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1749-1770 Culpeper County, Virginia Will Book A; [Sparacio]; Page 371-372
In the name of God Amen. I ANTHONY SCOTT of the County of Culpeper being weak of body but of sound & perfect mind and memory .. do this Seventh day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty five make and publish this my last will and Testament in manner following Vizt.
First I will that my wife JANE SCOTT shall have and enjoy for and during her natural life my land and plantation whereon I now live, one negro boy, and all the rest & residue of my Estate whatsoever upon condition & not otherwise that she shall not marry nor leave the plantation whereon I now live to live with any strange or other person whatsoever and from & immediately after her decease or marriage or removal contrary to this my Will
i give to my son SAMUEL SCOTT all my land and all my Books and Plantation aforementioned to hold to him and his heirs forever also from & after the decease of my said wife her marriage or removal contrary to this my will
I give to my daughter FRANCES the wife of ABRAHAM COOPER the negro boy Tom aforementioned to hold to her and her heirs forever , and also my will is that if the said negro shall not live till my said daughter shall possess of him by virtue of this my will that then and in that case I give my said daughter Frances all the rest & residue of my personal estate whatsoever from & after the Decease of my wife or her marriage or removal contrary to this my will but in case the said negro boy aforementioned shall live till my said Daughter shall possess of him then and in such case I will that all the rest & residue of my personal Estate whatsoever shall be equally divided among all my children then living, I also give
to my Daughter ELIZABETH CORBIN ( faded) one shilling, also
to my Daughter ANN BANK ( faded) one shilling And
lastly I make and ordain my wife JANE SCOTT Executrix and my son Samuel Scott Executor of this my will In Witness wherpnf I the said Anthony Scott have to this my last will & Testament set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
Presence. RAWLEY CORBIN, Anthy Scott
FRANCIS COOPER , ISAAC WALL
At a Court held for the County of Culpeper on Thursday the 17th day of May 1764
This last will & Testament of Anthony Scott decd was exhibited to the Court by Samuel Scott one of the Excors. therein named and was proved by the oaths of .. witnesses thereto & ordered to be recorded and on the motion of the said Executor certificate is granted him for obtaining a Probat thereof in due form he having sworn to the same & given Bond & Security according to Law.
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1749-1770 Culpeper County, Virginia Will Book A; [Sparacio]; Page 377
n Obedience to an Order of Culpeper County Court for the appraisement of the Estate of ANTHNY SCOTT decd We the Subscribers met at the late dwelling House of the said Scotts this 20th day of June 1764 and being first sworn before Capt. HENRY PENDLETON Gent. we appraised the said Estate as it was brought to our view etc. items listed and valued to total £100.. 8.. 0; ( includes one negro man appraised to £65) made by appraisers WM. JOHNSTON, JOHN CORBIN, WM. CORBIN
July 19th 1764. Returned into Court & ordered to be recorded.
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1724-1728 Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 18; [Antient Press]; Page 67-69
This Indenture made this sixteenth/seventeenth day of May 1725 Between NICHOLAS COPELAND of the Parish of St. Ann in County of Essex & DOROTHY his wife of one part and ANTHONY SCOTT of the Parish of Drysdale in King & Queen County Planter of ye other part Witnesseth that the said Nicholas Copeland & Dorothy his wife in consideration of sum of forty pounds Currt money of Virga: sold unto Anthony Scott in his actual! possession two plantation tracts of Land with ye appurtenances whereon Nicholas Copeland & ANN COPELAND now lives in ye Parish of St. Ann aforesaid containing 200 acres relation being had to ye records of Essex County may more fully appear....
In presence of THOMAS BRIDGFORTH, Nicholas Copeland
JOHN MacALISTER, JACOB LATON Dorothy Copeland
At Court held for Essex County on ye 18th day of May 1725
This Deed of lease and release admitted to record.
Also ye same day the said DOROTHY COPELAND freely relinquished her right of dower to ye sd Land which is also admitted to record,
Know all men by these presents that I NICHOLAS COPELAND of ye Parish of St Ann in ye County of Essex Planter am bound unto ANTHONY SCOTT of ye Parish of Drysdale in King & Queen County in ye sum of two hundred pounds Sterling money of England this Seventeenth day of May 1725
The Condition of this obligation is such that if said Nicholas Copeland his heirs do his & their parts in all things keep all Covenants in articles of agreement between ye said Nicholas Copeland and Dorothy his wife & Anthony Scott then this present obligation to be of none effect else to remain
In presence of JACOB LATON, Nicholas Copeland
JOHN McALISTER
At Court held for Essex County ye 18th day of May 1725
This Bond admitted to record.
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1738-1742 Essex County, Virginia Deed Book 22; [Antient Press]; Page 154-157
THIS INDENTURE made the Twenty eighth and Twenty ninth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty Between ANTHONY SCOTT of County of ORANGE Planter of one part and NICHOLAS COPELAND of the same County of other part Witnesseth that for sum of Forty pounds Current money of Viriginia He. the said ANTHONY, hath granted unto the said NICHOLAS (in his actual possession now being by virtue of bargain and sale for one year and by force of the Statute for transferring uses into possession) and his heirs all that one hundred and ninety five acres of land being in the Parish of St. Ann and County of Essex being all the land which the said ANTHONY SCOTT formerly purchased of him the said NICHOLAS COPELAND as by the Deeds recorded in Essex County Court will more plainly appear. In Witness whereof said ANTHONY SCOTT hath set his hand and Seal
in presence of CHARLES DEWITT, ANTHONYSCOTT
WILLIAM CRAWFORD. MATHEW STANTON
At a Court held for Essex County at Tappa. on the 19th day of August 1740
ANTHONY SCOTT acknowledged this his Lease & Release to NICHOLAS COPELAND to be his act and deed which is ordered to be recorded
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1730-1732 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Order Book; [Antient Press]; Page 31
Spotsylvania County Court 6th of April 1731
- ROBERT GREEN Gent. is discharged from being Overseer of the Road from Mr. BARNES QUARTER to Majr. WILLIAM BEVERLEYs FORD, And ANTHONY SCOTT is appointed to serve in his room, And ordered that all the tithables that served under the former Overseer do serve under the said SCOTT in clearing & keeping in good repair the same
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1734-1742 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Deed Book C; [William Armstrong Crozier];
April 30, 1734. William Beverley of St. Ann's Par., Essex Co., Gent., to John Burk of St. Mark's Par., Spts. Co., planter, deed of lease. 100 a. on Elkwood in St. Mark's Par., Spts. Co., whereon sd. John now dwells, etc., "said John, Mary, his wife, and Richard, his son," etc., 430 lbs. tob. yearly. Wit.: W. Russell, Anthony Scott, John Seaton, Edmd. Pagett. May 7, 1734.
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1749-1753 Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book A; [John Frederick Dorman]; Pages 266-67.
19 March 1750 [1751]. Anthony Scott of Culpeper County to Thomas Corbin and my daughter Elizabeth Corbin wife of Thomas Corbin of same.. For love, good will and affection. 105 acres in the little fork of Rappahannock River ... upon a branch between the plantation on the premises and the plantation whereon John Burk formerly lived on the south side of the branch opposite to the mouth of Chestnut Branch ... fork of the branch ... near the Peaked Mountain Road ...
Anthony Scott
Wit: John (J) Cooper, James J W) Wilson, Thomas (T) Washbourn.
21 March 1750 [1751]. Proved by John Cooper, James Wilson and Thomas Wasburn.
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1749-1753 Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book A; [John Frederick Dorman]; Pages 435-37.
23 Sept. 1752. Anthony Scott of Culpeper County to his grandson Richard Burke of same. For love and affection. 80 acres in the North little fork of Rappahannock River ... in Anthony Scott's line on the south side of a Chestnut Branch ... corner to Thomas Corbin's ... up the south fork of the branch with Thomas Corbin's line (which is a water course) ... Anthony Scott
Wit: Abraham Cooper, John George, William (W) Poe, James (IIIM) Wilson, Jas. Pendleton.
28 Sept 1752. Proved by John George, William Poe and James Wilson.
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1753-1757 Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book B; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 49-51.
17 May 1757. Anthony Scott of Culpeper County to Robert Scott of same. For 5 shillings. 100 acres ... on the east side of a branch of Crooked Run called the Broad Branch just above the bridge ... across the branch with the lines of Anthony Scott till it comes to the Branch again, crossing the Branch again ... up the Broad Branch ... Anthony Scott
Wit: Saml. Scott, Abraham Cooper, Thomas Corbin, James Green.
19 May 1757. Proved by Samuel Scott and Abraham Cooper. 15 Sept. 1757.
Proved by James Green.
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1757-1762 Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book C; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 115-17.
16 March 1758. Thomas Bywaters and Ede his wife of Culpeper County to William Corbin of Stafford County. For £15.16.8. 80 acres ... Anthony Scott's line ... by a branch side corner to Thomas Corbin ...
Thomas (T) Bywaters
Wit: William Stringfellow, Saml. Scott.
16 March 1758. Acknowledged by Thomas.
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1762-1765 Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book D; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 652-53.
18 March 1765. Abraham Cooper of Culpeper County to William Roberts of same. For £50. One Negro man named Tom that was left to Cooper by Anthony Scott, deceased. Also one felt hatt, after the decease of Jane Scott, widow of Anthony Scott.
Abraham Cooper
Wit: John Strother, Wm, Gambell, John (X) Corbin.
16 May 1765. Proved by John Strother and John Corbin.
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1779-1781 Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book L (Part 1); [Antient Press]; Page 124-127
THIS INDENTURE made the Sixteenth day of December in year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy nine Between SAMUEL SCOTT, CHRISTIAN his Wife, HARMON VICESCARVER of County of Culpeper and BRIDGET his Wife of one part and ELIZEMEN BASY of said County of other part Witnesseth that HAR-MON VICESCARVER for sum of One thousand three hundred and forty pounds current money to him in hand paid by these presents do bargain and sell unto ELEZEMON BASEY his heirs and assigns a certain tract of land containing one hundred and forty acres of land more or less situate lying and being in County of Culpeper and bounded Begining at a white Oak and Hickory on East side of a branch of CROOKED RUN called the BRAID BRANCH just above the Road runing thence across the said Branch with the lines called ANTHONY SCOTT till it comes to said Branch again crossing the said Branch again to three white Oaks corner to said ANTHONY SCOTT deceased, thence with said line to a white Oak a Corner made by ROBERT SCOTT and SAMUEL SCOTT near the head of the SNAKE BRANCH, thence with a line made by said ROBERT SCOTT and SAMUEL SCOTT to a red Oak corner in the aforesaid ANTHONY SCOTT line, thence with said line to the be-gining and all houses Inclosures and profits whatsoever to the tract of land belonging and all Estate right title and Interest whatsoever of him the said SAMUEL SCOTT and CHRISTIAN his Wife, HARMON VICESCARVER and BRIDGET VICESCARVER his Wife of and in the said Bargained To have and to hold the tract of land and the appurtenances unto ELIZEMON BASEY his heirs and assigns In Witness whereof the parties to these presents have set their hands and seals the day and year first written
in presence of us JAMES PENDLE'TON, SAMUEL SCOTT
WM. McCLANAHAN, RANDOLPH STALLARD, CHRISTIAN SCOTT
WALTER STALLARD, JAMES SCOTT HARMAN WISECARVER
BRIDGET WICECARVER
The Commonwealth of Virginia to JAMES PENDLETON, WM. McCLANAHAN and JOHN WIGGENTON Gentlemen Greeting (Commission for privy examination of CHRISTIAN SCOTT and BRIDGET VICESCARVER dated at the Courthouse the 17th day of April 1780 and in Fourth year of the Commonwealth) (Return of examination made the 16th of December 1779 and signed by JAMES PENDLETON and WILLIAM McCLANAHAN) At a Court held for Culpeper County the 17th day of April 1780
This Indenture was proved together with the Memorandum and Receipt endorsed and a Commission thereto annexed and Certificate thereon and ordered to be recorded
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1781-1783 Culpeper County, Virginia Deed Book L (Part 2); [Antient Press]; Page 248-250
TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shall come Know ye that I SAMUEL SCOTT of the County of Culpeper for divers good causes me thereto moving, but more especially for the natural love and affection which I have and do bear towards my Son CORNELIUS SCOTT of the said County as for the consideration of the sum of Five shilings to me in hand paid have given granted & made over to my said Son, CORNELIUS SCOTT & his heirs forever one certain piece or parcel of land lying in the LITTLE FORK of RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER & County aforesaid, the same being now in the possession & tenure of my said Son & being the place my Father, ANTHONY SCOTT, lived on, only the GRAVE YARD be free for any person to bury their Dead & the said piece or parcel of land is bounded beginning at a white Oak corner to ROBERT SCOTTs near the head of the SNAKE BRANCH running thence with said line to a red Oak, corner of said ROBERT SCOTT in the old line of ANTHONY SCOTTs, thence with said old line to the beginning containing One hundred acres be the same or or less To have and to hold the said land and premises with all the improvements & appurtenances unto my said Son, CORNELIUS SCOTT, his heirs and assigns, the said CORNELIUS SCOTT is to pay Two hundred pounds of Tobacco to said SAMUEL SCOTT every as long as SAMUEL SCOTT lives & no longer. In Witness I the said SAMUEL SCOTT have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 17th day of February 1783
in presence of us EDMOND BASYE, SAMUEL SCOTT
ELIZEMON BASYE, HARMAN WISECARVER
WALTER STALLARD, JAMES GAUNT, JAMES SCOTT
At a Court held for Culpeper County the 17th day of April 1780
This Indenture was partly proved by the Oaths of two of the Witnesses thereto which is to be Certified, And at a Court held for the aforesaid County the 17th day of March 1783was fully proved by the Oath of another witness thereto and ordered to be recorded
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Abt 1705 - 1764 (~ 59 years)