General Notes

immigrated  from Larne about 1760 operated a flax mill in that area.

no children by either wife

Will of Andrew Sitlington of the Cowpasture dated 12 oct 1801
wit John Montgomery, John Shrewsberry, Adam Dickinson and Robert Porter

Probated June 1804 court - Bath Co
Exec wife Elizabeth and Jacob Warwick

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to beloved wife Elizabeth all moveable estate not otherwisw disposed of, "the plantation on which I now live together with the location adjoining it for which I have obtained a patent" and all appurtenances for her life

to his wife "uses and profits" of another plantation in the Cowpasture known as Fulton's Spring on Mill Creek for her life

to his wife Negroes Mathew and Hannah and her children and Emy and her children and all their increase " and tho i give them entirely into her disposal to do with them as she pleases either to free them or retain in slavery forever yet I can not help expressing my confidence in her humanity and tenderness that she will grant them their freedom in some resonable time after her death."

my will also is that my wife shall have the whole disposal of all my other negroes and the profits arsing from them during her natural life and after her death my desire is that they shall enjoy their freedom on condition that during her life they shall behave toward her in so friendly and dutiful a manner as to merit her appreciation and consent to their freedom, but if otherwise, and she thinks at or before her death that they or any part of them shall have foreited their right to freedom such shall be retained in slavery and disposed of as follows: viz, they shall be sold by my executors and the money arising from the sale shall be disposed of in the same manner and proportion as cash bonds and other debts due the estate...I think it is prudent and expedient that none of the males shall be set at liberty before they arrive at the age of twenty five years but that they be bound out by my executors or in the case of his death by the overseers of the poor of this county, to honest industrious persons of good repute, who may bring them up habits of industry and morality & teach them to read and write, so as to be able to understand the scriptures & keep their own accounts and that the females shall be bound out in the same manner until the arrive at the age of twenty one years that they shall be bound out to persons of good repute who shall bring them up to read at least and to habits of industry and morality so that they may be fitted for being good and useful members of society. My desires is that my executors or the overseers of the poor as the case may be shall endeavor to secure for them, that is for those who shall be bound out as much freedom from their masters as may be thought just & reasonable to be given to them so soom as they be free. I also will that in any case any of those slaves who shall above the age of twenty five at the death of my wife, shall become old & infirm & unable by any acident to support themselves, that the others who shall be free at such time shall contribute to the comfortable support of such invalids.

to Gean Crawford wife of Nathan 100 pounds
to Andrew Sitlington Crawford son of Nathan 50 pounds
to Gennet Sloam 100 pounds
to her daughter Polly 25 pounds
to Polly Young wife of John 50 pounds
to Agness Kelso wife of James 50 pounds
to her daughter Elizabeth Sitlington Kelso 50 pounds
to nephew  James Ervin 100 pounds
to nephew Andrew Ervin 100 pounds
to neice Gean McGlaughlen wife of Edward 100 pounds
to her son Andrew 25 pounds
to Andrew Sitlington McDonald son of Samuel 50 pounds
to Elizabeth McDonald daughter of John 25 pounds
to Elizabeth McDonald daugther of Samuel 25 pounds
balance to his wife
at her death lands equally to Andrew Sitlington Warwick son of Jacon Warwick and andrew Sitlington, son of Robert Sitlington
to wife land known as "Fulton Spring"
to nephew Andrew Erwin the plantation in Greenbrier known as Vardeman's P