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Matthew Kemp

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Middlesex, England
Death: November 16, 1716 (60-61)
Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County, Province of Virginia
Immediate Family:

Son of Matthew Kemp and Dorothy Kemp
Husband of Ann Kemp
Father of Capt Matthew Kemp and Unknown Kemp
Brother of Thomas Kemp and Richard Kemp
Half brother of Thomas Kemp

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About Matthew Kemp

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1275...

church warden, capt. JP, Coroner, Lt. Col., Gent, sheriff, Mr.

The Virginia Genealogist Volume 3, 1959 [John Frederick Dorman]

  • MIDDLESEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA WILLS, 1713-1734; Pages 58-59.
  • Will of Matt. Kemp of the County of Middlesex being sick and weak in body, dated 4 May 1715.
  • To my son Matthew Kemp all my lands, Negroes, debts, goods and chattells, he paying £200 sterl. to my dafter Ann Kemp when she shall come to the age of one and twenty and a Negro girl named Hannah.
  • In case my son Matt Kemp and dafter Ann Kemp should dy without heirs, then to Gray Skipwith son of Sir William Skipwith of Middlesex County.
  • If my creditors com to suddenly for their dets I make my son Matt Kemp of full age to bargain and sell a pece of land belonging to the dividend whereon I now live with the advice of my well beloved brother William Skipwith and my well beloved friend Majger Edmond Bearkley of the said county.
  • I formerly lett a lease of' land to Martha Gardner for her life which said leas was never acknowledged. My will is that she hold and enjoy the land. I also give the said Martha Gardner one cow and calf.
  • I have formerly given a negro boy named Billi to Martha Hillard dureing her life and to go to her son Thomas Hillard. There being a fault in drawine of the bill of sail I never did acknowledge it in Cort. Martha Hillard to hold, possess and enjoy the said Negro.
  • My son Matt Kemp when he comes to age of one and twenty years shall be hole and sole executor.
  • My well beloved brother Sir William Skipwith and my worthy friend Hajger Edmond Barkeley see this my last will performed.
  • To my well beloved brother Sir William Skipwith a ginny to by him a mourning ring and bullett gun that is at the said Skipwith's house.
  • To my worthy friend Majer Edmond Berkeley a ginny to by him a mourning ring.
  • Matt Kemp
  • Wit: Robert Bigg, James Callis> Ann (X} Downey.
  • 2 Jan. 1716 (1717]. Proved by Robertt Bigg and Anne Downey.
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Matthew Kemp's Timeline

1655
1655
Middlesex, England
1695
1695
Middlesex County, Virginia, United States
1716
November 16, 1716
Age 61
Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County, Province of Virginia
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