Will of Anthony West    who died in Northampton County, where his will was probated on May 25, 1652.* In his brief will he stated that:

In the name of God, Amen, this 12 October, 1651. I Anthony West of Virginia beinge of sounde minde & memorye (praysed bee Almightie god for it). Doe make & ordayne this my last will & Testam^t (as followeth):

First & principallie I comend my soule into ye hands of Almightie god my Creator, assuredly hopeinge to be saved by the prtious blood and death of my Savior Jesus Christ; my body I comitt to y^e Earth from whence it came to be burried (as it shall please god to appointe and to urhinge), & dispossinge of my worldly Estate (as the Lord in mercye hath blessed me wthall):

My will and desire is that my Sonne Jn° West bee my full & whole Executor of this my last will & Testam^t, and that my wife & Daughter Barloe have their thirds out of my estate (all things in their Kinde) And that my Sonne Jn° doe inioje ye rest; And that his mother have the mannagaridge of it (as longe as she keepeth herselfe a widdowe, But (if she shoulde marrye:) then my desire is that my Sonn Jn° shall inioje his Estate (if it bee before hee come to age), Alsoe I desire that noe Adm'trator nor Adm^essr. shall have any thinge to doe wth my Estate. Nor apprysmt (till they come to share it). In Witnest^h of ye truth I have hereunto Sett my hande the daye & yeare aboveth.

On May 16, 1653, Mrs. Anne West confirmed this gift as "the same as given unto ye Orphant by Mr John West, my desire is that if it please God to take my Grandchild out of this Mortall Life before he attayne to ye age of sixteen yeares, that then ye sd calfe return to my daughter Barloe"¹