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Will of Elijah Peacock
signed 7 Oct 1850
found in Loudoun Co., VA
Transcribed and submitted by James Peacock, 32257 Placer Belair,
Temecula CA 92591, jpeak@pe.net.
"This is a copy of the Elijah Peacock will for publication
on your board. Elijah is my ggGrandfather. He had three wives,
Nancy Hough, Mary Jane Wright, and Ann Rose and children by all
three. The origin or nature of the conflict he had with his older
five children all born of his first wife who died in 1840 is unknown.
Elijah was a farmer, store and mill owner, and sometime horse
racing promoter. He lived on Broad Creek and the Leesburg Turnpike
in Loudon County Virginia." - James Peacock, May 1998
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I, Elijah Peacock of Loundoun County, State of Virginia, do hereby
make my Last Will and Testament, in manner of the following; that
is to say, I desire that all the perishable part of my estate
except my household goods be immediately sold after my decease
and out of the monies arising therefrom, all my just debts and
funeral expenses be paid. Should the perishable part of my property
prove insufficient for the above purposes, then I desire that
my Executor, hereafter named, may sell my houses and land lying
on broad run on the north and south of the leesburg turnpike in
the county aforesaid and out of the monies arising therefrom,
pay and satisfy such of my just debts as shall remain unpaid out
of the sale of the perishable part of my estate. Secondly, after
the payment of my debts and funeral expenses, I give my wife Ann
Peacock one-third of m estate; that is my real estate and all
my household goods to will and to do with it as she pleases, and
the other two-thirds to be put out on interest until my son Flavius
becomes twenty-one years of age and then to be equally divided
between my daughter Nancy, my daughter Harriet, my son Franklin,
my son Flavius, my daughter Sally, my daughter Mary, my daughter
Catharine Susan and my son William, with the exception of one
dollar for my son John, one dollar for my son Hector, one dollar
for my son Noble, one dollar for my son Turner, one dollar for
my daughter Rebecca, and one dollar for my son Lewis which I consider
a fair reward for their conduct toward me. And lastly, I do hereby
constitute and appoint my friends, John Hamilton and George Kephart,
Executors of this my Last Will and Testament hereby revoking all
other or former wills and testaments by me heretofore made. In
witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal
this 7th day of October 1850.
Elijah Peacock (SEAL)
Signed, sealed, and published and declared by Elijah Peacock
as and for his Last Will and Testament in the presence and hearing
of us who at his request and in his presence have subscribed our
names as witnesses:
Walter C. Reeves
Orlando K. Sheid.