----- Original Message ----- From: <VAThomson@aol.com> Sent: Thursday, 17 February, 2000 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [THOMPSON-L] John THOMPSON'S Will > Did you mean this one? > > THOMPSON, John: Leg.-To brother, Samuel Thompson, 50 lbs. after decease of my > wife, 50 lbs more. To wife the labor of certain slaves for life. Brother, > William Thompson. Sisters, Catherine and Elizabeth, negroes. (Brother, > Samuel, not living in Surry Co.) Desires that Samuel Alsobrooke, son of > Samuel Alsobrooke, deceased, be religiously brought up by Exerx. Friends, > Maj. Arthur Allen and Capt. Francis Clements, each a ring. To two > brothers-in-law, Mr. Robert Paine and Mr. Robert Catlett, each a ring. To > wife, certain things given to her by will of Mr. John Salway, deceased. Wife, > Elizabeth Thompson, is made Exerx. Made: 2 Aug., 1698. Prob.: 7 Nov., 1699. > Wit: Geo. Williams, Jos. Case, Eliza. Prier, Mary Allen, Wm. Foreman, Richard > Holleman. Book 5, p. 185. > In a message dated 2/17/00 6:43:34 PM, skunk@coastalnet.com writes: > > << John Thompson of Surry county Va left a Will.