Surry County, VA Deed Book 8, Vol. I, pg 268 signed 1/1732, probated 3/21/1732
In the name of God I Nathaniel Malone of the Parish of Southwark and
the County of Surry in the Colony of Virginia being weak in body but of
sound Perfect & dispossing mind & memory priase be therefore given
to Almighty God and calling to remembrance the unceratin State of this
transitory life and that flesh must yield unto death when it shall please
God to Call (do ordain this) my last will and testament hereby revoking
all other wills & testaments heretofore made: Imprimus My sole I resign
to God that --- thru the merit and mediation Of Jesus Christ (my sins shall
be forgiven). My body I commit to the earth (from whence it was taken to
be buried) by my exec. hereafter named and for the dispoition of my eatate
I devise & dispose of in manner following:
Item: I devise to my loving son Nathaniel and his heirs forever
my house & my lands lying and being on the South side of Sappony Creek
in the Parish & County aforesaid Excepting one acre at the hog pen
ford just below my dwelling house & also one Negro woman named Judy
& one cow to him ye said Nathaniel and his heirs forever.
Item: I devise unto my loving son Drury that one acre of land
before excepted at hog pen ford and the plantation where I now live &
the land adjoining these according to the bounds following Viz: Beginning
at the cart ford of Sappony Creek thence going a short course north by
hasty Branch . . .etc. --- to Great Pond, to Pig Quarter on Stone Creek,
then down said Creek to mouth of Sappony Creek . . . But in default of
Drury having heirs, land to Thomas, and in default of his having heirs,
to be divided between sons William and Nathaniel. To son Thomas, land up
the Sappony Creek along William Harper's line, 10 pounds and a negro. To
son Daniel my house and 200 acres on ye north side of Nottaway River beginning
at the mouth of Tommoheton Swamp in Prince George Co, running up the swamp
and Nottaway River for 200 acres. To son-in-law Joseph Harper: my house
and 200 acres in upper part of a tract called Tommahlon land and 20 pounds,
2 cows and calves. ---- To daughter Amey . . 1 mulatto named --?. Amey
also to keep my daughter Mary until they marry or come of age. To my daughter
-- Courtney?. . . Phoebe? remainder to be equally divided.
Executrix: ----, Drury and Nathaniel Malone.
Wit: Robert Wynne, John Gilliam, Jr.
Source:
Carol Middleton's Malone Resource Page