Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2056-400, for Smith Snead, Virginia
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[Printed document with handwritten entries]

(3-1776)
[Stamped: image of a star]
SERVICE | NUMBER
Va. | Snead, Smith | B.L.Wt. 2056_400. Major
Issued June 26, 1789 to Smith Snead.
CONTENTS
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T. M. Bailly's Receipts for Land Warrants No. 2056 J 060

Smith Snead
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Reced 17th August 1809 of the Secretary of War.
land Warrant No 2056 issued in favor of Smith Snead late a major in the Virginia line, for four hundred Acres of Land, dated 26th June 1769 - Also one other land warrant in favor of George Gilchrist No. 860 for four hundred acres of land, for his services as Major in the said Line, dated 24th August 1789
Tho M Bayley
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Smith Snead
Will
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In the Name of God Amen, I Smith Snead of the County of Northampton being sick & weak of Body, but of sound mind & memory
blessed be God for the same do make & ordain this to be my last Will & Testament in manner & form following, viz, Item I give
to my wife in lien of Dower the Land I bought of William Waterfield's administrator during her Life, also give her during her life twenty five pounds a year she being obliged to find
my children board & such clothing as they now have as long as they choose to live with her. I also give her during life the following negroes Newberry & her two children Edmund Levin Lanus and Cate.  Item, I give to my wife a dressing Table called heirs & riding chair & a mare called Sally Nimmer to her & her heirs
I also give my wife the use of ten head of Cattle, two horses ten head of Sheep five Beds & furniture & such other part of my house
hold furniture as she chooses to retain during her life, my interest & meaning is that the aforesaid articles which I have given my
wife during life shall return to my Estate at her death in quantity and quality, but if there should not be a sufficiency the shall
not be obliged to make it good; also all my Stock of hogs, two hundred Bushell oats, all the corn, fodder, wheat & flax on the same conditions : I give to my Daughter Sarah Christian Snead seven hundred pounds, six per oat stock to her and her heirs. I give to the child that my wife now goes with all my defered stock and the Certificates in the possession of Major Parker, or the money
that they sell for, or the Stock if he has funded them to him or her or their heirs. Item, I give all the rest of my stock to my son Charles I also give to my said son the Land that I now live on, also the Land I bought of William Waterfield administrator & all other Land; that I own in any place whatever to him & his heirs. It is further my Will & desire that -
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that in a reasonable time after my Daughter Sarah shall come to lawful age that she shall make a release or conveyance of the Land whereon I now live to my son Charles his heirs and assigns forever; and that if she her heirs or assigns do or shall disturb my said son his heirs or assigns in the quiet enjoyment of
the said last mentioned Lands that in that case I do hereby revoke the before mentioned Legacy given my Daughter Sarah and give it to my son Charles. It is my Will and desire that if either of my children should die before they come is lawful age or marries in that case I give their part to the survivor or survivors
I give to my Son Charles all my Books and writing Desk I give to my Daughter Sarah the dressing table that was her mothers, I give to my Sister Elizabeth Snead a bit of mourning twenty pounds cash, and my share of the money the Lot sold for in Anancock Town formerly belonging to George Snead to her & her heirs. Item, I give all the remainder part of my Estate to be equally divided between all my children to them and their heirs, Lastly I
do hereby appoint my brother William Snead & my Friend Thomas Upshur Jr to be my whole & sole Executor's of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all other Wills
made by me. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 18th day of October 1792


Smith Snead [LS is circled]

Signed, Sealed &c in presence of Elizabeth Mass William Jenne, William Harmanson.

At a Court held for Northampton County the 11th day of December 1792 - 
The last Will & Testament of Smith Snead decd
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decd: was proved by the Oaths of Elizabeth Mass, William Jenne & William Harmanson Witnesses thereto & Ordered to be recorded: and William Jenne one of the Executors therein appointed having refused to act as
Executor on the motion of the said William who gave bond with security & took the oath according to law a certificate is granted him for obtaining Letters of administration on the Estate of the said Testator with his Will annexed Margaret Snead Widow of the deceased having relinquished her right
Teste
William Stith C.N.C.
a copy
Teste
Thos Lyth: Savage clk

Virginia
Northampton County Set
I do hereby certify that the Will of Smith Snead deed hereto annexed is a true Copy from the records of the said County, and that full faith
and credence is due to the same as such.

Given under my hand as Clerk of the County aforesaid and under the Seal of my office this 20th day of June 1809 and in the 33d year of the Commonwealth

Thos Lyth Savage
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Chs. Snead to T. M. Bailly Authority to receive Land Warrant
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The Secretary of War will please deliver unto
Tho M Bayly a military land warrant of the
United States in the name of Smith Snead decd
being his heir at Law, and only one entitled
to the sd Warrant one for the service of the
said Smith had as an officer during the
revolutionary war with Great Britain
as Witness my hand and seal this 15th day
of March one thousand eight hundred and nine

Witness
Abel Powell

Charles Snead [the word seal is circled]