Daniel Neale

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Subject: [NEALE] Last Will & Testament of Daniel Neale, 1713
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:05:31 EDT
In the name of God amen, I Daniel Neale of the county of Westmoreland and parish of Cople in Virginia, Gent. Being sick in body but whole in mind and of full & perfect memory, thanks & praise be unto almighty God, do make & ordain this my last will & testament in manner and form following. That is to say, first & foremost revoking all former wills & testaments by me made written or unwritten and this only to be taken deemed & esteemed to be my last will & testament in manner and form following.

First & principally, I commend my soul unto the hands of Almighty God, my maker & redeemer & blessed savior Jesus Christ in sure & certain hope it shall be reunited to my body at the general day and glorified and my body to be decently buried in the earth from whence it came at the discretion of my executrix hereafter named and for such worldly goods as it hath pleased God to bestow on me far beyond my desires I will & dispose of in manner & form following.

First & foremost, my will is that all my just debts be duly paid by my executrix.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Hannah Neale one Negro girl called Molly to be delivered to her at the day of her marriage.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Presly Neale one Negro girl called Betty to be delivered to him at the age of twenty-one years.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Daniel Neale one Negro woman called black Hannah to be elivered to him at the age of twenty-one years.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Christopher Neale one Negro girl called Nanny to be delivered to him when he attains to the age of twenty-one years.

Item. My will & pleasure is that my two Negro men Jack & Dick remain & continue, that is to say the use & benefit of them to be wholly to my dear & loving wife Ursula Neale, and after her decease Negro Dick to descend to my son Rodham and Jack to my son Christopher.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Frances Neale one Negro to be paid out of the increase of the before expressed Negro women if it should so happen that any of them brings children and if it so happens that none of the said Negro women brings children that live, then I give & bequeath to my said daughter Frances three thousand pounds of tobacco to be paid her in the lieu thereof and the second living child born of the aforesaid Negro women I give & bequeath unto my son Rodham Neale.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my son Presly Neale all my land on which I now ive to him & his heirs forever, and all the remainder part of my estate to be equally divided , my loving wife & children all to have equal share thereof.

Item. It is my desire that all my children stay & remain with their mother until they be of age or be married unless they go away by their mother’s consent.

Item. I appoint my dear & loving wife Ursula Neale to be my whole & sole executrix of this my last will & testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & fixed my seal this nineteenth day of December Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & thirteen.

         Signed  Daniel Neale (seal) 

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Spouse: Ursula E. Presley 1664–1718 • LJYX-RQ5 ​Marriage: 1696 Westmoreland, Colony of Virginia, British North America

Children:

William Neal 1682–1729 • L2LR-S4Z ​

Abner Neale 1696–Deceased • L28T-V7M ​

Elizabeth Hannah Neale 1697–1729 • LCVF-YZR ​

Presley Y. Neale 1698–1749 • L6FH-NKM ​

Nathan Neale 1699–Deceased • L28T-JYG ​

Daniel Neale Jr. 1704–1758 • L838-6QT ​

John NEALE 1706–Deceased • LDMJ-42G ​

Matthew NEALE 1707–Deceased • LDMJ-4LJ ​

Rodham Neale 1708–1742 • L8WQ-TMT ​

Frances Neale 1710–1759 • MGD9-YSC ​

Christopher Neale 1712–1756 • K8MH-8ZP ​

William Ransdell Neale 1712–1776 • L2G3-J8V ​

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