antient Press]; Page 149-150
Lancaster county Court 14th of January 1690/1691
- Coll. CHRISTOPHER WORMELEY as marrieing ELIZABETH, the late Widdow and Relicte of Coll. JOHN CARTER, late of this County (deced), doth in Court relinquish his Right of Executorship to his saide Will
- Whereas at a Court helde for this County June the 11th Ao. Dom. 1690 the Will of Coll. JOHN CARTER, (deced), was then proved and a P:bate of thereupon was then granted unto MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER, his Daughter, as she was Executrix to the saide Will; Whereupon a P:bate was drawn to her as Executrix aforesaide and sent according to Law for the Honoble. the Lt. Governors signeing, who refuseing the signeing of the same. she being in her nonage and soe too younge to take upon her the execucon of the saide Will, It is therefore ordered that the saide P:bate bee altered and amended, as the Overseers of the saide Will did then in Court make suit for the saide P:bate that the P:bate bee granted to them as Overseers of the saide Will for the use of the saide ELIZABETH CARTER dureing her minority to dispose all and singular the goods right., and creditts of thc made (docod), according to the intent and meaneing of the saide Will expressed and to rendering an Accot. thereof, wheather unto lawfully required and that the P:bate issue forth as from the aforesaide Court in June,
- Ordered by this Court that the P:bate granted to the Overseers of Coll. JOHN CARTERs Will for the use of his Daughter. MRS. ELIZABETH CARTER, Executrix of the saide Will. bee by Mr. ROBERT CARTER return'd after the Lt, Governor signeing to the Clerks of this County by him to bee entered upon the Records of this County, and afterwards to bee return'd by him to the saide CARTER
- Coll, CHRISTOPHER WORMELEY and ELIZABETH his Wife, the late Widdow and Relicte of Coll. JOHN CARTER, (deced), peticoning this Court for being possessed of one third part of all the Landes in this County belonging to the saide Coll. CARTER which hee dyed seized of belonging to the saide ELIZABETH in right of Dower as aforesaide and alsoe for one full third part of all the p:sonall Estate whereof the saide JOHN CARTER was possest with at the time of his death, It is the opinion of this Court and soe ordered that untill the P:bate of the saide JOHN CARTERs Will bee signed according to Law that noe Orders bee granted by this Court upon the saide Peticon
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Bef 1660 - 1693 (> 33 years)