John Andrews Sr. ²

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Will John Andrews read 20th May 1833 Dinwiddie Co. Va. Court

I John Andrews of Dinwiddie Co. and State of Virginia, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form as follows to wit.
Item # 1 My will and desire is that all my Just debts should be paid and in order hear to my will and desires that all my Lands in the State of Ohio should be sold and if that should not be sufficient that any part of my personal estate or any part or the whereas the land and Plantation where I live should be sold which I leave to the ____?___of my Executrices and Executor hereafter to be named to act ___ will any part of my estate a to order to pay my just debts and legacies (Cannot read rest of sentence)

Item # 2 I leave my son Joseph Andrews one dollar exclusive of what I have heretofore given him.

Item # 3 I leave to my son Robert Andrews one dollar exclusive of what I have heretofore given him.

Item 4. I leave to my daughter Elizabeth Hunnicutt one dollar exclusive of what I have heretofore given her.

Item # 5 I leave to my son John Andrews one dollar exclusive of what I have heretofore given him.

Item # 6 I leave to my daughter Sarah Wilson one dollar exclusive if what I have heretofore given her.

Item #7. I leave to my son Daniel Andrews one dollar exclusive of what I have given him.

Item #8.I leave to my daughter Ann Andrews thirty dollars.

Item # 9 . I leave to my daughter Susanna Andrews thirty dollars.

Item # 10 . My will and desires is that my beloved wife Sarah Andrews should have use of all every part of the residue of my estate in any way whatsoever belonging to me during her natural life, and after her death the remaining part to be equally divided between my children before named except Sarah Wilson, Ann Andrews and Susanna Andrews who I desire to have Thirty Dollars each more than the other children exclusive of what I leave them at my death.

I leave my beloved wife Sarah Andrews and her cousin Jonathan Butter Butler
my whole and sole Executrix and Executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other wills hereto made by me.
In witherof

I have here unto set my hand AND SEAL THIS TWENTY-SIXTH DAY
OF THE FIFTH MONTH ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT.

JOHN ANDREWS
ACKNOWLEDGED in the presence of The executor name change to Jonathan Butter and Jonathan Butler is appointed as the change was done before acknowledged by the Testator who wrote the will.
John Andrews dec., acknowledged in the presence of the
above witness's.

At a Court held for Dinwiddie Co. on the 20th. Day of May 1833 .
This writting purporting to be the last Will and Testoment of John Andrews ,Dec. was produced in court by Sarah Andrews executrix therein named ,and there being no subscribed witness ,to hereto Robert H. Butter and Joseph Wilson were sworn and severelly deposed and that they are well acquainted with the testator hand writing and the name thereto subcribed,to be wholly written by the Testator and bound; where upon the said writing ordered to be recorded as the last Will and testament of the
said John Andrews , Dec., and on the motion of Sarah Andrews executrix therein named, who affirmed this writing and together with Robert H. Butter and Joseph Wilson for securities entered into my acknowledged a bond in the penalty on One Thousand Dollars .(Could not read the rest of sentence)
Transcribed By Nellie A. Collins. Was difficult to read.

John married Jane Hunnicutt on 21 Sep 1782 in Blackwater MM, Surry, Virginia.¹ (Jane Hunnicutt was born on 18 Mar 1759 in Surry, Virginia, USA and died on 23 Jun 1783 in Blackwater MM, Surry, Virginia ¹.)

John next married Sarah Butler, daughter of Joseph Butler and Miriam Hunnicutt, on 15 Feb 1786 in Gravelly Run mm, Dinwiddie, Virginia.^{1 2} (Sarah Butler was born on 7 Jan 1769 in Blackwater MM, Surry, Virginia ² and died in Dinwiddie, Virginia, USA.)