HANOVER COUNTY CHANCERY WILLS AND NOTES
Compiled by William Ronald Cocke, III
Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc. Baltimore, 1978
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William DEJARNATTE's Will, VA, 1817

DEJARNATTE, William Y.

"I, William Y. DeJarnette of Hanover County and State of Virginia being in perfect health, mind and memory do hereby make my lst will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say...
...4.  I do by this my last will and testament emancipate and set free Maria the mulatto girl I bought out of the estate of David Richardson, dec'd & her two children.
... 5thly.  I desire that my executors do carry or cause to be carried to the State of Ohio the s'd negroes within twelve months from my decease at the charge of my estate of course; and endeavor to put them under the care of some respectable family (a quaker family would be prefered.).
... 6thy.  I desire that my exors do for the first year furnish the s'd negroes with an ample support of bread & meal & a place to live at.
... 7thly. As soon as the situaton of my estate will admit and not exceeding twelve months after the s'd negroes shall have been carried to the sd state it is my desire that my Exors do purchase one hundred acres of land in the sd state in the County or some adjacent County to that in which the quakers from the Cedar Creek settlement in the State of Virginia have removed to wit Littleberry Crew and others for the sd negroes to reside and to have a comfortable log house made on the said land for them one forth sd land to be cleared & arable at least.
... 8thly I lend the land thus to be purchased to Maria during her life and after her death to be equally divided between her two children to them and their heirs forever.
... 9thly I desire that my exors do take out of my personal estate any sum not exceeding four hundred Dollars for the purpose of purchasing the sd land, though I expect a much less sum will do.
... 10thly. As to the residue of my estate....that the one third of my estate to which my loving wife will be entitled be selected by her and not alloted that is she is to make choice of such negroes as may think proper so as to make up her share...
... In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal tihs twenty fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen"
                               W. Y. DeJarnatte (Seal)

Codicil dated 19 January 1817.  Proved 26 March 1817.
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