William Laws Genealogy
Record modified: 2025-11-28
This is my ancestor 8 generations back.
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Born: (unknown)
Died: 1780-00-00 Wilkes Co, North Carolina USA
Marriages:
1. Mary Glass
Children of William Laws and Mary Glass:
Notes:
Are these him?
VA Land Patents 1768-1770
p765
1769-07-14 King George to William Laws; 400 acres on Brush Creek in Halifax Co; S40
Halifax Co VA Deeds 1752-1759
p99
1755-07-08 William Murphy of Orange Co Carolina to William Laws of Halifax Co VA; 100 acres on Banester[?] River; L12
Halifax Co VA Deeds 1778-1780
p233-234
1778-12-02 William Laws and wife Mary of Halifax Co to William Glass Sr of Halifax; 500 acres in Halifax and Pittsylvania; L500
(400 acres patented to him 1769-07-14 and 100 on Banister[?] River where he lives)
[Another 1755 deed shows William Glass lived on Bannister River.]
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"North Carolina, Probate Records, 1735-1970"
Wilkes Co Wills, 1778-1799, Vol. 01 p38
I William Laws of sd
County Being Sick and very low but in my
perfect sense and memory ...
I give unto my son
in law Peter Bowman or his heirs nine pounds cash
I give unto my Daughter Amay Dyer and
her heirs for Ever twenty pounds cash
I give unto my Daughter Mary Cross and her heirs for ever
twenty pound
I give unto my daughter Ann
Lovelace and her heirs for ever twenty pounds cash
I give unto my daughter Patty Adams and
her heirs for ever twenty pounds cash
I give unto my daughter Abby Hampton and her heirs for ever
twenty pounds cash
I give unto my son Welcom
William Laws my plantation where I now live
on one hundred acres more or less with all the rest
of my estate to him and his heirs for ever
I appoint Welcom William Laws and John Laws
Senr my Exrs this my last will and testament
revoking all other wills and testaments this
seventh day of January in the year
one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty.
Witness:
John Laws Senr
Jacob Hampton
Parkey [?] Warford
[proved March term 1780]
Here is the inventory of his estate.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 67603
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