Ralph Elkins Will - 1690
Donated by Randy Treadway

Stafford Co., Virginia Order Book, pg. 165a

     IN THE NAME OF GOD Amen. May ye 26th 1690. Ralph Elkins of Stafford County & Potomack in Virga beinge in pfect memory & knowinge ye frailty & uncertainty of mans life, doe make all my Wills formerly made voide & this to bee my last Will & Testament Imprs. I resigne my Soul into ye hands of Allmighty God my Creator hopeing & beinge confident through ye merritt & mercy of Jesus Christ my Redeemer that I shall obtaine pardon & remission for my manifold transgressions & to be made partaker of those joyes Tech are laid up for ye Saints in Light & then I bequeath my body to ye Earth to be buried in a Christian manner in expectance of a joyful! Resurreccon Amen. As to my worldly Estate I constitute appoint Richard Elkins my Eldest Sone to bee my Executor in my Decease to manage my Estate for ye good of himself & his Brothers & Sisters till they come to age or are married. My Seat of land to be equally divided between my Eldest Sonne Richard and my youngest Son Nath. to them their heires & provided they dye without issue to fall to ye next beire & so from heirs to heirs, & the buoyes John & Nathaniell to bee at age at Sixteen & to have ye benefitt of their Labour but other waies not to enjoy any thinge pertaining to ye Estate untill they be twenty & then my Estate to be equally divided amongst my Children yor debts being onley my Daughter Mary to have her Mothers Rings In Wittness whereof I have sett my hand & Seale

Ralph {X} Elkins

Testis

Stephen Gardner, and George Lodge

This Will was sufficiently proved in ye County Court of Stafford by ye oaths and testimonies of Stephen Garner and George Lodge witnesses thereunto subscribed on the 9th day of September 1690 & was then recorded

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