ABSTRACT OF THE WILL OF JUDGE CREED TAYLOR MADE BY BETTY R. WALTON, DEPUTY CLERK, CUMBERLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA. THE WILL OF CREED TAYLOR COVERS SEVERAL PAGES)

WILL BOOK 9, BEGINS PAGE ON 269.

ABSTRACT WILL OF CREED TAYLOR

" ........ after the payment of all my just debts the rest and residue of my Estate I then give to my good old Lady for her life and then to be equally divided among my adopted children: Martha Ann Jane, Creed and Samuel Taylor, Jr.

Flat lick (evidently name of a plantation)to Creed Taylor & his brother Samuel (after the death of my wife).

Needham and Blanton will ... be to and for my dear Martha Ann Jane and her children.

Executors: My wife and my nephew Samuel Taylor of Manchester.

Date will written: Sept. 7, 1831 at my residence called Needham.
Will signed: Creed Taylor
No witnesses (Will handwritten by self)

Codicil - Needham, March 7, 1832

Codicil written due to death of Martha Ann Jane (Taylor) Gholson. Her part to go to her two children: Samuel Creed Gholson and his little sister not yet named... Should these children die without heirs ... property to go to my adopted sons Creed and his brother Samuel Taylor, Jr. If all four die without heir the property to go to my nephew Samuel Taylor of Manchester.

Signed: Creed Taylor
No witnesses

Date of Probate: February Court 1836, Cumberland County, Virginia.
The handwriting proved by Samuel Anderson and Daniel A. Wilson.

Samuel Taylor qualified and granted certificate of probate. (Liberty reserved for other executor to join in.)
Bond: $25,000.00
Teste: Miller Woodson, C.C.

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RICHMOND WHIG & PUBLIC ADVERTISER (RICHMOND, VA.) ISSUE OF TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1836
Died- On Jan. 17, at Needham, his residence in Cumberland County. Creed Taylor, late Chancellor of the Richmond and Lynchburg districts, in his 70th year and a member of the General Assembly.

THE LYNCHBURG VIRGINIAN - ISSUE OF MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1836.
Died- On Jan. 17, at Needham, his residence in Cumberland County, Creed Taylor, late Chancellor of the Richmond and Lynchburg Districts in his 70th year. He served in the General Assembly, being at one time Speaker of the Senate. He succeeded George Wythe as Judge of the Chancery Court, holding that position until it was abolished in 1831

(NOTE: The "3 adopted children" were those of Creed's nephew, Samuel Taylor, III (son of Creed's older brother Samuel Taylor II) and his wife, Martha Woodson, youngest sister of Creed's wife, Sally deGraffenried Woodson.)

Submitted by: Anne Baker

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