Signed on 7 February 1819 and probated on 7 May 1819 and is recorded in Mecklenburg County, VA,, Will Book 9, page 45.
In the name of God, Amen. I George Farrar of Mecklenburg County and State of
Virginia being sick of body but of sound mind and calling to remembrance that
all flesh must age when it shall please God to call him do make and ordain
this my last will and testament revocing all and every will by me heretofore
made, in manner and form following. Item. I give unto my beloved wife the
tract of land whereon I now live to her during her life and at the death of
my wife to be sold upon four years wait and the money arising from sale to be
equally divided between all my children except Sally Baugh to them and their
heirs forward. Item. My will and desire is that my wife should have one
third part of my estate that is to say of Negroes, horses, cattle, sheep, and
hogs including all and everything I now have in possession except the present
crop now made I give unto her forward and the death of my wife my will and
desire is for it to be equally divided among all my children except Sally
Baugh and my will and desire is for her to receive the sum of eight shillings
as her full proportion of her legacy of my estate. My will and desire is
that Thos. Farrar, Betsy Whittemore, Patsy Johnson, and the heirs of my son
Hilmond Farrar should when receiving their legacy of the property that will
be sold after wife has tacen her demise should return eighty dollars apiece
for the benefit of my children who now live with me that is to say Ann
Farrar, Judy, Beccy, Alexander and Arthur, if the sale should amount to as
much apiece after my wife has her thirds of land of if not the (can't make
out the word) to made up at the death of my wife and lastly I appoint my
friends William and Charles Baskerville of this last will and testament this
being 7th of February 1819.
Witness
Benja Ricky
Wiley Tucker
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