HANOVER COUNTY CHANCERY WILLS AND NOTES
Compiled by William Ronald Cocke, III
Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc. Baltimore, 1978
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p. 61-62

Henry D. Gentry's Will, VA, 1853

GENTRY, Henry D.
"I, Henry D. Gentry of the County of Hanover .....do make this my last will and testament.
... 1. I give unto my son David A. Gentry my slaves Robin and Spencher.
... 2nd. I give unto my son John H. Gentry my slaves Jesse & Ben.
... 3rd. I give unto my daughter Martha V. A. Gentry my slaves Pete, Rachael and Thomas
... 4th. I give unto my daughter Elizabeth I. Gentry my slaves Scinthy, Sarah and William.
... 7. It is my will and desire and I hereby so direct that my wife Martha in the event that any of my slaves be disobedient, or conduct themselves in such a way as in her opinion require it have the privilage and power of selling them and that she have the choice of either dividing the proceeds of the sale between my children or appropriating it to the purchase of other slaves to be still considered as part of my estate loaned her...
... I hereby subscribe my name and affix my seal this 6th day of January, in the year of our lord 1861."
Henry D. Gentry (seal)

At a Circuit Court held for Hanover County at the Courthouse on Wednesday the 17th of November 1853,  The last will and Testament of Henry D. Gentry dec'd was proved by the oaths of Ezekiel S. Talley and Richard E. Atkinson.
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