Posted on: Caroline Co. Va Wills Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/CarolineWill/14 Surname: DAVIS, DAVENPORT, TYNES, YANCY, TERRY ------------------------- Richard Davis lived most of his life in Caroline County, Virginia, even though his will was recorded (and he probably died) in Granville County, North Carolina. The North Carolina State Archives has two versions of this will: one in the barely-legible handwriting of Richard Davis himself, the other the official copy made by a court clerk. The clerk's copy is almost useless, due to his difficulty in understanding the original. The following is my transcription of the original, with my comments in [square brackets]. Further information on this will, including images of the original and the court clerk's copy, may be found at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tmark/RichardDavisWill.html - ------------------------------ In the name of God amen I Richard Davis of Cariline County being now in parfick helth mind and memry God be prais for it and calling to mind the fate of fate [sic] and this Life is unsurting is mind to set my bissnes and to setel all in order [three words obliterated, probably "before it is"] to late I doo hear by apint this to be my last will and testament - - Item I lend to my be Loved wife all my hole Estate both parsonel and Reial duering her widowhood but if she shood mary then all my Estate to be Devided amonge my Children as I shall name Item I lend to my Daugher Kesiah Devnport [Davenport] one negro garl named Luci[?] and the In Creas as long as my Daugher Kesia liveth and after her deth the negro gal and her Icreas to be devided among her Children born of her one body Item I lend to my Daugher patien Toyns [Patience Tynes] a negr womad [sic] namd Judy and if the negro wench shood have a child after the date of this my will I give it to my gradator Lovinah Davis be it boy or gal. I lend to my daugher patien toyns a negro garl named Isbel and if the negro gal lives to have a child be boy or garl I give it to my gran Daugdaugher [sic] Jeriah Toyns. the negro Judy and the negro garl I leave to my daugher Toyns Dure her Life and after her Death Exceping these to Children before given all their increas to bee devided at my Daugher patien Toyns Death among the children born of her one body Item I lend to my Dugtor Sofyah Yancy a negro Garl named an dureing her life and after her death the negro garl and her increas to her Childeren to be devided among the Children born of her one body It I Lend to my daghor Judy Davis a negro boye nameed mericah dureing her Life I dont Leave her in the Cear of any pertickelar Child but where she likes the best among all my children to her negro boye with her and after her deth the negro boye to be his that she lives and dyes with him or her Itm I Give to my Daughter Judy Davis the bead where on she lies and if the negro boy lives to be fitting to goo in for [?]shear and is put in for a Crop he shant be moved til the Crop is finised and have his part tord maintaing her and him self It I Give to my son Agustain [Augustine] Davis a negro man named wiser tord maitning of my sons Gidens [Gideon's] three boys and I give to my son Agustain Davis one negro boy named winser to him and his hars It I Give to my son Cyrus Davis a negro Girl named Dot and her incres to him and his hairs It I Give to my son Sollomon Davis one negro boy named peter to him and his hairs It I leve my negro felo myner to be sold to the highest bider among my one children I Debare any one biding I wood not have him goe out of the family and twenty five pounds of the mony to be put in my sons Agustain hands for my son Gideon Children and five pound with it the which makes it thirty pounds to be paid to the Children as thay gro up to the age of ninetean as thay grow up if anone dyes his part to go to the liveing and the mony not to be taken out of my son Agustain hands til the Children is growe up to Receave it but not any Interest on it I declare that the five pound to the twenty five pound given makes it thirty pund the f[???] I [???] to the children It ten pound of the mony to be payd to my son Apsolam [Absolem] Davis for this Land as I now live on my son Apsalam Davis has had his part in Land It I Give the land and planttation where on I now Live and all the improofments to my Gran son Richard Davis to him and his hare It and all my other Estate houses stof and stock catel hogs and hors flesh valed and sold and turnd into mony and the over [???] of the mony that is above thirty pound to my son Gidion Children and the ten pound to my son apsalam for the Land to be sum up to the mony that my par of estate is valied to and Eqally Devided betwen my daugter Jeriah Terry my son Zackarias Davis and Mary Consalva[?] and my dauhter Jeria Terry part to be put in to my son absolam hands to pay to her self in parson and to no one els and if [three words obliterated, perhaps "she never comes"] her one self her part to be his one proper Estate and Mary part to be in my son agostain hands to pay to and no one els and if she never comes to be his one proper Estate and my son Zackarias to have his part as he will and my will is that to of my sons or sons in law to vallu it and my will is that nothing I have be disturb nor mislested[?] of my hole estant only old winser for the benefit of the children till my wife is Dead and berr[ied?] and my will is that the County Court shall not be consarned with this my will onely to put it on the Record and I dow apint my son Apsalam Davis and my son Agustain Davis to be holy Exetors of this my Last will and testament and pay for the eigh Children before name thay have and had ther full part so that I doo Debare any of them a Comin for any of the Last three Leges[?] that I have Given to the Last Children as witnes my hand and seal 16 Day of June 1760 [or possibly 1761] [signed in the same hand] Richard Davis [in different hands] Teste William Upshaw Jurat Thomas Upshaw William his W mark Holly Granville County [???] Novem.r Court 1761 This Will was proved by the Oath of William Upshaw one of the subscribing Witnesses thereto & Order'd to be Recorded then Absolem Davis & Augustine Davis Executors therein named Qualified as such which was Ordered to be Certified Teste Davd I Weldon CC Absolam Davis Augustine Davis Qualified as Exrs This Deed [sic] was further proved by the Oath of William Holly a Witness thereto Teste Davd I Weldon CC Link: Richard Davis will URL: <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tmark/RichardDavisWill.html>