- This all came about from the noncupative will of William Barker, made 12 July 1709 recorded in Will Book 10, p. 43. There is no name given for the testator in the will book proper, but it can be figured out by the corresponding orders, and then the index to Will Book 10. It was presented in court on 10 May 1710. The court states it was presented by Humphrey Jones and Elizabeth his wife, who petitioned for administration with the will annexed. William Payne and Judith his wife, on behalf of the children of Thomas Barker, "deceased since the death of his brother William Barker" also petitioned for administration. For some reason, Capt. Richard Ball, Justice, dissented in the court's decision to grant administration to all four of them. Thomas Carter and Peter Carter stood as security for the Humphrey's, while Capt. Samuel Fox and Captain William Fox stood for the Paynes (Order Book 5, p. 238a)
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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reply on message board by Steve Riggan
(Monday 18 Aug 2014) (same link as above)
I found the Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Virginia, From 1653 to 1812, page 270 where "Wooser a Slave belonging to Humphrey Jones dyed May ye 1st 1729."
(Christ Church, Middlesex Co, Virginia)
https://archive.org/stream/parishregisterof00chri#page/270/mode/2up
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