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Culpeper
Co. Virginia
Circuit
Court Will Book C, page 117
Written
20 November 1783
Transcript
of Last Will and Testament of
Joseph Norman
I,
Joseph Norman of Culpeper County being in perfect sense mind and
memory do make this my last will in manner and form following:
Item:
I leave the land I now live on to my two sons Thomas and John Norman.
Thomas to have one hundred and nineteen acres and John one hundred.
If they cannot agree in dividing the land when John comes of age of
twenty years they are to leave it to two men to divide it for them.
Item:
I leave to my son William Norman, a Negro woman named Gude and no
other part of my Estate.
Item:
I leave to my grandson Isaac Norman one hundred acres of land lying
on the south side of Hickman's Mountain and no other part of my Estate.
Item:
I leave to my son Isaac Norman's wife Sarah Norman, twenty schillings sterling.
Item:
I leave to my daughter Mary Dillard, £5.
Item:
I leave to my wife Sarah Norman after paying all my just debts and
legatees all the rest of my Estate to maintain the children that is
now living with her during her widowhood and if she should marry or
die then it is my desire it should be equally divided between my sons
Thomas, John and my daughters Winifred Bywaters, Peggy Calvert,
Sally, Fanny, Mimey and Kisiah Norman and it is my desire for her not
to be interrupted on the plantation as long as she [-----
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widow [-----
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And I
appoint my wife Sarah Norman and Thomas Norman my Executors of this
my last will.
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