Last Will and Testament of Southey Littleton ( 1646-1679)
Northampton County, Virginia
I, Southey Littleton, of Virginia, being sicke and weake. Leave
To eldest son, Nathaniel, a tract of land upon Magothy Bay, in Northampton County, Virginia, containing 1,050 acres, for life and then to his male heirs.
To daughter Esther, a neck of land at Pingstiog, called Kings neck, bounded by Swanrihott creek, and the two main branches that make the King’s Neck, to the head of said branches, and then by two parallel lines to the land of Captain John Robins.
To grand son, Southey Littleton, my plantation at Nandua in Accomac County containing 2,270 acres.
To John Rust 200 acres in Somerset County, Maryland, where he now lives, and all the rest of the lands in the neck to his daughter Gertruyd Littleton.
To Francis Wilkins 300 acres in Somerset County, Maryland, bounded between the necks of John Rust and King’s Neck. The rest of the neck up to Captain Robins’ line to his daughter, Elizabeth Littleton.
All the rest of the land at Grange Neck in Somerset Co. to his son, Botman.
To daughter, Sarah, 600 acres at Pocomoc, in Accomack Co.
To Nathaniel Tunnell all my land at Ackocomson in Acomack County, Virginia.
To Wm. White, planter, 155 acres in Accomack at the head of the branches of Pungstiog.
Rest of estate to four daughters.
Daughter Esther to be left at my sister Robins. Sarah with Mrs. Bridget Foxcroft. Elizabeth with Mrs. Anne Jenifer, and Gertruyd with Mr. Richard Bayley. Son Southey to be left for four years with his nurse, Nicholas Taylor’s wife.
Mr. Thomas P. Clark, Colonel Wm. Kendall, Major Edmund Bowman, Captain John Robins, Captain Daniel Jenifer and Mr. Richard Bayley executors.
Done at Albany upon Hudson’s river September 16, 1679.
Witnesses, John Willett, Thomas Eayres, Robert Livingston, Sec.
