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Note: Some people's genealogies has that John Mayes who died in Mecklenburg county Virginia was born 1719 but I think that it is most likely that
our John Mayes was his son and born about 1740. With the births of John's
kids in the 1760s and 1770s he being born in 1740 is more likely.
There is no connetion between John Mayes and any parents. I have connected
him to John Mayes to keep track of the Mayes family.
NAME: John Mayes
RESIDENCE: 1782 - township, Mecklenburg County, VA
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Mecklenburg Co., VA Will of John Mayes 1800
Will Book 4, Page 306, Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Submitted 25 Aug 1999 by:
Irene E. Williams
John Mayes' Will
In the Name of God Amen. I John Mayes of the County of Mecklenburg and
Parish of saint James's and State of Virginia being sick and weak in
body but of a sound disposing mind and Memory thanks be to God for the
same and knowing the uncertainty of this life do make and declare this
to be my last Will and Testament in the form and manner following to
wit: I commit my Body to the Earth and my Soul to the hands of my
Creator to be Intered as my Executors hereafter mentioned shall think
Proper. First my desire is that all my Just debts be paid as my
Executors shall think best to Raise The money Itim I lend my beloved
wife Elizabeth Mayes the land and Plantation whereon I now live during
her natural life or widowhood and after that I leave it to be sold and
the money to be Equally divided between John G. Mayes, Thomas H. Mayes
and Charles Mays to them and their heirs forever. I lend to my
beloved wife one negroe man named French for the term of six years and
at the expiration of that time I give him the said Negroe to John G.
Mayes and his heirs forever. Itim I lend to my beloved wife one
Negroe girl named Rose untill my daughter Dolley comes of age or
marries and then I give the said Rose and her Increase to my daughter
but if the said Dolley dies before the Expiration of that time my
desire is that the said negroe and her Increase if any be equally
divided between Thomas H. Mayes, Salley Mayes and Charles Mayes or
their Heirs. Itim I lend to my beloved wife Elizabeth Mayes three
Negroes Esbel, young Rachel and Gilbert untill Thomas H. Mayes arrives
to the age of twenty-one years and then my Desire is that the above
mentioned be Equally divided between Thomas H. Mayes, Salley Mayes and
Charles Mayes to them and their heirs forever. Itim I give to my
Son Bozeman Mayes one negro man named Tom who has been in the
possession of the said Bozeman for a term of years and one desk I give
them to him and his heirs forever. Itim I give and bequeth to my
Son Stith Mayes one negroe boy named Emanuel and one cow and calf to
him and his Heirs forever. Itim I give and bequath to my daughter
Nancy Taney two Negroes namely old Rachel and Oney to her and her
heirs forever. Itim I give and bequath to my Daughter Mary Carter two
negroes namely Sarah and Rhoda to her and her heirs forever. Itim I
lend to my daughter Elizabeth Hall two negroes namely Edie and Vacney
during her natural life and after her death I give the said negroes
and their Increase to her Children Lawfully begotten of her body and to
their Heirs forever. Itim I lend to my beloved wife Elizabeth Mayes
two Negroes namely Judie and Dinah and their Increase with all the
remaining Part of my Estate as it not yet disposed of whither real or
Personal during her natural life and after her death I leave it to be
sold and the Money to be Equally divided between John G. Mayes, Thomas
H. Mayes, Salley Mayes, Charles Mayes and Dolley Mays to them and
their heirs forever. Itim I constitute and appoint Zachariah Yancey
and Charles Hamblin Executors to this my last will and Testament
hereby revoking and disannulling all and every other Will or Wills
heretofore by me made and Confirm this to be my last Will and
Testament. As Witness my hand and Seal the twenty-seventh of November
In the year of Lord Christ one thousand Eight hundred.
Signed Sealed and delivered
John Mayes
{L.S.}
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Carter to Mayes
This Indenture made this twenty-first day of September in the year one
thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight between Rachel Carter of theCounty
of Dinwiddie of the one part and John Mayes of the said County of theother
part. Witnesseth that the said Rachel Carter for an in consideration ofthe
sum of three hundred and seventy pounds current money of Virginia to herin
hand paid the receipt whereof she doth hereby acknowledge and thereofdoth
acquit and discharge the said John Mayes his executors and administratorshath
bargained sold and confirmed and by these presents do bargain sell andconfirm
to the said John Mayes his heirs and assigns forever all that tract orparcel
of land containing three hundred and seventy acres more or less lying and
being in the County of Mecklenburg and which she the said Rachelpurchased of
Robert Hutchins as will appear by deed from him bearing date thetwentieth of
February one thousand seven hundred and seventy three and bounded asfolloweth
(Viz.) Beginning at Stiths corner pointers on the river thence on hisline
south thirty degrees west twenty poles to pointers thence north eightydegrees
west one hundred and sixty poles crossing a branch to a white oak newlines
south thirty degrees west two hundred poles crossing a branch to a pinethence
south eighty degrees east four hundred poles crossing a small branch onAron's
creek to pointers in Aaron Pinson's line thence on his line north twenty
degrees west one hundred and twenty four poles crossing the said creek toa
red oak thence north twenty five degrees east eighteen poles to a hickoryon
the river thence up the same as it meanders to the beginning with allhouses
woods ways waters and water courses profitable commodities(?)hereditaments
and appurtenances to the same belonging on the reversion and reversionsrents
and issues thereof to have and to hold the said land with all and(?)every the
appurtenances unto him the said John Mayes his heirs and assigns to theonly
proper use and behoof of him the said John Mayes his heirs and assignsforever
and the said Rachel Carter for herself and her heirs doth covenant andagree
to and with the said John Mayes and his heirs or assigns that she thesaid
Rachel Carter hath right to sell and convey the said three hundred andseventy
acres of land as above and that the same is free of all encumbranceswhatever
also that the said John Mayes his heirs and assigns shall and may havehold
and enjoy the said land with the appurtenances without the lawful (?)sale
molestation or hindrance of any person whatsoever and lastly that she thesaid
Rachel Carter for herself and her heirs doth hereby covenant and agree to
warrant and forever defend the title of the said land to h him the saidJohn
Mayes his heirs and assigns forever against the title claim and demand ofall
manner of persons whatsoever and will make and execute any furtherconveyance
when required for the better securing the same to the said John Mayes his
heirs or assigns. In Witness whereof the said Rachel Carter hath hereuntoset
her hand and affixed her seal the day and year first above written.
Signed sealed and delivered}
in presence of.........................} Rachel Carter {Seal}
Charles Hutchings
Stith Thompson
Littleberry Browder
Boswell Hutchings
At a Court held for Mecklenburg County the 8th day of February 1779. This
indenture was proved by the oath of Stith Thompson a witness thereto andat a
court held for the said county the 10th day of May 1779 the saidindenture was
further proved by the oaths of Charles Hutchings and Boswell Hutchingstwo
other witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. Teste
John Brown CS.(?)
Recorded 10 May 1779 Mecklenburg County, VA Deed Book 5, page 420
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