Valentine Dennis I

Valentine Dennis
MdW-35:200WoW-JW3:147
10 Apr 175907 Jan 1767
To wife Sarah Dennis - dwelling plantation for widowhood, Negro man Dick
To son Valentine Dennis - plantation after wife's widowhood, Negro girl Jenny
To sons Parker, Jesse, John Dennis - Negro man Abner
To daughter Tabby Dennis - Negro woman Dinah
To daughter Molley Dennis - Negro girl Priss
To daughter Nelly Dennis - Negro boy Toby
That Negro girl Nancy be sold for debts
That son John be bound out to a trade
To son Jesse Dennis - dark cloth suit of clothes
To son Parker Dennis - best coat
Executor: wife
Witnesses: Joshua Kellam, Isaac Kellam, John Irving
02 Aug 1766
Deposition of Joshua Kellam - "saith that John Irving ... was in his lifetime a near neighbor to this deponent and that he believes the said Irving to be since dead"
07 Jan 1767
Deposition of Margaret Irving - "saith that she went with her husband John Irving ... (who is since dead) to Valentine Dennis's ... he being very sick and that after setting sometime Joshua Kellam and Isaac Kellam ... came in, the said testator asked them and her husband John Irving to be witness to his will and then he told his wife where the will was and she went and bought it to him and that the said John Irving asked him if he could sign it and he said yes, and that she hold him up in the bed but did not go to see him sign the will but verily believes that he did for she immediately after laying him down again saw all the subscribing witnesses sign their names"
07 Jan 1767
Then came "Isaac Morris who being one of the people called Quakers did affirm and declare that he wrote the above will of Valentine Dennis"

Valentine married Sarah Parker, daughter of John Parker Sr. and Tabitha Truitt. (Sarah Parker was born about 1710 in Somerset Co., MD.)