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Last Will of Jacob Whiskey Bear/Baer

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Title: Last Will of Jacob Whiskey Bear/Baer
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<metadataxml><content><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;Jacob I. (Whiskey) BAER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt; (son of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"&gt;Jagely Jacob B&amp;Auml;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt; and &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"&gt;Anna Barbara Frederick&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;) was born November 15, 1724 in Elkton, Rockingham Co., Virginia, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;and died February 12, 1783 in Elkton, Rockingham Co., Virginia, according to FindAGrave.com.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;His will is clearly dated 1787, however there are several different dates listed on other websites (1780, 1783, 1788).&amp;nbsp; The listed date of 1788 makes more sense since it's after the date of the will.&amp;nbsp; The FindAGrave translation of his tombstone reads 1783 but the 8 could be mistaken for a 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #b00000; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: white; margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="background: white; margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Will of Jacob Bear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: ; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;website:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &amp;amp;quot; times new roman&amp;amp;quot;,&amp;amp;quot;serif&amp;amp;quot;; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: ; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: ; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Jacob_Bear_%285%29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In the name of God, Amen. The second day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven. I, Jacob Bear, of the County of Rockingham and the state of Virginia, being old and infirm tho perfect in mind and memory thanks be given unto God for the same therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, that is be buried in a descent Christian burial at the direction of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God, and as touching such worldly estate wherewith as it doth please God, and as the Almighty God to bless me in this life which give demise and dispose of in the following manner and form:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I give and bequeath to my well beloved &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;wife [Anna] Barbara Bear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; one Negro girl about 5 years old named Peggy for her use during life and divide and increase if any equally&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;among all &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;my children, except Catherine Shurley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, and the use of two milk cows to have her choice. If they go dry to choose two more. I likewise allow her the choice of a riding beast and if it dies to be furnished by &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;her two children that live with her&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; with another, of my dwelling house for her life time or during her widowhood with plenty of fire wood brought to her door, with 20 bushels of wheat, with ten bushels of barely, and twenty gallons of whiskey, a one hundred weight of bacon and the same of beef. And if not used in the year to be returned and to draw the same quantity for the next year, with salt sufficient for her use. And thirty shillings in money every year, and half score of flax every year likewise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The above mentioned articles I order furnished by &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;my sons, Jacob Bear, Jr. and Henry Bear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and I likewise order &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;my son Adam Bear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is to have the plantation I purchased of W.M. Nell with l Acre of Pine Land lying between Henry Miller&amp;rsquo;s 8 line and my old patented land and 5 pounds to begin with.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I likewise order that &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;my three sons&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; have out of my stock before exposed to sale 2 horses beasts and 2 cows each and I likewise order that &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;my son ADAM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; pay 25 pounds for his part of dower towards &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;his five sisters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; three years after the sale of my moveables, and &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;my other two sons Jacob and Henry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; pay 62 pounds 10 shillings each in like manner, and I further order that the remainder of my moveable estate to be sold and equally divided among &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;my sons and daughters, excepting my daughter Catherine Shurley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;. I give and bequest &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;her one shilling stirling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (N.B.) That if I should not live to see &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;my daughter Ann Bear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; married nor yet given her equal to the rest that she shall have eighty pounds hard money, two horses, two cows besides the equal part of my remainder of my movable when sold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I further order that if one of my children die without eschew that their estate shall fall back to my other children equally and I likewise order that all and every particular of my estate now by me divided shall be good to each of them, then their heirs forever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p style="background: white; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px;"&gt;&lt;span style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman','serif';"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I likewise order that &lt;strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;my two sons Jacob Bear Jr. and Henry Bear&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; be appointed my sole executors and administrators of this my last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, and disannul all and every other former will or testament by me before willed or bequeathed, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</line><line>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</line></content></metadataxml>

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Jacob Whiskey Bear Jr
Jacob Whiskey Bear (Bar-Barr-Baier-Baer-Bear-Bare) II
November 15, 1724
1735
299 Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
8 February 12, 1783
February 12, 1788
February 12, 1783
241 58 Bear Lithia Spring, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
Bear Lithia Spring, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
Bear Lithia Spring, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
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