General Notes

[Lamont.FTW]

AUGUST 17, 1748.
Halbert McClure (by Halbert McClure), an orphan boy not above eleven years, to be stricken off the list of tithables.


Will of Halbert McClure - 23 March 1753
Source: Augusta Co., VA Will Bk. 2, Pg. 67-68
Contributor: Janet Randall mrandall@@humboldt1.com
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In the name of God Amen The twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord
1753 I Halbert McClure of the colony of Virginia in the County of Augusta,
Gentleman, being very sick and weak in body but of sound mind and memory
thanks be given to God therefore and calling to mind the mortality of my body
and knowing that it is appointed For all men Once to Die do make and ordain
this My Last will & Testament That is to say Principally and first of all I
give and recommend my soul into the hand of God that gave it and for my Body
I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and Decent
manner at the discretion of my Executors Nothing Doubting but at the General
Resurrection I will receive the same again by the mighty Power of God and as
touching Such worldly estate whereof it hath Pleased God to Blefs me with
this life
I give discard and Dispose the same in the following manner and form it is
my will and order that in the first place all my Just debts & Funeral Charges
be paid and satisfied  Item I give and bequeath unto Agnes my Dearly Beloved
wife my plantation and her Breeding mares and her milk cows During her life
time and all my Household plenishing to be Distributed at my beloved wifes
decease together with my Plantation be sold at Publick _____ and I order
that None bid for it but my own sons
Item I give to Brother Johns son, Halbert to get twelve pounds and a Breeding
mare of the estate and what remains of my Estate to be Divided Equally amongst
my sons together with my household plenishing and Plantation and do order and
constitute and ordain my well beloved Sons Alexander and Nathaniel McClure whom
I likewise constitute make and ordain my only and Sole Exetors of this my Last
will and Testament all and singular the lands Mefs__ and tenements to my sons
and to their heirs and afsigns forever and do hereby Utterly Disavow Revoke and
Disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacies & Executors by me
in any ways before thereto Named willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming
this and no other to be my Last will & Testament  In witnefs whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and Seal the Day and year above written

Halbert Mc[his"O"mark]Clure, Gent. (seal)

Signed sealed Published pronounced and declared by the sd Halbard McClure as
his Last will and Testament in the Presence
Baptist ["B" his mark] McNabb
John Davison
Samuel Lyle

At a court held for Augusta County the 15th Day of May 1754 
This Last Will and Testament of Halbard McClure, Gent. Being proved by
the oaths of John Davison and _____ _____ two of the witnefses thereto is
ordered to Record and on the motion of Alexander & Nathaniel McClure Named
in the will and made oath according to Law a probate thereof is granted them
in due form giving Security on which they with John Davison and Samuel Lyle
their Securitys entered into and acknowledged their Bond According to Law