Triplett Family - Francis Marion Triplett - Will and probate.

I found this will at Ancestry.com on 30 July 2022. This will land Probate starts on image 415 of 680, or page 195 of the volume.

The link is: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/123942:62347?tid=&pid=&queryId=8397db6291ae58af2e8fdc4e2abd66dc&_phsrc=MwL419&_phstart=successSource

The right hand page is where the transcription of Francis Marion Triplett's will and other documents starts. This will reads as:

In the name of God amen I Frances Triplett of the parish of  Truro and County of Fairfax weak of body and sound and perfect sence and memory. I Thank and praise God for the same Calling to mind & uncertain state of this tranceatory life & knowing that all flesh must yeald unto death whence it shall please god, to call do make this my last will and Testament in maner and form as followith. [HOM] I give my sole to almighty God from whence I received of same hoping threr [?] of my blessed Savoiur Jesus Christ to receive and pardon & forgiveness of all lmy manifold sins & rechidness and my body I recommend to ye. Earth to be decently entered according to  [?] discreation of my [?] herafter named as followeth. manner & form {vis.

Hom I give to my Loving wife Elizabeth Triplett  [?] her all my personable Estate and a negro whoman named Bess and a negro Girl named Nann during her natural Life excepting som small Legacies the I give and bequeath out of itt ~

Hom I give and bequeath to my Loving son Thomas Triplett and his heirs Lawfully begotten of his body forever a Certain parcel of Land Containing two hundred acres  Lying on both sides of Goose Creek ~~~ it being part of a tract of five hundred & five acres Lying ~ & Scituared

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Situated upon both sides of Goose Creek to take in & his Plantation where  he now lives & half that Large bottom of the Foreside of the Creek and his brother William Triplett to & have the other half~~~~~ 

Hom I give to my Loving son Thomas Triplett my Pistols and Holsters & a rifle gunn~
Hom I give and bequeath to my Loving son William Triplet him his heirs forever Lawfully begotten of his body one half of the residue of the patton of five Hundred & five acres after his brother Thomas Triplett has takenhis out if the said William Triplett should have no heir Lawfully begotten of his body then this peace of Land to fall to Mason Triplett and his heirs forever the beginning of my son William Triplett ~ Runing with that path near the Ford that my son Gossen Goose Creek to a black walnut from thence down the said Creck ~~ to a popular standing in a norron Valley &y poplar is cut in of that side next to Creek to include that little narron bottom to my son William Triplett part thence the said Vally southerly to y Line of the Lone sid of the Creck.

Hom I give and bequeath to my Loving son William Triplett all my smiths tools with this provisor that he does all his mothers smiths work for nothing

Hom I give and Bequeath to my loving son Daniel Triplett ye other half of the said Land to include his plantation to him his heirs~ Lawfully begott of his body if in failyer of such an heir to fall to my son ~ Mason ~

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Mason Triplett and his heirs forever

Hom I give and bequeth to my son Daniel Triplett all my waring Cloaths and one Shirt ~

Hom I give and Bequeath to my son Francis Triplett a negro ~ whoman called Bess & hur increase after [the]y death of my wife Elizabeth Triplett ~.

Hom I give & bequeath to my Daughter Margrett Boyshtone ~ a young Mare of two years old & a ring of Tenn Shillings Vally in case that my daughter after her decece. I leave it to hur daughter Frances Bolstone ~

Hom I give & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth Brawner five Shillings if demanded

Hom I give and bequeath to my daughter Patty a young mare of two years old  & a ring of tenn shillings Vally

Hom I give & bequeath to my son Mason Triplett a negro Girl named Nann after my wife Elizabeth Triplett Decece & the first Living Child that that negro gal brings I give to my daughter patty & to be brought up by my son Mason till itt be one years old without Cost if incase the said Mason dye without heir lanfully begotten of Body then said Negro Girl I give and bequeath to Thomas Triplett daughter Betty-ann then I bequeath y2 negro girl to Thomas Triplett second heir of Thomas Triplett either male of Female y2 negro Child that is left to my daughter excepted ~

And I do hereby appoint my Loving wife Elizabeth Triplett my

Executor

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Executor of this my Last will thereby revoaking all former wills by me. In Testimony whereof I have sett my hand and seal this 4th day of October 1757 

Guy Broadwater      his                                               Francis Triplett

John Branner ~ William WB Boylstone ~

                           mark

            At a court contd & held for the County of Fairfax 22

                                                               November 1758

This will was presented in Court by Elizabeth Triplett Executrix therein named who made oath thereto and being also proved by the Oaths of John Brann & William Boylstone two of the ~ Witnesses is admitted to record and the said Executrix having performed what is usual in such Cases Certificate is granted her for Obtaining a Probate thereof in due form

                    Jacob Wagonere  ClCurt.

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