Washington Co., Virginia Will Book 4: 284-85
Will of William Dunn
Dated 14 Jan 1819; proved in court 16 Feb. 1819
Abstracted 7/2001 by D. Powell from FHL mf #34357
p. 284
William Dunn of Washington Co., Virginia….. [Religious intro]
- just debts be paid
- beloved wife Lydia her lawful thirds of real and personal estate
- beloved children all real and personal estate
- land on which I live allow for benefit of children now named: Elizabeth Logan, Rebecca Dunn, Polly Dunn, Jane Dunn, Samuel Dunn and Lydia Dunn – equal heirs of above land
- Negroes to wit: Seal [?], James, Sanny, Martin, Dice, Joseph, Tishy and Flory I give unto my children jointly and equally as follows: Rebecca Dunn, John Dunn, William Dunn, Polly Dunn, Jane Dunn, Samuel Dunn and Lydia Dunn
- Also a bed with furniture to Rebecca Dunn which she claims
- Also a bed with furniture to Polly Dunn which she claims
- Saddles belonging to two above girls
- Jane Dunn: one bed and furniture
- Daughter Elizabeth Logan, wife of Wm. S. Logan: give 1 Negro boy named George with her horse and saddle which is all I allow her of the horses and Negroes
- To my grandson William D. Logan $20 when he arrives at the age of 21
- Sons John Dunn and William Dunn right and title jointly to a claim of land which I hold in Kentucky which is conveyed to them by a deed of gift and assignment excluding them from any right on the land which I now live on
- To all my children except Elizabeth all my stock of horses and cattle hogs and sheep and all my other moveable property to be divided among them equally
- Request sons John and William Dunn live on plantation with their mother and sisters and “do for them and themselves as they have done heretofore unless they incline to some other kind of life”.
- Appoint son John Dunn and William S. Logan my son-in-law executors
14 Jan 1819
Witnessed: William Dunn
William Dunn
John Logan
Jacob McReynolds
16 Feb. 1819 exhibited in court and proved by the oath of Jacob McReynolds and John Logan and ordered to be recorded. John Dunn and William S. Logan took oath of executor with bond in the amt of $8,000; William Davis, James Kelly, William Dunn, John Logan and Caleb Logan their securities