Copy of will of John Sertin of Culpeper County, Virginia, 1760
*Note: I have tried to keep the punctuation, capitalization & line lengths just the same as found in the original.--gg
ber in the year of our Lord God 1760. I John Sertin of the
Parrish of Saint Marks in the County of Coulpeper being of
perfect mind and memory thanks be given to God---
Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and
knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do
make and ordain this my last will and testament that
is to say Principally and first all I give and recommend
my soul into the hands of God who gave it and as for my
body I Recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a
Chrstian like and desent manner att the discretion of
my Executors nothing doubting but att the general---
Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty
Power of God and as touching such worldly Estate where
with it hath Pleased God to bless me in this life I give
devise of in the following manner & form
It is my will and desire that my well beloved son Joel Sertin
shall have three negroes named doll Lucy and Peter,
further it is my desire that my well beloved son Job
Sertin to have three Negroes named Nan and Sarah and
Davy, Further it is my will and desire that if any one of
theese two should dye [die] or both to their heirs. Further it
is my will and desire that all my houshold goods and
stoock after my debts is paid be Equally divided to my
two sons Joel and Job Sertin. Further it is my will
desire that my son Josiah Sertin shall have twenty
shillings. Further it is my will and desire that my
son Jacob Sertin shall have twenty shillings. Further
it is my will and desire that my son Isaac Sertin shall
have twenty shillings. I do hereby Ordain Constitute and
appoint my well beloved sons Joel and Job Sertin Executors
to this my last will and Testament disallowing &
Revoking & disanulling all and every other former
testimony will & Legacies Bequeaths and Executors by me in
any ways before this time named willed & bequeathed &
Ratified & Confirming this & no other to be my last will &
Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my
hand and Seal the day and year above written
Signed Sealed and Published his
In the Present of us John X Sertin
Test William Underwood mark
Daniel Brown his mark X John Collier
At court held for the County of Culpeper on Thursday the 20th day
of November 1760
This last Will and Testament of John Sertin Decd was
exhibited to the Court by Joel Sertin and Job Sertin the
Executors therein named & was proved by the Oaths of William
Underwood and Daniel Brown witnesses thereto. Ordered
to be Recorded and on the motion of the said Executors ----
Certificate is granted them for obtaining a Probat thereof,
in due Form who having sworn to the same and entered
into Bond with security as the Law directs
Teste Roger Dixon Clk
Sertaine will) In the name of God Amen the twenty sixth day of Septem-