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Abstrac'is of Old Virginia Wills. 



1. Ellis VAVis, of Redstone Settlement; dated July 13, 1776; at- 

 tested by Thomas Freeman, Thomas Pratherand Leven Green ; proved 

 November 20, 1776, at a court for the District of West Augusta : Ben- 

 eficiaries, wife, Ann ; sons, Isaac, Thomas, Jonathan ; daughter, Ann. 



2. Jacob Lamb, of Pigeon Creek in West Augusta County; dated 

 November 4, 1776 ; attested by John Crow, Andrew McClean, John 

 ^Vright, Abraham AV'estfall, Archevil White; proved' June 24, 1777: 

 Beneficiaries, brothers Peter, John ; brother-in-law George Kintner ; 

 sisters Catharine, Susannah. 



3. Job Robins ; dated August 10, 1777 ; attested by Joseph Brown, 

 Francis Sprouse ; proved on August 25, 1777: lieneficiaries, wife 

 Rebecca ; sons Amos, James, John ; daughter Anne. 



4. Jonathan Reed, of West Augusta, Colony of \"irginia ; dated 

 November 4, 1776; attested by Hugh McCreedy, Noah Fleaharty ; 

 appoints Edward Cook and Dorsey Pentecost and Joseph Beckett, 

 to settle and have adjusted all his late public accounts in regard to 

 his vitualing the Troops stationed on the Ohio ; proved September 23, 

 1777: Beneficiaries, wife Sarah; sons John, Jonathan; daughters 

 Mary, Sarah, Martha, Ruth ; executors Edward Cook, wife Sarah, and 

 Joseph Beckett. 



5. Joseph Kirkwood, of Yohogania County, State of Virginia; 

 dated April 24, 1777 ; attested by Nicholas Little, George Gal- 

 laspie, Robert Meek; proved October 29, 1777: Beneficiaries, wife 

 Margaret; son David ; unborn child, "the old woman," and Martha 

 and Mary. 



6. James Pearce, Yohogania County, State of ^'irginia; dated 

 February 15, 1778; attested by James Wall, Joseph Warne, Walter 

 Wall; proved March 24, 1778: Beneficiaries, wife Sarah; sons 

 Andrew, Lewis, James, Stephen, Jonathan. 



7. William Chaplin, of West Augusta, Colony of Virginia ; attested 

 by Charles Bilderback, Elizabeth Swearingen, William Nation ; proved 

 on March 23, 1778 : Beneficiaries, Abraham Chaplin, Isaac Chaplin, 

 Elizabeth Swearingen, Mary Chaplin, William Chaplin, Vance Chaplin, 

 — devises " one place at Cain Tuck." 



8. John Vance, of Yohogania County in Virginia; dated Decem- 

 ber 10, 1777 ; attested by William Crawford, Benjamin Wells, Samuel 

 Hecks; proved March 23, 1778: Beneficiaries, wife Margaret, sons 



1 This and the wills following were all proved before the Yohogania County Court. 



