WILL OF ANNE (GRAVES)-COTTON-EATON DOUGHTY
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I Anne Doughty being sick and weake in body but of sound mind and perfect memory praised be God for the same doe make constitute and ordain this my last Will and Testament by me humbly made, and first comitting my Soule to God that gave itt and my Body to be decently buried according to the discretion of my Executor hereafter named, as to my temporall Estate after the satisfaction of my Just debts I doe hereby dispose of the same in manner as followeth vizt. First I give and bequeath to my Grandchild Samul. Boughton a certain tract of Land lying between Potomack River and the dwelling Plantation of Samul. Eaton my deced son called Eaton Delight containing two hundred acres, and by my said deced sonne's last will and Testament in writing bearing date the seventeenth day of October 1679, Given and bequeathed to me to have and to hold the said Land to the said Samull Boughton his heires and assigns forever.
Item I give and bequeath to the said Samull Boughton, Verlinda Boughton, Kathenine Boughton, and Many Boughton the four children of Richard Boughton my whole stock of horses and mares running in the woods together with their whole increase to have and to hold the same to the said four children joyntly and severally and to their heirs and assigns forever to be equally divided between them all at their severall days of marriage or their severall ages of one and twenty years.
Item I give and bequeath to Sarah Doyne daughter of Robert Doyne gent. one thousand pounds of tobacco to be payd to Coll. Wm. Chandler for her use by my Execs. Admr. or assigns to Mr. John Hambleton according to a certain demise or lease of the dwelling plantation of the said John Hambteton bearing date the day of November 1679 and itt is my will that the said one thousand pounds of tobacco to be payd to the said Coll. Chandler as soon as the same shall become due after my decease and shall be disposed of p the said Collo. Wm. Chandler to by [sic] the said Sarah Doyne a gold ring and necklace.
Lastly I give and bequeath to Collo. Wm. Chandler and in case of his death to Mr. Richard Chandler his brother for the sole use and behoof of my two grandchildren Parthenia Burdock and Sarah Burdock all the remaining part of my Estate personall or real to have and to hold the same to the said Parthenia Burdock and Sarah Burdock their heires and assigns forever constituting my said Grandchildren Parthenia and Sarah Burdock to be my whole and sole Executons joyntly and severally of this my last Will and testament. IN Testimony hereof I have hereunto sett my hand and Seale this 26th day of December Anno Domini 1683.
/s/ Anne + Doughty (Seale)
her mark
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
John Stone
John Hambleton
Nich. Swinburne
The will of Mrs. Anne Doughty was proved before me by the oaths of Mr. John Hambleton, John Stone and Nicholas Swinburne by virtue of a Comission directed to me out of the affairs for probate of wills as witness my hand this 15th day of July 1683.
/s/ Robert Doyne
[Md. Hall of Records, Prerogative Court (Wills) 4, pp. 210-11.]
[Note by compiler: According to the above information, Anne's will was proved on July 15, 1683, before it was executed on December 26, 1683; this cannot be true. The compiler believes that Anne's will was probably executed in 1682, rather than in 1683.]
(2) Maryland Probate Records, 1674-1774 [database online], Genealogy.com, Prerogative Court Abstracts, 1685-1701, Abstracts 1685-1701(Libers 9, 19, 101c, 11a, 11b), p. 3:
Mrs. Ann Doughty 9.30 I £41.17.10 Jul 29 1683
Appraisers: Robert Potts, Edward Minge.
Executrices: Parthena Pourditt, Sarah Pourditt.
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- (1) Virginia Genealogies and Biographies, 1500s-1900s [database online], Genealogy.com, Maryland and Virginia Colonials, Vol. I, Graves, pp. 323-324:
Ann Graves, probably the second dau. [of Capt. Thomas Graves, Sr.], was b. in 1620, as she twice depoed as to her age - first on Oct. 28, 1650, as Ann Eaton, she was "aged xxxty yeares or thereabouts" [Northampton Co. Deeds, Wills, etc. No. 3, 1645-51, p. 227a], and secondly, on Nov. 5, 1662, as Mrs. Ann Doughty, she was "aged 42 yrs. or thereabouts" [Charles Co., Md. Court Proceedings, 1662-1666, p. 281]. She d. testate in July 1683, Charles Co.
She married (2)Rev. Nathaniel Eaton 7 Oct 1642; m. (3) Rev. Francis Doughty.
Cowherd, p. 322; Gazette 6240(A)5 Jan., 1962. Mrs. P.C. Lockett, 4624 Southern, Dallas 9, Texas.
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1620 - Bef 1683 (63 years)
