Person:William Campbell (138)

William Campbell was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Will Transcript

Botetourt County, Virginia, Will Book C, page 138

I, William Campbell, of Botetourt County and State of Virginia, being in a low state of body but of sound mind and understanding and Knowing all Men are Mortal, I do will and bequeath my Worldly substance as follows, Viz. after my Just Debts, if there are any, be discharged and Funeral expenses Satisfied I order, ordain & bequeath that my beloved wife Magdalene Campbell shall hold, possess & use all and every part of my Estate both real personal during her life and that one half of all my Estate not heretofore hereafter directed be at her disposal by Will or otherwise and [ink blot] she not during her life ---?—it by Will or otherwise it is [ink blot] and shall descend to her legal representations or --?—according [ink blot] at her Decease. The other half of my Estate not bequeathed to her & her legal heirs shall be given after a regular sale has been made of all the estate it shall be equally divided as between among my nine Brothers and Sisters or their legal representatives or Descendants. It is my wish and desire that if it can be legally done or in any way bound out with the laws of the land that as of my wife’s decease My three Negroe Boys be set free. Viz: Pompey, Monroe & Jo and provided they cannot be liberated my beloved wife may dispose of them if any opportunity offers that their Situation may be made easy. If any security is necessary to the County Court so as to enable them to have the above three negroes [blank space] it is my wish & desire that so much of my Estate after my wife’s decease may be ordained by Court so as to enable the Court in a legal manner to emancipate said Slaves. I do hereby constitute and appoint my beloved wife Magdalene Campbell my Executrix also Joseph Wilson, Mathew Houston & Joseph Cloyd Exer.s of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness Whereof I have here and set my hand & Seal the first day of June 1818.

Teste William Campbell {Seal}

Robert Reed

David Reyton (or Peyton)

James Reed

At Botetourt September Court 1818

This Instrument of writing purporting to be the last will & Testament of William Campbell dec’d was exhibited in Court and proved by the oath of Robert Reed, David Reyton (Peyton ?) and James Reed three subscribing witnesses thereunto and ordered to be recorded. On motion of Magdalene Campbell, Joseph Wilson, Matthew Houston & Joseph Cloyd Exers therein named a Certificate is granted them for allowing a probate hereof in form, they having first made oath and with with Securtiy entered into and acknowledged Bond according to Law.

Teste

Jn M Bowyer DC

Records in Virginia

A Berry History, An Account of John and Jane Campbell Berry

Washington County, Virginia Will Book ___, page ___

Hugh Berry Admr.

To the Estate of Jane Berry decd. to amount Rec.d of the Exc.rs of Wm. Campbell dec.d of Augusta County, Virginia, it being said Jane Berry

dec.d ----?---- in the Estate of said William Campbell dec.d $512.

Contra Cr.

By boarding & lodging said Jane Berry from the year 1823 until the year 1833 including her physicians bill clothing &c at $45.00 per year

$445

Funeral expenses & Expense of administration

11.

Cash paid William Berry

12.60

Administrator’s compensation

38.40

$512.

In obediance to an order to me directed by the court of Washington County, I have this day being first sworn for the purpose, proceeded to state settle and adjust the administration account of Hugh Berry Admr. with the estate of Jane Berry dec.d and report as follows:

Your Comr. learning from the said Hugh Berry (no inventory having been returned to court) that he received in June 1835 of the Exo.r of Wm. Campbell dec.d of Augusta County Virginia, the sum of $512, it being said Jane Berrys share of the estate of the said Wm. Campbell dec.d That the said Jane Berrys estate was indebted to him in the sum of $450. as per voucher No. 1 herewith enclosed, which sum he retained. That the funeral and other expenses amounted to $11, and the he paid William Berry $12.60 (Voucher No. 2) leaving a balance of $38.40 on hand, which sum your Comr. thinks would be but a reasonable compensation to said admr. for his expense loss of time, and personal trouble in attending to be business of sd. estate. All of which is respectfully submited.

Jonathan King

June 1st, 1838

Citations

http://www.ourfamilyhistories.org/getperson.php?personID=I41774&tree=00

Known Williams

Family

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   Baptism by Rev. John Craig:
   
   April 1747. - Hugh Campbell a child baptized named William.

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   Six years later Jane [Campbell] Berry, was listed as living in the household of her oldest son, Hugh in Washington County. In the late spring of 1818 her brother, William Campbell, passed away in Botetourt County, leaving a monetary bequeathment to his surviving siblings and their descendants. She appears again in 1830 in Hugh’s household at the age of 87, and passed away there three years later in the early fall of 1833. A few years later Hugh made some monetary claims against her estate to compensate for the costs associated with his elderly mother’s care in her old age, and appears to have received the monetary compensation that his mother had been bequeathed from her brother, William Campbell.
   
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