Record #297 from Abstracts of the Wills and Administrations of Accomack County, Virginia 1800-1860

County	Accomack
Name	Dennis, John Upshur
Date (written/proved/probated or recorded)	19 July 1851/5 Feb 1852/3 Aug 1852
Abstract	To my wife Negroes Henry, Caesar, Shadrack, William, Edmond, Nathan, John, Hampton, Jacob, Logan, Denard, Nace, Teackle, Sam, Levin,Ned, Brown, Ned Stockley & Hairy his wife & child Comfort, Harriet & children Jane & her children, Henry the Blacksmith,Anna, Matilda & her children except James, Henry, Cecilia Ann & her child aso Ritta during her life or widowhood & then to my sons Samuel and Arthur or the survivor of them. To my three daughters Virginia U. Dennis, Ann H. Dennis & Laura J. Dennis. ...also all the Negroes, stock, and farming utensils thereon. To sons Henry Emmerson Dennis & Francisa H. Dennis... my plantation... . My Negroes, stock ... on said land in the same manner. Also to sons Henry and Francis the Negroes resident on Robertson's lands in Somerset County at white Haven except Leah & her issue which belong to my son James. To son James U. Dennis all my real estate .... & also all the Negroes he has now living with him & Isaac the blacksmith & a small girlsliving with William Clark & Delia & children. To my son George R. Dennis the Carroll lands...called Kingston & all the Negroes he now has living with him, my servant Quath & wife & children on the Quantico Farm , Toby & two daughters of Levin & Judah. To my grandson William Fowle Dennis the real estate...& also my Negro Harriet & her son Henry. To my sons George & James as trustees of my undivided slaves on the Quantico Farm except for Quath & family & the Negroes which my son John now has living with him belonging to me.... To daughter Elizabeth U. Cottman & to said daughter 1/2 of the Negroes on the Quantico Farm excepting Quath & family provdied she claims no part of the real estate that was devised to her mothe by her grandfather B.F.A.C. Dashield, Esq.
Main Source Reference	Will, 1831-1855 sup ct w, , p. 298.

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