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177852 |
Amelia County, Virginia
Tithables 1778 – 1782
Edmund Booker’s List, Nottoway Parish
John Jackson
4 tithables
Slaves: Ami, other name indecipherable, is possibly Jude
Other White Males in Household: Henry Jackson |
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14 Aug. 178749 |
Amelia County, Virginia, Will Books 4 and 5, 1786 - 1791,
Will Book 4, page 94
In the name of God Amen I John Jackson Sr of Amelia County being Sick
and Weak of Body but of perfect sound memory do make and Ordain this my
last will and Testament in manner and form following after all of my
Just Debts are paid I Give to my son Abner Jackson one Negro boy Called
Abner (?) one Negro Girl called nancy I also Give the tract of Land he
now Lives upon in the County of Charlotte being by estimation one
hundred and thirty three acres to the same more or less I Give to my son
Henry Jackson two pounds Current money to be raised out of my estate and
paid him after my wifes decease I Give to my son Isaiah Jackson one
Negro boy called Jack one feather bed and furniture and two head of
misling (?) siged (?) Cattle I Give to my wife Sarah Jackson during her
natural Life or Enter marriage my Plantation on which I am dwelling with
all the Land I hold Joining the said Plantation and on her Death or
intermarriage (?) I desire it may return to my son Curtis Jackson, I
also Leave (?) to my wife Sarah Jackson the following Negroes, _?_, Amey,
Jude, Tawney, Milley, Sally (Tally?), Sampson, with all my stock and
house hold furniture and Still all which I _?_ her During her natural
life or Enter marriage and at her Death or intermarriage I desire all
the Negroes I left (?) her with the stock household furniture and Still
may be Equally Divided Between all my Children (viz) John Jackson,
Arthur Jackson, Daniel Jackson, Abner Jackson, William Jackson, Henry
Jackson, Isaiah Jackson and Curtis Jackson my Desire is that their be no appraisment of my Estate by order of Court and Lastly I appoint my wife
Sarah Jackson Executrix with my son Arthur Jackson Executor of my Last
Will and testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this
Fourteenth day of August Ann. Dom. One thousand seven hundred and Eighty
seven
John Jackson
Seal
Signed Sealed and Acknowledged
In the presence of
Barthow Dupree
James Dupree
Josiah Foster
William Hindby |
