Ebenezer Blackman's will dated May 28, 1755, probated August 24, 1753,mentioned his wife Mehitable and children Samuel, Ebenezer, James,Abigail Wester, Peter, Nathaniel, and Enoch, last three minors.Executers his wife Mehitable and son Ebenezer, and brother in law, SamuelAdams. Inventory taken by Franois Hawley and Jeremiah French and filedFeb. 21, 1754, Page 538. Abstract of Probate Records Fairfield County,Connecticut. Family History Library film #0004197.
Ebenezer's birth date taken from the Barbour collection of vital recordsof Strattford, Vol. LR2, pg. 479
48. Thomas Devericks
1. THOMAS1 DEVERICKS was born Abt. 1745, and died Bef. 07 April 1812 inPendleton Co. Va.. He married ?(WIFE OF THOMAS DEVERICKS). She died inPendleton Co. Va..
Notes for THOMAS DEVERICKS:
Rockingham Co. Va. Land Survey Records Book 0-1
pg. 59 Surveyed for Thomas Deverick 34 acres of Land in Augusta Co.on the East fork of the Cowpasture Above Estills Road Beginning at aforked Lynn & Shugar Tree on the West side of the Branch & thence S33 E30poles to a forked white oak and thence N53 E60 poles to a Black Shugartree and N30 E32 poles to a shill bark Hickory Thence N64 E60 poles to aSpanish Oak & Hickory & N25 E14 poles to a Hickory & Shugar Tree NW10poles to a white oak and Spruce pine S64 W76 poles and S51 W83 poles tothe Beginning.
Dec 12, 1766 John Poage Asst. Thomas Lewis SACpg. 190 Surveyed for Thomas Deverik 135 acres of Land in Augusta Co.on East Fork of the Cowpasture River. Adjoining Alexander Miller. Dec.31, 1771. (I didn't copy description, but this book has the surveysabstracted by Peter Cline Kaylor that I got the previous info. from)
Va. State Land Office - Index to Patents and Grants 1623-1774
#41 from 1772-1773 Devorick, Thomas 135 acres, p. 193.1782-87 Virginia taxpayers Augusta Co.
Deverix, Thomas Poll-1 Slaves-01787 Augusta Co. Va. Personal Property Tax List "C" (District of CharlesCameron Commissioner)
Deverix, Thomas self, 1wm 16-21, 7 horses, 17 cows
1787 Augusta Co. Va. Charles Cameron Dist.
Thomas Deverix 135/4"4/29/5/-/"8"91/4Augusta Co. Va. Deed Book 26 pg.155
7 Apr 1788 John Miller and Margaret of Rockingham to ThomasDevericks Sr. 125 acres part of tract patented to Daniel O'hara 23 May1763 on a south branch of the Cowpasture adjoining tract surveyed toMatthew Penn now in possession of Isaac Johns.1790 Augusta Co. Second Batalion
Thomas Deverix 135acres 4"4 29 5 0 8"9"4
125acres 2"4 14 11 8 4"4"4
Sims Index - Land Grants W.V. Pendleton Co.
Thomas Devericks 300a. Shaws Fork 1800 Bk 2, p.46.Census Information
1810 Va. Pendleton Co.
Thomas Debricks S. 1m (26-45), 1m (45+), 1f (45+) 4 slaves.Will of Thomas Devericks #32
In the Name of God Amen. I Tomas Devricks of the County of Pendletown &State of Virginia Being Sik of Body But of Sound memory, But Calling tomind the Mortality of all Flesh and that it is appointed Unto All menOnce to die Do Publish this my last will and Testment in the ManerFolling to wit.
First and principally I Recommend my Soul to God that give it and my Bodyto the Dust to Be Buried in a Christian maner At the Discretion of myExecutors Hereafter to Be mintioned. Nothing Doubting But I shallReceive the again at the General Resurection And Day of Judgement --. My worldy Estate Which it Hath pleased God to Bless me with I willit to Be Disposed of in th Folling maner After my funeral Expense is paid.
First I Bequeath all my Just Debts to be paid.
Secondly I Bequeath unto my Beloved Son Thomas All the lands I now posessExcept One Hundred acres of land off the Uper End of My land with theSulphur Springs which I Bequeath Unto my Son Johns Eldest Son ThomasDevericks to Him & their Heirs for Ever.
Secondly I Bequeath unto my son Thomas All my Farming Estentials Andtools Also four Milch Cows & three Calvs three Steers and a Bull and OneYearling Also Six Head of Horses Also One Sugar Cettle.
Thirdly I Bequeath unto my Daughter Sarah three Cows and three Calvs Oneyearling Hefer & One two Year Old Hefer one mare Names Nance & Hir Colt &One Young horse of Said Mare Aged four Years Also two Bedsteeds & BedsAnd Clothing And the Shelf furniture; The Tables and Chairs to Be DividedBetween Thomas and Sarah Also One Chist to my Daughter Sarah Also A NegroBoy and Wench and Children Unto my Daughter Sarah During hir life And toBe under the Diriction of my Son Thomas while that She lives And Whenthat She Dies the are to Be the Property of my Son Thomas & His Heirs forEver Also I give unto my Daughter Sarah A Bond on James Botkins and oneon John Botkins Also the pots.
Fourthly I Bequeath unto marigrit Botkin my Daughter the Sum of tenDollars to be paid in property.
Fifthly I Bequeath Unto my Daughter mary Hodge a loom and taklings Alsoten Dollars in property. And further the House that I now live in ShallBe my Daughters Sarah While that She Doth live And Further the Plantationthat I
now live on Shall not Be Sold During the life of my Daughter Sarah.
Fifthly I Bequeath unto my Son John Devricks One Horse Named Buck adgedSix years Old.
And Further I Appoint John and Thomas Devricks Exrc. to this my last willand Testment Hereby Revocking Anulling And Declaiming All Other formerWills and Testments made by me null And Void and I Do Hereby Ratify andConfirm this only to be My last will and Testment In witness Whereof Ihave Sit to my Hand and Seall this First Day of January In the Year ofOur lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Seven.
In the Precence of us the Subscribing Witness
Present my hand and SealC.(?) Campbell his
James (?) Johns Thomas X Devricks
Jeremah X Johns mark
1812
? Court Provd by Jas and Jermiah Johns and ? Recorded Book No 3
pg.186. Examined.At a Court held for Pendleton County the 7th day fo April 1812 this lastwill and Testament of Thomas Devricks decd. was proved by the oaths ofJames and Jeremiah Johns two of the witnesses thereto, and is ordered tobe Recorded And on the of the Executors therein named who made oaththerto and together with Security ordered into and acknowledged a bondconditioned as the Law directs Certificate is granted them for obtaininga probat of
said Will in due form. Teste L Dyer C.P.C.Mary and Thomas slander case.
The Commonwealth of Virginia, To the Sheriff of Augusta county greeting:
You are hereby commanded to take Jarred Erwin and Elizabeth his wife ifthey be found within your bailiwick, and then ? so that you have theirbodies before the Justices of our Court, of our said county at the courthouse, on the third Tuesday in November next to answer Mary Devricks, anInft. by Thomas Devricks her next friend of a plea of Trespas on thecase. Damage Five hundred pounds and have then there this writ. WitnessAlexander McClenachan, clerk of our said court at the Court House, the16th day of Aug. 1790 in the ? year of the commonwealth.
A. McClenachan
Filed in the Augusta County Clerk's Office, Stanton, Virginia, aJudgement, Devriks VS Erwin, File Drawer 445.And the said Gerrard Erwin & wife by Hugh Holmes their attorney come andpray Judgement of the Writ aforesaid of the said Polly by Thos Deverick,her next friend because they say that the said Polly Devericks is now andbefore the suing out of the said Writ an infant under the age of twentyone Years, and because the said Thomas Devericks named in the said Writto be the next friend of the said Polly Devericks was not appointed thenext friend by the County Court of Augusta or any other Court and thisthe said Gerrard & wife ? to ? wherefore because the said PollyDevericks is an infant under twenty one Years, and because the saidThomas Devericks named in the writ afored. to be the next friend of thePolly Devericks was not appointed by the Court of Augusta or any otherCourt the said Gerrard & his wife pray Judgt. of the said Writ and thatthe same May be quashed.
Gerrard Erwin & wife
ad on the Case Holmes pro Defe.
Polly Devericks Inf. by her next friend Thos DevericksBath County Gerrard Erwin & Ux
ad on the Case
Polly Devericks by her next friend Thos. DevericksGerrard Erwin & wife of the County of Augusta aforesaid theDefendants in this cause make oath and say that the plea within writtenis true in substance and matter of fact - Sworn to before me a Justice ofthe peace for the County aforesaid this twentieth day of May 1791.John PeeblesAugusta Va. Pursuant to a commission to me Directed from the WorshipfullCourt of Augusta to take the Deposition of Patience Chestnut on Behalf ofMary Deverick, Platt. agt. Jaret Erwin & Elizabeth his wife, Deft.Accordingly we have Repaired to the house of the Said Patience Chestnutand in the Presence of Thomas Deverick & Said Jaret & Defendants haveSwore and Examined the Said Patience who declares as followeth, viz.That Sometime in the Course of Last Spring or the Begining of the Summerthis Deponet was at the house of Jaret Erwin and in Some Conversationwith Elizabeth Erwin the Deftt. Said Elizabeth Said to this Deponet thatMary Devericks had told her Daughter Polly Erwin that Thos. Peebles Jr.had laid in Bed with her all night and Put her in Such a Sweat that Shehad to wipe her face with a handerchief once or twice. This Deponetfurther Saith that P. Elizabeth continued to Say that Diona Botkin hadtold her, this Deft., that She, the P. Diona had Some angry Discoursewith Mary Devericks tending toward cautioning her the P. Mary, about herBehavior that P. Mary Replyed She Knowed what made her so angrery forthat She Supposed that She had heard that She the P. Mary Deverick waswith child and further Saith not. Given under my hand, this 13thd Day ofSept. 1790.
Thos. Hughart
John WilsonChildren of THOMAS DEVERICKS and ?(WIFE DEVERICKS) are:
2. i. THOMAS JR.2 DEVERICKS, b. d. 1825, Pendleton Co. Va..
3. ii. JOHN DEVERICKS, b. March 1763; d. 12 June 1843, Pendleton Co.Va..
iii. SARAH DEVERICKS, b. Abt. 1766; d. no marriage.
4. iv. MARGARET DEVERICKS, b. 31 July 1768, Augusta Co.; d. 1851,Highland Co. Va..
5. v. MARY DEVERICKS, b. Abt. 1773, Pendleton Co. Va..