Will 1831

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Page 1st I Thomas Massie (from my Register) was born in New Kent County Virginia on the 11th day of August 1747 Old Style, Do hereby hereby make & ordain this my last Will & Testament. In the first place I confirm a good right & title to all the property, of every description, & of every kind whatever, that I have heretofore given to my three Sons, viz, Thomas, William and Henry Massie, and have placed in their possession, I give & confirm unto them, all claims that I have against them, on open accounts, on notes, on Bonds, on claims of every description, that I have against them, to this time, agreeably to the date hereof, I give unto my Son William Massie the place called Rock Farm, including five distinct Tracts of Land containing 430 Acres more or less, Viz, Beginning at the Junction of Pocs Creek, (so called) with Rockey Run, Thence running to the nearest part of the Tract of Land of 32 Acres, that I obtained a patent for in 1826, and with the lines of that Tract, to the line of the Land in the possession of Samuel Allen & Sisters, Thence on the back lines of a Tract of Land, nearest the mountain on Pocs Run, containing 48 Acres, Patented to James Brown in the year 1771 - Also another Tract adjoining of 200 Acres - patented to James Brown the same year of 1771 - likewise another Tract of Land of 50 Acres, granted to Joseph Allen as pr patent bearing date in July 1768, and lastly the fifth tract of Land, of One hundred Acres, granted to George Hight Senr, and conveyed by Deed to the Subscriber Recorded June 28th 1812,