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JOHN SAMPSON

Last Will & Testament
submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer

A LITTLE INFORMATION ON CULPEPER COUNTY VIRGINIA

...........	John Sampson's Will 18 Jun 1778. Culpeper County Virginia Will Book B, pp 260-3, transcribed from copy from lawsuit of Garnett vs. Barnes (which is a little clearer that the one in the Will Book). Will of John Sampson. In the name of God Amen I John Sampson of the County of Culpeper & Parish of Bromfield being low and weak in Body but in perfect senses and calling to mind that all flesh must yield to death when please God to call do hereby bestow whatever God has been pleased to trust me with as follows: Inprimis I assign my Body in the Grave as cheerfully as human nature will admit me to be Buried in a decent manner at the discretion of my Executors and my soul to Almighty God who Gave it me trusting in the merits of my Crucified Mediator to raise me up from the death of Sin to the life of Righteousness thro the washing of his precious blood spilt on the Cross. Item 1st. I lend my loving wife Mary Sampson during her natural life the Land on the South side McAllisters Mountain it being the Tract of land whereon I now Live with my negroe man Duke, my wenches Fan, Vander & Two negroe children Christopher & Job. The House furniture & plantation & all other Tools of all kinds with Twelve head of cattle all my hogs & sheep my black riding mare & bay mare with Fifty pounds Cash (except) that my children William, Joseph, Thomas & Rhoda do receive one Bed and furniture each at their mothers Death. Item 2nd. I having formerly given to Elizabeth Render wife of Lewis, Bathesheba Clark wife of Reuben, Ann Burdine wife of Reginal, Delilah Dicken wife of William, Lucy Berry wife of Aaron, Franky Berry wife of Elisha Berry what I think their just proportion of my Estate they are hereby excluded from any part thereof except such part as I shall hereafter direct. Item 3rd. I give my son William all my Land on the south side of the church road (namely, where Forrester & Mary lived with a negro man named Jack & one horse named Juniper & one Feather bed & Furniture at his mothers death to him his Heirs and assigns forever. Item 4th. I give to my son Joseph the land whereon Aaron Berry now lives to be by him possed at the expiration of the year of our Lord 1792 (and in the meantime I lend the same to Aaron Berry) and one Negroe man named James & one mare called Phillis and one Feather Bed & Furniture at his Mothers Death to him his heirs and assigns forever. Item 5th. I give my son Thomas Sampson the land whereon I now live to be by him held & enjoyed so soon as his mother shall Depart this life, and one Negroe lad named Duke Immediately and a colt that may come from either of my mares left his mother one Feather Bed & Furniture at his mothers Death to him his Heirs and assigns forever. Item 6th. I give all my land on the north side the church road whereon the Hughes live to my three sons William Joseph & Thomas in equal distribution to them their Heirs and assigns forever Item the 7th. I give my Daughter Rhoda my Negroes Flora & John and one Feather bed at her mothers death, to her her heirs & assigns forever. Item 8th. I give my sons in Law John and William Hughes my Negroes Bell & Rose to be equally divided between them, their Heirs and assigns forever. Item 9th. I give to Aaron Berry the money now between us. Item 10th. I give Elisha Berry two cows such as shall be assign him by my Exors. Item 11th. I give my money save the fifty pound lent my wife and my Tobo towards the payment of my Just Debts & Funeral charges and the remainder if any with the Cattle that is not other ways disposed of, I give to my Children in general immediately and all the things lent my wife save the land and four beds at her death, I likewise give to all my children in equal distribution or in case of their death to their legal representatives Immediately after my wifes death to them their heirs & assigns forever. And lastly I constitute and appoint my loving wife Mary Executrix & Reubin Clark & Reginal Burdine with my trusty Friend Henry Lewis Exors of this my last will and Testament and do hereby I revoke all former Wills by me made & declare this to be my last will and Testament the 18th day of June 1778. Signed Sealed Declared & Published in presence of Reuben Clark & Reginal Burdyne with Geo. Witherall Was Interlined with all my land before signed Michl (his Y mark) Yeager Joseph (his I mark) Campbell John (his I mark) Sampson (L. S.) At a Court held for Culpeper County the 20th day of July 1778 This last will and Testament of John Sampson deceased was exhibited by Mary Sampson Extrx Reginal Blurdyne & Henry Lewis Exors to the Court and proved by the Oaths of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of the Executors certificate is granted them for obtaining a probat thereof in due form they having made oath thereto and given bond & Security according to law liberty being received for the other executor to Join in the probat when he shall think fit. Teste, John Jameson, C. C. A copy teste, Th. W. Lightfoot, C. C.	..........
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