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- MARY MEAD, m. (1) Moses Rhodes, who died in 1769; m. (2) on the 8 Feb. 1775, John Brown at Fairfax Monthly Meeting of Quakers as shown on list of marriages copied from their records and filed in Loudoun County Clerk's Office. The will of Moses R hodes, dated July, 1769, probated the 13 Nov. 1769, and recorded in Loudoun County, Va., is as follows:
"IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. The ? Day of July One Thousand Seven hundred and Sixty nine I Moses Rhodes of the County of Loudoun and Colony of Virginia being very sick and weak in Body but of perfect Mind and Memory thanks be given to God : Therefo re calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to Die Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament viz
Principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God that gave it and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be decently buried not doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall Receive the same again by the m ighty power of God.
1st. As the Real Estate in Land which I now Possess is Will'd to Mary my dearly Beloved Wife by her Father during the Term of her Natural Life and after her Decease to the Heirs of her Body Lawful), Begotten, I do therefore by and with her conse nt give and Bequeath the said Estate in Land to my two Sons William and John after my Wife's Decease to be equally Divided between them And if either of them Die with-out Lawful Heirs then the share of Land belonging to the Deceased to fall to o r belong to the Survivor.
2d. My two Sons William and John aforementioned shall each of them pay Thirty Pound Currant Money of this Colony viz My Son William shall pay to my son Thomas Thirty pound and my son John shall pay to my Son Joseph Thirty pound of like Currant M oney as aforesaid as soon as they shall Possess their aforesaid Shares of Land.
3d. My five Daughters viz: Hannah, Mary, Abigail, Elizabeth and Ann shall have paid to each of them when of age out of my Whole Estate five Pound Currant Money of this Colony.
4th. I constitute make and Ordain Mary my Beloved Wife Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannull all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies, Bequests, and Executors, by m e in any ways beforenamed Will'd 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 the Day and Year above Written.
MOSES RHODES (Seal)
Signed Sealed Published pronounced and declared by the said Moses Rhodes as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the sub-scribers
WM. BAKER."
The foregoing will was proved by the "Affirmation of William Baker (a Quaker)"; and Mary Rhodes qualified as executrix with William Mead as her surety.
From the foregoing will it appears that William Mead, the father of Mary Rhodes, had a will in 1769 by which he had bequeathed certain land to his daughter, Mary Rhodes, for her life with remainder to the heirs of her body lawfully begotten ; bu t he revoked this bequest by a later will, which is copied in his sketch, and changed it so as to read as follows: "I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Mary Brown, that tract of land whereon Moses Rhodes died, which was surveyed for him by Joh n Hough, containing two hundred acres, adjoining the Kittocton mountains?to hold to her the said Mary during her natural life, & after her decease?unto her two sons, William & Thomas Rhodes?they paying their brother Joseph ten pounds each." Th e occasion of this change may have been the subsequent marriage of Mary Rhodes and John Brown ; and John Rhodes, her son, had probably died intestate and with-out issue before the last will was made in 1780.
Their mother had probably died before 1787 for, in that year, Thomas Rhodes conveyed his interest in the Mead farm to his brother, William Rhodes, the deed reciting that the two brothers then lived in Ohio?Thomas in Hamilton County, and Willia m in Columbiana County. William doubtless re-turned to Virginia, and settled in Bedford County, where both he and his brother Joseph, on the 3 Nov. 1806, witnessed the will of their uncle, William Mead No. 7.
The third item of the will of Moses Rhodes would seem to indicate that none of his five daughters were of age in 1769. As Hannah heads the list she must have been the oldest daughter, and she may have been the oldest of the nine children mention ed in the will, but there is nothing to indicate that her brothers were younger than she. Assuming that the youngest of the nine children was two years old in 1769 ,and allowing two years between each child, it may be assumed approximately tha t Mary Mead and Moses Rhodes were married at a date between 1740 and 1750. If, therefore, their daughter Hannah were the oldest of the five daughters, she was probably older than some of her four brothers, and was likely eighteen years of age wh en her father died in 1769, so that her birth would have occurred not far from 1750. For reasons stated in the sketch of Robert Mead, No. 6, who was born between 1744 and 1754, it is firmly believed that he married Hannah Rhodes about the year 1 770.
Source: Mead Relations, pp. 28-31.
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