Don't remember corres with you but you must descend from the MARQUES/COLVILLEs as I do. I descend from Thomas MARQUES & Mary COLVILLE via their dau Eliz who m Daniel MCCAULEY. Do you have this line? I could not ID the prev message re the John MARQUIS who d ca 1802??? Best, Hal McCawley Chocybrown@aol.com wrote: >Will Book #7, 1802-1804 >COLVIL, John >Will. 2 Nov 1802/5 Apr 1803 >Sisters: Jennet, Margaret Newell, Martha Colvil, Ann Thompson, Mary Marques. >Brother: Samuel (wife Mary, dau Ann) >Legatee: Robert Mattock; John Adams; Presbyterian congregation of Cedar Creek >Meeting House; bound boy James Church to sister Jennet during her natural >life, farm on Long Marsh to Mattock his weaver's shop and small garden and >lodging in the mansion during his natural life. To Brother Samuel Colvil, >sell him part of the land. All personal property to be sold and the sum of >$116.76-2/3 to be placed at interest for support of the gospel in the >congregation of Cedar Creek, such interest to be paid annually to the >Presbyterian minister officially at the Cedar Creek Meeting House. Upon death >of sister Jennet, the principal to return to estate to become part of residue >to be consanguinity and named after me-to each L 10- John Colvil and John >Marquis, nephews, their sons John Colvil, sons of Joseph, John Marquis son of >John Marquis Sr., John Marquis son of John Marquis, son of James. To John >McCauly, son of niece, L 10. To Sister-in-law Mary Colvil, $10. To my friend >Robert Mattock, $50. To bound boy James Church, one year's schooling, >dutifully, a horse saddle and bridle of $100 value and $100 in money or >bonds. Negro girl Milo, about 8, and negro boy Griff, age 2 years, to be >manumitted at age 30, to be property of sister Jennett in interim. Estate >residue to brother Samuel Colvil and John Adams, but if they decide not to >take it at appraisement, executors to sell within one year of my decease. >Residue to be divided into five equal parts: To brother Samuel, less L 50 to >his daughter Ann; to sister Margaret Newell and family; to children of family >of sister Martha Colvil; to sister Jennet; to sister Ann Thompson with >remainder to her daughters at her death. The family of sister Mary Marques >(William Marquis, John Marquis, Thomas Marquis, Sarah Vance, Annie Cowan, >Elizabeth McCauly and James Marquis) live a considerable distance away, and I >do not know if they are alive. >Exrs: Daniel McCauly, John Adams, Robert Mattock, William Marquis >Wit: Edward Howe, Charles Barris, Jacob Rodes >Sec: James Marquis, David Osborn, L 2,000 >(Pages 107-111) > > > >==== OLD-FREDERICK-CO-VA Mailing List ==== >ADDRESS ALL YOUR LIST MESSAGES TO: >Old-Frederick-Co-Va-L@RootsWeb.com > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > >