Will of Joseph Norman
The will of Joseph Norman is as follows:
I, Joseph Norman of Culpeper County being in perfect sense mind and memory do make this my last will in manner and form following:
Item: I leave the land I now live on to my two sons Thomas and John Norman. Thomas to have one hundred and nineteen acres and John one hundred. If they cannot agree in dividing the land when John comes of age of twenty years they are to leave it to two men to divide it for them.
Item: I leave to my son William Norman, a Negro woman named Gude and no other part of my Estate.
Item: I leave to my grandson Isaac Norman one hundred acres of land lying on the south side of Hickman's Mountain and no other part of my Estate.
Item: I leave to my son Isaac Norman's wife Sarah Norman, twenty schillings sterling.
Item: I leave to my daughter Mary Dillard, £5.
Item: I leave to my wife Sarah Norman after paying all my just debts and legatees all the rest of my Estate to maintain the children that is now living with her during her widowhood and if she should marry or die then it is my desire it should be equally divided between my sons Thomas, John and my daughters Winifred Bywaters, Peggy Calvert, Sally, Fanny, Mimey and Kisiah Norman and it is my desire for her not to be interrupted on the plantation as long as she ... live a widow...
And I appoint my wife Sarah Norman and Thomas Norman my Executors of this my last will.
JOSEPH NORMAN (L.S.)
Test
John Triplett
Thomas Norman
her mark
Fanny X Norman
The will was dated November 20, 1783 and proven February 16, 1784.
Copy of the will of Joseph Norman, Culpeper County, VA, Recorded in Culpeper County Circuit Court, Will Book C, Page 117.
