Anonymously contributed.
James LEPER 17
Sep 1776
Bequeathed to:
Wife Margaret, and children.
Witnessed: John
Gebby, Mary O. Brownlee, Jenit Gebby, and Archibald Brownlee.
Executor:
Margaret Leper.
Note: Children not named.
Thomas NEWBERRY
18 May 1777
Bequeathed to:
George McCollock Jr., George McCollock Sr., Jane McCollock and Silas McCollock.
Witnessed: Chas
Wells, Joseph Wells and Edward Perins.
Executor:
George McCollock Sr.
Note: Relationships not stated.
Gabriel COX 06
Jun 1778
Bequeathed to: Wife
Elenor. Sons David, Isreal, and Peter. Daughters Mary Ann Spencer,
Margaret McCoy,
and Diana Cox.
Witnessed: John
McCormick, Corns McEntire and William Howey. Executor: Israel Cox, Charles
Willis.
Note: Peter Cox received farm on
the waters of Buffalo.
Samuel WHITE
09 Aug 1778
Bequeathed to:
Wife Jemima, Elizabeth Mekk and Martha Rollins.
Witnessed:
Zachariah Sprigg, Andrew
Fouts and George
McCollock. Executor: Issac Meek.
Note: Negro girl Phyllis named.
No relations stated.
Thomas WORTHINGTON
09 Aug 1778
Bequeathed to:
Daughters Catharine, Mary Ann and Elizabeth. Sons Edward, Henry and William.
Son-in-law
Jacob Reager.
Witnessed:
Ebenezer Zane, Samuel Mason, Valentine Thomas Dalton. Executor: Jacob Reager.
Note: Requested in Will to be
buried next to deceased wife, Ann Worthington.
Conrad WHEAT
14 March 1781
Bequeathed to:
Wife Margaret. Sons Conrad and Jacob. Daughters Margaret Hellibrand and Molly.
Grandson Martin
Coons.
Witnessed:
James Lane and Alex Fraser.
Executor:
Conrad Wheat and Jacob Wheat.
Note: Mr. Ebenexer Zane appointed guardian of portion of
estate given to Martin Coons
son
of Molly.
William McENTIRE
27 Dec 1782
Bequeathed to:
Wife Elizabeth and children.
Witnessed:
Brice Virgin, Mathew Markland and Joseph Clark.
Executor:
Nicholas McEntire and Col. David Shepard.
Note: William McEntire’s Will
recorded in Ohio county VA, but state he was of the county
of Washington, State
of PA. Further states: my father and father-in-law Nicholas McEntire
and Col. David
Shepard to be executors. Children not named.
Edward ROBINSON
12 Jan 1783
Bequeathed to:
Sons Aaron and Edward. Daughter Mary.
Witnessed:
Edward Jones, James Peavice and Henry Foster.
Executor: Aaron
Robinson.
Note: 800 acres bordering James
Millers land.
William ROBARDS
28 Aug 1783
Bequeathed to:
George McCollock all my estate, real and personal.
Witnessed
Johathan Gam, Sarah McCollock and Ebenesor Zane.
Executors: John
and Abraham McCollocks.
Note:
Relationships not stated.
Yates CONWELL
15 Oct 1783
Bequeathed to:
My wife. To Jehu Conwell, William Conwell and Rachel Tomson.
Witnessed:
Silas Zane, James McMechen and Henry Smith. Executor: Jenu Conwell.
Note: Wife not named.
Relationships not stated. Conwell owned property in Sussex
county
Delaware. Jehu Conwell stated to be of Westmoreland county, no state named.
George SMITH
30 May 1785
Bequeathed to:
Wife Marcilus. Sons Phillip and Henry. Daughter Marclius Copen.
Witnessed: Hex
Dunn and Robert Edgar.
Executor:
Marclius Smith and Philip Smith.
Note: States my three children.
James SMITH 05
Dec 1785
Bequeathed to:
wife Elenor.
Witnessed: Inos
McDonald, Christian Jenkins, Stephen I. Francis and Mary Francis.
Executor:
Elenor Smith.
Note: States I, James Smith of
Washington county, State of PA. I, William Smith heir to James Smith,
Relinquishes interest
in estate to Elenor Smith, wife of James Smith deceased.
Conrad STROUP
31 May 1786
Bequeathed to:
Wife Margaret. Sons Henry and John. Daughters, Margaret, Susannah, Sarah,
Catherine and
Elizabeth.
Witnessed: John
Caldwell, John Boggs and John McConell.
Executor:
Margaret Stroup.
Note: Will proved March 1787
Jacob JOHNSTON
29 Nov 1786
Bequeathed to:
Wife Susannah. Sons David and Thomas. To girls. Witnessed: Samuel Osburne and
Uriah Wilson.
Executor;
Thomas Wilson and Susannah Johnston.
Note: States four sons, eldest
David, two sons and daughters not named.
David CHAMBERS
12 Mar 1787
Bequeathed:
Wife: Sarah. Daughters: Mary, and Margaret. Sons: Joseph, John, Samuel and
Benjamin.
Witnessed:
Gabriel Blankeney, George McCormicke, Alexander Cunningham and Andrew
Swearingen.
Executors:
William McCollouch and John Twede both of Hopewell Township, Washington county,
Pennsylvania.
Note: David
Chambers states he is of Hopewell township, Washington, Pennsylvania, but all
the
lands mentioned
in his Will are specified in Ohio county, Virginia on the waters of Short
Creek.
All but one of
the children named in his Will were under the age of twenty one. Estate was
settled
09 September
1795.
Moses
WILLIAMSON Sr. 8
Apr 1789
Bequeathed to:
Wife Jeanny . Sons John, and Thomas. Other children. Grand child Jane
Williamson.
Witnessed:
David Shepherd, Dixon Huston, and John VanCruskiah. Executor: Moses Chapline.
Note: Other children not named.
Charles BILDERBACH
05 May 1789
Bequeathed to:
Wife. Son Ephriam. Little daughter, and unborn child. Witnessed: Thomas
Bilderbach, and
William Stuart.
Executor: John
Henderson and Ephraim Bilderbach Sr.
Note: Will written in case he
didn’t return from long and dangerous journey. Will proved March
1790. Daughter not
named. Son Ephriam a minor. Wife not named.
Nicholas DAWSON
13 Jan 1790
Bequeathed to:
Wife Violet.
Witnessed:
Thomas Bond, Robert Andrews and Benjamin Robins. Executor: Violet Dawson, and
William
Swearingen.
Note: Names father George
Dawson, deceased. Mother living, but not named.
Mathias AULT
22 Feb 1790
Bequeathed to:
Wife Elizabeth. Step sons, Philip Hup, and Lazarus Rhyne. Step daughter
Elizabeth
Smith, and step
grand daughter Elizabeth Fisher.
Witnessed:
Hizariah Dun, and Robert Edgar.
\ Executor:
Henry Smith.
Note: Stated all my Patented
lands to stepson Lazarus Rhyne for good cause.
Benjamin HAMMITT
06 Apr 1790
Bequeathed to:
Wife. Son James. Daughter Rhoda and younger children.
Witnessed:
Henry Gass, Jacob Lash, and William Hammitt.
Executor: Ruth
Hammitt, and John McCollock.
Note: Younger children not
named.
Derreck C. H.
HOGLAND 16 Apr 1790
Bequeathed to:
Wife Elizabeth. Daughters: Mercy, Mary, Rebecca, Catharine, Elizabeth, Cynthia.
and likewise to
Ortha. Sons Issac, and Richard.
Executors:
Issac Meek, and James Hogland.
Witnessed:
Andrew Archbold, Joshua Meek , John I. Stone Sr. and Samuel Stone.
Note. Appointed
friend Issac Meek to convey to John Stoneman Sr a parcel of land.
James SMITH 15
Nov 1790
Bequeathed to:
Wife. Sons Henry, Thomas and James.
Witnessed:
Richard Yeats, Robert Forbes and Robert Giffin.
Executor: Henry
Smith.
Note: Names Henry as Eldest
son. Wife not named.
John PATTERSON
01 Jun 1791
Bequeathed to:
Wife: Mary. Two sons, Joel, and Robert. Three daughters, Sarah, Agnes and
Susannah.
Witnessed:
Ezekiah Dunn and Rachel Dunn.
Executor: Wife
Mary, and George Knox, Esq.
Note: Made
reference to his wife possessing his mansion or dwelling house.
William COWAN
03 May 1792
Bequeathed to:
Wife Jane. Brothers: Alexander Cowan, John Cowan and Hugh Cowan. Sisters:
Elendor C.
Rankin and Georgia Camble. Nephew, William Cowan son of Alexander. Niece
Jean Cowan.
Witnessed:
James Ewing, Andrew Janard and John Breasors.
Executor: Hugh
Cowan.
Note: Life time lease given to
wife Jane.
Samuel NAILOR
28 May 1792
Bequeathed to:
Wife Mary. Sons James and Benjamin, my other children.
Witnessed:
Robert Marchland and James Steen.
Executor: Sons
James Nailor and Benjamin Nailor.
Note: Other children not named.
Property lines of James Steen and McNit mentioned.
Henry Hardy WILLCOXTON
22 Aug 1792
Bequeathed to:
Wife Toccastos Willcoxton. Nephew Antony Willcoxton and brother John Wilcoxton.
Witnessed:
Jacob Wicoff, William Williamson and John Shivey. Executor Toccastos and John
Wilcoxton.
Note: Negro girl Nell and Negro
boy Nel named.
Samuel BRUCE
01 Mar 1793
Bequeathed to:
Wife Rebecca. Son John, Thomas and Stephen. Daughters Rachel and Mary.
Witnessed:
Joshua Howard, James Mc McClean, Frances Hardesty and Richard Power.
Executor:
Rachel Bruce and Samuel Dunlap.
Note: States of Buffalo settlement,
Ohio county, VA. Leases land to Francis Hardesty and
Patrick McGavin
.
Vann SWEARINGAN
05 Nov 1793
Bequeathed to:
Wife Elenor. Sons Elzey and Zachariah. Daughter Drusilla Brady. Grandsons,
Vann Brady and
John Brady. My wife’s three children Vann Swearingan, Thomas Swaringan
and Lucy
Swearingan, my son Vann, my daughter Lucy Swearingan, my son Thomas
Swearingan.
Sarah Brown daughter of Lucy Brown. Witnessed: James Griffith, Charles
Prather,
Vallentin Mendel and John Scott.
Executor: Isaac
Leet, Andrew Swearingan, Joseph Swearingan and John Dodd.
Note: Property lines joined to
Joseph Farrinate, Morgan Hurst, Daniel Morgan, John Conrels,
Ann Cook, Valentine
Mental, George Cox and Jacob Nerly. States he purchased lands from
Charles Prather
and leases to William Hanks. Negro boy Jessee, Negro girl Pheby, Negro girl
Esther and her
daughter Win.
Molatto boy
Issac Toby. My Negro Woman Win to be set free, but Negro Bill son of Win. Not
to be sold out
of my family or be hired out or disposed of. Codicil written 17 Nov 1793.
Bequeathed to:
Elenor Swearingan formally Elenor Virgin, my wife and my son Vann
Swearinger, her
begotten .
Witnessed: William
Harp, George Cox and Bezabel Wells.
Note: This Codicil written and
states: to remove all that may arise either in my said will or
in this codicil
as to the person I mean by my wife Elenor. I do hereby declare that where
ever I have
mentioned my wife Elenor in my will or in this codicil I do mean Elenor
Swearingan
formerly Elenor Virgin who has lived with me many years past.
Note: Will
Proved 6 Jan 1794.
Obediah HOMES 18 Feb
1794
Bequeathed to:
Wife Mary. Sons William, Obediah, Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph and Samuel.
Daughters Elizabeth
Pumprey and Marget Hays.
Witnessed:
Nathan Griffith and William Haman.
Executor: sons
Jacob and Joseph Homes .
Note: Daughters were named in
amended portion of the Will.
William McMAHON
31 MAR 1794
Bequeathed to:
My sons, Frien, Richard, John, Joseph, and James. Wife, Ann. Daughters Polly,
Susan, Agnes.
Witnessed: Lt.
Benjamin Lockwood and Lt. W.O Brady
Executor: John
Bukey, and wife Ann.
Note: Named tract of land in
Montgomery County, State of Virginia on Twelve Pole Creek, and
tract in
Hardens Settlement. Also named lots in Charlestown, at the mouth of Buffalo
Creek
on the Ohio
river.
David SHEPARD
20 Jan 1795
Bequeathed to: Wife:
Rachel. My three daughters: Elizabeth Lee, Sarah Springer and Ruth Mills
and their surviving heirs.
My grand daughter Elizabeth Shepherd. My son Moses Shepherd.
Witnessed: William
Fanhavan, Abner Springer, Francis Duke, and William McIntire.
Executor’s: Moses Shepherd
and John Mills.
Note: States he dwells in the
forks of Wheeling Creek. Names slaves: Mulatto girl named Nance
and Negro man named Tymothy
. Additionally bequeathed to daughter Elizabeth Lee tract of
land to hold during natural
life and then to descend to the heir of William McIntire, deceased.
David Sheperd further
states in his WILL. that it is his will is that the Presbeterian Church have
free privilage to build places
for public worship and the purpose of burying their dead on the lot
laid out for them but for
no other purpose.
Joseph CASKEY 3 Feb
1795
Bequeathed to son John
Caskey. To daughter Sarah Casky.
Witnessed by John McMillin,
Harp Peterson, Nathan Baker.
Executor: Henry Cockendole
of Washington county Pennsylvania, and John Edie of Ohio county Virginia.
Note: Did not make reference to
a wife.
William McMECHEN 05
Jun 1795
Bequeathed to: My wife
Sidney, my eldest son James, my son William, and my son Benjamin. My daughter
Agnes
McCollock, my daughter
Sarah McMechen, and my daughter Sidney. My daughter Jeney (Jane). My grand son
David McMechen Broom and my
grand daughter Frances Broom.
Witnessed: David Williams,
Benjamin McMechen, and Thomas Morton.
Executors: Wife Sidney,
sons William and Benjamin.
Note: Negro’s named: Woman
named Sarah, boy named Jed, girl called Beck daughter of Cloe. Negro girl named
Sue. A Negro girl called
Beck daughter of Poll. Negro boy named Ben son of Sam.
William McMechen states in
his will any Negro set free shall have six acres of land for his or her use
during
The term of their natural
life.
Addition to the Will of
William McMechen was made 18 Oct 1797 where he bequeathed to Nancy McCollock,
But no relationship is
stated.
Samuel GLASS 22 Feb
1796
Bequeathed to: Wife Ann.
Daughters: oldest Margaret, youngest Jean, second daughter Susannah and third
Daughter Ann. Sons, David
and John.
Witnessed: Samuel Dunlap,
William Rannels and Joseph Mowlett. Executor’s James Steward, William
McKinley and wife Ann.
Note: Names Mulatto boys:
Jonathan and Joshua., and Miner. Molatto girl: Sarah. The will of Samuel Glass
identifies all his children
under the age of 18.
Mary SNODGRASS 22
June 1796
Bequeathed to: My three
sons: Alexander Leeperson named John Snodgrass Leeper, and my son Joseph
Snodgrass
and my son James. My two
daughters, Jenny and Margaret Mary. To John Samples daughter, Mary Snodgrass
Sample, and to James
Cunninghams son, Thomas Cunningham.
Witnessed: Alexander Smith
and Joseph Snodgrass.
Executor’s: Samuel Leeper
Jr. of the state of Pennsylvania, James Amapoker and Joseph Snodgrass of the
State of Virginia.
Note: Sons Joseph and
Alexander were not married when the Will was written. and nor was Mary married
at the time
the Will was writtten.
James McFARLAND 21
Nov 1796
Bequeathed to: Wife: Martha
and beloved children John and Moses, both under the age of twenty one years.
Witnessed: Samuel Steel and
Elizabeth A. Denny
Executor: Walter Denny and
John Boffs Jr.
Note: Will all his land in
lying in the county of Ohio in the State of Virginia to his family.
James McCONNELL 14
Feb 1797
Bequeathed to: My eldest
son Samuel, my youngest son John, my son Hugh, and my son James. My daughter
Rebecca Shepherd widow., my
daughter Mary, my daughter Esther Buckhannon wife of Thomas. To my
grand daughter Elizabeth Shepherd.
Witnessed: John Farris and
John Wayte.
Executor: My sons Samuel
and John.
Note: Negro children named: lad
named Harry, boy called Joe, Negro girl called Dinah, Negro wench
called Cate, Negro lad
called Pete, Negro boy called James and Negro girl call Sally. No reference to
a wife.
John McFARLAND 13
May 1797
Bequeathed to: My wife
Elizabeth. My five sons, Robert, Andy, John, Ezekiel and Samuel. To my
daughters,
Sally Atkinson wife of
Robert Atkinson. To my daughter Elizabeth. To my daughter Jane. To my
son-in-law
James Wilson and my
daughter Margaret, wife of said James. To my grandson Joseph Wilson.
Witnessed: Samuel Steely
and Walter Denny.
Executor: My wife , and
sons Andy and Robert.
Note: Stated his lands were in
Ohio County in the state Virginia.
Andrew BAGGS 09 Mar
1798
Bequeathed to: Wife Agnes.
Sons Mathew, William, John. Daughters:
Mary Martin, Agnes
Dennison. Grandson Andrew Martin.
Witnessed: John Mitchel,
Jean P. McClain (female) and Sinthy Hall (female).
Executor: Andrew Robinson,
and Robert Stuart.
Note: Possible that his
daughters Mary and Agnes were deceased at time of Will.
Susannah HENTHORN 02
Feb 1799
Bequeathed to: Daughters:
Sarah, Mary, and Rebecca. To daughter-in-law Elizabeth. To sons: James,
and Adam. Grandson William,
son of James.
Witnessed: Andrew White,
William Henthorn, and David Howell.
Executor: son James.
Note: Also named in the
Will was Lydia. No relationship stated. Daughter Sarah was left the family
Bible.
Zacheriah SWEARINGEN
19 Feb 1799
Bequeathed to: Wife: Phebe.
Daughters: Nancy and Mary Swearingen. Brother: Elzey.
Witnessed: John Buky, Noah
Reynolds and Thomas S. Ranels.
Executor: Col. Moses
Chapline.
Note: Conveyed land deed to
James Morris that he purchased prior to the Will being written.
Jerad TERRIL 01 Aug
1799
Bequeathed to: Wife: Sarah.
Sons: George and his son Jarvis. My son Abner, my son Eber, my son Ely.
Sons : Daniel, John, Edgar
and Edmon and son Peter. To Charisa Terril daughter of Eli. To Rodah
Brown. To Carisa Scarmuhorn
and her son Amos. To Ely’s daughter Clarissa, Georges son Jerrid,
Abner and Eber.
Witnessed: Daniel Terril,
Henry F. Tracy and Henry Bancraft.
Executor: My wife Sarah,
son Peter and son Daniel.
Note: Land on grave Creek,
Ohio county State of Virginia. Other persons referred to in Will were:
Luke Scarmuhorn, John
Miller and E. Zane.
Samuel HOLMES 15 Aug
1799
Bequeathed to: Wife Mary
and my children that are now in their minority all of whom except
Daniel, I allow to be bound
out.
Witnessed: Robert McCoy,
Issac Oldham and Arthur Erwin.
Executor; Wife Mary and
George Knox Esqr.