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The Will of
Thomas Day

1651 - abt 1706

Thomas Day was the great, great, great, great, great grandfather of
Grover & Harrison Shepherd
Thomas Day's daughter, Elizabeth, married
George Shepherd (1700-1750/1751) of Spotsylvannia, Virginia.

From "Fleet's Colonial Abstracts"---Essex County, VA Vol 29, pae 81 No. 12, page 181

"To all to who these presents shall come Greting know yee that I thomas Day of the parish of South Farnham in the County of Essex in Virginia being in a sickly weake and low condition and noe(ways) waies Capable to tke care of, or provide for myself and that little Estate it hath pleased God to bestow upon me (it chiefly lying in Perishable Creatures) have and by these presents doe Bargain Sell Bind and firmly make over unto Jn'o Fargason of the parish and County aforsaid planter all and singular my said Estate", etc. In consideration Fargason "to maintain and keep me the said Day During my naturall life with sufficient accomodation of victuals Cloathes washing and lodging and give to Eliza a Mary Angillica Day my Daughter when whe arrive to the age of Eighteen or when married one Cowe and Calfe."

5 Dec 1705
signed
Tho x Day
Wit:
John Fargason
Wm. aylett
Adam Denning
Ack and rec 11 Feb 1705/6


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