Ann Bond Smith has transcribed the following text.
The transcribed document is the will of Jesse Judy as found in the Grant County, West Virginia Courthouse located in Petersburg, West Virginia. It is not the original document but the official copy of record. The transcription was made from the microfilmed copy found in the West Virginia State Archives located in the Cultural Center Building at the State Capitol Complex in Charleston, West Virginia.
No guarantees are made as to the absolute accuracy of the wording as the copy is very hard to read.
The spelling and punctuation are, as they appear to be in the copy.
I, Jesse Judy, a farmer on north Mill Creek-County of Grant and state of West Virginia make this my last will. I give, devise and bequeath my estate and property real and personal as follow that is to say. To my wife one horse and one cow. To my son Jacob C. All the remainder of my personal property.
To my two sons Adam and Enoch all my middle mountain lands east of the turnpike and all the bottom land between the run by Adams house and Moses line and lying East of the creek, and all the remaining land that I now own I give to my son Jacob C. said Jacob C. has to pay the sum of three hundred dollars to each of the heirs namely Naoma,------(?), Christena, Margaret, Amanda S., Martha S., & Mary to be paid in six annual payments of fifty dollars each, final payment to be made Six Years after my death, To my son Simon I give the mountain tract of land he now lives on which I bought and had deeded to him by Court.
Jacob C. is to maintain me and my wife until death Naoma, Amanda S., Martha S., and Mary each of the above named girls as long as they remain unmarried.
In witness whereof I have here unto signed and sealed this instrument and published and declared the same as and for my last will at North Mill Creek on this 12thof April 1878.
Jesse Judy
At North Creek on this 12th day of Apr. 1878 the above named Jesse Judy signed and sealed this instrument and published and declared the same as and for his last will and was in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have here unto subscribed our names as witnesses
Wm H. Bond
Jonathan Hiser
Jno. S. Bond
State of West Virginia Grant County as
On the 5th(?) day of July 1878 The within last will & Testament of Jesse Judy dec’d was proven before me in my office by the oaths of Wm. H. Bond and Jno. S. Bond two of the subscribing witnesses thereto and therefore admitted to record.
Teste
Ernest Muntzing Clerk
Of County Court of Grant Co.
Submitted by Dottie Hughes