- The noncupative will of William Barker was brief:
"Wosah be returned to Betty and Bess and Toney and all the rest of my estate I give to my brother." This was witnessed by Thomas Catlett.
One surmises here that "Betty" was William Barker's sister, which is to say, Elizabeth Jones, wife of Humphrey Jones. It is clear enough that Thomas Barker, deceased, was William Barker's brother, hence the interest in this estate by his widow, now wife of William Payne, but who at the time had two infant daughters, Katherine and Judith Barker.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/VA-NORTHERN-NECK/2014-08/1408411994
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