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BOATRIGHT FAMILY PRIMARY DOCUMENTS

COMPILED BY

NORMAN HURD RICKER, JR.

Last Will and Testament Of Daniel Boatwright 4-21-1797

Dated 4-21-1797, Book 3, Pg 114/115.


    VIRGINIA      :   IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN.  I Daniel Boatright of
                  :
CUMBERLAND COUNTY :   Cumberland County, being in a low state of

health but in perfect mind & memory do make and ordain this my last Will & Testament, hereby 
revoking all former wills to this day.  My Will & desire is that after my debts & funeral 
expenses are paid the following distribution of my Estate real & personal, to wit:

Item  I lend to my wife Jane Boatright all my estate that I now have in possession real & 
personal, during her natural life except as much of my stock as will furnish three beds for 
the use of my daughters that are now single.

Item  I give unto my daughter Nancy Boatright a Negro girl Biddy which she has in possession, 
to her and her heirs forever.

Item  I give unto my daughter Jane Smith fifty pounds, twenty five pounds of which she has in 
possession, & the balance at the division of the estate, also the bed & furniture whereon we 
lay, to her, her heirs or assigns forever.

Item  I give unto my son John Boatright sixty pounds that I lent him, now in his possession, 
also forty acres of land that I leased to Gabriel Peasly after the said lease expires, with 
the income thereof to him, his heirs or assigns forever.

Item  I give unto my daughter Sally Boatright one Negro man named Simon & one bed & furniture 
to her & the heirs of her body forever, but if she should die without a child, I then give it 
to be equally divided between all my children to them & their heirs forever.

Item  I give unto my son James Boatright the land whereon I now live, to him his heirs or 
assigns forever.

Item  I give unto my son Valentine Boatright one hundred pounds, which money is raised by 
the sale of a piece of land in Buckingham County, to his use, to him & his heirs forever.

Item  I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Martin one Negro girl Patty, which she has in 
possession, to her & her heirs forever.

Item  I give unto my daughter Esther Martin one Negro girl Aggy, which she has in possession, 
to her & her heirs forever.

Item  I give unto my daughter Milley Boatright to take possession at any time one Negro girl 
Lucy, one bed & one cow & calf, to her, her heirs or assigns forever.

Item  I give unto my daughter Drucilla Meadow one Negro girl Dilsa which she has in possession, 
to her & her heirs forever.

Item  I give unto my daughter Rhoda Boatright one Negro woman Ony & her increase, to take 
possession when ever her mother thinks proper, also one bed & one cow & calf, to her & her 
assigns forever.

Item  I give to my daughter Locky Boatright one Negro girl Dicey & her increase, to take 
possession whenever her mother thinks proper, also one bed, one cow & calf & one side saddle, 
to her, her heirs or assigns forever.

Item  I lend unto my three sons, John Boatright, James Boatright & Valentine Boatright, my 
Negro man Sam in the manner following, to wit, each of them shall hold a share in him during 
their natural lives & no longer, he is to be well used, & is not to be sold nor hired out, 
but shall labour a twelve months at a time in rotation according to their ages, & when one 
of them shall decease, this claim to him shall cease & the other two hold him in like manner, 
& at the decease of the whole of them, the N. Sam shall become free & independent.  Balance 
of my estate personal, after the death of my wife, I leave to be equally divided between all 
my daughters or their representatives, them or their heirs forever.  I nominate & appoint 
John Boatright, Valentine Boatright & John Martin Executors of this my last Will & Testament. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this twenty first day of 
April 179 seven.

Page 115

Signed Sealed & delivered  :
in presence of             :
Frederick Jones            :             Daniel Boatright (Seal)
James (X) Boatright, Jr.   :
John Stratton, Jr.         :

Examined at Court held for Cumberland County the 26th day of March 1798.  This last Will and 
Testament of Daniel Boatright, deceased, was exhibited in Court and proved by the witnesses 
thereto and ordered to be recorded.

                                                   Teste  Js Woodsman, D.C.

NOTE:  Immediately following on page 115 is the last Will & testament of Obadiah Hendrick of 
the Parish of Littleton in the County of Cumberland.  Hendrick family members were 
significantly associated with Theophilus Scarborough in Bulloch Co GA; Rachel Hendrick 
witnessed in the settlement of the estate of Thomas Boatright, Dec'd, and William Boatright 
8-15-1776 in Edgefield SC;  Frederick Moss, Sr's dau Margaret m Russell Hendrick.

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