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Works Project Administration – Articles from Rockingham County
HOUSES
Robert Cravens Home
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Item. And all my debts, legacies, and funeral charges being first paid I will and desire the remainder of my
estate to be divided among my loving wife and nine children John, Agnes and Maggie to have two shares for
each others one share.
This I trust will be done and all truly fulfilled by my loving wife and son John Cravens whom I do appoint
whole and sole Exors. Of this my last will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul
all and every other former Testaments, wills, Bequests, and Executors by me in any ways before this time
willed and bequeathed.
Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this day and year above written.
His
Robert R. Cravens (Seal)
mark
Signed sealed published pronounced and
Declared by the said Robert Cravens as
His last will and testament in the presence
Of us the subra.
viz. Archd. Huston
Matthew Thompson
Daniel Love.
John Cravens, styled “John Cravens, eldest son and heir of Robert Cravens, farmer, deceased,” was, with his
mother, Executor of his father’s estate but did not live to complete the settlement. His widow. Margaret, and his
brother Robert were his executors, as was also his mother, she being the sole surviving executor of the estate of
Robert Cravens, the father, of which John was also an executor.
John and his brother William served as tax collectors of the county at different times: John in 1748 and William
in 1755. Both were also constables.
John’s first land was obtained by purchase, February 21st, 1751, by deed from John Wright and Lydia, his wife,
two hundred acres on branch of Cook’s Creek for forty pounds; land formerly conveyed to Wright by Samuel
Harrison and wife Mary. On the same day, Robert and Mary Cravens with Scholl and Newman as their
witnesses, also deeded the first four hundred-acre tract patented in 1744 to Wright, this being Robert’s first
conveyance in Augusta County.
John Cravens settled on his Cook’s Creek land, a few miles southwest of his father, near a place called Fisher’s
Spring, his plantation being not far from present Dayton, Virginia. He married sometime between 1758 and
1762, Margaret, the widow of William Dyer (nee Margaret Hiatt).
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HOUSES
Robert Cravens Home
Page Four
Item. And all my debts, legacies, and funeral charges being first paid I will and desire the remainder of my
estate to be divided among my loving wife and nine children John, Agnes and Maggie to have two shares for
each others one share.
This I trust will be done and all truly fulfilled by my loving wife and son John Cravens whom I do appoint
whole and sole Exors. Of this my last will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul
all and every other former Testaments, wills, Bequests, and Executors by me in any ways before this time
willed and bequeathed.
Ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this day and year above written.
His
Robert R. Cravens (Seal)
mark
Signed sealed published pronounced and
Declared by the said Robert Cravens as
His last will and testament in the presence
Of us the subra.
viz. Archd. Huston
Matthew Thompson
Daniel Love.
John Cravens, styled “John Cravens, eldest son and heir of Robert Cravens, farmer, deceased,” was, with his
mother, Executor of his father’s estate but did not live to complete the settlement. His widow. Margaret, and his
brother Robert were his executors, as was also his mother, she being the sole surviving executor of the estate of
Robert Cravens, the father, of which John was also an executor.
John and his brother William served as tax collectors of the county at different times: John in 1748 and William
in 1755. Both were also constables.
John’s first land was obtained by purchase, February 21st, 1751, by deed from John Wright and Lydia, his wife,
two hundred acres on branch of Cook’s Creek for forty pounds; land formerly conveyed to Wright by Samuel
Harrison and wife Mary. On the same day, Robert and Mary Cravens with Scholl and Newman as their
witnesses, also deeded the first four hundred-acre tract patented in 1744 to Wright, this being Robert’s first
conveyance in Augusta County.
John Cravens settled on his Cook’s Creek land, a few miles southwest of his father, near a place called Fisher’s
Spring, his plantation being not far from present Dayton, Virginia. He married sometime between 1758 and
1762, Margaret, the widow of William Dyer (nee Margaret Hiatt).
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