In the name of God Amen! I,
William Cash, being
sick and weak of body but of
perfect sense and memory
praise be God, do make and
ordain this my Last Will and
Testament Revoking all other
wills heretofore made save
only this in manner and form
followeth: I give my soul
to God which gave it and my
body to the Earth there to
be decently buried according
to the discretion of my
executor insure and certain
hopes of Resurrection and
that I shall see my Savior
at the last day.
Item. I do make my loving
wife Elizabeth Cash
my Executrix and Peter
Skinner my Executor.
Item. I give unto my loving
wife my plantation with a
third part of my land during
her life.
Item. I give one hundred
acres of land being at the
head of my land westward
from my plantation to my son
Will. Cash and to him
and his heirs and if he
dieth without male heirs
then tis my will that my son
Thomas Cash shall
have it and his male heirs,
and if my son Thomas Cash
dieth without male heirs
then it is my will that it
should fall to my son
John Cash and to his
male heirs.
Item. I give the remaining
part of my land, it being
one hundred twenty four
acres to my son James
Cash and to his male
heirs and if he die without
male heirs, then it is my
will that my son Howard
Cash shall have it and
if he dieth without male
heirs, it is my will it
should fall to my son
Joseph Cash and his male
heirs, and if he dieth
without male heirs it is my
will that my son Peter
Cash and to him and his
heirs forever.
Item. I give all my
personal to my loving wife
after my debts is paid. In
witness whereof I have set
my hand and seal this
sixteenth day of Febr'y
1708/7.
To my son William Cash
underlined between the
seventeen & eighteen lines
before signed.
Will: Cash
sig. (seal)
Testes: John Skinner, Jno.
Thomas, Mary Horton
I having a fatherly care of
my children do order them my
son William Cash to
live dutifully with his
mother until he be of age of
one and twenty and likewise
my son Thomas Cash
and my daughter Anis Cash
until she be eighteen years
Of age and if she or either
of them will not be governed
by their mother then it is
my desire that my friend and
Executor Peter Skinner
shall have full power over
them or either of them that
will not be obedient unto
their mother to take them to
himself for the full time
aforesaid. In witness
whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal. Will:
Cash sig.
William Cash
age 19 yrs. 5th
day of March 1708/7,
Thomas Cash age 11, 2nd
day of August 1708, Anis
Cash aged 15, 31st
day of July 1708.
Testes: John Skinner,
John Thomas his mark.
Westmoreland Co. Va. At a
Court held for the said
County the Last Will and
Testament of William Cash
was proved by the oathes of
the witnesses thereunto as
also the codicil above
written and ordered to be
recorded 25th August 1708.
Recorded 30 August
Test: JA: Westcomb,
Clerk
