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| Born |
Est 1725 |
Copal Parish, Westmoreland Co., Virginia Colony  |
| Died |
1790 |
Lunenburg, Virginia |
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26 Jan 1783 |
Meadow Creek, Craig County, Virginia |
| Died |
26 Mar 1866 |
Sinking Creek, Craig County, Virginia |
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Margaret 'Peggy' Walker | F7732 |
| Married |
1818 |
Prob . Botetourt Co., VA |
| Born |
15 May 1723 |
Augusta Co., Colonial Virginia |
| Died |
4 Apr 1793 |
Botetourt, Virginia |
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William Snodgrass | F7754 |
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| Sources |
- [S40] Will, https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/48003988/person/13000815787/media/7e655af1-d3c2-4e9f-9b09-f1ca95579e5a?_phsrc=Tkn933&_phstart=successSource.
John McClanahan Will
[Extract from the original by Charlou Dolan] Lunenburg Co., VA, Will Book 1, page 284:
In the Name of God, Amen, I John McClanahan being sick and weak in body yet of perfect mind & memory...
two eldest sons my hold land & I allow each of them to pay my son John £20 when he is of the age of 21...
my son William if he come to the age of 21 to give my brother James a firm deed for 150 acres of land at the lower end of the land when...
my dearly beloved wife to have benefit of my plantation during the time that she remains my widow...
Executor William Snodgrass & my loving wife & my son William when he comes to age...
I appoint my son-in-law to sell and dispose of said moveables... and after my Just debts is paid & my wife got her thirds I allow ____ of my moveables to be equally divided my daughters except the three wagon horses I allow them to be kept for the ____ of the Plantation viz one of them is a stallon & one a geldon & the third a mare...
8 Oct 1758. 6 Nov 1759 -- Foregoing will presented in court by William Snodgrass & Frances McClanahan... Sureties: Josiah Snodgrass & _____ _____. [film was very poor quality]
[Extract from the original by Charlou Dolan] Lunenburg Co., VA, Will Book 1, page 322:
JAMES McCLANAHAN of the Co. of Lunenburg...
to my cousin John McClanahan my brother John's son the 200 acres that my Brother John left to me by bequest & if my cousin John dies before he comes to the age to Injoy It I order for his brother Alexander him to leave six cows to be Equally divided betwixt my brother John's Children and the remainder part of my cattle I order to be equally divided betwixt my Brother-in-law William Snodgrasses children.
Item I leave to my Sister-in-law Frances McClanahan my brother John's widow the money and corn that the Widdow Hodge owes me.
I order my Brother-in-law William Snodgrass to get the money that Thomas Dudgeon owes me and to pay my funeral charges with the same.
Item I give & bequeath to my brother David McClanahan my black mare and ____ and I order my cozen Samual McClanahan my brother Davids son my three year old Halter colt for the remainder of my _____ them to be equally divided betwixt my Brother-in-laws and my Brother John McClanahans children...
my pot and my Bedcloes to my sister-in-law Frances McClanahan & her children
I _____ my Brother-in-law William Snodgrass to be my whole & sole executor. 7 Jul 1761 --
exhibited in court by Wm. Snodgrass. [Note: Film was of poor quality & difficult to read.]
[Extract from the original by Charlou Dolan] Lunenburg Co., VA, Will Book 2, page 148: Inventory & appraisal of the estate of James McClenahan, dec'd, made by Rob't Montgomery, Patt Sharkey, & James Montgomery, January the 10th 1763 - value 22 pounds 10 shillings. Returned to Court by William (his S mark) Snotgrass. Recorded 10 Feb 1763
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