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1717-1722 Essex County, Virginia Wills, Inventories & Settlements, No. 3; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 72-73. Thos. St. John. Inventory. 17 Nov. 1718. Made pursuant to order of 16 Sept. 1718. Appraisers sworn before Mr. Reubin Welch. Total valuation £34.0.1. Signed by Wm, St. John.
Wm. Covington
William Cole
Henry Perkins
18 Nov. 1718. Returned by Wm. St. John.
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1717-1722 Essex County, Virginia Wills, Inventories & Settlements, No. 3; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 122. Thos. St. John. Additional inventory. Items not valued, Include receipts from Benja, Matthews, James Howerton, Jno. Williamson, and Arthor Hogges. Signed by Wm. St. John.
17 Nov. 1719. Wm. St. John presented this inventory.
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1697-1699 Essex County, Virginia Deed & Will Book, Part II; [Antient Press]; Page 225-226
IN THE NAME OF GOD Amen, I THOMAS ST. JOHN of ye Parish of SOUTH FARNHAM in ye County of RAPPA: being sick & weak of Body but of perfect mind & memory praised be therefore given to ye Almighty God, I do make & ordaine this my present last Will &Testamt. in manner & forme following, that is to say, first & principally I comend my Soult into the hands of Almighty God hopeing that I may obtaine life everlasting, I do committ my body to ye earth & to be buried at ye discretion of my Exex., hereafter. First I will that all just debts & funerall charges shall be paid & discharged
Item. I give & bequeath unto my Grandson, THOMAS COOPER, a young Mare of a year old with her increase for ever;
Item I give & bequeath unto my Daughter, ELESEBETH COOPER, ye benefit of land to worke upon whare hur Husband, WM. COOPER, is now a bilding dureing her life time & to have as much priviledg for Timber or aney thing Bless as tho the land ware hir owne duaring her life time;
Likewise my will is that all my Land that I am now possessed with to be equaly devided betweene my Sons, THOMAS ST. JOHN JUNR., & WILLIAM ST. JOHN. I do likewise make them both at age at Eighteen years if there Mother should decease or Marry but if not to abide while ye age of one & twenty;
I do give & bequeath unto RICHD. COVINGTON, Ten Shelings to bey him a Ring;
Lastly, I give & bequeath unto Wife, MARY ST. JOHN, all ye rest & remaining part of my Estate both moveables & immoveables dureing hur life time provided that she shall keep hurselfe a Widow & not marrey & after my Wifes decease to be equally devided amoung all my Cheldren, but if my Wife should marrey then my will is that shee should have but ye third part of my Easteat & ye other to be devided amoung my Children I do likewise make my Wife my hole Exex. over my hole Esteat both pasnall & reiall, In Witness whereof I the said THOMAS ST. JOHN to this my last Will &Testament have heareunto set my hand & seale this Tenth day of October one thousand six hundred & ninety
Signed sealed & acknowledged in ye presents of us
WILLIAM COOPER, THO: ST. JOHN
JOHN BILLINGTON,
EDWARD BRUNN JUNR.
Arrived by the oaths of JNO, BILLINGTON & WM. COOPER in Essex County Court ye 10th day of Sept. 1698 & truely recorded
Test FRANCIS MERIWETHER, Cl Cur
KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that we MARY ST. JOHN & RICHARD COVINGTON of the County of Essex are held and firmly bound unto his Maties. Justices of the peace for ye sd. County in the sum of Twenty thousand pounds of good sound Tobo: & caske, to the which payment we bind ourselves our heirs firmly by these presents; Witness our hands & seales this 10th day of September 1698
The Condicon of the above obligacon is such that if the above bound MARY ST. JOHN, who at a Court held for Essex County ye 10th day of September 1698 obtained a Probate of the last Will and Testament of THO: ST. JOHN, do at all times hereafter fulfill ye sd Will, fully pay & satisfie all such Legacies as therein are expressed & do p:form all ye Law enjoynes in such cases, That then the above obligacon to be void, otherwise to remaine of full force
Signed sealed & delivered in ye presence of us
THO: GREGSON, MARY (her mark) ST. JOHN
JAMES BOUGHAN RICHD. COVINGTON
Truely recorded Test FRANCIS MERIWETHER, Cl Cur
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1722-1730 Essex County, Virginia Wills, Bonds & Inventories, No. 4; [John Frederick Dorman]; Page 248-50
Will of Will of Mary Billington in the parish of South Farnham and County of Essex, now being sick and weak in body, dated 23 July 1727.
To my son in law Nathanll. Newbill one parcell of land lying on the south side of the Dragon Swamp it being the land that I bought of one William Cheandy and after his decease to his son Thomas Newbill.
To John and Thomas St. John the sons of Thomas St. John deced, 120 acres at the lower part of my track where I now live to be equally divided when they come in the age of twenty and one years and the remainer of the track to William St. John the sone of William St. John decst,and if either of them should dye without issue their part to Thomas Newbill.
To William St. John one Negro and one feather bed and furniture excepting curtains and valing.
To Tabitha the wife of Henry Purkins Senr., one feather bed and furniture except curtains and valings; 10 pounds cash.
To my granddaughter Mary Deshazoo a young Negro which she how hath in possession.
To Hannah Harper the wife of Edward Harper, one Negro.
To Hannah Covington the daughter of Thomas Covington, one young Negro on the day of marriage or when she comes to the age of eighteen years.
To Barbary, Catherine and Thomas Newbill each one Negro.
To John and Thomas St. John the sons of Thomas St. John decest, one Negro between them equally divided.
If after my desese Elizabeth St. John the widow of William St. John desest doth acquit my heirs from all claims due to her and hir children in my estate by inheritance from William St. John decest and also enter into bonds that neither she nor her children shall bring action nor no way claim part of my estate, and when her five sons comes to age of twenty one years every one of them, to wit Richard, James, Thomas, Abraham and Isaac St. John, acquit my heirs from all claim in my estate, then my executors pay each of the above mentioned Richard, James, Thomas, Abraham and Isaac St. John one Negro, but if any one of her sons or herself should refuse then my executors pay each of the above five sons one shilling.
To Nathan Newbill four of my best Negros during his life and after his decese divided between Thomas Newbill and Catherine Newbill.
All my personal estate not before given equally devided amongst Nathan Newbill and all his children share and share alike. William Newbill and Henry Purkins Junr. executors.
Signed: Mary (X) Billington
Wit: Jer. Shepard, James (N) Newbill, James (J) Dicks. 16 Jan. 1727 (1728).
presented by Nathl. Newbill and Wm. Brooke, Gent., justices.
For 200 pounds sterling. 20 Feb. 1727 (1728).
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Aft 1681 - 1718 (< 35 years)