Note: When this will was copied by the clerk's office, the binding edges of the will book copied as black borders and a few lines to the right and left were unreadable. James Gee who m. Lucy Bugg, Mecklenburg Co., 1797, is listed on settlement papers for the John Bugg estate. JOHN BUGG WILL 31 JANUARY 1801 MECKLENBURG COUNTY, VIRGINIA Will Book 4, pp. 262-264 IN The Name of God Amen. I JOHN BUGG of Mecklenburg County do appoint and ordain this to be my last will and Testament. Item I lend to my beloved wife LUCY during her life in lien and in bar of dower one feather and furniture ______Negro woman named Nanny and in case the said Negro Nanny should die before my wife I lend to my wife one other which ever she may choose for and during the term of her life. Item I lend to my beloved wife during her widowhood ______the land and plantation whereon I now live containing __ hundred and eighty seven acres more or less together with the rest of my estate of every description except the residue of hereafter mentioned. Item I give and bequeath to my son B[ENJAMIN] a tract of land lying on Mitchells Branch in Mecklenburg containing two hundred acres more or less to him and his heirs ___. Item I give and bequeath to my Son ZACHARIAH all the I bought of INGRAM which lies on the east side _______Creek estimated at two hundred acres more or less to him ___Heirs forever. Item I give and bequeath to my Son JOHN ______land lying on Taylors Creek adjoining the land of DANIEL______ JAMES ______ISAAC HICKS and ROBERT NANCE containing one ___and seventy acres more or less to him and his heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my son WILLIAM a tract of land lying __west side of the south fork of Taylors Creek it being part of ___I bought of INGRAM containing one hundred and fifty acres more or less to him and his heirs forever. Item I give and bequeath to my son JESSIE the land & plantation whereon I now live containing three hundred and eighty seven acres more or less to him and his heirs forever but he is not to have possession of the same until my wife marries or dies. Item I give & bequeath to my son in law JOHN NANCE a parcel of land formerly a part of the tract I now live on containing twelve acres more or less and bounded as followeth that is to say Beginning at DANIEL CHEATHAMS line on Dukes old road thence new choped line along the said road to Nance's line thence along his line to Cheathams line thence along the said Cheathams line to the Beginning to him and his heirs forever. Item my will and desire that my land on B____branch in Brunswick County may be sold Immediately after my death upon a reasonable credit and that the money arising from such sale shall be equally divided amongst all my Daughters now living and my Executors hereafter named are hereby Impowered to convey the same in fee simple to the Purchaser or Purchasors. Item I will and desire that at the death or marriage of my wife that all the Estate of every description which I have lent to her except the land and in case of her marriage except also the feather bed with its furniture and the negroe lent during her life shall be sold and that the money arising from such sale shall be equally divided amongst all my children now living both sons & daughters deducting from the parts of such of them as I have already made advances to the ____herefore given that is to say deducting from my Daughter MARRIS part the sum of one hundred and ten pounds from my Daughter FRANCES part fifty pounds from my son BENJAMINS part one hundred pounds from my Daughter MARTHAS part forty pounds from my Daughter SARAH'S part forty pounds from Daughter ELIZABETHS part forty pounds from my Daughter LUCYS part forty pounds and from my son JOHNS part forty pounds these being the sums heretofore advanced by me to each of the above named Respectively. Item I will and desire that each of my children now single my when ever they ____receive the Sum of forty pounds to be paid out of that part of my Estate lent to my wife and that the said Sum of forty pounds shall ___a final division of my Estate to be deducted out of the part or parts of such child or children as may so receive the same. Item I will and desire that the whole of whatever part of my Estate or the proceeds of it as may fall to the share of my Daughter MARTHA shall remain in the hands of my Executors hereafter named so long as her present husband shall live and at his death her part of my Estate is to be by them delivered to her or in case of her dying before him my Executors are hereby required and Impowered to divide her part of my Estate equally amongst such children as she may leave lastly I appoint my beloved wife LUCY my son ZACHARIAH my son JOHN and DANIEL DALY to execute this my last will and testament In Witness whereof I have herewith set my and fixed my Seal this 30th day of January one thousand eight hundred and one. Signed Sealed and published & delivered as and for the last will and Testament of the above named JOHN BUGG In presence of us (Seal) At a Court held for Mecklenburg County the 13th day of April 1801. This writing was produced to the Court without the name of the decedent or any witness being thereto subscribed whereupon HENRY PENNINGTON, WILLIAM LADD and JESSIE OSLING were sworn and severally deposed that they were present at the time the said decedent attempted to sign the said writing but was unable to write his name that after the said decedent had made the marks which appear opposite the seal he did acknowledge the same to be his last will and testament and thereupon the said writing was ordered to be recorded as and for the last will and testament of the said JOHN BUGG deceasad and on the motion of LUCY BUGG the Executix JOHN BUGG and DANIEL DALY two of the Executors therein named who made oath thereto & together with HENRY PENNINGTON JOHN DALY, DAVID PENNINGTON and JOHN HUBBARD their securities entered into and acknowledged them bond in the penalty of ten thousand dollars conditioned as the Law directs Ce rtificate was granted them for attaining a probat thereof in due form liberty being received for the other Executors therein named to join in the probat when he shall think fit. Teste WILLIAM BASKERVILL