This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martain/Martin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACE/846.2.1 Message Board Post: Abstract of will of Robert Martin, Recorded in Orange County Will Book 3, pages 49-50. Will of ROBERT MARTANE . . . I lend unto Anne, my beloved wife, all my estate . . . John Young, one shilling for marrying his wife's sister . . . my daughter, Sarah, one shiling for marrying her brother in law . . . two granddaughters, Nancy and Jane young, ten pounds a peace . . . (proceeds from sale of land) . . . amongst my son, Richard Martane's children . . . my daughter, Amelia Brockman, one still which she has in her possession . . . after my wife, Anne Martane, decease, that my estate be sold . . . equally divided between two sons, Robert Martane and George Martane, and my three daughters, Elizabeth Howherd, Frankey Hobday and Anne White . . . appoint my son, Robert Martane, and my friend, Johnny Scott, my executors . . . Anne Martane, my executrix . . . this 24th day of September 1781. (signed) Robert Martane Witnesses Johnny Scott, William Sutton, A. Madison, George Martin. At a court held 27 February 1783. Presented . . . William Young, their security . . . bond in the penalty of one thousand pounds. Abstracted in Will Abstracts of Orange Co., VA 1778-1821, by Sparaco, Ruth L. & Sam, 1985, Privately Pub. I would also love to see a copy of the will.