Will Transcription Isaac Arnold Sr.

(This transcription is credited to AFAS Volume 7)

King George County

Will Book 1, p 89 (Contributed by Mrs. F. Durfey)
Will of ISAAC ARNOLD, Sr.

In the name of God Amen September the 15th, 1757, I ISAAC ARNOLD of the Parrish of Hanover in King George County being sick and weak at this time in body but of good and perfect memory do make this my last Will in the manner and form following.  First I bequeath my soul and spirit into the hands of Almighty God by whom of his many and only grace through the death and merits of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the sole and only hope of my salvation.My body I commit to the earth to be buryed as my executor hereafter named
shall see fit.

My will is that my eldest son ISAAC ARNOLD do immediately into possession of all that tract or parcel of land whereon I formerly did live and inhabit situate in the Parrish of Hanover and bounded with the land of Capt. Joseph Murdock and the land of Moses Pittman and others and was given to the said ISAAC ARNOLD my said son by Thomas Goff, grandfather to the said ISAAC ARNOLD and that the said ISAAC and his heirs hold and enjoy the said land forever.

Item:  I do give and bequeath unto my eldest son ISAAC ARNOLD one shilling sterling as all his part of my estate.

Item:  I do give and bequeath unto my daughter DIANAH WHARTON and SAMUEL WHARTON her now husband all that piece or parcel of land whereon they now live during the whole term of the said DIANAH her life to live thereon and no further nor otherwise which land is bounded with the road which leads from Duff’s Ordinary to King George Court House beginning at a Red Oak standing in Capt. Joseph Shorther (Strother?)line on or near the said road thence with the said road westwardly dividing this land from some others of my land crossing a Branch to the line of the land of Mr. John Moore thence with the line of the said Moore to three Red Oaks comes to this land and in the line of the land of the said Shorthers (Strothers) line to the first station the said Samuel not to sell or waste timber from off the said land and that in case the said Samuel and DIANAH should remove from the said to any other place to live and inhabit before the death of the said DIANAH the said land immediately to return to my wife and her heirs and assigns forever.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto my son WILLIAM ARNOLD one shilling sterling as his part of my estate.

Item:  I give and bequeath unto my son BENJAMIN ARNOLD one shilling sterling as his part of my estate.

Item:  I do give and bequeath unto my youngest son MARK ARNOLD one shilling sterling as part of my estate.

Item:  I do give and bequeath unto my daughter SARAH MORAN one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item:  I do give and bequeath unto my daughter ISABELL ROGERS one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item:  I do give and bequeath unto my daughter ELIZABETH ARNOLD one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item:  I do give and bequeath unto my daughter MARY ARNOLD one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item:  I do give and bequeath unto my daughter SUSANNA ARNOLD one shilling sterling as her part of my estate.

Item:  I do give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife MARY ARNOLD my now dwelling house and plantation together also with all the land I now have or lay any claim unto together also with that other place and parcel after my daughter DIANAH’s death which is only to the DIANAH for her life all which aforesaid land I do hereby give unto my wife and her heirs and assigns forever and I do so give the premises unto my said wife that she my said wife have full power and lawful authority to lease or sell any part or the whole of the
aforesaid land in as full and ample manner and to make as good right there to as I might or could do were I alive to sell the same myself.

Item:  I do also give unto my said wife all and every part of my personal estate beds and furniture housewhole goods of every kind together with all my whole stock of horses, mares, cattle, sheep, hogs with every other thing that belongs to me on this or about the said plantation.

Item:  Any my will is that my youngest son MARK ARNOLD be set free from all services due to me who was eighteen years old the twenty-sixth day of July last.

Item:  And I do make and appoint my living wife MARY my whole and sole Executrice of this my last Will, revoking and disanuling all former and other wills by me theretofore ratifying and declaring this and no other to be my last Will and Testament and in confirmation thereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixed my Seal this Thirtieth Day of September in the year of our Lord 1757.  Sealed and Delivered in person in presence of --- I desire that my Estate may not be brought to an appraisement.

       Signed: ISAAC ARNOLD

Testors: Bob Walker, Bob Walker Jr., Wm. Thendal

At a Court held for King George County the 4th day of May 1758, the within Last Will and Testament of ISAAC ARNOLD deceased was presented unto Court by MARY ARNOLD the Executrice therein named who made oath thereto according to law and the same being further proved by the oath of two of the witnesses thereto subscribe was ordered to be recorded and is truly recorded.

Teste: Rot. Armistead, Co. Cur.