Will of Mary FARLEY WOMACK 1750 Chesterfield Co., VA

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Testator/Deceased: Mary FARLEY-WOMACK - widow of Thomas WOMACK Sr. - grand-dtr of James AKIN, Sr.

Will Dated: 23 July 1750

Will Proved: 1759 in Chesterfield Co., VA

In the name of God Amen the 23rd Day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fifty, I the subscriber being very sick and weak but in my perfect senses blessed God for it and therefore calling to mind the mortality of the Body and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to Die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament that is to say Principally and first of all I recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it trusting in the Merits of my Blessed Savoir Jesus Christ I shall receive the same by the mighty Power of God &c and as touching such Estate as it has been Pleass God to bless me with in this World I give devise and dispose of the same in the manner and form following Imprimis.

I give and bequeath to my beloved Son Francis Womack my Feather Bed and Boolster & a Rug & a pear of Sheets wheron I now lie Sick and my large Table & my large Iorn Pot and a large Peuter Dish & a large Bason &2 Puter Plates as also I give to my two Sons Francis and Thos. Womack nine Chattles to be equally divided between them

Also I give to my Son Francis my Negro Woman nam'd Mall,

Also I give to my Son Thos. my Hand Mill and to my Son Francis my Grind Stone.

I also give to my Son Thos. my Chist & also one Iron Pot & a large Kettle and one branded Dish & one Bason & 3 Plates & a Spice Mortar & brass Candlestick & my Horse if he be found and two Leather Chears & two Rush Chears and to my Son Francis one leather Chear & foore Rush bottomed Chears & to my Son Thos. one tinn Candlestick,

Also I lend to my Daughter Judy a Feather Bed & Boolster and give her all my Wool I have in the House except a pound and

I give to my Daughter Sarah Rise my new Virginia Cloth wooling goune and my new Quilted Pettycoote & a peace(?) of Boodess & newest holland Apron & Hankerchef & a capp & my Termeter(??) Hatt & no more

Also to my Daughter Elizabeth Hatch.t (Hatchett) my Englishgoune and a holland Apron& a Hankerchief&no more

And to my Daughter Mary Man I give my blew Virginia Cloth wooling goune &my new straw Hatt & one of my new Aporns made of cotton & linen and no more And all the rest of my wareing Cloaths

I give to my Daughter Judy Booth Lining & Wooling and also my Side Saddle and no more and for my three

Sons Abram & Isham & William I give each of them one Shelling a pence & no more. memorandum ye Bed as I have let to my Daughter Judy is but for two years & then return to my Sons Francis & Thos. to be equally divided between with ye Boolster & ye Rug & Sheets & Blanket for Thos. my Son and

for every thing I have not mentioned is to be equally divided amongst them all as lives heare with me whereunto

I make and ordain my two Sons Francis & Thomas Womack my sole Executors of this my Last Will & Testament given under my the Day (sic) and year first above written.

[Src: Chesterfield Co., Will Book 1,1749-1765, pages 188 and 189]