Levi Rodgers of the County of Accomack and Parish of Saint George do hereby make this my last Will and Testament in the manner & form followeth that is to say

1st I give my beloved wife Euphamey my riding chair & harness and her first choice of horses one good bed & bolster, one bedsted matt and cord, one pair sheets, two blankets one counterpane exclusively of what the law of the State of Virginia will allow her out of my Estate.

2ndly I give to my daughter, Elizabeth P. Rodgers the land where I now reside containing one hundred and sixty acres be the same more or less during her natural life and if she should have lawful issue and such issue should live to the age of twenty one years or such issue should have a lawful issue then to such issue forever otherwise to be equally between my surviving children to them and their heirs or assigns forever. Also I give to said Elizabeth P. Rodgers one negro man named Amos, one negro man named Toni, one negro girl named Dose, one looking glass with a walnut frame, four silver spoons marked thus H. E. S., one bed & bolster, bedsted matt and cord, two sheets, two blankets, one counterpane all of good quality and one hundred dollars to be paid out of my estate by my Executor.

3rdly I give to my son Raymond R. Rodgers the land that I bought of Mr. Parsons containing ninety one acres be the same more or less. Also the land that I bought of Mr. Wm. Boggs containing thirty four acres be the same more or less and twenty three acres that I bought of Waterfield's wife be the same more of less to him and his heirs or assigns forever. Also one Negro boy named Fredrick, one Negro boy named Isaac, one Negro girl named Tamer, one negro girl named Easter and three hundred dollars, the money to be paid by my Executor out of my Estate.

4thly I give and bequeath to my three daughters namely Harriott T. Rodgers, Lucy Anne Rodgers, and Jane M. Rodgers all the remainder of my estate not here to for given away real or personal to be equally divided between them and to them and their heirs forever.

5thly and lastly I do hereby institute and appoint Isaac Smith Executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all other or former wills by me made. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix my seal this my seal this twelfth day of march in the year of Our Savior one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Witness:

Isaac Smith

Littleton Watson

Sam'l B. Traderr

John Rodgers.

Source:

_____. Accomack County Wills 1818-1819: p 375.