Family Documents

Last will of Tobias Wilhoite (Father of Conrad)
20 May 1762 , Culpepper Va

WILL OF TOBIAS WILHOIT, PARISH of BRUMFIELD, CULPEPPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA

SEPTEMBER 1, 1761

(CULPEPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA){WILL BOOK A, PAGE 282-283}

State of Virginia

County of Culpeper

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.

I, TOBIAS WILHOIT, OF THE COUNTY OF CULPEPPER, VIRGINIA, AND PARRISH OF BRUMFIELD, BEING OF PERFECT SENSES AND MEMORY, DO MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTMENT IN MANNER AND FORM FOLLOWING:

FIRST: I GIVE MY SOUL INTO ALMIGHTY GOD THAT GAVE IT, HOPING THROUGH THE MERITS OF MY SAVIOUR, TO RECEIVE PARDON OF ALL MY SINS, AND MY BODY I BEQUEATH TO THE EARTH IN SURE AND CERTAIN HOPES OF ITS RESURECTION TO ETERNAL LIFE, TO BE DECENTLY INTERRED AT THE DESCREATION OF MY EXECUTRIX AND EXECUTORS HEREAFTER NAMED.

ITEM: TO MY TWO SONS, MICHAEL WILHOIT AND CONRAD WILHOIT TWO HUNDRED OF ACRES OF LAND JOINING JOHN TOWLES THE OPEN LINE AND ROBERT HUCKERSON TO BE LAID OF TOO THE GREATEST CONVIENCE OF BOTH IN CASE OF DISAGREEMENT FOR EACH TO CHOOSE A MAN TO ACT FOR THEM.

ITEM: I LEND TO MY BELOVED WIFE, CATHERINE WILHOIT, ALL THE REST OF MY ESTATE DURING HER WIDOWHOOD. IN CASE SHE MARRIES, ONE SORREL MARE AND HER INCREASES, TWO COWS, TWO SOWS, ONE FEATHER BED, AND FURNITURE, A POPLAR CHEST, ONE IRON POT AND FRYING PAN. IN CASE SHE DIES A WIDOW, ALL OF HER PART OF MY ESTATE TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED AMOUNG MY CHILDREN, EXCEPT THOSE THAT I HAVE LEFT LANDS, AND MARY BROYLES IF SHE MARRIES, WHAT IS HERE MENTIONED, TO BE TAKEN OUT, AND THE REST OF MY ESTATE TO BE DIVIDED AT THE DAY OF MARRIAGE.

ITEM: I LEAVE MY TWO YOUNGEST SONS, JESSE AND WILLIAM WILHOIT, THE LAND THATI HAVE LENT TO MY WIFE CATHERINE, TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWIXT THESE TWO SONS, IN CASE THEY SHOULD , OR EITHER DIE WITH OUT ISSUE, THE SAID LAND TO THE NEXT YOUNGEST SON, TO THEM AND THEIR HEIRS FOREVER, I, HAVING DISPOSED OF MY ESTATE ABOVE, I DO APPOINT MY WIFE CATHERINE AND TWO SONS, MICHAEL AND CONRAD WILHOIT, EXECUTRIX AND EXECTORS THIS, MY LAST WILL AND TESTMENT, DIS-ANNULING ALL OTHER WILLS. I SO FIX MY HAND AND SEAL THIS FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1761. [SEPTEMBER 1, 1761]

WITNESS: RUSSELL HILL JOHN TOWLES TOBIAS WILHOIT(SEAL)HENRY HILL

SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF RUSSELL HILL, JOHN TOWLES, AND HENRY HILL AT A COURT HELD FOR THE COUNTY OF CULPEPPER, VIRGINIA ON THURSDAY, THE 20th. DAY OF MAY 1762.

MAY 2O, 1762

THIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF TOBIAS WILHOITE, DECEASED, WAS EXHIBITED TO THE COURT BY CATHERINE WILHOITE, HIS WIDOW, AND WAS PARTLY PROVED BY THE OATH OF JOHN TOWLES AND RUSSELL HILL, WITNESS, IS THERETO AND ORDERED TO BE CERTIFIED. AND AT A COURT HELD FOR THE SAID COUNTY ON THURSDAY, THE 20th DAY OF MAY 1762, THIS SAID WILL WAS FULLY APROVED BY OATH OF HENRY HILL, ANDOTHER WITNESS THERETO, AND ORDERED TO BE RECORDED AND ON THE MOTION OF CATHERINE WILHOITE AND MICHAEL WILHOITE, TWO (2) OF THE EXECUTORS NAMED,CERTIFICATE IS GRANTED THEM FOR OBTAINING A PROBATE, THEY HAVING SWORN TO THE SAME AND GIVEN BOND ACCORDING TO LAW, CONNERATE [CONRAD] WILHOIT, THEOTHER EXECUTOR CAME INTO COURT AND REFUSED TO TAKE THE BURDENS AND EXECUTION THEREOF.

TESTE: ROGER DIXON,CLK.

A COPY TESTS: W.E. COONS, CLK.

THE VALUE OF HIS ESTATE WAS 39.3.7 1/2.

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