Will of Elizabeth Boyer Carpenter

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This is the Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth Boyer Carpenter.

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Will of Elizabeth (Boyer) Carpenter, Rockingham County Will Book 1: 64-66, Circuit Court Clerk's Office, Harrisonburg, VA.  
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The definitive resource for genealogical citations is: Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1997. To paraphrase Ms. Mills, CMS and MLA don't cover all the criteria encountered or required of genealogical research. Such a citation would include the repository. -- Deb Wake
 

 

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The following is the transcribed text of the Will of Elizabeth Boyer Carpenter.
Transcription by Deb Wake, fifth great granddaughter of Elizabeth, 12400 Courtyard Lane, Richmond, VA 23233.

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Page 64a

This is Elizabeth, nee Boyer, daughter of Jacob, wife of George Carpenter Jr.

In the Name of God Amen. I Elizabeth
Carpenter of the county of Rockingham & State of Virginia
do make and ordain this my last Will & Testament. To wit
First I will that my Just debts & funeral expenses be paid
and Secondly, I will Two Hundred Dollars, for the use of the Eight
children of my Brother in law Philip Teter, which is to be kept
on interest by my Executors, and one Eighth part of the
Sum thereof to be paid over to each of them as they arrive
at Legal age, respectively agreeable to their sex--but if it
Shall happen that any one or more of them shall die before
he or she shall arive at age as aforesaid, in that case the
Residue of them, or such of them as shall arive at such age
Shall have an equal dividend of the afforesaid Two Hundred
Dollars with Such Interest as Shall have accrued thereon at
Such period as their respective dividends shall become due
Thirdly I will the two cows which I now have to my two
sons John & Jacob Carpenter--And my two heffers to
the children of my said two Sons, and as Jacob Carpenter
with his family live at too great distance to recive [sic] them
in kind, I leave the Value thereof in money to them in Lieu
thereof.
Fourthly. I give to my Son-in-law- Sylvester K Fuller one Half
Dozen of my Pewter plates as a memorial.

Page 64b

5th I Give to my Granddaughter Elizabeth Carpenter, Daughter of
John Carpenter, one feather Bed , Bedstead & feather cover.
6th I Give to my Grand Daughter Elizabeth Carpenter, Daughter of Jacob
Carpenter, one other feather bed, not yet filled up,--and to my
Sister Susanna Teter the third feather bed & Bedstead on which I
(the next line is missing)

Page 65

I also give to my Sister Susanna Teter, All my own
wearing apperal [sic], And all the other wearing apperal in my
possession. I wish to be divided as I have given a memorandum
to my Son John Carpenter for that purpose--or Rather to Sally
Carpenter, wife of the said John Carpenter.
7th I will that my Household furniture not otherwise
disposed of be divided by my Son John Carpenter agreeable to
a memorandum given him for that purpose.
--Note it is my wish that the two Heffers above mentioned be divided
Thus: Jacob & William Carpenter, Sons of John Carpenter to have One
of them with Her Increase--And George & Jacob Carpenter, Sons of
Jacob Carpenter to have the Other with her Increase, where they
shall arrive at age respectively.
I give my brass Kettle & Thru Hackles Oven Dish, two cupboards
and a Dozen chairs to my two sons John & Jacob Carpenter to be
equally divided betwixt them--as well as whatever else may belong to me.
together with such of the Services of Billy as may be coming to me.--& c.
I will to my Yellow man Billy Linnen for Six Shirts, to be
paid to him when he shall become free agreeable to the will of my
late husband, to wit, three of low linnen, two of flax, and one
of Store Linnen.
Lastly I do hereby constitute my said two Sons John & Jacob Carpenter
Executors of this my last Will & Testament. In witness whereof
I have hereinto Subscribed my hand & affixed my seal this
22nd day of September 1818.
her
signed sealed and acknowledged Elizabeth x Carpenter (seal)
in presence of us mark
(missing from copy)

Page 66

Rockingham Co Superior Court September
Term 1818
This Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth
Carpenter Decd was presented in court and proved by the
oaths of Mathias Miller & Samuel Bambridge
two Witnesses thereto & ordered to be Recorded and on
the Motion of Jacob Carpenter (one of the executors named
in said will who made oath thereto and together
with Henry J. Gambill his securety entered into and
acknowledged bond in the penalty of two thousand
dollars conditioned as the Law directs a certificate
is granted him for obtaining a probate in due
form Teste
H. J. Gambill CSCRC

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