This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Redd, Billups, Anderson, Wright, Watkins, Cunningham, McClurg, Lloyd, Jones Classification: Will Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/yBC.2ACI/502 Message Board Post: >From Genealogies of Virginia Families (available at genealogy.com): The will of Thomas Redd: I, Thomas Redd, of Prince Edward County, being in health and thinking it prudent to direct in what manner my estate shall be disposed of at my death, do make this my last will and testament, as follows: It is my desire that each of my children, Charles Anderson Red, Polly Red, Sally Anderson Redd, and Patty Redd, as they come of age or marry, should have to them and their heirs out of my estate three likely negroes, between the age of twelve and twenty years. Also I will to each of my children above named, to be delivered up to them, as they come of age or marry, fifty pounds cash or the value thereof in such stock and household furniture as they may choose and my wife can spare from the estate. Further I lend to my wife France Redd all my estate, both real and personal, during her natural life, subject to the legacies above mentioned; and at the death of my wife, I devise to my son Charles Anderson Redd the land where I now live, containing six hundred acres (be the same more or less), to him and his heirs. And all my personal estate that shall remain, after my four younger children above named shall be advanced as above directed, I bequeath, on the death of my wife, to be equally divided among my children: George Redd, John Redd, Thomas Redd, William Redd, Charles A. Redd, Fanny Cunningham, Polly Redd, Sally Redd, and Patty Redd; also one child's part to my grandaughter Polly Watkins; also an equal child's part among all the children of my daughter Betsy Billups, to them and their heirs forever. My will further is that, provided my grandaughter Polly Watkins should die before she comes of age or marries, that the legacy intended for her shall not take effect but shall remain a part of my estate and be divided as the rest of my personal estate which shall remain after the death of my wife. I appoint George Redd, John Redd, William Redd, and James Cunningham executors of this my will. Signed with my own hand as my last will and testament this 17th day of January, 1799. Thos. Redd The witnesses were Danl. Dodson, Jr., Richard N. Venable, and Charles Morton. Thenext day he added the following codicil to his will: I, Thomas Redd, hereby direct that, provided my daughter Betsy Billups should survive my wife, and that my said daughter Betsy shall have the use for her life of that part of my estate which is, by my will, directed to be divided among her children. Thos. Redd The same witnesses signed this codicil. More than two years were to elapse before another change was to be made in his will. On 17 April 1801 Thomas Redd, too feeble to sign his name, added the following second codicil, the witnesses to which were his children, George Redd, Sally Anderson Redd, Charles Anderson Redd, and Martha Redd: I hereby revoke and annull so much of my foregoing will and testament as gave to my daughter Polly any property or interest in my estate; and all property and interest which was intended for her in the foregoing will I do now give to my son John Redd and his heirs, to be held in trust by him for the use of the children which my daughter Polly now has or may hereafter have; and I further desire and empower my son John to apply the profits of the said property given him in trust to the support of my daughter Polly and her children, in such manner as he may think proper, without any other guide or restraint than his own discretion. At the death of my daughter Polly it is my will that the said property, given in trust, shall be equally divided among all her children or their legal representatives. It is my desire that my son John shall never be compelled to render an account of the profits of the estate so given him in trust or be accountable to anyone for the manner in which ! he applied it. My will further is that, in the case of the death of my son John, he may by will or otherwise direct who shall take the management of the said estate given in trust. his Thomas X Redd (SEAL) mark The will and its two codicils were proved in court on 15 June 1801, as Thomas was deceased by that date. (I am only related through a cousin and have no further information.)