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FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA WILLS, INVENTORIES AND ACCOUNTS 1759 - 1800: {John K. Gott}
Pages 36-38: JOHN KERR, SEN'R. (Will)
Date: 8 November 1796
Dau.: Margaret Bronaugh - £5
Dau.: Mary Peters - Negro girl
Dau.: Betty Kerr - Negroes, also £36.5.0; one saddle
and one grey mare colt; Negroes to be owned jointly by daus. Mary Peters and Betty Kerr.
I do not wish that the children of the present wife to have any claim to the bequeath given to my•first wife's children nor the first wife's children to have any to those of the present wifes.
Son: John Kerr, Junr.: Negro, horse
Son: William Kerr - Negro
wife: Sarah Kerr - residue of estate during her life or widowhood, in order that she may be Inabled to raise the young children that I have by her,
Son: John Kerr, Jun'r. - land whereon I now live.
Son: William Kerr - to Inherit the land bequeathed to my son John Kerr, Jun'r. if he should die before he arrives to the age of twenty-one years of age.
All Estate, land excepted, lent to my wife to be equally divided at the death or marriage of wife between my children Sarah Crosby Kerr; William Kerr, Dorcus Kerr, Lucy Kerr, Peggy Smith Kerr and Aseneth Kerr.
Exors: Wife Sarah Kerr, John Withers "son of old field' and John James.
signed: John Kerr
wit.: Benjamin Bronaugh, Garrott Freeman, James Fox, Alexander Cresenberry {sic Quisenberry}.
Proved: 26 December 1796, by o. of Garrett Freeman and
Benjamin Bronaugh. Sarah Kerr, with John James and John Bronaugh her securities in bond of £4,000, made oath and granted cert. to obt. prole
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
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