Found this while digging today......Lois PP. 73-76 EDWARD PENNINGTON WILL 16 MAY 1752 BRUNSWICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA Will Book 3, pp. 73-76 IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I EDWARD PENNINGTON of the Parish of Saint Andrews in the County of Brunswick and Colony of Virginia Planter being sick and weak of body but of sound & perfect mind and memory thank be given to God for it I knowing and considering the uncertainty of this life & that all men are born to die, I do make this & constitute ordain and appoint this to be my last Will and Testament hereby revoking disanulling and making void all former Will or Wills Testament & Testaments by me heretofore at any time made and this to be taken as my last in manner and form following and first and principally I commend my soul to God that gave it me and my Body to the Earth from whence it was taken to be decently Buried at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named and as Touching and concerning the worldly Estate that it hath pleased God in his great Mercy to Bestow upon me far beyond my desarts I do hereby give and Bequeath in manner and form following and first my Will is that all the Debts that in Right and conscience I do owe to any person may be paid in some convenient season after by decease by Executor hereafter named Imprimis I give and Bequeath to my loving Brother BENJAMIN PENNINGTON ten pounds Current Money of Virginia. Item I give and bequeath to EDWARD PENNINGTON, son of BENJAMIN PENNINGTON, one Negro Man Child known by the name of Sam to him the said EDWARD PENNINGTON his Heirs or Assigns forever. Item I give and Bequeath to my loving Brother JOHN GEORGE PENNINGTON thirty pounds Current Money of Virginia. Item I give and Bequeath to my loving Brother JAMES PENNINGTON ten pounds Current Money of Virginia and my own useing gun. Item I give and bequeath to my loving Brother WILLIAM PENNINGTON one Negro Man & two Negro Children one a Boy and the other a Girl and one Negro Woman and her Increase to him the said WILLIAM PENNINGTON his Heirs or Assigns forever. Item I give & Bequeath to my Brother WILLIAM PENNINGTON all my lands whatsoever and wheresoever with all the Appurts and Previledges there unto Belonging. I say to him the said WILLIAM PENNINGTON his Heirs or Assigns forever. Item I give and Bequeath to my Brother WILLIAM PENNINGTON all my Horses & Hoggs and Cattle---all & every one wheresoever they may be found to him the said WILLIAM PENNINGTON his Heirs and Assigns forever. Item I give & Bequeath to my Brother WILLIAM PENNINGTON all and each and every part of my Household Furniture and things thereto appertaining to him his Heirs or Assigns forever. Item I give and Bequeath to my Honoured Mother MARY PENNINGTON a good & sufficient maintainance both of cloaths Meat Drink Washing lodging and her abode or Home to be at my Brother WILLIAM PENNINGTON'S and furthermore if in case the said WILLIAM PENNINGTON should Die before my Mother that then he shall leave her my Mother forty shillings a Year during her natural life and as much more as my Executor shall think proper at any time during his life to be paid to her out of my Estate all this to be performed by my Executor hereafter named. And of this my last Will and Testament I do hereby nominate constitute appoint and ordain my beloved Brother WILLIAM PENNINGTON to be my only hole & Sole Executor In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed my seal this sixteenth Day of May one thousand and seven hundred fifty and two. Signed Sealed & Delivered In Presence of Us Edward (?)E. Pennington (his mark) David Ross (LS) Benjamin + Ezell Solomon Right At a Court held for Brunswick County the 24 Day of June 1752 This Will was presented in Court and made Oath to by WILLIAM PENNINGTON the executor therein named and was proved by the Oaths of David Ross, Benjamin Ezell and Solomon Right the Witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded and Certificate granted the said Executor for obtaining a probat thereof in due form he having with James Parrish and John Ward his Securities entered into and acknowledged Bond in the penalty of one thousand pounds with condition according to Law and It was ordered that THOMAS PENNINGTON Heir at Law (?) of the Testator should be summoned to appear at the next Court to be held for the said County and contest the validity thereof if he should think fit. Teste LM Tazewell, Cler. Cur. Submitted by Jemima Gee Morse <[email protected]> "Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly."