John Park

• General Notes
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    "Will filed in Court 18 May 1784 Berkeley Co., VA;by Sam'l. Parks, Executor
    
    
    Brothers John and Samuel Park settled at head of Dry Run and on Middle Creek in Frederick Co., VA. Deed Drawn in Frederick Co. VA for 373 acres of Land.
    
    
    Will Book 1, p.355 Berkeley Co., VA; 06 Sept. 1731. John appointed his brother Samuel Park and his brother-in-law William Patterson, executors of his will; named his wife Mary Parks " one third of all my moveable and of the place I now live, also my Negro woman Hannah and my Negro girl Alice as also my still During her life"; his son James " to pay his mother yearly and every year during her life the Sum of Ten pounds Current money"; his son William Park "During his natural life the land he now lives on, on Middle Creek and after his Decease to his 2 sons John Park and James Park"; to his daughter Elizabeth Vance "after her mothers Decease my negro Girl Alice";
    
    
    to his Son James Park "all the land I now possess on Dry Run as also my two negro men Peter and Henry as also all my stock of Horses Cows Sheep and Hogs and all my Moveable household furniture and plantation utensils as also my Still after my Wife Decease;
    
    
    also that my son James pay to my two granddaughters Mary and Elizabeth Black, the Sum of thirty pounds in Pennsylvania Currency to be paid as they marry or Come of age. I will also to my son James Parks after his mothers Decease my negro woman Hannah."