SOURCE CITATION:
Text: The following is a verbatim copy from Lancaster Co., VA.
DATE OF WILL, 14 OCT 1741, LANCASTER CO., VA.In the name of God amen the fourteeth day of October in the year of our Lord God 1741 I HENRY NEWBY in the County of Lancaster being very sick & weak in body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to Almighty God do make & ordain this my last will & testament that is to say principally & first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it me and for my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a Christian like & decent manner and as vouching such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in the Life I give and devise & dispose of the same in manner and form following Inprinis I give & bequeath to MARY my dearly beloved Wife one negro man named Guy to her and her heirs forever Item I give and bequeath to my son HENRY NEWBY and to his heirs forever one negro man named Carly and if my son HENRY NEWBY should die without a lawful heir begotten of his own body that then the sd. negro man to fall to my youngest son WILLIAM NEWBY and to his heirs forever Item I give and bequeath to my son OZWALD NEWBY and to his heirs forever one negro girl named Frank - and if my son OZWALD NEWBY should die without a lawful heir begotten of his own body that then the sd. negro girle shall fall to my son HENRY NEWBY and to his heirs forever Item I give & bequeath to my son WHALEY NEWBY and to his heirs forever one negro woman named Jane and my will is that the first child that the sd. negro woman shall bring - shall fall to my Daughter SARAH NEWBY and her heirs forever My will and desire is that if my son WHALEY NEWBY should die without a lawful heir begotten of his own body that then the sd. negro woman shall fall to my son JAMES NEWBY and to his heirs forever Item I give and bequeath to my son JAMES NEWBY one shilling sterling money and no other part or parcel of my Estate Item I give and bequeath to my son WILLIAM NEWBY and to his heirs forever on negro boy named Tom and if my son WILLIAM NEWBY should die without a lawful heir begotten of his own body that then the sd. negro boy shall fall to my daughter HANNAH NEWBY and to her heirs forever Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter HANNAH NEWBY and to her heirs forever one negro boy named Peter and if my Daughter HANNAH NEWBY should die without lawful heir of her own body that then the sd. negro boy shall faill to my Daughter SARAH NEWBY and to her heirs forever Item I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife my best bed & furniture Item I give and bequeath to my son HENRY NEWBY the next best bed & furniture Item my will and desire is that all the remaining part of my Estate shall be equally divided between MY WIFE & CHILDREN that is to say HENRY NEWBY, OZWALD NEWBY, SARAH NEWBY, HANNAH NEWBY, WHALEY NEWBY and WILLIAM NEWBY Item my will& desire is that all my negroes shall be kept upon the plantation and work together to help raise my children til my youngest son WILLIAM NEWBY arrive to the age of fifteen years except the negro man that I give to my son HENRY NEWBY and my will is that he shall stay & work with the rest to raise my children the terme of five years after my decease I likewise constitute make and ordain my Dearly beloved WIFE MARY NEWBY and my SON HENRY NEWBY my whole and sole EX.rx and Ex.r of theis my last will & testament and I do herby utterly disallow revoke & disannill all & every other former testaments wills & Legacies Bequests and Ex.rd by me in any way as before this time named willed and bequeathed ratifying & confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and first year written----
his
Robert Mitchel Jun.r HENRY NEWBY
John Alexander MarkAt a Court held for Lancaster County on the 12th day of March 1741 This will was proved in open Court by the Oaths of Robert Mitchell Jun.r and John Alexander witness ea thereto and admitted to record and is Recorded.
(Copied by William Newby, 2 Dec 1989)
Title: Will: 14 Oct 1741, Lancaster Co., VA
Author: Copied by Wm. E. Newby, 2 Dec 1989
Publication Information: Will Book 13: 265-266
SOURCE CITATION:
Text: On the Tax Rolls of Lancaster Co., VA from 12 Dec 1711 to 12 Jan 1728
(Lancaster Co., VA, Individual Tithables 1653-1720, Order Book 5:278 and 7:224)
Slave owner, growing tobacco on a plantation but there is no indication that he owned any land.
Notes for Mary Whaley:
SOURCE CITATION:
Text: Will of Mary Whaley Newby, copied by Wm. E. Newby, 2 Dec 1989.
Verbatim copy from Lancaster Co., VA, Will Book 16: 181-181a.In the name of god Amen I Mary Newby being sick & weak but of Perfect sence and memory thanks be to Almighty God for the same do make and ordain in this my last will & testament hereby Revoking and disannulling all former wills by me or made Imprimus I bequeath my soul to Almighty God that gave it to me in hopes of a pardon for all my sins, through Jesus Christ my Mediator and Redeemor and my body to the Earth, to be Decently buried in a Christian like manner, by my Executors hereafter mentioned and as to what worldly goods it hath been pleased God to bestow on me, I give & bequeath in the following manner Viz---I give and bequeath to my son James Newby, my land and appurtenances thereunto belonging whereon I now live, to him and his heirs forever. Item I give and bequeath to my son Whaley Newby my negro man named Guy, and his heirs forever, provided my son Whaley should have any heir, but if the said Whaley, should die without heir, than the said negro Guy shall go to my Daughter Hannah Bailey and her heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my son William Newby my mare colt named mouse, my gun, and my best bed and furniture, to him and his heirs forever. Item It is my will Sarah Brumley and Hannah Bailey should have a Black Bumbozene Gown Each of them a Hood Ribonds and gloves out of the Crop now on the ground. Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Hannah Bailey one Cow all my wearing apparell and my side Saddle, to her and her heirs forever. and further my Will is, that after my Debts and funeral Expenses and Legacies are paid the rest of my Estate be Equally Divided among my children Viz James Newby, Ozwald Newby Sarah Brumley, Hannah Bailey, Whaley Newby and William Newby - I also appoint my son James Newby and Ozwald Newby Exors of this my last Will and Testament In Witness Whereof I have hereunder set my hand and seal this 10th day of April 1761 -
Signed Seald and Publishd her
In Presence of - Mary Newby
John Bailey Mark
his
James Robinson
MarkAt a Court held for Lancaster County on the 15th of January 1762 This Will was proved in open Court by the oath of James Robinson a witness thereto and ordered to be Recorded
Test
Tho. EdwardsMemorandum
That there was a Case and nine Bottles about three pints, each which I kept out of my husbands inventory - and for this reason, that my husband's brother gave the use of it to him during life, and after his death, to go to his son William Newby therefore thought that it was none of his Estate nor mine but my son William's Therefore acted accordingly, given under my hand this 10th day of April 1761
her
Test John Bailey Mary Newby
his Mark
Jas. Robinson
MarkAt a Court held for Lancaster County on the 15th of January 1762 This Memorandum was proved in open Court by the oath of James Robinson a Witness thereto and ordered to be Recorded
Test
Thos. EdwardsWilliam E. Newby
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Wilmington, DE. 19803
Empress of Germany Matilda (Maud)
Empress Matilda (1101-1169) Born: February 1101 at Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire Empress of Germany Lady of the English Died: 10th September 1169 at Rouen, France
Matilda is the Latin form of Maud, and the name of the only surviving legitimate child of King Henry I. She was born in 1101, generally it is said at Winchester, but recent research indicates that she was actually born at the Royal Palace in Sutton Courtenay (Berkshire).
In something of a political coup for her father, Matilda was betrothed to the German Emperor, Henry V, when she was only eight. They were married on 7th January 1114. She was twelve and he was thirty-two. Unfortunately there were no children and on the Emperor's death in 1125, Matilda was recalled to her father's court.
Matilda's only legitimate brother had been killed in the disastrous Wreck of the White Ship in late 1120 and she was now her father's only hope for the continuation of his dynasty. The barons swore allegiance to the young Princess and promised to make her queen after her father's death. She herself needed heirs though and in April 1127, Matilda found herself obliged to marry Prince Geoffrey of Anjou and Maine (the future Geoffrey V, Count of those Regions). He was thirteen, she twenty-three. It is thought that the two never got on. However, despite this unhappy situation they had had three sons in four years.
Being absent in Anjou at the time of her father's death on 1st December 1135, possibly due to pregnancy, Matilda was not in much of a position to take up the throne which had been promised her and she quickly lost out to her fast-moving cousin, Stephen. With her husband, she attempted to take Normandy. With encouragement from supporters in England though, it was not long before Matilda invaded her rightful English domain and so began a long-standing Civil War from the powerbase of her half-brother, Robert of Gloucester, in the West Country.
After three years of armed struggle, she at last gained the upper hand at the Battle of Lincoln, in February 1141, where King Stephen was captured. However, despite being declared Queen or "Lady of the English" at Winchester and winning over Stephen's brother, Henry of Blois, the powerful Bishop of Winchester, Matilda alienated the citizens of London with her arrogant manner. She failed to secure her coronation and the Londoners joined a renewed push from Stephen's Queen and laid siege to the Empress in Winchester. She managed to escape to the West, but while commanding her rearguard, her brother was captured by the enemy.
Matilda was obliged to swap Stephen for Robert on 1st November 1141. Thus the King soon reimposed his Royal authority. In 1148, after the death of her half-brother, Matilda finally returned to Normandy, leaving her son, who, in 1154, would become Henry II , to fight on in England. She died at Rouen on 10th September 1169 and was buried in Fontevrault Abbey, though some of her entrails may possibly have been later interred in her father's foundation at Reading Abbey .
Eleanor of Aquitane, queen consort of France (1137-52) and queen consort of England (1154-1204), born in France. She inherited the duchy of Aquitane from her father in 1137, the same year in which she was married to Louis VII of France. She accompanied her husband on the Second Crusade to the Holy Land, where it was rumored she committed adultery. The scandal, and the fact that she had not given the king a male heir, resulted in an annulment of their marriage in 1152 under the pretext of blood kinship between her and the king. Later that year, Eleanor maried and gave her possessions to Henry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, who in 1154 became Henry II, king of England. In 1170, the queen induced her husband to invest their son Richard the Lion Hearted with her personal dominions of Gascdony, Aquitane, and Poitou. When Richard and his brothers rebelled against their father in 1173, Eleanor, already alienated from the king because of his unfaithfulness, supported her sons. Consequently, she was placed in confinement until 1185. After her release, she secured the succession of her son Richard, who had become heir apparent at the death in 1183 of his eldest brother. From the death of King Henry II in 1189 until Richard's return from the Third Crusade in 1194, Eleanor ruled as regent. During this time, she foiled to attempt of her son John in 1193 to conspire with France against the new king. After the return of Richard, she arranged a reconciliation between the two brothers. Eleanor continued to be prominent in public affairs until she retired to the abbey in Fontevrault, France, where she died on April 1, 1204.
Kathryn Hepburn won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Queen Eleanor in the movie "Lion in the Winter", with Peter O'Toole playing King Henry II of England.
Notes for Richard R. Pryor:
1754 served in Virginia militia was given 7 shillings for provisions.
1758 provided victualling as member of Virginia militia
1776 in a list of 52 Virginia militiamen