- That Joshua Foster of the County of Accomack, being seized of the lands in the declaration mentioned in fee, and also possessed of sundry slaves & a considerable personal estate, and having issue Ab
salom Foster, his only son & heir apparent & Betty, Peggy & Sinah, three daughters, also two grandsons, to-wit: Joshua Foster, a son of the aforesaid Absalom Foster & Joshua Hickman, the eldest son & heir apparent of the aforesaid Peggy, by Custis Hickman, her husband, on the 5 Aug. 1773, made his last will & testament as follows: (abstract) To son Absalom plantation where I now live during his natural life, then to be equally divided between my two grandsons Joshua Foster, son of the said Absalom, and Joshua Hickman, son of my daughter Peggy Hickman. To Custis Hickman. Land purchased of Jemimah Booth, lying over the road, to return whence it came after the crop is taken off. Jemimah Booth to have my negro wench Lisha as long as she lives in the station she now is in, but if she marry or suffer her children or anybody else to abuse the said wench, then to return to my estate to be divided between the rest of my children hereafter named. Daughters Betty, Peggy & Sinah resid. legatees. That after the making of the said will the said Joshua departed this life on the ____ Aug. of the same year, seized & possessed as aforesaid, which said will was proved on the 1 day Sept. 1773 and admitted to record; That after the death of the said Joshua Foster the said Absalom Foster entered into the premises in the declaration mentioned and was possessed thereof, and afterwards Joshua Hickman, one of the grandsons before mentioned, on the ____ day of April, 1786, died an infant, intestate and without issue, leaving Custis Hickman, his father aforesaid, Peggy Hickman, his mother aforesaid, and several sisters then living; that afterwards the said Absalom Foster being still possessed of the premises as aforesaid, together with his wife, Charity, to-wit: on the 23 Mar. 1787, conveyed 50 acres of land, being part of the said premises, to John Boisnard; that the said Absalom Foster and his wife Charity, on the 20 Feb. 1792, demised, granted and to farm lett the residue of the premises in the declaration mentioned to the said John Boisnard, for and during the term of 10 years commencing the 1 Jan. then last past, and afterwards, to-wit: on the ____ Oct. 1792 the said Absalom Foster died intestate leaving issue William Foster, his eldest son, Leah Foster, Joshua Foster, Sally Foster, George Foster, Samuel Foster & Betty Foster. We also find that Joshua Foster, son of the said Absalom, and grandson of the said Joshua Foster the testator as aforesaid, to-wit: on the ____ Oct. 1794, died intestate and without issue, leaving his said brothers and sisters then living &c.
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| | 1. Joshua (of Custis) Hickman, b. Abt 1770, Accomack County, Virginia, USA  d. Apr 1786, Accomack County, Virginia, USA (Age 16 years) | | | 2. Sally Hickman, b. Abt 1775, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Yes, date unknown | | | 3. Susan 'Susy' Hickman, b. Abt 1777, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Yes, date unknown |
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William Hickman, I, b. 1638 d. Bef 3 Jul 1683, Accomack County, Virginia, USA (Age < 45 years) (2 x Great Grandfather)  Anne Bell, b. Abt 1730, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Bef 27 Dec 1774, Accomack County, Virginia, USA (Age < 44 years) (Grandmother) |
Abt 1775 - Yes, date unknown
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