William Cox

Wills of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia [William Montgomery Sweeny]
COX, HENRY, 22 February, 1674/5; 2 November, 1675.

Very sick and weake in body but of good and perfect memory. … I freely and willingly give and bequeath them all to my Executors hereafter named for and during their natural lives and after their decease unto William Cox my son hereby willing and requiring my said son William within one year after he shall be possessed of my estate as aforesaid to give unto the child my wife now goeth with a good assurance of the moitie of the land he shall be possessed withall by this my will or the value thereof (as two men indifferently chosen shall adjudge it worth) at the discretion of my sd son but if the sd child should happen to die before my sd son William shall be possessed with my estate as aforesaid then the whole estate to be and remain with my son William and his heirs forever. Appoints as Executor and Executrix "my father-in-law Mr William Strachey of Glocester County and Arabella Cox my now wife hereby willing and requiring them to pay all debts as I shall Justly happen to owe at the time of my death to take care of and provide for my children during their minorities and to bring my body decently to the ground and it is my earnest desire that my father-in-law would come and live with my wife and assist her in the management of her estate.

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