Thomas OVERSTREET

Sources:

History of the Witt Family
Internet IGI (May 2006)
Rootsweb.com
Ancestry World Tree Project
Overstreet Digest, by Scott Swanson. Publication submitted 5 May 2001

Notes:

                   Will written 17 Dec 1791; Will proved 27 Feb 1792, Bedford County, Virginia

Will of Thomas Overstreet, Sr.Know all men by these Presents that I Thomas Overstreet Sener of the County of Bedford and State of Virginia do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament touching such worthy Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with that is today (Viz)1st Item the first I order and ordain that all my just Debts and funeral charges be paid by my Executors hereafter named.2nd Item The second I give and bequeath unto my Loving wife Agness Overstreet all my Estate Real and Personal (___) Lands Negroes Chattles good and after paying my just debts during the time of her widowhood. And if she should marry than she shall relinquish two thirds thereof to my children to be Disposed as shall be hereafter Directed and the other third part shall be hers during the term of her natural life and then to return to my children as the other or if she shall not marry to have the whole to the time of her death.3rd Item the third whereas I have given to my son Thomas Overstreet a tract of land which he hath disposed of I now sold him another My will is that he shall pay up the whole of the price to my Estate to be divided with the Rest and that my Executors shall make him a Deed to the Land where he shall make payment according to agreement.4th Item the forth I give and bequeath to my son John Overstreet that tract of land whereon he now lives containing two hundred acres more or less joining to lands of Auston, Fauster and Wiggington exclusive of his equal part hereafter mentioned.5th Item the fifth I give and bequeath to my six children (VIz) Thomas Overstreet, Ann Hail, William Overstreet, Mary Witt, Elizabeth Heath and John Overstreet all the remainder of my Estate Real and Personal to be equally divided between them as followeth two thirds thereof at the marriage of my widow if she should marry and the other third at her Death or all at her Death if she should not marry at all.6th Item the sixth I do hereby nominate Constitute and appoint and by these have nominated constituted and appointed my sons John Overstreet and Thomas Overstreet Jr. Executors of this my Last Will and Testament and I do further disannul disallow and denounce all former Wills legacies or testaments by me made done or bequeathed Ratifying and confirming This and this only to be my Last Will and Testament__ In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and ninely one (1791) the occation my son William not being mentioned till in the fifth Item was on account of his having had land given him before.Thomas OverstreetSigned and sealed in the presence of us Joel Lewis, John Overstreet Thomas OverstreetWill found in Will Book 1, Bedford Co VAThis is from "Six Generations of Overstreets and Their Allied Families," Beginning 18th Century Virginia to 20th Century Middle Tennessee__Clay, Jackson, Knox and Overton Counties, compiled by Pixy Lynn Overstreet Morgan 5724 W. Del Rio Street, Chandler, Arizona 85226 revised 1995. Some families included: Borden, Butler, Dale, Goodpasture, Green, Holman, Nevins, Sevier, Thurman, Waddell, Williams.