Will for Isaac Arnold

September 15, 1737

Source: King George County, Virginia, Will Book 1, p. 89

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In the name of God Amen. Septembr the 15th 1737.

I, Isaac Arnold of the Parish of Hanover in King George County, being sick and weak at this time in body but of good & perfect sense & memory do make this my last will in the manner & form following.

First I bequeath my soul & spirit into the hands of Almighty God by whom of his mercy & only ____ grace through the death & merits of my Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ I set the sole & only hope of my salvation. My body I commit to the earth to be buryed as my ____ hereafter named shall think fit.

My will is that my eldest son Isaac Arnold do immediately enter into possession of all that tract or parcel of land whereon I formerly did live & inhabit situate in the Parish of Hanover and bounded with the land of Capt. Joseph Murdock & the land of Moses Pittman & others & was given to the sd. Isaac Arnold my sd. son by Thomas Goff grand-father to the sd. Issac Arnold & that the sd. Isaac & his heirs hold & enjoy the sd. land forever.

Item I do give & bequeath unto my sd. eldest son Isaac Arnold one shilling sterling as all his part of my estate.

Item I do give & bequeath unto my daughter Dianah Wharton and Samuel Wharton her now husband all that piece or parcel of land whereon they now live during the whole term of the sd. Dianah her life to live thereon & no further nor otherwise which land is bounded with the road which leads from Duff's Ordinary to King George Courthouse beginning at a marked red oak standing in Capt. Joseph Strother's line on or near the said road thence with the sd. road ____ dividing this land from some other of my land crossing a branch to the line of the land or Mr. John Moor thence with the line of the sd. Moor to three red oaks ____ to this land & in the line of the land of the sd. Strothers thence with the sd. Strother's line to the first station the sd. Samuel not to sell nor waste any timber from ____ the sd. land & that in case the sd. Samuel & Dianah should remove from the sd. land to any other place to live & inhabit before the death of the sd. Dianah the sd. land immediately to return to my wife & her heirs & assigns forever.

Item I give & bequeath unto my son William Arnold one shilling sterling as his part of my estate.

Item I give & bequeath unto my son Benjamin Arnold one shilling sterling as his part of my estate.

Item I do give & bequeath unto my youngest son Mark Arnold one shilling sterling as his part of my estate.

Item I do give & bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Moran one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item I do give & bequeath unto my daughter Isabell Rogers one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item I do give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Arnold one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item I do give & bequeath unto my daughter Mary Arnold one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item I do give & bequeath unto my daughter Jemima Arnold one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item I do give & bequeath unto my daughter Susanna Arnold one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item I do give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Mary Arnold my now dwelling, house & plantation together also with all the land I now have or lay any claim unto also with that other piece or parcel after my daughter Dianah's death which is only to the sd. Dianah for her life all which aforesaid land I do hereby give unto my sd. wife & her heirs & assigns forever & I do so give the premises unto my sd. wife that she my sd. wife may have full power & lawful authority may have full power & lawful authority to lease or sell any part or the whole of the aforesaid land in a full & ample manner & to make a good right thereto as I might or could do were I alive to sell the same myself.

Item I do also give unto my sd. wife all & every part of my personal estate, beds & furniture, household goods of every kind together with all my whole stock of horses, mares, cattle, sheep, hogs with every other thing that belongs to me on or about the sd. plantation.

And my will is that my youngest son Mark Arnold be ____ ____ all services due to me who was eighteen years old the twenty sixth day of July last.

Item And I do make & appoint my loving wife Mary my whole & sole executrix of this my last will revoking & ____ all former & other wills by me heretofore satisfying & declaring this & no other to be my last will & testament & in confirmation thereof I have hereunto set my hand & ____ my seal this thirtieth day of September in the year of our Lord 1737 - Sealed & delivered in presence of - I desire thay my estate may not be brought to an appraisement.

Isaac Arnold

Test, Robt. Walker
Robt. Walker Junr
Wm. ____

At a court held for King George County the 4th day of May 1738.

The written last will & testament of Isaac Arnold deceas'd was presented into court by Mary Arnold the executrix therein named who made oath thereto according to law & the same being further proved by the oaths of two of the witnesses thereto subscribed was ordered to be recorded & is truly recorded.

Test, Rob. Armistead