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Will of Joan Miller, 23 Sept 1745 (abstract);
Peter Goad, Anne Goad mentioned
Wills of Richmond County, Virginia 1699-180079
(This one is odd - MpG)
Written 23 Sep 1745; proved 7 Oct 1745
Isaac DALE, being first sworn, saith an oath that he is now, as he
is informed, in the 17th year of his age and being at the house of Peter
GOAD on Wednesday the 18th day of the current September month where Joan
MILLER had resided about five months and then and there lying sick but
in perfect sense, he heard Alice FOWLER ask the said Joan MILLER if she
wanted Peter GOAD or any other person sent for to settle her business;
she answered she wanted nobody sent for. The said Alice FOWLER asked
her if she wanted to speak to anybody to say ( if they would surely...tell
them.) She said she did not want to speak to any other person but to those
who were present and then said she gave to Anne GOAD her hat and callico
petticoat and all the chest of her things to be eq. div. between the said
Alice FOWLER, Anne GOAD, and Frances DALE if she died in that sickness
and that she had enough money to bury her; upon which the said Isaac DALE,
this deponent, was called as an evidence and the words repeated to her,
the said Joan MILLER, upon which she answered they were and upon the 21st
day of the same month she died at the said Peter GOAD’s house |
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